Created after the Coding Help category, this is for other serious requests for help that don't fit in there (or any other subcategories that may be created.)
@Bulb said in Help Bites:
In the best tradition of HTTP. You configure maximum request size in all HTTP servers, and there ain't no way to query them for it either.
That sounds... well I don't know, I've never really worked with network so for once I'm going to withhold judgement and not just about how dumb that is, but... yeah, not what I was intuitively expecting.
But this still helps me: knowing that this is how HTTP servers work means I understand why grpc would behave in the same way, and that it might truly be something that doesn't exist rather than me looking in the wrong place.
I'm thinking that the proper solution is to simply specify the size as part of your protocol (i.e. your protocol only works with the default size) and call it a fortnight. Because I don't think there is actually a good reason to tweak that parameter, is there?
You're right, there is no good reason to tweak it. I could very well hard-code to whatever I want (either in both client and server, or in some sort of shared config if I want to be fancy) and indeed call it a day.
But this initially didn't appeal to me because I have no idea which value to use, so since the protocol has a default, I thought it was best (easier...) to just let the protocol pick whatever it wants (on the, probably hugely over-optimistic, assumption that this default was wisely picked -- or even, one can dream, that it could be auto-tuned to... whatever matters for it!) and then just ask it to tell me what it chose. But since that route is pretty well closed to me, I guess I'll either leave my horrible hacks or hard-code the size (depending on how strong the is today!).
@Tsaukpaetra said in Help Bites:
Duck programming at its best!
Yeah, I guess so. Thanks to all you little ducklings then!
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By golly, I'm glad I didn't have to pay white-market for this laptop - after I changed the password from the canonical password, found it had a decent video card already. Bunch of files on it about some kinda energy company bullshit, but beyond that, a steal.
@Gurth said in http wtfs:
Oh, what do you know?
In the 1997 RFC for HTTP where it defines the parsing rules for content-encoding, it requires all implementations to treat x-gzip and x-compress as equivalent to gzip and compress respectively.
Even better, only gzip works reliably; there's at least one major webserver system that got compress implemented as a third style, deflate, that isn't used because it doesn't recover from error nearly so well. (The names all come from modes of operation of the zlib library.) Which means we're stuck with using the mode of compression that makes the least sense as it has the most uncompressed metadata, almost all of which is unnecessary.
@dkf Yeah, I tried it myself. It doesn't help that the source has been down for a year or so ('coz initially I was too to bandy words with my webhost, and then Corona happened), nor the fact that I'd kindly asked spiders to go away in robots.txt (the audience I was interested in already knew where to look).
The Wayback Machine still has it, of course. Honestly, I should probably get around to fixing it.
@dkf said in Biden needs devs:
@Benjamin-Hall said in Biden needs devs:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in Biden needs devs:
I don't imagine mentioning "I saw the comment on wh.gov and decided to apply" gets anyone extra points in an interview. Or do I? Guess I'm getting old and cranky.
If they're hiring through the proper channels (ie the civil service folks), then absolutely not. They're not allowed to look at anything like that--the first pass is entirely automatic. And a total of cosmic proportions, but that's a different thread.
If it's for people to join the President's own staffers as opposed to the Federal Government, there's no WTF really. Hiring someone because they show some competence as opposed to being the son of someone who likes to play golf at a particular country club… that'd be refreshing really.
It's not hiring the President's staffers; these are civil service positions.
That said, it's still not a WTF. The point isn't that this is a test to show competence. This is an advertisement, targeted at people who are competent enough to view sourcewho read the story about this on tech websites, to convince them to apply for the job.
@Mason_Wheeler said in Caller ID:
Business phones do.
Varies by model. PBX systems have a range of endpoint handset options from “this is as cheap as they come” to “all the fancy options ever; also washes whiter and whistles Dixie”. Typically the ones that allow a nice separate headset are at the expensive end (I found that out when I was stuck doing a lot of telecons on the phone, and decided that upgrading to a nice headset was far too much to spend on that sort of thing).
But I'd expect a restaurant to have a phone model that at least shows caller ID.
@Kamil-Podlesak said in The Mandalorian: Where's the rest of it?!? [no spoilers]:
Actually, Lucas was quite a visionary when it comes to moving everything to cloud. https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Cloud_City
Patch Tuesday must suck. Better tape down all your belongings when they're updating the antigrav engine firmware and hope that the updates finish in time...
