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Comment · 2 months ago
The Dunwich Building could use some fun business cards to lighten the mood.
Comment · 5 months ago
204 might be acceptable if you aren’t returning an entity body to describe what is missing, but do wish to indicate the request was successful.
Comment · 7 months ago
Notes was simple enough to allow folks with no computer science background or even sympathy for the machine to build teetering, badly-performing things.

However, even with a mind towards efficiency and minimalism, performance at roughly hundreds of thousands of documents was extremely elusive.

Comment · 7 months ago
Yes, it very closely parallels the “one weird trick” bait from a decade ago.
Comment · 8 months ago
Simply require per-use parental consent for fopen.
Comment · 9 months ago
Is this a serious question? Whom do you imagine would offer such a guarantee?

Moreover, finding a more effective way to revoke a non-controlled key seems a tall order.

Comment · 11 months ago
To the best of my knowledge, Redis has never blocked for replication, although you can configure healthy replication state as a prerequisite to accept writes.
Comment · 1 year ago
How does one concretely prepare for socio-economic collapse, beyond taking a long position in canned goods?
Comment · 1 year ago
New band albums are rumored and hinted-at, from time to time, by Geoff Barrow, though it seems hard to say if there will be another.

Bear in mind Beth made "Out of Season" apart from Portishead several years before the release of "Third." I wouldn't think her recent solo work indicates a split.

Comment · 1 year ago
I'll put my hoping energy into a new Portishead album instead.
Comment · 1 year ago
Decent article, with some technical misunderstandings about MULTI/EXEC, perhaps unnecessary skepticism about Lua, though I certainly do wish Redis had richer built-in functions for CAS and the like.
Comment · 1 year ago
Yes - not only is Slack search underpowered, but also records management folks are likely to configure pruning of Slack content older than a couple years or so. This is IME less likely to be a problem with wiki pages.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Water being mostly incompressible is not the same as having high compressive strength. Liquid water makes for a poor tooth or structural column.
Comment · 1 year ago
> That's just adding a row into the 'Outbox' table

No tables and no rows in Notes. Composing an email would create a new document using the "Mail" form; clicking the "Send" button would run a shockingly confusing script that would cause the document to render in the style of a sent email; some awful LotusScript "Agent," the details of which I've long forgotten, would soon thereafter urge the Domino MTA to send mail based on its apprehension of the new document in your mailbox database.

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