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chabad360

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I'm a software engineer by day, and in bed by night.

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chabad360··on Fast, Open Source Search
I would generate a JSON feed for the site and upload that (I am curious if this can detect duplicate records. Edit: it can using the UPSURT call), that way you could even have full text search.

A crawler is probably not the best tool for this if you use some form of site generation, as you can also use it to generate the information that goes into Typesense.

chabad360··on Elevator Sabbath service mode (SHO)
It's likely the elevator would be set by default to sabbath mode, unless someone specifically pressed the button to go to a specific floor.

Action is (arguably) more important than thought in Judaism.

chabad360··on WhatsApp's new privacy policy is so bad it might be illegal
Heh, let's be honest, Signal's isn't better (and I mean the desktop app, cause they don't have a web app). It randomly corrupts the sqlite database forcing me to set it up all over again, it takes a significantly long time to even do the setup process, and can't even do sms at all.
chabad360··on Twitch will ban users for 'severe misconduct' that occurs away from its site
> That's apples and bananas. A more apt comparison would be: does your local newspaper HAVE to print anything you want on the front page? No? Then why should a social media site be forced to?

Yes, but there is the other side of that coin: a newspaper (as in the company) can get sued for libel or other such things, precisely because they have editorial control.

It's seems that social media companies would like to have their cake and eat it too. They are explicitly protected from their users content (thanks to section 230), and yet they seem to flex this immunity by arbitrarily blocking users, often without recourse. IIRC they have even occasionally flipped between being publisher or a platform depending on the question.

To be fair, there is no winning for large social media companies, either they preform this filtering and everyone hates on them, or they don't and everyone hates on them. I do not believe there is a perfect way to block only people who everyone agrees should be blocked, as every method has both false positives and false negatives.

chabad360··on Let's Get Right to Repair Passed – Louis Rossmann
Were this legislation to pass in the US, this would likely affect the rest of the world as well In various ways: firstly, it would allow you to actually get these components regardless of where you live. More over, it would possibly help drive similar legislation in other countries. There are probably other things that it would help that I haven't listed as well.
chabad360··on Richard Stallman is coming back to the board of the FSF
One is someone with a diagnosed mental health disorder(s), and one is just that: an ass.
chabad360··on A flexible and durable “electronic” fabric that can be used as a display
My head hurts just trying to imagine how that would be possible.
chabad360··on Donate Unrestricted
A way of dealing with this issue that I've seen in the jewish community (I only have extensive experience there), is to provide sponsorship opportunities: a way for the donor to restrict the usage of their money and a way for the organization to get it where it's needed. While it doesn't cover everything, it can really help reduce the requirement for having donations that can be used for anything.
chabad360··on Houdini Engine for Unreal and Unity Now Free
Google "studios that use blender".
chabad360··on Sourcetrail: Free and open-source interactive source explorer
Sourcetrail does allow you to select some code block in the graph and have it open up in InteliJ (I don't know about the other way around tho).
chabad360··on TurboTax Tricked You into Paying to File Your Taxes (2019)
The Patriot Act (the show) had an episode about this issue, and they debuted a website at the end that has links to multiple free file services: https://www.turbotaxsucksass.com/
chabad360··on Vivaldi 3.6 Introduces Two-Level Tab Stacks
Chrome has that too, but last I checked, they do not persist if you close the browser. Is edge any different?
chabad360··on Another scam paper published in a “scientific” journal
I believe you can probably get a good answer to your question with Beall's list: https://beallslist.net/
chabad360··on Ask HN: What are you working on?
I'm working on a project that allows for advanced management and monitoring of servers and server clusters. The main goal here is modularity (but not at the cost of speed and lightweightedness), so I've been working away at getting the plugin system up and running.

Feel free to have a look around: https://github.com/chabad360/covey

chabad360··on Microsoft is working on an Android subsystem for Windows 10
That exists, have a look at https://github.com/Fmstrat/winapps
chabad360··on Why AWS loves Rust, and how we’d like to help
It should be noted that programming languages are different from software.

AWS is paying developers to primarily work on it's needs for Linux (as that is how Linux is generally maintained, you upstream a module, you maintain it).

In Rust on the other hand (like most/all languages) new features tend to benefit everybody, AWS simply might be able to prioritize development of certain aspects, but they certainly don't get to make work almost exclusively for them.

chabad360··on Eight Years at Roblox
It should be noted that they just filed for an S-1 and the numbers they reported there show that the platform is far more alive than in was in 2012.
chabad360··on Roblox S-1
The ads are not in game, they appear only on the website and are solely for advertising other games.
chabad360··on Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014)
Interestingly, for me it's exactly the opposite, I use Windows at work and linux for not at work.
chabad360··on Golang web service framework with DI, Telemetry and more
Gorrila mux is actually rather slow, I use pure, which is the stdlib version lars, the fastest http router.
chabad360··on Uno: Single-Codebase for Windows, WebAssembly, iOS, macOS, Android and Linux
I guess we'll just have to wait for WASM binaries to support dynamic linking, at which point we'll get services like "cdnwasm" or "wasmdelivr".
chabad360··on PORTL Hologram raises $3M to put a hologram machine in every home
A certain Dr. Smalley would be very insulted to hear that, as he's pioneered a pretty good method for making those: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322723302_A_photoph...
chabad360··on Glass viscosity calculations debunk the myth of flow in medieval windows (2017)
Fair, but keep in mind that it's orders of magnitude we're taking about.
chabad360··on Amazon destroys $1.5m of sellers inventory – now homeless
It's not that it's favoritism, it's just a way to trigger a manual review...
chabad360··on YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
IANAL, but regardless, according to RIAA, youtube-dl is circumventing the "DRM" built into YouTube, and therefore they're violating anti-circumvention parts of the DMCA. Therefore a DMCA claim can suffice to take it down.

Perhaps if youtube-dl used different examples (i.e. videos not protected by anti-circumvention) perhaps they could have avoided this.

chabad360··on A legislative path to an interoperable internet
From what I understood from the content of the bill, it seems that there is a clause that prevents companies from aggressively modifying their API to prevent interoperability.
chabad360··on A legislative path to an interoperable internet
Sure, the bill would need to include a clause that specifies that the API must not be copyrighted, or something to that effect.
chabad360··on Google’s Supreme Court faceoff with Oracle was a disaster for Google
Your thing of the MP4 patents.
chabad360··on Google’s Supreme Court faceoff with Oracle was a disaster for Google
Fragmentation is almost never a good thing and it's certainly not a good thing in this case. Allowing developers to use the same knowledge, the same interfaces, the se languages across systems means that consumers benefit. Having a de facto standard is good for everyone, and arguing that there is less innovation in programming because you don't own the rights to function names is ridiculous.
chabad360··on The Supreme Court Hears Oracle vs. Google Tomorrow
$9-10B? Even for Google that's not a small amount, and the fact that Google asked SCOTUS to have a look means that they care, otherwise they would be fine with the Federal Circuit decision.
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