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ubergeek42
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Comment #46734398
tl;dr: Rippling does not ensure HSA contributions from your paycheck and deposits into the HSA actually match, leading to a situation where you may have money withheld from your pa…
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Comment #45986724
It's not so much about the environment itself, but the data in it. If the data you use for your tests is all hand crafted/manually created by someone who has left the company then …
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Comment #45985066
I've been in the QA space for a while now, and one thing that repeatedly comes up is people neglecting their QA data. It's always an afterthought about how to get their application…
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Comment #43283638
This[1] is something I've come across but not had a chance to play with, designed for reading non-smart meters that might work for you. I'm not sure if there's any way to run it on…
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Comment #41457202
> Fixed an issue where Copy and Paste context menu items intermittently were not enabled when expected. I'm glad to see they were able to get this fixed, it'd been bothering me for…
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Comment #41063817
I think the surprising thing to me here is the high usage of ChatGPT (82%). Every time I try to use it I find I can just search for an answer quicker than it, especially when takin…
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Comment #40915438
> Also, not sure why you wouldn’t just use Base64 encoding for which optimised versions already exist instead of rolling your own conversion to/from base 26 (or 52). It's mentioned…
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Comment #40915400
Along the same lines, there are some programming contests that use a web based system for submitting solutions. They often restrict internet access to just the contest website, but…
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Comment #11328406
The only other thing I've seen in this space is DodgerCMS. It may meet your needs as it seems to do a lot more than Tumbless already. I think I prefer the way it handles credential…
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Comment #10970912
I've been using this for a few years to cache basically the whole of a USB drive after booting from it. It helps make up for the slow read speed of many cheap flash drives by cachi…
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Comment #10948503
Very cool, I was working on basically the same thing[1]. What do you think will happen to your project now that this exists from Amazon? [1] https://github.com/ubergeek42/lambda-le…
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Comment #10948462
That's a good point. For some reason the only thing I was thinking about was cloudfront/elb.
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Comment #10948350
Can anyone think of any advantages LetsEncrypt would provide over this offering from AWS? Or does this basically kill LetsEncrypt's usage on AWS? The only thing I can think of is t…
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Comment #426038
Something similar to this has been available for a while on http://www.govtrack.us The entire website is open source, including the data files(and some of the tools used to gather/…