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Podman can run compose - either its own, or docker-compose if you tell Podman to listen on the docker socket. I use Podman on both macos and Windows, with compose files, so I'm a b…

This is really great - great style, charming little world. Love it!

New Zealander here, really thrilled to see our national medical testing service (primarily blood tests) in here. I've sent a note to them to make sure they're aware of this. Also I…

For events that have happened, absolutely. Events in the future are often slightly more ambiguous though! I do agree that "with attached Timezone" or "as UTC" are absolutely the se…

For sure, but for future events to be correct I still have to store that as (plain datetime, pacific/auckland), not translated to utc at the point of creation/saving. If I store on…

Calendar events often want to be interpreted according to whatever the local timezone currently is. For instance "10am every second Sunday" shouldn't adjust to 9am during Daylight-…

When it’s a library of code, the language it is written in is pretty pertinent information as that’s the language it has to be consumed from…

I found the Scanner API (1) to be pretty handy for the more complex parsing in past years. It’s Foundation so hopefully also on Linux/Windows, but if not there’s also one on GitHub…

I'm a some-time Django developer and... I caught the bug instantly. Once I saw it was model/ORM code it was the first thing I looked for. I say that not to brag because (a) default…

Natron is essentially a clone of Nuke, the ~standard compositing software for the VFX industry. It's impressive that it exists and competes with some very expensive alternatives. I…

I've only played with Nim a little, but I found it really compelling and honestly quite fun to write. It's quite elegant and economical and the performance is impressive for the la…

`ptr`, `addr` and `cast` are the only ways to introduce unsafety, as I understand it. You have to run three greps, but you can definitely grep.

NZ isn't currently issuing visas outside of a few categories of "special worker in shortage". (In order to citizens and residents a better chance at getting a quarantine spot.) So …

He's pretty clear in the article that it's the "title-description-body" model that doesn't work -- tweets don't generally benefit from a title or a summary.

In the VFX industry you don't roundtrip lossy codecs; first step is to decode to something lossless like EXR or TIFF, and those are what you pipe through your workflows. (With mayb…

It's essentially the same process to begin with (I think), but every time the ray hits something you fire off secondary rays probabilistically from the hit point to see what that p…

BS corporate red tape is a reality, though. So why not offer workarounds that help them give you money?

Let's maybe also consider the role of e.g. US interference and sanctions in your two examples, before we decide capitalism good, socialism bad.

The point is that you're not expecting people to ever pay it, because you've set it high enough to be a solid disincentive. If people are actually paying it regularly, you obviousl…

A New Zealand bank has made this one: https://cleverkash.asb.co.nz Obvious there's a certain advantage to already being a bank for projects like this.

Really? connection.exec_, .map, .build – there's a lot more non-SQL going on in the second example than the first. The first may be syntactically far from SQL, but the use of famil…

There are tools to go between the two (from http://cubic-bezier.com/ to Flash's HTML5 export), but I don't think there's any general solution to go from a UI like that, to code. Wh…

Surely the right to the drug was only worth $11B in the first place because of $84k possibilities at the other end? If it was only ever going to be $1500, that $11B would have been…

I would have expected the vast majority of the killing was of animals e.g. hunting. You don't seem to have left any room for that possibility.