So it is a re-enactment but nevertheless, it is depicting real world practices prevalent at the time.
Did you read the article? It was a real world practice, but long gone already at that time (in the mentioned parts of Europe at least).
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Can't help but thinking how handy PowerShell is out of the box for tasks like this.
Translating the examples from the ReadMe, having read the file with:
$medias = Get-Content .\medias.csv | ConvertFrom-Csv
xan view medias.csv
$medias | Format-Table
xan flatten -c medias.csv
$medias | Format-List
xan search -s outreach internationale medias.csv | xan view
$medias | Where-Object { $_.outreach -eq "internationale" } | Format-Table
xan select foundation_year,name medias.csv | xan view
$medias | Select-Object -Property foundation_year, name | Format-Table
xan sort -s foundation_year medias.csv | xan view -s name,foundation_year
$medias | Sort-Object -Property foundation_year | Select-Object -Property name, foundation_year | Format-Table
# Some medias of our corpus have the same ids on mediacloud.org
xan dedup -s mediacloud_ids medias.csv | xan count && xan count medias.csv
$medias | Select-Object -ExpandProperty mediacloud_ids -Unique | Measure-Object; $medias | Measure-Object -Property mediacloud_ids
xan frequency -s edito medias.csv | xan view
$medias | Group-Object -Property edito | Sort-Object -Property Count -Descending
Just as a quick usability feedback: As long as Deepl translates asynchronously as I type, while Kagi requires a full form send & page refresh, I am not inclined to switch (translation quality is also already too good for my language pairs to consider switching for minor improvements, but the usability/ speed is the real feature here).
This is coming from a user with existing Kagi Ultimate subscription, so I'm generally very open to adopt another tool if it fits my needs).
Slightly offtopic, slight related: As already mentioned the last time Kagi hit the HN front page when I saw it: the best improvement I could envision for kagi is improved search performance (page speed). I still encounter multiple second page loads far too frequently that I didn't notice with other search engines.
dlkmp commented on Doctor Fukushi Masaichi and the art of preserving tattooed skin dannydutch.com/post/docto... · Posted by u/danielmorozoff
The article mentions he has two methods of preserving. Wet and dry. But then only explains the dry one. :/
How does the wet preservation work?
I also found that very frustrating. It's probably the method required to stretch the skin over a tailor's dummy like in that one photo.
That and ear plugs with noise cancelling headphones and an eye mask and I can sleep through it all.
I can't even do this at home, let alone in a semi-public place around strangers. Being blind and deaf makes me feel uneasy.
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Is this really a problem people have? I personally just use some free mail account for all low-priority stuff without push notifications enabled in my client apps.
dlkmp commented on A more mature take on stateless Terraform bejarano.io/terraform-sta... · Posted by u/rthnbgrredf
Random choice of subnet is a better example, random names is definitely not common.
Random passwords, write-only attributes (like database master passwords) are the most common.
How do you express “create a DB with this strong password, then put it in a s3 object”, then later “actually put it in SSM rather than s3”?
We cannot, okay, I see the point. Up to now, I considered the inability to express modifications on existing resources a limitation of the declarative model but I can see how adding state can help here.
With Bicep, we mostly deploy only the initial state and then we either re-deploy the whole thing or, if this isn't possible due to the interruptions this causes, add migration scripts in an imperative language (az cli/ pwsh). Which is admittedly the much less elegant approach.
dlkmp commented on A more mature take on stateless Terraform bejarano.io/terraform-sta... · Posted by u/rthnbgrredf
I want to create 3 servers with randomly chosen names from a pool of 10.
How can you express this without state? Or more generally, any “random_password”, “random_choice” etc, or even anything that is a “write only” property
You can’t. So this is dead in the water.
Interesting example. For context, I have only experience with Azure Bicep so "no state" is my default assumption on IAC languages.
Do you in practice really use random names? In my experience, I'd just use a loop vm01...vm10 for the names and the passwords aren't needed to identify an instance after the deployment so here randomness isn't an issue.
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I am an it professional.
I've used qr codes maybe... 6 times, ever?
With probably 50% success rate before I give up.
I know for a fact that literally nobody else in my in law family of middle class Canadians has ever used a single one.
Anecdata of course, but if we're sharing assumptions... :-)
That sounds almost impossible to me. I feel like half of everything I purchase which has a manual doesn't ship with a physical manual, but instead comes with a printed QR code to "get instructions". If it's a gadget that comes with an App, there will be a QR code linking to that app.
I know multiple bars/ restaurants which won't send waiters to your table but expect you to scan the QR code on the table and order with your phone.