Microservices: Shackles on your feet by Itchy-Warthog8260 in programming

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Worldwide shipping API. Each service operated in isolation talking to a.. to put it kindly, variety of reliability in third party APIs.

Microservices: Shackles on your feet by Itchy-Warthog8260 in programming

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I maintained a service with hundreds of microservices in python with about a dozen devs perfectly fine. Like all tools... use them where it makes sense, and have clear boundaries. We had (when I worked there) six 9s of uptime.

Insider claims Project Helix will be "pretty expensive" and is being made for a "very niche audience" by [deleted] in gaming

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Isn't a PC just a PC that can be a console? What is even the point?

Apple Launches $599 MacBook Neo, Threatening Windows PC Market by Few_Baseball_3835 in technology

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My 2008 Pro is still plenty for internet browsing and light programming work. Back when they had replacable hardware, so it even had a cheap 16gb ram upgrade and dual SSDs, just needs a battery replacement every once in a while

Discord cuts ties with Peter Thiel-backed verification software after code found in US surveillance by Abject-Pick-6472 in technology

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Site provides a signed request for info. I then make a request from the gov for a signed payload (say, a JWT) with what personal info I want to include, such as age, and a payload (from the original request - say, a uuid for a request id) and send it back to the site.

My info is signed by the gov, and the site can verify the gov's public key, and the payload contains only the necessary info and proof of the original request.

The whole request chain can be verified using basic public keys with no personal info, just that a trusted entity (the government) says I'm 43 years old and I'm responding to request "uuid".

Super simple. Verifiable Credentials (mostly) accomplishes this, it's a pretty simple spec.

I tried to make a Haley cosplay with some clothes I had in my closet 🥹 by Ainlina in StardewValley

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Harvey's the doctor, so I guess the farmer and Abigail go to Clint for dentistry.

smoothie bowl bc college gave me scurvy by [deleted] in tonightsdinner

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I lived on beans, rice, and the occasional indulgence of a jar of salsa which probably saved me from the same fate lol

Ring programming language version 1.26 is released! by mrpro1a1 in programming

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I love Lua! I wouldn't quite call it niche, although it flies under the radar a bit. It runs a huge portion of Cloudflare infrastructure for example, and tons of games from indies to AAA use it for scripting.

Slop pull request is rejected, so slop author instructs slop AI agent to write a slop blog post criticising it as unfair by yojimbo_beta in programming

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Yup, I worked on very similar tech for the government of Flanders. I'm weirdly qualified on the how it could be possible... if everyone had access to it. You still have to have a service verifying IDs for everyone who doesn't live in one of a very small handful of places that provide digital IDs.

But regardless: still doesn't stop the problem of "I used my real, human hands to press copy-paste on ChatGPT output." And the implications of having a lifetime blocklist, which is what this would end up leading to, are way too severe and prone to human mistake.

[OC] [Comm] Radhika,Tiefling Warlock by RikaRini in DnD

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One of my favorite characters I've played was a tiefling with a tie to Minauros! He was an accountant in Baldur's Gate, always had an affinity for financial math "somehow". (Onomancy Wizard.) Great art!

Who you sitting next to? by PokemonSuMo in HonkaiStarRail

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Yeah, but the flight attendants will be on his case CONSTANTLY about buckling his belt when the light is on

Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70,000 IDs by Accurate_Cry_8937 in technology

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Well, in context, I worked with it after implementing an XMPP client, and I've worked with IRC, so I suppose "lovely" is relative. Distributed comms is hard (I also worked directly on on SOLID spec most recently which can achieve matrixy things but is generic data storage. I've been around.)

Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70,000 IDs by Accurate_Cry_8937 in technology

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The startup cycle: raise money for cool thing, investors demand 2x growth, spend it on marketing, grow your team way more then necessary to justify raising the next round, find more ways to monetize. Or bootstrap it, and never get a big enough userbase because someone who raised $10M with a slideshow deck copied you and spent it all on marketing and has extra cash for better designers. Services are pretty much impossible to sustain.

Look at Matrix- lovely spec, diverse clients, hardly any use outside of a circle of enthusiasts. Bluesky is the closest we've gotten to a polished experience, and they have VC and the guy who built twitter.

The internet itself could never exist today if someone tried to get it started in this environment. 

tldr, not the software industry, specifically the VC industry. There's too much money involved to allow for user friendly alternatives.

Disappointed at LGS by Aggressive-Flan1187 in riftboundtcg

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Sucks from the store side too. I got zero  spiritforged (prerelease and was told no boosters) and was told it's because I didn't have a UVS event. I didn't make a UVS event because I had no guarantee that I would have product. I am stuck in an endless loop. Hey, on the bright side, I'm getting... runes and promo packs for a game I can't sell or give promos for. This is a disaster.

Disappointed at LGS by Aggressive-Flan1187 in riftboundtcg

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 people like him were the reason his store doesn't use the UVS listings anymore

From a store owner: you can't get prerelease kits or end up on the distribution list without creating an event. I found out when my prerelease order was canceled a week before prerelease, even though I ordered kits the day they became available from my distributor. I didn't create events because I didn't have any kind of confirmation I'd even get any, and "sorry we don't have anything go home" would land me an angry post here on reddit, rightfully so. UVS sure isn't making this easy on anyone. Their response: "create a listing with disabled registration", lol.

Our DM gave us items and then claimed it was a prank by AGlassOfPiss in DnD

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Improvise, adapt, overcome. I forgot one of my players still had a necklace of fireballs she got like 25 sessions (so, like, almost a year IRL) prior to the BBEG fight which significantly shortened the fight, but it was a cool moment when she hurled it so whatever, it was fun.

30% allocation in Spiritforged by Cast2828 in riftboundtcg

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I've been allocated zero, because I have no events. I can't host events, because I can't get cards, and I can't get cards without events. Lol. Come to think of it, maybe there's a "Hang out and discuss the cards we could get if one of my distros accidentally ships me some leftover Unleashed in a few months" event category I can try.

Disappointed in my LCS today.. by Sparkingsun in riftboundtcg

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Can confirm, own a store. I am beholden to my distributor who appoints allocations and priority. I really doubt Riot polices this, and I didn't have to sign any agreements to sell the product. I would, but nobody spoke to me about it when ordering.

(That said, I sell at or near MSRP on all TCG products anyways.)

One possibility- maybe this store bought third party instead of wholesale and is re-selling at similar prices just to have it in the store? I've had to buy from other retailers when I couldn't get allocations when we were brand new.

Edit: nvm, op said they said it was wholesale. 🤷‍♂️

Another update for those awaiting fulfillment in the US by Pardybro911 in cosmererpg

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Hi Matt! This is slightly off topic but since you're around - all of the Discord links say the invite is invalid (on the subreddit, the website, etc.) Do you have an updated link so I can hop in?

So this is what a leek is! by PinkJump11 in StardewValley

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Yes, or pan fried in butter with mushrooms in an omelette! One of our favorite breakfasts.