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pushcx

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About pushcx

Peter Bhat Harkins https://malaprop.org Email: peter at same

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    Comment #49029430

    The web app typically sees 10 rps and most of those don't write.

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    Comment #49029153

    Thanks for highlighting this failure mode. We don't have a supervisor thread in a position to slow readers and writes like you described in your other thread, so I knocked up a job…

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    Comment #48994395

    No. In short, in US law, CSAM is a visual depiction of a real-world act of child sexual abuse. Visual depictions like you're describing are covered under a different law, and I'm n…

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    Comment #48924582

    I timed it a few times.

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    Comment #48911000

    This isn't elaborated on in the piece, but it does mention that it's written in the context of the Fermi paradox. Adding 50,000 years of technological development and a 1,000 year …

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    Comment #48863530

    Or it's a distinction without a difference to the site owner. Ever prod service I've run has seen significantly more abuse from human users using alias services, especially protonm…

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    Comment #48571598

    I had wanted the same thing for a long time and jj + difftastic has satisfied me.

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    Comment #48570289

    It's not intentional on this author's part, but this is a great example of how Google rewards people posting slop. The oldest posts on the blog read normally, the new stuff this po…

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    Comment #48523959

    The stock market has liquidity, fungibility, low transaction costs, etc etc. https://jlcollinsnh.com/2013/05/29/why-your-house-is-a-terri...

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    Comment #48464509

    Thanks, I appreciate you sorting out the timeline on such a heated issue.

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    Comment #48413203

    What followed was extraordinary: 329 comments and counting, ranging from thoughtful concern to outright harassment. The thread did not stop at words. One user posted My Little Pony…

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    Comment #48315955

    > when I saw someone complain about what he thought the title should be, I just used his idea instead of my own. This upset the moderator so much when he saw that I was optimizing …

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    Comment #48313399

    This title and premise are incorrect. It's not a bait-and-switch unless the bait was unavailable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bait-and-switch Vivado really was available free. Th…

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    Comment #47942978

    > "GitHub only gets better if people who give a shit stick around to make it better" What's the mechanism of action here? What changes if I stay? What changes if I give more or les…

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    Comment #47780894

    This is a little late for your nice jacket, but a lot of zipper damage comes from dirt getting into the teeth and then the zip grinds everything up. Outdoors shops sell a zipper lu…

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    Comment #47386744

    There's a lobbying group called 5rights that has designed and promoted the UK OSA, AU OSA, California KOSA, Federal KOSA, and more. This isn't some conspiracy. They take proudly ta…

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    Comment #47349737

    Rails's public release was July 2004: https://rubytalk.org/t/ann-rails-0-5-0-the-end-of-vaporware/... Django's was July 2005: https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2005/jul/15/chipy…

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    Comment #47242772

    TypeID is similar, though it uses the UUIDv7 directly: https://github.com/jetify-com/typeid Maybe the formalization would be interesting to you. It doesn't have a checksum, though,…

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    Comment #46698249

    I don't know why you think I want a "technical win" from you, but I'm not seeking your approval. I corrected your mistake about the URL and the policy, like I corrected the author'…

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    Comment #46692961

    The link was https://effective-haskell.com/

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    Comment #46679503

    You got a DM and email with the title and URL when your story was removed. This would've been 2023-08-03 with the subject "Your story has been edited by a moderator", if you want t…

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    Comment #46672772

    You did not share a link to a blog post. The title was "Effective Haskell is a hands-on practical book way to learn Haskell. No math or formal CS needed" and it linked to the site …

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    Comment #46654774

    Left writes: > The government’s position is that I should have known I couldn’t trade stocks I’d publicly praised—for some unspecified period of time. I didn’t lie, I simply traded…

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    Comment #46605072

    There's a much higher-ROI way to encode these, write a test that checks the current date. Maybe a very large project would prefer not to fail everyone's build for it, but this is f…

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    Comment #46489778

    There's a couple dozen at Midewin, too: https://www.fs.usda.gov/r09/midewin/animals-plants/bison-pro...