acj

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A geek with a camera and a bicycle.
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Comment · 2 months ago
I hear this in the upper midwest occasionally, too
Comment · 1 year ago
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Comment · 2 years ago
> failing to load the one part of the map that I want to see.

Yep. My partner and I have this problem every time we use the app in our home city. It usually works better when we’re traveling. I’ve left them feedback and will keep hoping for better. Meantime, I’ve switched to a less frustrating app.

Comment · 2 years ago
Same. The guy didn’t change any of my profile or recovery info, luckily, so I was able to get it back. And then he sent me a message from another account asking why I had taken his UIN. We ended up chatting for a while. It’s a fond memory.

I actually tried to delete that UIN a few years ago, but the support folks wanted me to provide a few UINs from my contact list to verify ownership. No chance I’m going to remember those.

Comment · 3 years ago
rbspy supports pprof output. I haven't tried using it with this tool yet, but it should work.
Comment · 3 years ago
My main use case is upgrading codebases that depend on ffmpeg. I work for a shop that does a lot of media encoding and analysis across several independent systems, and we can’t upgrade all of them at once when a new ffmpeg is released, which means that for a while we’re actively supporting versions N and N+1. With this plugin, each codebase can declare which version of ffmpeg it wants in .tool-versions, and I don’t have to remember to do the uninstall/reinstall dance.

Most people won’t need this, but a few might find it very helpful.

Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
> where I read it (probably xkcd)

Yep, it's in the alt text for https://xkcd.com/552/

"Correlation doesn't imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing 'look over there'."

Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
One advantage of CloudFront is support for uploading large files (5GB+) to the origin server. CDNs tend to enforce a low size limit for uploads. It’s probably an uncommon use case, but the reduced client-side latency is nice for customers who are far away from the origin.

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