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I was around 16 when I discovered this, and it was my first IRC client. Didn't fully get what IRC was yet. It felt like a new world opening up.

I've been meaning to dust off my black plastic intel macbook and see if it's still usable as a workstation. Go back to Snow Leopard

It's not a great idea. I wrote something a few years ago if it's interesting:

https://evertpot.com/get-request-bodies/

Still does. On gnome you can switch via the lock screen.

Linux had this well before OS X

I've been wondering if I can somehow get the Toshiba Satellite VGA font back to today.

I just installed Proxmox for the first time with a 5 disk ZFS array. Very basic stuff but I already had to go to the CLI a few times and it didn't really feel that well integrated. Even setting up the array didn't work (non-descript -1 error message, and ended up needed to use -f on the cli). I also couldn't find a zfs create equivalent (but that could have been me?)

It's fine because I'm comfortable in the CLI but I read your comment and wanted to share that it felt a bit rudimentary at best.

Laws in the US aren't taken as literal as in civil law systems. The intent and precedent is what carries much more weight in the end. Graph calculators are unlikely to be tested in court because it's irrelevant with respect to what this law is trying to accomplish.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law

I often see laws discussed here and people finding some edge case and presenting this as a gotcha. The reality is that it's unlikely to matter.

Public services don't need to be 'economical'

It's wild this is what you took from that, but no. My issue was with the word 'Hype'. Would you call windows Hype because it's bigger?

Some cognitive dissonance going on here. The vast majority of current Linux Desktop users are on Wayland, and X11 is phased out across the board. Calling it hype is absurd.

Good modern protocols will explicitly define extension points, so 'ingoring unknown JSON keys' is in-spec rather than assumed that an implementer will do.

it's nice to be able to use https locally if you're doing things with HTTP/2 specifically.

Nobody is interested in AI commentary.

or 'cascade' ?

I replaced all my Dropbox uses with SyncThing (and love it). I run an instance on my server at all times and on every client.

If you think about it the spirit of the internet is based on collaboration with other parties. If you want no third parties, there's always file: and localhost.

Yeah I would argue that it's possible to do it well with Backbone, and you end up with something much leaner but it requires a really strong understanding of state/event flow and lot of discipline, whereas with React the correct way to handle this is the 'obvious' path, which dramatically lowers the barrier to entry.

A good engineer is not a perfectionist, but they're not callous either. It's knowing when to make the trade-off, or at least making an informed guess.

I don't think you'll find many recommendations for key lengths under 128 bits / 16 bytes these days.

For me they are weirdly hard to obtain. Don't show up in second hand shops. Ebay shipping is prohibitively expensive.

There's 2 cases being discussed. A UUIDv7 is a bad secret, but it's fine for many other ids. If I can guess your user id, it shouldn't really matter because your business logic should prevent me from doing anything with that information. If I can guess your password reset token it's a different story because I don't need anything else beyond that token to do damage.

Looks great! Curious what the author and others use for local maildir email reading.

A bit of an alternative take on this, but I talk to a lot of folks at small start-ups (in Toronto, if that matters), but it seems like most people actually get this right and understand not to bring in complexity until later. Things like microservices seems like they are mostly understood as a tool that's not really meant to solve a real scalibility problem and is massive liability early on.

The exceptions are usually just inexperienced people at the helm. My feeling is, hire someone with adequate experience and this is likely not an issue.

I do think architecture astronauts tend to talk a lot more about their houses of cards, which makes it seem like these set ups are more popular than they are.

Also been doing vim and now neovim for 20+ years. LSP just broke and several keybinds alongside it and just not looking forward to figuring out what happened (but will anyway). It's a huge mental block for me whenever I need to get into configuration. So to me this feels very relatable.

I think the general issue with software engineering discourse is that while our tools and languages may be the same, there's a massive gradient in tolerance for incorrectness, security, compliance, maintainability.

Some of us are building prototypes, and others are building software with a 10 year horizon or work with sensitive personal data.

So on the one side you get people that are super efficient cranking things out, and others that read this and feel appalled anyone would be comfortable with this and see software engineering as theory building. Neither are really wrong here, but the context / risk of what people are working on always seems to be missing when people talk about this.

Individual bits always go fast, the difficulty is always telling many apart. Speed is kind of the wrong word. It's about throughput

Not a scientist or science reporter, but it strikes me that the headline (and content) of the article should include 'that we know of'. Is that silly of me, or is it expected from the reader to know that this is always implied?

Or h3ss, pronounced hess

Yeah this also reminds me of people getting burned by Web Components, because they use them with the same granularity as React components.