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It feels like the age of AI has made take home coding exercises obsolete. I still have not found a good replacement.

You would be surprised by how many infrastructures have software running without any container :) I'm running FreeBSD on my servers so containers are out, but even if I was Linux, …

Yes, it can be compiled and packaged so that I can one day install it as any other package, in my case on FreeBSD. And of course it's not just about avoid recompilation, there are …

This space may be well established, but it still does not fullfill all needs. For my own: - NGINX does not support ACME, and I'm fed up with dealing with Lego and other external AC…

Microsoft Entra having first class support for OIDC really helps; I remember seeing a decision diagram in their documentation recommending using OIDC for new projects, it can help …

OWASP recommendations for Argon2id are 19MiB memory, iterations 2, parallelism 1. And following OWASP is not only a good idea for security but also makes it easy to justify with IT…

Could you distribute it? I'm not a huge fan of ASDF complexity and have had many headaches trying to make some custom components work. I would welcome any simple alternative, even …

In technical organizations (all organizations really), simplicity is also a hard sell: you need people in charge with the ability to say "no" to a lot of ideas. And no one wants to…

The text of this act treat them the same way unless I'm missing something (feel free to point me the text saying otherwise). A sane legal text would put in place thresholds with di…

In kitchens as in plumbings: - There are rules, and clear established practices that allow you to follow these rules. In software the rabbit hole goes so deep that your average dev…

Correct. I would be perfectly fine with some amount of control and liability proportional to the size of the company, excluding tiny ones as it is often the case. With this new act…

It seems the author is refering to the EU Cybersecurity Act that should be voted early 2024. The last draft clearly excludes open source software as long as there is no commercial …

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I might be missing something, but the appeal of gradual typing to me is that I can mostly type functions, providing safe input/output boundaries, and avoid having to type every sin…

> Google runs some very sensitive applications for paying enterprise customers, and they still tend to not expire sessions. For Google Workspace, web applications (e.g. Gmail or Ca…

For anyone finding CLOS interesting, "The Art of the Metaobject Protocol" is the next logical step. A good way to dig deep into how CLOS is built. It should be a mandatory read for…

The trick with online platforms is to edit messages, replacing the content with a random string (this script supports both ".", a random string or a fixed string of your choosing).…

Wait it's integrated with SystemD? What is a package management system doing with the init process? I now remember that Guix is a daemon, something that made me really wary at the …

This is the only reason I haven't tried to use Guix. I love the concept, I want to use it, but it does not run on FreeBSD. And I would not invest time in a packaging system that wo…

The most surprising aspect of REDUCE is the way the callback can be called depending on both the length of the list and the presence of absence of an initial value.

Author here. I double checked the Hyperspec [1] and you're quite right. I'll fix the article tomorrow, thank you for noticing! [1] http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw60/CLHS/…

I don't know if it will fix your font size problem, but this is what I have in my userContent.css for Firefox: @-moz-document url-prefix(https://news.ycombinator.com) { body { back…

I don't know about Outlook and others, but you can still use any client you want, both for IMAP and SMTP access, using application passwords[1]. I have been doing that for years, b…

My understanding is that the budget required to build a game perceived as "modern" is higher and higher each year, meaning that studios need to target a very large market to be pro…