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macca321on Ask HN: Best Video Call Solution for Elderly

Sadly these ipad/iphone/facetime combos only work if everyone in your family is on Apply. In the ROTW, that's not so common...

My mum, who's got dementia, can just about work her portal to make and receive calls.

I've heard giving them an android tablet with Skype app set to auto-answer may be the most foolproof x-platform way.

macca321on Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chrome 85 address bar

Bring it on. Users not knowing the path means search engines not using the path for ranking means a whole class of boring human readable SEO work goes away.

macca321on Show HN: Collected Notes – A note-taking blogging app I made

Is there an open standard for adding simple social features to an RSS based blog?

e.g. a public friends list, likes/comments controlled (or at least signed) by the commenter

macca321on How and why GraphQL will influence the Sourcehut alpha

Or the frontend devs could have just, like, learned how to write sql queries... :D

A major issue with pushing it to the frontend is that malicious clients can issue unexpected requests, putting strain on the database.

If the graphql query implementation doesn't allow that level of querying on the database, then it's not offering much more before you need to speak to the backend devs than a filterable rest endpoint.

This all came up years ago with OData.

macca321on Show HN: XgeneCloud – Instant REST and GraphQL APIs on Any SQL Database

edit: i didn't read the docs, there are interception mechanisms it seems

macca321on Show HN: XgeneCloud – Instant REST and GraphQL APIs on Any SQL Database

>Mike Amundsen > @mamund > · > Aug 21, 2016 > remember, when designing your #WebAPI, your data model > is not your object model is not your resource model is n > not your message model

https://twitter.com/mamund/status/767212233759657984?lang=en

macca321on Show HN: XgeneCloud – Instant REST and GraphQL APIs on Any SQL Database

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macca321on Deno Is a Browser for Code

Seems odd that they don't support an equivalent of the integrity attribute.

macca321on Ray tracing in notepad.exe at 30 FPS

I've got a script somewhere that auto saves notepad. I sometimes wonder if it's marketable

macca321on Linux is Most Used OS in Microsoft Azure – over 50 percent of VM cores

Linux updates also cause issues.

macca321on John Peel Sessions

wow

macca321on Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Moving into General Availability

https://twitter.com/richturn_ms/status/1245481405947076610

>Because we cannot name something leading with a trademark owned by someone else. > >Think of it as Windows' Subsystem for Linux. >#ApostrophiesMatter

Just be glad we didn't call it Subsystem For Running POSIX/GNU/Linux Binaries on Windows (SFRPGLBW)

macca321on Pulumi – Modern Infrastructure as Code

Pulumi is great, but I gave up on persuading a company with a lot of existing terraform to move to yet another tool, and created a (pretty basic) DSL/library for writing terraform in python/c#, which can output to terraform. I could probably get permission to open source it if people are interested. *

As far as I can tell, you get more or less the same benefits as you would if you use pulumi (in the same ballpark).

* There are one or two tools for python/ruby that do this already, but having it in something with stronger typing has advantatages

macca321on Ask HN: Is UK government insane or genius?

According to Peston: "elderly to be quarantined at home or in care homes for four months, in "wartime-style" mobilisation to combat Coronavirus."

https://twitter.com/Peston/status/1238917834111156231

macca321on Reposurgeon Defeats All Monsters

I'm always bit sceptical of "our rewrite in new language is quicker" stories. If I were to rewrite something in the same language as v1 t would probably be quicker.

Actually that's not true, I'd probably get bored and then just ry to get the damn thing working as well as v1 used to and then go on holiday without optimising.

macca321on C# Pattern Matching

Apologies, but here's the obligatory link to my OneOf exhaustive type matching library: https://github.com/mcintyre321/OneOf

macca321on Monoliths Are the Future

Shame we don't do HATEOAS, just RPC-over-HTTP

macca321on Monoliths Are the Future

Feature toggles are the answer here

macca321on LInQer – C# Integrated Queries ported to Javascript

These libraries miss the point of linq. Yes it provides a nifty syntax for munging lists, but Real C# LINQ provides that munge as a abstract syntax tree which can be interpreted before executing it.

This means it can rewrite the native language query, and say, turn it into a SQL or graphql query, or a stream filter, or check against cached data or all kinds of clever things.

macca321on Statically-typed error handling in Python using Mypy

Yes I can't quite remember why I couldn't get it to work. I want to make something where this is valid, but couldn't manage it:

    def foo() -> OneOf[Bar, Baz]:
      if blah():
        return Bar()
      return Baz()

   

   def bar_to_blah(bar:Bar) -> Blah :
     ...

   def baz_to_blah(baz:Baz) -> Blah :
     ...


   one_of_bar_or_baz = foo()
   blah = one_of_bar_or_baz.match(bar_to_blah, baz_to_blah)

but the critical thing is to get a type error if you add another case to foo's return type, or change the generics to different types.

macca321on Ask HN: Why GraphQL APIs but no Datalog APIs?

I've got this idea that you can chuck JMESPath into the range header on a standard json endpoint for ghetto graphql

macca321on Statically-typed error handling in Python using Mypy

I maintain a library for doing exactly this in C# (https://github.com/mcintyre321/OneOf). I tried to replicate it in Python as I'm writing it at the moment, but couldn't quite manage it. Can you have a multi generic typed Union in python?

macca321on We ‘may’ have discovered a potential remedy for tinnitus

Thanks, that could be it!

macca321on We ‘may’ have discovered a potential remedy for tinnitus

So I have very mild tinnitus (a bit of ringing when in bed at night, or if I really really try to listen for it).

I've noticed another auditory effect though, since I bought a glockenspiel for my child. After hearing a loud, high note on the glock, immediately after there is a momentary deep, squelchy rumble in my ears. Is this a tinnitus artifact or something else? My google skills have failed me on this one.

macca321on Microsoft Comic Chat

Also see Microsoft Songsmith

macca321on The Rise of 'Facadism' in London

I think the Cally Road one won worst building of the year.

ah yes - https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/aug/29/carbunc...

macca321on AI Clones Your Voice After Listening for 5 Seconds (2018)

No, but they would probably fool a friend or family member over a phone line. Yikes.

macca321on TypeScript 3.7

Now I know how people felt when they told me C# was adding features so quickly they couldn't keep up.

macca321on Betrayal at Krondor

Betrayal In Krondor, surely?