@error said in What are some typical pain points using crypto wallets?:
This is perfectly safe if you encrypt the password to your encryption key with your encryption key.
@Unperverted-Vixen said in Anonymous Amazon:
The data migration thing isn't exactly unique. Azure's the same way. "Sure, we'll give you all these ways to bring your data in. What, you want a backup of that SQL database you can restore on-prem? lol nope"
Not as normal backup I think, but for either platform, downloading data to local via your own data replication program is pretty doable.
Missed joke opportunity 2 years ago:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in 220V 30A Heated Shower Head -- Add a Jolt of Excitement to Showering:
On the other hand, our town's heating infrastructure is so piss-poor
Better than piss-rich
@topspin the language provided one essentially allows you to chain a bunch of ?. calls, such as a?.Child?.Child, which leaves you with either null or the final child type. You then often use ?? SomeDefault() ; to eliminate null if you have a default you want.
What gets interesting with the one in the op is that you can bring multiple objects into the query, and use let and the select line to call basically any code you want along the way, and the end result will always be an empty list or one which contains the object you want to select, even if you're constructing that dependent on everything else not being null.
The problem, other than the innate weirdness of it, is that in most cases, guarding against all those nulls explicitly may be better, if that's invalid input to whatever you're constructing. Which makes the primary use, imo, the optional construction of types with non nullable arguments.
@topspin said in You don't have to pay the bills if you don't read the contract:
Why don't you ask the courts instead? I refuse to believe the US system is so broken that Disney wouldn't lose this one in a heartbeat.
It wouldn't lose this one in a heartbeat. It would throw a ton of procedural tricks the mix, and eventually lose it in 10 years or so, assuming the person they're litigating against has the funds to pay their lawyers for that long.
@sockpuppet7 said in washington post is doing utf-8 wrong in 2020:
Technically they're not doing it wrong, they're just not doing it at all, while saying they did.
It might not be so weird, but...
Nov 10, 2020
U.S. election brings Internet fame to Japanese mayor 'Jo Baiden' - UPI.com
The mayor of a Japanese town said he was initially confused as to why his name was trending on social media, until family members pointed out the characters in his name also spell out "Jo Baiden."
I am sad I could not find a way to make this into a video for increased satisfaction...
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/643871644062056458/728726606108950589/FB_IMG_1593557117576.jpg
@dkf said in Trademark vs malware:
That MS are doing this instead of law enforcement is unfortunate, but that's because there's not a suitably competent and empowered law enforcement team for the task.
"It's a civil issue."
Okay, it definitely isn't, but since when has that been a barrier to that phrase being used?
@GuyWhoKilledBear Just for the record, I am also starting to think you argue in bad faith, in particular because I can't remember a single post where you actually went and found a ruling or a law (without me posting it first) rather than a generic newspaper article, despite most our discussions relying on ECJ cases that are entirely available and in English. I find it, as you say, "awful[ly] convenient" to only look at short articles not written by lawyers and ignore what lawyers and courts have actually said.
I'm just slightly surprised that we actually managed to hold for that long before saying, essentially, "fuck you," but I can't say that this ending is really a surprise.
EOT.
@loopback0 said in Dreams of widows running on Linux (and not just hardware):
@DogsB said in Dreams of widows running on Linux (and not just hardware):
OTOH I've yet to find an electron app that wasn't a buggy mess that needs restarting twice a day.
Discord. VS Code.
I'll concede VS Code. Discord the few times I've use it I thought it was garbage.
@Gąska said in 3080 scalping:
So, this leaked a few days ago (click to enlarge):
@cheong (or someone else fluent in whatever this is) - can I get a translation of the little texts on the right?
RTX 3090 - Top class Flagship
RTX 3080 - Flagship
PG142 SKU O - Sub-flagship
RTX 3070 - Middle class Mainstream
RTX 3060 - Middle class dessert?
@loopback0 said in When you browse Instagram and find former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott's passport number:
It's a long read but it's interesting and humourously written.
@mangopdf
When you browse Instagram and find former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott's passport number
Do not get arrested challenge 2020
I like this mangopdf guy's sense of humor.
https://verylegit.link/
@hungrier said in Global Warming fix?:
Are you seriously saying that you would stop every 2-3 hours on a road trip to eat a full meal?
