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Comment · 3 months ago
I think most people like uni, but it's also one of the most expensive sushi you can get at kaitenzushi
Comment · 3 months ago
Salmon sushi is very popular, but it's not part of the traditional Edomae style (fish from the Tokyo bay), so the more upscale or traditional restaurants often don't serve it.
Comment · 3 months ago
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Comment · 5 months ago
> you don't get bugs related to typing because elixir is somehow magic

Really? All the Elixir fans were saying that?

Comment · 5 months ago
I love the BEAM and programmed on it for many years, but it really does not provide anything like durable objects.

1) It's very difficult to ensure globally serialized ownership with strong consistency in a distributed Erlang cluster when nodes are allowed to fail. Stuff like Horde will let you do some rough "run an instance of this process somewhere in the cluster", but it's eventually consistent (you may have multiple instances at times) and doesn't deal with netsplits well.

2) Mnesia is fine to replicate state within a network switch or very reliable LAN, but not over WLAN/Internet. It can enter split brain conditions and require external reconciliation. RabbitMQ suffered from Mnesia problems for many years and ended up replacing it with their own DB implementation using the Raft protocol.

Comment · 5 months ago
The same is true without CDC, and you can configure a maximum size.
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Comment · 5 months ago
It'd be a pretty horrible system if it was possible to get anyone you dislike tortured for a month by mailing them CSAM they didn't ask for...
Comment · 6 months ago
That second hash is called a Message Authentication Code (MAC), it's what the JWT HS256 algorithm does
Comment · 6 months ago
The purpose of the checksum is to help secret scanners avoid false positives, not to optimize the (extremely rare) case where an API key has a typo

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