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oomkiller

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About oomkiller

Blog: https://bbhoss.io/ Public Email: hn at bbhoss.io PGP Public Key: https://gist.github.com/bbhoss/6286374 (MIT PGP Key ID D8D09AB6)

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    Comment #32696057

    There's no WASM involved and the BEAM is not running on the device. It works like LiveView, except instead of an HTML DOM you have a SwiftUI hierarchy. The client side of LiveView …

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    Comment #25180464

    This was posted previously[1]. I am reposting because the "Permissive Security" option that appeared to allow operation of the operating systems has been removed. Wayback Machine[2…

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    Comment #24333042

    Sorbet looks really cool, too bad they developed their own typing system that keeps types in a totally separate file instead of adopting it.

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    Comment #24260793

    Poking around in the weirdness that is Solaris is so much fun. The comments in the source code are legendary as are the man pages, seemingly much more helpful than other platforms,…

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    Comment #24212152

    This is a very cool project, running Erlang on an ESP32 is impressive. The supervisor trees and other parts of OTP make the platform a good fit for certain embedded projects. Nerve…

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    Comment #23728006

    I really look forward to seeing what can be done with Postgres's pluggable storage backends that were recently added. It seems that some of the issues with treating a table as a qu…

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    Comment #21455320

    Yes, I've reported a bunch of these as well. Basically any sort of corporate action (split, reverse split, merger, etc) seems to completely screw up their "gain" calculations, whic…

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    Comment #21422545

    Location: Brooklyn, NY Remote: Preferred Willing to relocate: Only for exceptional opportunities Technologies: Elixir, Scala, Ruby, Rails, TypeScript, JavaScript, React, GraphQL, H…

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    Comment #21127009

    Location: Brooklyn, NY Remote: Preferred Willing to relocate: Only for exceptional opportunities Technologies: Elixir, Scala, Ruby, Rails, TypeScript, JavaScript, React, GraphQL, H…

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    Comment #21028317

    Heaven forbid users choose to trade performance for a more usable browsing experience. Ads/tracking vs blocking is a war, and preventing blockers from running arbitrary code will c…

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    Comment #20956852

    Probably not what you are looking for, but maybe useful: https://www.reddit.com/r/dotnet/comments/d2t7ti/mathsharp_a_...

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    Comment #20955530

    Reforming private prisons is just a small part of criminal justice reform. This is a good step but it seems like many are unaware or are ignoring the impact that labor unions have …

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    Comment #20953933

    Just saw this yesterday, shame they're sold out but I think this is what they're referencing: https://computers.woot.com/offers/hp-t620-amd-flexible-thin-...

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    Comment #20637048

    There's quite a bit of capacity available for downtown residents, should they choose to own a car https://www.parkme.com/map#Downtown%20Los%20Angeles%2C%20Los...

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    Comment #20378622

    Ruby itself did have something akin to this known as SAFE levels, which prevented IO, exiting the program, etc: https://ruby-hacking-guide.github.io/security.html Unfortunately, it…

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    Comment #20378602

    There's still a lot to learn about this incident, but most likely the RubyGems account was compromised, allowing the attacker to upload whatever they wanted. Signed releases with a…

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    Comment #19411978

    There's also jupytext: https://github.com/mwouts/jupytext

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    Comment #19046999

    What's the status of Firestore under the BAA along with the other Fire* services?

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    Comment #18786353

    Unfortunately the problem is much greater than engineers not understanding doctors and other clinical staff, in my experience. For startups that want to sell to health systems and …

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    Comment #17674597

    Cityblock | Software Engineer (multiple) | Brooklyn, NY | Onsite | Cityblock is seeking multiple mission-driven engineers to develop software that coordinates and improves delivery…

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    Comment #17410963

    We should charge per unit of garbage generated (per liter or whatever), and have tracking on how much of it was actually recyclable, which would cause some percent of the price to …

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    Comment #17306753

    At this point I believe Google has a deep aversion to storing secrets in environment variables. The best way I have found so far is to use Cloud KMS to encrypt the credentials and …

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    Comment #17297397

    Cool, this has previously been an issue. They haven't updated the docs I was looking at yet https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/postgres/connect-app-engin...