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RedShift1··on How to use Postgres for everything
What is a reasonable use for a null character in a string? My first instinct is that strings with nulls in them should absolutely be rejected.
RedShift1··on How to use Postgres for everything
What exactly is the problem with tight coupling? You're going to insert an entire layer that basically translates format A to format B, just so you can later change a column name in the database and not have to change it in the API or something?
RedShift1··on How to use Postgres for everything
> You'll inevitably get database-as-the-API

I think that's actually the point of "postgres for everything"?

RedShift1··on All of Google Offline?
Works for me (EU). DNS servers 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 working.
RedShift1··on Company claims 1k% price hike drove it from VMware to open source rival
Buy, extract as much money as possible, then dump the carcass. I'm sure they did the math on this.
RedShift1··on Company claims 1k% price hike drove it from VMware to open source rival
VMware has been increasing revenue year after year [1]. That seems quite the opposite of dying?

[1] https://www.netcials.com/financial-revenue-history-usa/11246...

RedShift1··on IE7 and IE7 (2005)
Thankfully? It didn't work well or you weren't satisfied with the technology? Rendering too slow?
RedShift1··on If not React, then what?
I'm with albedoa on this one. Loading things only when you scroll to them makes for a terrible scrolling experience.
RedShift1··on IE7 and IE7 (2005)
And XLST... Actually pretty cool, a standardized way to render XML files. Too bad XML was way too verbose and clunky that everyone basically walked away from it.
RedShift1··on DELETEs Are Difficult
There is pg-safeupdate: https://github.com/eradman/pg-safeupdate
RedShift1··on The UX of Lego Interface Panels (2020)
In my car (BMW from 2012), the engine does not shut off when you press the start/stop button when you're driving. It only shuts off the engine when you press it AND you're stationary. This seems like a totally obvious interlock to me, it puzzles me that Ford didn't think of this and as a solution moved the button instead.
RedShift1··on Mitigating WiFi deauth attacks with Ubiquiti Protected Management Frames (2022)
Cisco wireless LAN controllers used to have this feature built in. In some release they removed it.
RedShift1··on Mitigating WiFi deauth attacks with Ubiquiti Protected Management Frames (2022)
I run a small time wireless network for a business (about 100 concurrent clients at any given time), I had to disable PMF because some devices simply wouldn't work.

Edit: also, from my notes at setup time, some devices could connect but then had trouble roaming.

RedShift1··on The WTF-8 Encoding
Ok, but in practice, what does this mean for the characters? Are there certain characters unavailable?
RedShift1··on The WTF-8 Encoding
Which characters are not available in UTF-8 that warrant using WTF-8?
RedShift1··on Don’t look down on print debugging
I've used both and most of the time I'm still print debugging, because the big advantage of print debugging is that it shows you exactly the kind of information you're looking for and nothing else.
RedShift1··on A simple to use Java 8 JWT Library
Why would you write your own implementation when RSA functions are baked into Java's standard library?
RedShift1··on A simple to use Java 8 JWT Library
But this library's only dependency is Jackson. I really don't see how much of a hurdle this would be to upgrade.
RedShift1··on A simple to use Java 8 JWT Library
I've migrated projects from Java 8 to 21 with little changes, I think for a lightweight library like this it wouldn't even matter.
RedShift1··on A simple to use Java 8 JWT Library
RSA is hard to secure? As far as I know, 2048 bit RSA has still not been cracked?
RedShift1··on A simple to use Java 8 JWT Library
Java 8 is still supported until at least 2026, so why not target it?
RedShift1··on What I wish someone told me about Postgres
I'm trying to but the entire page scrolls horizontally instead of just the code block.
RedShift1··on What I wish someone told me about Postgres
I can't horizontally scroll on mobile, can't see the full query texts...
RedShift1··on I fixed a server with a precisely placed piece of tape (2023)
Now's the time for the infamous Tom's Hardware video comparing a P4 to an AMD Athlon to see what happens when you remove the cooler...
RedShift1··on Desktop icons are surprisingly hard
What's the point you're trying to make?
RedShift1··on Web Locks API
How many layers of namespacing do you want in between? 1? 2? 10? Perhaps we should go the SNMP route and start with 1.3.6.1.4.1?
RedShift1··on How JPEG XL compares to other image codecs
Not unless Chrome starts having serious marketshare issues.
RedShift1··on Smarter Than 'Ctrl+F': Linking Directly to Web Page Content
You _know_ somebody will be thinking about hijacking CTRL+F with this.
RedShift1··on Smarter Than 'Ctrl+F': Linking Directly to Web Page Content
Unrelated? CTRL+F is literally in the title...
RedShift1··on Smarter Than 'Ctrl+F': Linking Directly to Web Page Content
Sidenote: please don't hijack CTRL+F on webpages, thanks. Sincerely, the world.
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