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johtso

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About johtso

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Recent public activity

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    Comment #47798325

    It’s impossible to know whether an action completed successfully if an error occurs between sending the request and persisting the result

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    Comment #47796267

    Sure, but this is not a protocol, this is an API. APIs that allow actions that cost money, potentially annoy users / effect your reputation in the eyes of email recipients, I belie…

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    Comment #47794465

    Another email sending service without support for idempotency?

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    Comment #47008820

    Yes this behaviour is infuriating, the surprise autocorrect! Can result in some really embarrassing messages being sent..

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    Comment #46845211

    This is the trouble with common names, the way to avoid ambiguity is to use the binomial name.

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    Comment #45735110

    When you're having to work with someone else's godawful convoluted database schema you're sometimes really happy not to have to write the query yourself. Giving the LLM context wit…

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    Comment #45482952

    This is fairly common with linting/test coverage tools

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    Comment #45480539

    I've been having a bad time with email of late. It's been the method of communication between us and another company (a pretty creaky old product). I thought they were replying str…

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    Comment #45480511

    sqlc always seemed like a really neat concept to me. I love the idea of being able to write my queries as raw SQL in separate files, would make everything so much more interoperabl…

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    Comment #45453099

    Maybe, depending on where you are in the world, you could make some kind of GDPR request to get access to your data, even if you don't recover your account?

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    Comment #45374485

    Thanks for recommending mailpace, £7.50/month for 10,000 emails is very reasonable, _and_ they support idempotency! Definitely makes me consider switching to them..

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    Comment #45373731

    Please tell me this supports some kind of idempotency.. I fear it wont. The kind of hoops I've had to jump through to achieve DIY idempotency with Postmark would make you cringe, a…

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    Comment #45268654

    Maybe one approach would be to pin all dependencies, and not use any new version of a package until it reaches a certain age. That would hopefully be enough time for any issues to …

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    Comment #45136027

    Do you not use an adblocker? I can't remember the last time I saw that kind of ad..

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    Comment #45066692

    What about something like VisualHostKey but for the bitcoin address?

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    Comment #44952224

    Really? you can just download an app on your phone (like ProtonVPN) and it just works, where's the faff?

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    Comment #44938574

    All 7ishTB of images are also available on the internet archive, Flickr was a collaboration that allowed browsing them in a vaguely user friendly way. I guess serving over 5 millio…

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    Comment #44923860

    Yes, the dezoomify extension will get you individual pages, quite neat seeing the image getting put together client-side in a canvas.. shame it's even necessary though.

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    Comment #44923439

    Pinned comment on their Youtube video 6 years ago "There is no option to download them. We will let you know if one day that will come!"

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    Comment #44922365

    Hermetically open? Where's the download link? It really frustrates me that fantastic projects like this end up only being made available via some "online catalogue" with tiled zoom…

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    Comment #44922292

    AI? All you need is a 200 line perl script :) https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/ https://ia804508.us.archive.org/21/items/vrr-texts-imageryof... https://ia804…

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    Comment #44888477

    Think a common approach is to just display a triangular svg beneath the tooltip: https://react-spectrum.adobe.com/react-aria/Tooltip.html#exa...

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    Comment #44878864

    The project dashboard is great, you can see all the work that's being done in real-time: https://tracker.archiveteam.org:1338/