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Jwarder
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
I don't think the issue is with the number, but rather the context. What should the end user think when finder reports that there is 60TB of data on a 2TB drive? People with above average file system knowledge can generate an explanation for it, but what good does that number do?

When programming a feature like this it can be hard to spot the problem. The calculations for the backup's size can be 100% right, but still not appropriate to show.
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·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
It isn't too bad; naming stuff is always hard. If the Microsoft marketers knew about it then I would expect to see Azure™ Gen.NET™ Live™.
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·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Can anyone speak about YouTrack/Space's warts? The marketing blurbs makes Space + YouTrack look like a decent replacement for Jira + Confluence + Bitbucket, but I don't recall ever hearing a developer talk about it.
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·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
> How many military bases does Russia have in Germany

Not the direction you are aiming, but I find Kaliningrad/Königsberg a fascinating example of soviet imperialism.
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·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Oddly Bing seems to like PDFs more than other pages. I have a project that generates PDFs for logged in users. I see a handful of Bing/MSN IP addresses that keep on trying to view that page everyday, but MS has never tried to index other pages that need user authentication. So either Microsoft is really eager to index PDFs or my code the logs unauthenticated access attempts doesn't work on other pages.
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·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Because we all know that banning photo books that include that statue of David protects your children.
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·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
I would add boots that are high enough that there is no gap between the rain pants and the shoe. An old pair of "hiking" boots did the job for me. Riding through a puddle and getting your socks even mildly wet feels terrible.
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·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
I've been thinking about it in terms of the transition from pre-1950s human computers to electronic computers. How much should we morn the loss of rooms of people doing calculations by hand? Making it easier for people to solve problems seems like an obvious win even if puts the "just give me the requirements in a ticket and let me code" programmers out of their jobs. Even outside of big software projects, imagine the business benefits from allowing an office worker to describe a problem and get an excel formula to try.
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·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Are there any gotchas around the sql parameterization? Looks like you're passing in an array into db.exec. I would have thought that would be enough, but if I search for org-mode then I see an error on the console complaining about no such column: mode.
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·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
The Try For Free link is a bit awkward. It points to a page that just says Jobs, that in turn just points to a empty black page.

I assume the intention is to use the Login link. If so then I think that should be at the forefront instead of the empty pages.
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·4 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
I remember hype in the early-mid 2000s for turning the semantic web into a general purpose knowledge engine. Are there projects trying to merge the natural language parts of a ChatGPT-esque system on top of a knowledge graph? Seems like there has to be, but the solvers I've seen are all very specialized and esoteric (speaking from surface level knowledge).
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·4 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Closest I've seen is when UAE's Darkmatter was revoked as a sub-CA. Darkmatter claimed their "Trust Services" business unit was separate from the business units accused of spying for the UAE government.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1427262
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·4 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
You can install uBlock Origin on Firefox for Android.
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·4 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Seems like it makes the problem worse because you are then tied to a specific version at time of publishing and need to republish to get any framework patches.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/deploying/runt...
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·4 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Weird, I haven't seen any recent banners frame it in terms of demise of Wikipedia. The urgent banners I've seen are about the time to complete the fund drive. Along the lines of: If X% of users paid $Y then the goal would be reached in Z minutes.

If you assume the fund drive exists to help keep the lights on then I think it is natural to treat it as an existential issue for Wikipedia, but that doesn't seem to match the specific language used.
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·4 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
I think it depends on what problems you want git to solve for you.

Some people like having the context from the complete the history of little commits without the risks of rebase breaking something.

Some people like using rebase to group all changes needed for a feature into isolated(ish) commits.

Some people just like the aesthetics of a straight master branch without the clutter of little "corrected typo" or "fixed bug for real this time" commits.
Jwarder
·4 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
As has been said before: Users are almost always right when they say a problem exists; but they are almost always wrong when they suggest a solution.
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·4 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
I don't want to put works in cies's mouth, but it possible to read the comment in a reasonable way. It is not necessarily a claim that polio isn't real, but rather that patient's signs and symptoms can overlap with other medical issues. Stefan Lanka doesn't pass my sniff test, but reference to him and to test contamination can be read as examples that these sorts of tests are not always clear.
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·4 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Is there a good no-nonsense way to clean PDFs of possible threats? Hunting around I see mentions of converting PDF->Postscript->PDF to remove junk, but I also see mentions that Postscript is its own security mess.
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·4 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
I agree with your points, but I think you're painting with too broad of a brush with:

> They really mean they hate trans people and want them to go away.

It is certainly an issue; viz various bathroom panics over the last decade. But, at least in the tech sphere, most of the fear I've seen comes from Twitter BS and hate. There are vocal people who want to use "wokeness" as a tool to attack people. I can see how it would be easy to conflate those kinds of attacks with progressivism for people who are predisposed against progressivism from the start.