michaelmdresser
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Comment · 2 months ago
In past experience with DuckDB I have found this soft-limit distinction to be very important.
Comment · 10 months ago
I think this is the source of me misinterpreting the symbol a few times, so yes.
Comment · 1 year ago
I’ve been sticking to the weekly edition of The Economist for years to stay informed while escaping the news cycle. The US coverage is remarkably good. The weekly cadence mean I’m often a week behind the news, but to me that’s a feature. The editorial pieces (those expressing “the opinion of the newspaper”) are kept separate as “Leaders” and I read them last, if it all; I usually read each issue back-to-front following a tip from HN years ago.
For US-interested people, I’d also like to recommend Checks and Balance, a podcast by some of The Economist’s US reporters.
Comment · 2 years ago
I’ve really enjoyed using sqlc for a small project. I’m comfortable in SQL and enjoy not having to go through an additional layer.
Comment · 2 years ago
I assume the grandparent is referring to Nim’s insensitivity to underscores and capitalization in naming [1]. I’ve found this a tad annoying as well and I imagine I’d find it more troublesome in production use—I use ripgrep often to search codebases.
[1] https://narimiran.github.io/nim-basics/#_variable_declaratio...
Comment · 2 years ago
Over the Wire's "Bandit" game was my tool of choice for teaching the introduction to shell for my university's Cybersecurity Club a few semesters in a row. It didn't feel like a chore because of the gamification and the go-your-own-pace approach -- the hints are also a nice touch. I highly recommend it to build some shell muscles and maybe learn something you didn't already know.
For something more advanced with less help available, I recommend Hack The Box [1] which frequently rotates challenge "boxes" with new combinations of configuration and vulnerability. I haven't touched it in a few years, so take that with a grain of salt. It used to be the case that you had to "hack" the website (very easy) in order to sign up for an account, but it appears that that may no longer be the case :(
Comment · 2 years ago
I believe this is adjacent, but I quite like https://asoftmurmur.com/. I’m not sure if it’s able to run offline.
Comment · 4 years ago
How do they pass DNS queries? Just UDP on 53? If so, you could just proxy instead of relying on the DNS protocol.
Comment · 4 years ago
I had the exact same motivation as you! I've since moved onto other, much less passive, activities but for a brief moment in time my little tool gave me a lot of peace of mind while fully tabbed out of EVE. Optimizing my game experience for minimal effort/attention and maximum profit has historically taken the enjoyment out of games for me, so I'm glad to have moved on.