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catmanjanon How We Turn Authorization Logic into SQL

Do you have much experience with it? Can you comment on the performance hit?

catmanjanon How to build a low-tech website? (2018)

The ui would have to change, but the experience doesn't need to - news sites should just be tables, not art gallerys

catmanjanon Why are our brains shrinking?

Are you more, or less likely to breed the more social media you consume?

catmanjanon Samsung Foundry Forum announcements

There are a few comments saying that 3nm is a marketing term and that the transistors are actually larger - how is this allowed? Isn't it misleading and deceptive?

catmanjanon Cooling system leak led to Victorian Big Battery fire

So you'd have to have a wire pressed against your chest with your back on the ground... Unlikely but yes possible hazard when working on solar panels

catmanjanon What's the deal with tab size (8 spaces) in the GitHub UI?

The new C# 6 templates don't require namespace or class blocks - for this reason I suppose.

catmanjanon Belgian ISP under 250 Gbps DDoS for days on end

So a bit like a proof of work concept for packets? Doesnt sound like such a crazy idea to me

catmanjanon COBOL – Still standing the test of time

It needs to be breathtaking money to be worth it when you take into account the risk of investing in a shrinking skill set

catmanjanon Zero-Trust RDP and SSH Access to VMs on Google Cloud

The answer is one (or most likely all of) these: active directory, sharepoint, exchange

catmanjanon ASML, a $300B Dutch firm, makes the machines that make semiconductors

I imagine its a bit like selling pickaxes in a mining boom

catmanjanon Google’s ‘Project Hug’ paid out huge sums to keep game devs in the Play Store

Depends on what you think the goal of the free market/society is, e.g. is this even in our interest to solve - better to redistribute these ill gotten gains to the benefit of society and let the free market solve its own problem - if they do it again, another fine.

just like parking /speeding tickets arent considered structural problems

catmanjanon Don't attach tooltips to document.body

Yet another browser based leaky abstraction... Looking forward to the inevitable trend flip back to native ui!

catmanjanon MeiliSearch: A Minimalist Full-Text Search Engine

>ElasticSearch is a perfectly good document database.

I recently asked about this and people replied that it wasn't fit for this purpose

catmanjanon Official Elasticsearch Python library no longer works with open-source forks

Do you know for sure that postgres doesn't perform as well as elasticsearch if you don't use the relational capabilities of postgres?

Instinctively I believe what you're saying, just wondering if you know for sure.

catmanjanon Official Elasticsearch Python library no longer works with open-source forks

Can't Amazon just serve these bogus headers and keep opensearch compatible? It's not like headers are copyrighted...

catmanjanon The Elasticsearch Saga Continues

Can't Amazon just serve these bogus headers and keep opensearch compatible? It's not like headers are copyrighted...

catmanjanon Driving engineers to an arbitrary date is a value destroying mistake (2020)

Given unlimited time you can have unlimited anything, no?

catmanjanon On Apple’s “Expanded Protections for Children” – A Personal Story

The feature phones do have google maps, but from what I've read they all take some time to acquire a lock (could be a software issue?)

catmanjanon On Apple’s “Expanded Protections for Children” – A Personal Story

Which model did you choose?

I'm looking at doing the same and I noticed Nokia has published the source code for the 8110 (I believe kaios runs ontop of Linux)

catmanjanon Square to acquire Afterpay for $29B

Other than mortgage (and HECS) nobody I know uses debt - Australians love second hand cars

catmanjanon Can Redis be used as a primary database? [video]

What happened with Elasticsearch?

catmanjanon DaisyUI – Tailwind CSS Components

I've heard a lot about how great tailwind is, can anyone point to some good examples of people using it? Most of what I can find is just samples

catmanjanon Billions in 'unknown' funds flowing into Canada's housing market [video]

Imagine if a rich king comes to a small village and insists on buying a loaf of bread from the baker for $100 rather than a penny

Now the butcher knows the baker is hungry and has $100, so he ups his prices to get the most value

But the butcher needs knives and the blacksmith knows he can afford more now too

The kings left town but the damage has been done, will probably take some time for things to go sane again

catmanjanon Agile at 20: The Failed Rebellion

I thought agile hedged against that by getting product in front of customers early - they may not know what they want but if you show them 100 things they don't want you'll probably be close

catmanjanon Autonomy founder Mike Lynch can be extradited to US

Isn't it ironic that IDOL (one of autonomys big products) is now being pitched to do fraud detection!

catmanjanon Why does the New menu even exist for creating new empty files?

I've done this in Visual Studio simply because the way to create a new blank code file is convoluted

catmanjanon Windows 365 Cloud PC

I guess Microsoft is giving up on porting full Word, Excel, etc to the browser...

catmanjanon If you want to transform IT, start with finance

Was capex preferred due to preferential tax treatment?

catmanjanon MacKichan Software, maker of Scientific Word, has gone out of business

Pretty sure restaurants and car mechanics aren't unique skills and when they retire in my area someone usually buys them out and continues operating under the same name...