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plugin-baby··on We migrated our PostgreSQL database with 11 seconds downtime
This doesn’t sound like how GDS operates.
plugin-baby··on Smart binoculars can identify 9k birds
What year was that published?
plugin-baby··on Apple hiring compiler developers for improving Swift / C++ interoperability
> around £250K/year

and once you’ve taken public holidays and leave into account, it’s closer to 200k

plugin-baby··on Apple hiring compiler developers for improving Swift / C++ interoperability
GBP? Who is offering these salaries?
plugin-baby··on www.google.com – The page is blank when accessed
> Aside from the fact it's another HTTP request

You’d think DDG could avoid this via JavaScript if they wanted to. Might be better for privacy, if not for their usage stats.

plugin-baby··on Why does holding a key fob to your head increase its range?
IME Bluetooth headphone volume increases if you put them near your head
plugin-baby··on Happy Public Domain Day
Are you spoofing your physical location? Or is the host allowing content to your proxy in a legal jurisdiction, and then you are exporting the content illegally?
plugin-baby··on Everyone's getting ghosted, the new normal in tech recruiting
100% with you, but it’s not always easy to get control of your own recruiting. I’ve also seen HR get upset when their involvement is not what they expected.
plugin-baby··on In 2024, please switch to Firefox
This sounds great, but for web developers I feel it’s a risky change if you want to see your sites as your users do.
plugin-baby··on Ask HN: Good examples of fault-tolerant Erlang code?
> Check code of cowboy, ejabberd, MongooseIM, RabbitMQ for examples.

+ CouchDB?

plugin-baby··on Using Make – writing less Makefile
A phone? Your comment is 3 lines for me.
plugin-baby··on Ask HN: Share your favorite software blog posts of 2023
Thanks for the heads up. It’s 10 years old, but I hadn’t seen “Mockists Are Dead. Long Live Classicists.” before (https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/mockists-are-dead...).

The Classicist point of view resonates strongly with me - I’ve long considered mocking in tests to be a code smell, and only usually justified for stubbing external services or hardware.

plugin-baby··on Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various operations on PDFs
> no applications that I know of to easily do things that are trivial on OSX like adding text or hand drawn signatures to PDFs

Try xournal++

plugin-baby··on Ask HN: What's your "it's not stupid if it works" story?
Also if the DB was on-prem, then the latency when connecting from home might have been too high for the hack to work.
plugin-baby··on My failed attempt at using a closet as an office
Lucky your office allows dogs!
plugin-baby··on Tacit Knowledge Is Dangerous
Presumably threat actors can already feed stolen document dumps to LLMs to quickly find interesting data.
plugin-baby··on Firefox on the brink?
Now keep them raised if you didn’t change company...
plugin-baby··on Lack of sunlight during the day is worse than electric lighting at night
What are the rumours?
plugin-baby··on Easy to use OpenID Connect client and server library written for Go
Why is this getting downvoted? It seems like an interesting point.
plugin-baby··on $20k bounty was claimed
Reformatting in precommit is destructive.
plugin-baby··on AnyTracker: Track any number on any website
Why is this flagged?
plugin-baby··on Emmett Shear becomes interim OpenAI CEO as Altman talks break down
...unless those engineers are happy with fat salaries and understand that startup equity should be valued at zero.
plugin-baby··on Hacking ADHD: Strategies for the modern developer
I’d say nightmare scenarios would be:

* PA * travel agent * event planner

plugin-baby··on Quitting the full-time poker scene
And perhaps the OP would.
plugin-baby··on Beg Bounties (2021)
Force isn’t even required in some places, apparently!

This page expands on the differences in a few countries: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burglary

Canada

> Breaking and entering is defined as breaking into a place with intent to commit another indictable offence

England & Wales

> A person is guilty of burglary if they enter any building or part of a building as a trespasser with intent to steal, inflict grievous bodily harm or do unlawful damage to the building or anything in it.

New Zealand

> burglary is a statute offence under section 231 of the Crimes Act 1961. Originally this was a codification of the common law offence, though from October 2004 the break element was removed from the definition and entry into the building (or ship), or a part of it, now only needed to be unauthorised.

plugin-baby··on Beg Bounties (2021)
> If a house is unlocked and you go in to prove it's unlocked, maybe leave a helpful note, you're still breaking in.

What jurisdiction? I would think this was just trespass.

plugin-baby··on The attack against Danish, critical infrastructure [pdf]
I’m not sure quite how to read these rules - isn’t “critical” a “purpose or qualifier”? Which would mean the original formulation follows the rules.
plugin-baby··on The attack against Danish, critical infrastructure [pdf]
Seems fine as Danish critical infrastructure. Similarly French blue cheese, Prussian light infantry, American civil war.
plugin-baby··on Ask HN: Why do we walk away from Single Page Applications?
> Next apps needed around 500MB-1GB of RAM to serve only a few visitors.

Not sure why you’re getting downvoted - your comment seems to add valid points like this to the discussion.

plugin-baby··on The attack against Danish, critical infrastructure [pdf]
It could be, presumably implying an attack against the danish people or language, and which critical infrastructure implied by context. In which case the comma would make more sense, but the situation would be quite weird!
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