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It does get at what I'm talking about. But I've seen retrying in this situation lead to worsening the situation, because your basic problem is two hot paths conflicting with each o…

Do folks have any thoughts on ways of avoiding deadlocking access patterns? In a codebase where folks are sort of adding ad-hoc endpoints left and right, it's hard to avoid the cas…

> I do not agree that slice() should operate on extended grapheme clusters. Don’t lump the grapheme cluster/scalar value split in with the sins of UTF-16 and its unreliable code po…

In old-school chess AIs, zugzwang is also of interest because it can break null-move pruning[0], which is a way to prune the search tree. "Null move" just means "skip your turn", a…

Leads me to discover: https://www.twitch.tv/chat_loadtest_01 ... neat!

I've almost never needed any of these, but there's all sorts of weird redirections you can do in GNU Bash: https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#Redirecti...

It is news to me that manipulating ASCII art is something AI can do well! I remember this being something LLMs were all particularly horrible at. But I just checked and it seems to…

Eddie Izzard was joking in 1998 about the "The" and the prohibited names for The City ( https://youtu.be/QRB_GhLXCds?si=R4kYkodzvYDxe33H&t=276 ), so it's probably been like this fo…

For those unfamiliar: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 ... It's basically a bunch of posts that 'dang and 'tomhow (others too? idk) think are underrated, so it tends t…

For others, I'm sure parent knows: OKLCH is largely a bugfix for CILEAB. Both try to make a color space where even steps feel evenly spaced to a human. But CIELAB had procedural fl…

Kind of moot anyway; 100x zoom is equivalent to a 2400mm lens (with no stabilization assist). If you can hand-aim that on target, you're an elite marksman.

Seems their IG has some of these, including the shot from the article: https://www.instagram.com/tripodtales/p/C8hRS0ctzCp/ Factory Butte: https://www.instagram.com/tripodtales/p/C…

> Into the Past by Jim Hildreth The area in this photo -- the Caineville Mesa, Factory Butte, "Long Dong Silver" (I'm not aware of a more polite name) -- is some of the strangest l…

Since we both worked there: I can think of a few places at Segment where we'd have added more reporting/analytics/search if it weren't such a pain to set up a OLAP copy of our cont…

Shuffle-sharding is similar to stochastic Blue stuff, and you'll find Amazon talking about it: https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library/workload-isolation-u... Which isn't exactly w…

In practice, identity providers (Okta, Entra, etc.) will retry for a bit before reporting to the IDP admin that their SCIM connection to the SaaS vendor is unhealthy. From there, t…

To really support Entra in particular, you must have to reference Entra's implicit spec, which is roughly documented here: https://github.com/AzureAD/SCIMReferenceCode/tree/master/…

Django is in the works! As is Laravel and Rails (my first love).

Right now we offer prebuilt pages you can redirect to, as well as SDKs your clientside JavaScript can talk to if you want to reskin. Said SDKs are glorified cURL wrappers, and our …

Since Tesseral's data model is that users belong-to organizations, anytime you have a user, an organization is also available to you (e.g. in the context of a JWT's claims, or an A…

Thanks Aeneas!

One way is that it's really obvious what you're supposed to do with Tesseral! Like, here's our Go SDK docs: https://tesseral.com/docs/sdks/serverside-sdks/tesseral-sdk-... It's pre…

It's a bit of a mix of subtle design decisions and discrete features. A few major things: 1. In business software, Organizations are your tenants. Users aren't tenants themselves. …

We're aiming to abstract away our AWS dependencies -- KMS, S3, SES -- specifically to accommodate other clouds or non-clouds.