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chaitanya

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About chaitanya

Essays on lisper.in.

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    You can’t, because JavaScript date objects are just timestamps. Here’s what I wrote on this (along with a small library to handle this problem): https://lisper.in/javascript-date

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    You can have the best of both worlds -- "commit early, commit often", and "nice clean commit histories" -- with git, and it is easier than most people think. - So you start work on…

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    Only plausible explanation I can think of is that perhaps you or your girlfriend looked something up about drying a wet memory stick.

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    > This would benefit from a "select all/none" option for the regions. Yeah, that would help. I'll add this. > Also, adding spot pricing would be SUPER helpful! Unfortunately spot p…

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    Growing up in the pre-Internet era Reader’s Digest was such a good resource due to stories like these. Was always excited to see a new magazine arrive every month. I wonder if it’s…

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    If you are on a Mac or Windows, this approach only works for utilities that can run on Linux. If you need to run a native Mac program for example, docker won't be able to run that.…

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    If the upstream returns an error over HTTP, the CDN won’t hide it.

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    Many years ago I wrote about restarts in CL using the example of a CSV parser: https://lisper.in/restarts Fun fact: the restarts based CSV parser was based on some real world work …

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    Does 1.1.1.1 send ECS info to Cloudflare’s own nameservers? More generally, does 1.1.1.1 in any way treat Cloudflare’s own nameservers in a special way and send it information that…

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    > Surviving rising water levels is trivial of course - just walk away from the beach. I don’t want to take away from your other point but this is not so trivial for the hundreds of…

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    Many people here assuming that Troy Hunt will leave HIBP after selling it. He explicitly mentions that he will remain a part of it: > I'll remain a part of HIBP. I fully intend to …

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    Right. At a previous company our Cloudfront bill ran up to $2000/mo because someone ran a test script a few times every minute that fetched a few resources from CF. Once we killed …