Not many highways (outside cities and Oregon) in the US have speed limits that low. Even in cities, the highways are typically about 105, and in rural areas tend to be (again, outside Oregon) 113 to 135. (Note: This is the posted speed limit, not what people drive at, which is generally higher, except in cities, where it's often ~0.) 243 km @ 135 km/h is only 1.8 hours. I might stop that often, depending on how much caffeine I've been drinking, but only for a 5 minute pee break, not long enough to recharge my car's battery.
@boomzilla said in Microsoft released a new major windows version:
So...you ran out of old threads to necro and now you're just posting old articles?
BBC and google news pulled this one on me first, it was on my phone home screen. It seemed the rigth thing to do to post it here
@Zenith said in Spinning off a thread for @Zenith's synchronous bullshit:
Do they have anything for mySQL that looks more like SQL Management Studio and isn't web-based?
MySQL Workbench is pretty good
Shame (and also guilt) is the emotional equivalent to what we call "pain" in the realm of physical sensations. It's a very important signal to let you know that something is wrong and you need to take action to fix it before it causes further harm to you.
I use BeyondPod and I think it's only ever failed to find one podcast in its search. I also got the premium version years ago, mostly for cross device syncing, but if there are any ads in the free version that takes them away as well
@dkf Meh. In my very specific case (I wouldn't claim universality in any way), I know for sure that in many such companies, they really don't. At best they'll have a couple of research people hacking around for research purposes. So of course from time to time that software might morph into something that's really used even if they don't say so, but that's not very common.
A couple of other companies do have their own software development teams, but then they tend to be pretty upfront about it, and will simply not do business with us (or our competitors) in that specific technical domain. Or if they do, they'll be very clear about what they decide to do internally vs. what they pay us to do. Which I guess puts them in the [3] bracket, and ourselves in the [2] bracket in that case, but since they do that explicitly to benefit from in-house technical knowledge that we don't have, it still fits the overall picture of [3] > [2] > [1], just shifting my own position in it ([2] rather than [3]).
@nerd4sale said in Dumb things we find at home...:
a dvd drive.
Ooh, make sure you turn it on and exercise that. If you let it sit too long the drive band tends to develop a lump it can't get over...
@heegu-lee said in Gradle:
Gradle is not about speed right now.
Configuration and configuration.all are logically project-wide settings, but they are not compatible with each other.
Therefore, it must be described separately below.
configurations {
providedRuntime
}
configurations.all {
resolutionStrategy.cacheChangingModulesFor 0, "seconds"
}
The current version is 6.6, but it still looks like this.
The first thing adds new artifact/dependency type (providedRuntime), the second one iterates over all known types and executes some code.
Yes, there are two small here, but nothing really big IMHO:
using the word configuration as "artifact type" is quite confusing for anyone who hasn't read the documentation
the first construct is quite confusing, it would be much better to require special keyword (something like configurations.registerNew or something
Third league at best.
Seven months ago (January 3rd), I was lucky with my guesses:
Then about a week ago I got very unlucky:
But last night takes the cake:
This was never in my bucket list, but there you go.
@nerd4sale said in Gendering weirds language:
"verpleegkundige", which is too hard for me to translate.
It's suffixes all the way out. The root is a verb, "verplegen", which translates as "to nurse" in a medical context (the physical act is "zogen"). The "kunde" infix indicates we're talking about the associated skill, rather than simply doing the job. "kundige" is someone who has that skill.
@apapadimoulis said in We are all agile, and there is no waterfall anymore:
@bobjanova said in We are all agile, and there is no waterfall anymore:
Even if done well, you'll end up with a lot of small, disconnected features and components which don't fit into a coherent whole, which will probably be a deployment nightmare
One of my favorite anti patterns, the micro-service based monolith! I need a better name....
The modulith:
fgiesen / Jul 22, 2015
The Modulith
Much has been written about all the myriad ways to go wrong when writing software. Poor management; scope creep; too little structure, not modular enough, and it’s a “big ball of mud…
@Carnage said in Re: Let's go on a diet (keto edition):
about 20 minutes after eating I will stop being hungry
I understand that is common. As such, I've also heard recommendations for the traditional social meal with the entire family unit every day, since talking during dinner means you don't eat it as quickly.
Everybody knows that exercise (or any other life experience) doesn't count these days if you can't upload it to Instagram or compare it with your friends' on Strava :eyeroll:
