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It reminded me more about these kind of things actually: https://www.ebay.com/itm/277636244509 (ISA RAM Expansion Boards from the PC/XT era)

I think both preceding comments are a bit too strongly worded. I’m experimenting as well with pairing deterministic programming with llm use in a similar fashion and find that it a…

As far as their public website tells ( https://www.riec.nl/ ) the RIEC is about a targeted bundling of knowledge, experience and resources to better deal with the effects of organi…

My comment is made from the background of someone who has led the effort of bringing software development in-house, building a 20-odd FTE dev team, and is still leading it 3 years …

Postgres has a similar feature, if you chose ‘remote_write’ for the ‘synchronous_commit’ setting. You can also mix and match sync/ascync options within a cluster and even between i…

This is a disingenuous comment at best. As explained in the docs you link to, Postgres has both synchronous and asynchronous replication modes. In asynchronous mode availability is…

There was once actually an active effort to remove magic from Django: https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/RemovingTheMagic

Exactly this. For the docker images we use in production, we fork the corresponding git repo, build our own image and push it to our own local docker registry and pull it from ther…

You might be able to proxy the dictionaries from your own server? Unless something in the t&c's of the dictionary providers prohibits you from doing that of course.

Hmmm I've a distinctly different experience. In my experience their support is good and their engineers quite knowledgeable. Tickets are dealt with within reasonable time frames. I…

Basically. The idiomatic solution for this in python is: def fn(x, my_dict=None): if my_dict is None: my_dict = {} ...

Well, that's the million dollar/euro question isn't it? It's a bit hard to verify with all the secrecy going on. And arguably without some level of secrecy you cannot have effectiv…

In fact the Dutch owned New York once (then called New Amsterdam ;-) until they effectively traded it with the British for Suriname and some spare change. And that whole Dutch East…

Yes - it is called the "apple 12w usb power adapter" and costs $19 ;-)

"Non-intrusive" is the most important part here I think. Measuring productivity does not produce anything that adds to your bottom line directly. An often overlooked aspect of perf…

In addition to templating, orm and routing there is also highly integrated i18n toolchain/workflow, built-in csrf protection, good session handling, well integrated caching and man…

Yes, I know, it's turtles all the way down, of course. Still, I think that "but here we are aiming for practical applications not a philosophical debate about how everything is jus…

I was not referring to your comment per se, but indeed your comment fits the general sentiment I was referring to. And I think that localStorage is indeed literally no better than …

You're technically correct - it's all a matter of degrees of certainty. That does however not invalidate any of the points made in the article. If that native C application runs on…

True - but how is a web server with certainty going to decide which clients can be trusted (because they've a truly capable browser)and which are not to be trusted (because they ha…

My point is relevant as he considered the problem of availability of a CSPRNG 'solved' - and it isn't until you also solve most of the other problems Thomas identifies. And it was …

This piece has surfaced before. Then and now I see people coming out of the woodwork with seemingly smart ideas about how it still should be possible to safely use crypto in the br…

I'm afraid this falls in the "Check back in 10 years when the majority of people aren't running browsers from 2008." category ...

And how are you going to be sure that 'window.crypto.getRandomValues' points to the function you expect? Currently you can't be.

That is only useful if you also specify yhe conditions under which the "cracking" takes place. Do you mean on-line password guessing? Or do you mean brute-forcing a hashed password…