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Hmm. I stick to jq for basically any JSON -> JSON transformation or summarization (field extraction, renaming, etc.). Perhaps I should switch to scripts more. uv is... such a game …

Oh wow, that's fantastic. I love that it includes real values while still summarizing the doc's structure. I'm going to steal that. I'll probably keep jq-structure around because i…

Oh, fantastic. jq has become an integral part of work for me. I'll use this opportunity to plug the one-liner I use all the time, which summarizes the "structure" of a doc in a jq-…

> how clear and useful it is. Perhaps, but do you really need all that? Do I need clear and useful things? Maybe not. Would I like to have them anyway? Yes. Years ago, I configured…

It's been so long that I barely remember the details, but yes, we used a gnomon to calculate several things... the earth's circumference, our local solar noon, latitude and longitu…

> Have you ever done the experiments to prove the Earth is round? I have, actually! Thanks, astronomy class! I've even estimated the earth's diameter, and I was only like 30% off (…

Setting aside that you can enable mouse mode in vim and use the mouse to your heart's desire -- and setting aside the "declarative" vs "imperative" nomenclature debate -- vim is pr…

Yeah, having the read the article, my conclusion was that you should avoid honeycrisps from like February through ~August. i.e. only buy them when they're vaguely in season, or not…

Errr, not in the rural area I grew up in. Gravel driveways are super common, gravel roads not so much. To give some specifics: I only remember driving down an actual gravel road (l…

Maybe area-dependent? I grew up in an extraordinarily rural area in Tennessee. Most roads were paved (asphalt). Even ones out in the middle of nowhere. The conditions of some of th…

I felt the same way initially, but the language has grown on me. The turning point was writing a lot of Go, like full-time project work for a few months. But as I've gotten older, …

It's a link to source code on GitHub. It could be marketing too, but it's absolutely, incontrovertibly source code.

> show us the code if it's that easy to give to others See https://security.apple.com/documentation/private-cloud-compu... disclosure: work at Apple, opinions absolutely my own.

I haven't used Terraform in years (because I changed jobs, not because of the tech itself), but back in the day v0.12 solved most of my gripes. I have always wished they'd implemen…

Out of curiosity, how would you describe TCP in these terms? Does the TCP stack's handling of sequence numbers constitute processing (on the client and server both I assume)? Which…

Page not found - is that a private repo?

The source is on GitHub: utils.js, which contains the (de)serialization code: https://github.com/ccbikai/loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo... tool.js, which does the serialization:…

Unlike SO, it's common to have very situation-specific questions posted on YAQS. In fact, my team preferred random one-off questions to go through YAQS (our contact golink pointed …

Exactly this. It's not uncommon to ask a coworker how to do something, get a response, and then send them a follow-up CL adding that information to a playbook or doc somewhere so o…

Best/worst. I worked at an e-learning company that, thanks to ancient e-learning standards, really tried hard to figure out when a user is leaving a web-page to handle session exit…

There's a fourth use-case: occasionally, gaming. I play Final Fantasy XIV, an MMORPG - apparently, supposedly, the peering connection between AT&T and FFXIV's US ISP (NTT) was part…

Super cool. I always enjoy reading about systems that challenge, well, "ossified" assumptions. An OS not providing a shell, for example? Madness! ... or is it genius, if the OS has…

It has indeed been a strange time for Google SRE recently. However, they're definitely not planning on shutting down SRE - at least, if you can trust what Google leadership's actua…

GCE local SSDs absolutely are on the same host as the VM. The docs [0] are pretty clear on this, I think: > Local SSD disks are physically attached to the server that hosts your VM…