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Yep, particularly when counting fingers. That in mind, I wonder why base 5 wasn’t a thing since it would have been easier to keep track of the “digits” up to 25.

I use base72 every day.

A successful credential stuffing attack that yields 500k valid credentials is undoubtedly enabled by a login endpoint that isn’t protected by a rate limiting and abuse detecting firewall. Or am I wron…

It depend on your goal. To learn commercial manufacturing requires a different path than how to DIY something. It’s common to conflate the two, but they are very, very different worlds. I worked for A…

Well, both but I could only pay for it in the former case. For personal use I’d love the latter.

This is helpful, but I’d evangelize (and probably buy) a system that linked external walkthroughs like this with my repo as an alternative to comments in the code, and triggered notifications when the…

AWS. The logging and metrics capabilities in AWS have been maturing for years and while not as polished as other options, come with far less drama and expense. There are a few good service alternative…

Don’t worry, they’ll make up for the losses on volume. Yes, that’s a cynical joke. Or perhaps an indirect reference to not yet having found product market fit for this tech.

I marvel that anyone would use a CRM system or any important HTTP API that doesn’t support conditional operations. I mean, this is mission critical data, right? Support for If-Match seems like a low b…

The UX changes have been annoying, but I can’t suggest they stagnate. Change happens. That said, I’m using it all day everyday across multiple accounts and I’ve had a lot more issues with slow or brok…

I concur with making things, I get as much joy from learning new crafts now as I ever did from programming. I still very much enjoy programming, too - probably more than ever. I attribute that to goin…

I wonder if a Model 2 based taxi, robotic or not, will meet the low cost of operation needed? There seems to be a record of high repair cost and part scarcity that isn’t encouraging.

I wonder about the reference for the measurement, or precision versus accuracy. Still super interesting application of hybrid common and specialized tech.

I have rented a lot of cars over the years, and wouldn’t be opposed to renting an EV for a business trip where the driving was minor. Family vacation? No. It’s a bit of a deal killer to force me to wa…

> do the uncomfortable thing. I’ve done this ever since learning about “brain plasticity” as a child. My logic was/is simple: if I didn’t want something to feel uncomfortable I had to do it re…

Our farm cats certainly did hunt rats, and rodents were a far larger part of their diet than birds. Rabbits, too. Never a chicken (in the article) - I can’t imagine a cat hunting a chicken unless the …

English words that contain no vowels?

I’ve always liked CSV. It’s a streaming friendly format so: - the sender can produce it incrementally - the receiver can begin processing it as soon as the first byte arrives (or, more roughly, unesca…

Respect, not fear. I chose the word intentionally. Respecting the working system means investing a little before going in to redo. That’s all. No everyone is right for such work, which is fine because…

Maybe don’t assume other people are “wrong”? A strongly typed codebase in a larger system almost certainly has untyped boundaries (HTTP, JSON, SQL, etc.) and likely to data driven with combinatorial c…

States and municipalities don’t need to build it; small community-run organizations (nonprofits or not) can do so in Oregon.

Can this be done for smaller areas by sharing a full time employee? For example, our community has a shared well and reservoir with a part time water manager that administers/maintains our system…

In Oregon we have “community” telcos that have been installing high speed internet in rural areas for decades, and continue to do so[1]. The service/tech provided by these companies is far better…

I’ve been using HTMX on a greenfield project (not reimplementing something) and I’ve found it easy to work with and effective. Nothing magical, but simpler. Less effort, not more. After being reminded…

I tend to make DELETE work without parameters, but allow them in the body (JSON) for non-essential but helpful options. And example is allowing a flag to override delete protections. I doubt this is a…

Ironic that china (the dish ware) was coined[1] for a common source of porcelain at the time, China? [1] https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/china#English Edit: Capitalization…

Does it come in a mobile/laptop version?