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by 1letterunixname 3y ago
The global WF HQ has tortillas, but they're neither local nor authentic. The customer service person proclaimed I should use tortillas instead. Gobsmacked by the unprofessionalism of that, it was the last time I've been to WF.
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by 1letterunixname 3y ago
https://archive.ph/SrJcf
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by 1letterunixname 3y ago
There's nothing like the Berkeley Bowl <3. It's Trader Joe's + Davis co-op on crack^2^5. Various cities around the West Coast and Austin also have co-op grocery stores, but Berkeley Bowl takes it to a different hypermart l
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by 1letterunixname 3y ago
Autotools-based build infra is always crufty, fragile, slow, and fugly. In a lot of cases, it sucks because it's what we have right now without doing the work to replace it with something equally flexible. Build infrastructure should b
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by 1letterunixname 3y ago
This is why I buy old enterprise LaserJet printers. Also, the toner cartridges are more generous and recycled* ones are relatively cheap. I currently have 4 spares which is probably enough for its entire lifecycle of me printing a return
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by 1letterunixname 3y ago
Underscores the importance of archival science, repair and maintenance of old hardware, and faithful emulation.
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by 1letterunixname 3y ago
Oh damn, and I thought lemon trees were fun to prune. These can kill you and smell terrible. At least lemon trees tend to smell nice while threatening you with enormous thorns during pruning. Somewhat worse: Krauter Vesuvius / Cherry P
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by 1letterunixname 3y ago
Yes, the userland side presented such as with POSIX like ssize_t read(int fd, void* buf, size_t count). Calling that with count = 1 each time would be wasteful, but certainly libc's have been buffering this since at least the 1980&#x27
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by 1letterunixname 3y ago
In high school, we had a virtual stock portfolio competition. At the time, I was an assistant manager (making minimum wage because I was a depressed kid who looked about 12) at a nationwide small store software (and hardware) store. Zip dri
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by 1letterunixname 3y ago
This partly explains how the Twitch and YouTube livestreamer market exists as an advancement over passive broadcast television: interactivity. If you want to create an "Apple"-like lifestyle cultural brand heavy on goodwill, skew
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by 1letterunixname 3y ago
There most certainly is getwchar() and fgetwc()/getwc() on anything that's POSIX C95, so that's more or less everything that's not a vintage antique. Reading individual UTF-8 codepoints is a trivial exercise if byte widt
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by 1letterunixname 3y ago
A few notes: - It should be generating `path: impl AsRef<Path>` to be properly generic. - It's not setting a nonzero exit code on error. - Edge case handling is a vital property for production-usable tools at scale. I'm wond
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by 1letterunixname 3y ago
IIRC, the qualitative (or proven quantitative) connection between exercise and improved sleep is most pronounced with morning exercise (HIIT/weight lifting).
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by 1letterunixname 3y ago
TL;DR - Scalable DNS, TLS termination, app firewall, caching, and CDN Also check out fastly which was/is Varnish-based and built by ex Wikia peeps. If you have enough budget, engineering talent, or customers & ARPU, you can build y
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by 1letterunixname 3y ago
Ouch. Big egos in tech are a cliche to be dispelled whenever possible by contrary example setting and not taking oneself too seriously. I turned down a ~ £ 2.5 million exit to avoid being golden handcuffed to an absolute dick co-founder for
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by 1letterunixname 3y ago
Do spaces and spelling fixes count? Copilot, so far, is only good for predicting the next bit of similar patterns of code
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by 1letterunixname 3y ago
If airline customers weren't extorted and humiliated enough already. Maybe I'll just swim or bicycle to my destinations from now on.
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JetBlue introduces dynamic baggage pricing(simpleflying.com)
3 points by 1letterunixname 3y ago|3 comments
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by 1letterunixname 3y ago
Doesn't do much good if the OS doesn't enforce them like seL4 can.
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by 1letterunixname 3y ago
Almost no one grasps, or interested in, formal verification. It's difficult to get software devs to even do unit testing much less prove their compilers always produce correct code.
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by 1letterunixname 3y ago
Shared read-only core volumes combined with write overlay volumes at the hypervisor level are the way out of this. Containers are pseudo isolation lacking most/all of the isolation, capacity allocation, and rate limiting guarantees tha
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by 1letterunixname 3y ago
Are any shops here paying Sr SWEs/SREs in the neighborhood of $350k+ USD TC remote, Austin, or SF Bay Area, or do they all suffer from startup haircut$?
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by 1letterunixname 3y ago
The hard part about playing chicken is...
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by 1letterunixname 3y ago
Yep. This is the average societal memory horizon. The absolute cultural memory horizon tends to be roughly 250 years (10 generations) as that's about when most civilizations fail. At least once every generation, there is a moral or cul
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by 1letterunixname 3y ago
1918 not-Spanish "Spanish" A/H1N1 flu pandemic. Pandemic commandments: 0. Thou shalln't eat wild animals. 1. Thou shalln't mix wild animals and animal agriculture. 2. Better yet, thou shalln't eat any animals
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by 1letterunixname 3y ago
I worked with someone at big name university biomedical informatics department who found out only in their early 30's by emergency health crisis that they had Crohn's. Perhaps with some people it requires an emergency for there
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by 1letterunixname 3y ago
This is just 1 of the problems with animal ag. - Pandemics - Antibiotic resistance (The sheer stupidity of using the same antibiotics we depend on to stay alive just to make animals grow faster and be more profitable.) - Climate change (1&#
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by 1letterunixname 3y ago
I wrote CGI scripts in bash before it was hipster cool. s/Old/Lazy/ because these are different properties. There's no specific numeric old, it's all about health and fitness for "age" and adaptation for t
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by 1letterunixname 3y ago
Synchronous socialization and meeting their friends and fam. Not knowing people well is a vulnerability.
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by 1letterunixname 3y ago
Yep. In the greedy drive to monetize the Meta's and Motorola's running Cent to force them onto RHEL, they're pulling a grenade pin and daring people to stay in the boat. Instead, they're alienating most of their future b

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