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@ eager_eagle @lemmy.world

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  • Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds

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  • I'll just add that a white paper with technical information about how the product works is actually valuable. A white paper that reads like an ad in the form of an infographic is a waste of time.

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  • glad to know it's not just me

  • Have you been exposed to an IPv6 address at work?

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  • maybe they could be sorted alphabetically to give you an idea, but yeah, it'd be harder to know for sure without a mixed format like

    worda:wordb::f1

  • Have you been exposed to an IPv6 address at work?

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  • exactly, I also like this peace of mind for my home network and see no benefit in using ipv6 there. Similarly for any VPC I deploy to an IaaS.

  • Taliban leader bans Wi-Fi in an Afghan province to 'prevent immorality'

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  • I thought they only banned talis

  • REST my ass 💩

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  • refusal to allow useful endpoints that aren’t sufficiently restful

    And there are good reasons for that, GraphQL-like endpoints seem great to use, but are often a bad idea. The more freedom is given through an API, the less guarantees one can deliver. Security, scalability, and maintainability all become more difficult for APIs with endpoints that attempt to do several things at once.

    But most importantly, REST doesn't tell you exactly how to build your endpoints, as long as they're stateless, cacheable, and refer to system resources with enough context to allow their direct manipulation.

    These are good principles for older and modern web apps, that hasn't changed. In fact, one can argue that the larger and more complex the system the more important it is to simplify its endpoints. And you can build pretty complex systems while following these criteria.

  • REST my ass 💩

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  • And what's inherently new in modern applications? We're transferring state and operating on resources just like we used to do. Most web apps are variations of CRUD.

  • How do I design a multi-language database?

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  • Instead you could have a function, say t("Ciao") that kinda runs something like (of course loading all the translations in ram at startup and referencing that would be better than running a query for each and every string).

    this backfires when the same text translates to different strings depending on the context

    e.g. EN "Play" may translate to PT "Jogar" (as in play a game) or "Reproduzir" (as in play a video)

  • How do I design a multi-language database?

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  • for reference, that's usually a ISO 639-1 combined with ISO 3166-1 alpha 2

    and if an exact locale match is not available, it makes more sense to return another language match than the default language fallback

  • REST my ass 💩

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  • you'd rather have no responses following a standard rather than only some doing that? No, thanks.

  • REST my ass 💩

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  • returning a 400 never prevented me from adding more info to the response

  • LGTM

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  • you must find it really annoying to learn Spanish, German, Portuguese, Italian, and a bunch of other languages that have gendered nouns.

  • Vibe coding is great for MVP's

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  • or "oh yup, just need to give it a kick"

  • Who needs MongoDB when you have JSONB?

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  • used OpenSearch in a recent project, but the number of annoyances with it are through the roof. From SSL certs setup to bad defaults in settings, and the fact it does type inference for indices requiring you to manually recreate the index, and the docker container that takes 30s to start every time...

    If you can use mongo, just use that. Or pick something other than OpenSearch if that's overkill for you.

  • Albania appoints AI bot as minister to tackle corruption

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  • not only that, but people are just saying they'll give it money and never doing, so it's a costless bribe. Everybody benefits!

  • Have a bit of trust

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  • I'll fix it in an hour. When I get to it in a couple of weeks.

  • David Zaslav Says TV Has Become a “Terrible Consumer Experience”

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  • These dinosaurs are used to cable tv, where the ratio of ads and mediocre content is 50/50. If anything, they think there should be more ads.

  • David Zaslav Says TV Has Become a “Terrible Consumer Experience”

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  • “The marketplace is really challenged with too many players in the market,” Zaslav said. “When people turn on — the consumers put on their TV, it’s a terrible consumer experience. In almost every market in the world, there’s just way too many choices. And you’re googling, ‘Where is it? How do I get from one to the other? How do I get into that platform?’”

    lol the problem is on their faces and they can't see it.

    Too many choices is not a problem, just like a monopoly is not a solution. Exclusivity deals are the problem. If most content was cross platform, this wouldn't be so awful like it is today.

    They're reaping what they sowed.

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    Just had a hospital group employee tell me to simply email medical information

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  • yeah, it's unfortunate the general population has no awareness of how insecure email is