2ion

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by 2ion 5y ago
Time worked != impact. And if it's a salaried position, it doesn't matter anyway because the employer is getting the better deal anyway.
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by 2ion 5y ago
> Reason 2: AWS doesn't sell based on Dev Ex AWS's core is developer experience. AWS is an API. Anybody who does not realize or can not exploit this fact this pays massive premiums for using it (probably a lot of businesses whi
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by 2ion 5y ago
I came to dislike the control panel interface on Windows because it is disjunct from management console snapins and does a bad job at reconiling administrative/power user access knobs with basic computer controls. The control panel doe
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by 2ion 5y ago
Don't leave anything of significance walled in behind a Google, Apple, Amazon, or really any other account. Only physically accessible copies of your data belong to you. Everything I upload to "a" cloud, I immediately mirror
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by 2ion 5y ago
Interesting idea, but banks block this. My German bank until recently offered SEPA "instant" bank transfers, which make the cash appear on the receiver's end if both the sending and receiving bank support instant payments, fo
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by 2ion 5y ago
It is simple, really: There are also many piano players who cannot make confident and accurate movements on the keyboard without looking at their hands! My process learning how to type on a computer keyboard without looking was very much li
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by 2ion 5y ago
Where I work now, not likely, because we have hundreds of AWS accounts, VPC peering and private VPC access only over VPN, which can to my knowledge only route IPv4...
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by 2ion 5y ago
Great, now dogfood it to the guys responsible for "netsh interface portproxy", easily the most unreliability "OS level" port proxying I've ever seen.
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by 2ion 5y ago
If the state of current (10/11) Windows UI and UX is any indicator it must have gotten much worse since 2008. I would never have done anything that shows a GUI on Windows hadn't I had access to Qt to absolve me from that hell.
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by 2ion 5y ago
Get a 30" monitor and a multimedia PC like a thinkcentre, nuc, dell micro whatever and absolve yourself of the garbage that is present-day consumer electronics.
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by 2ion 5y ago
This is a bit more elaborate behaviour than what I have observed from our (small) spiders here, but as a general rule, I don't do anything to spiders in my apartment as well. They keep their territory clean of other insects and do not
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by 2ion 5y ago
How so? https://github.com/microsoft/wslg#pre-requisites It used to be on the insider preview, but that has moved to 11.
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by 2ion 5y ago
In EU, some sectors that are doing business with public institutions are effectively barred from using US clouds, esp. in education, as contracts tend to demand a degree of control and assurement that no US hyperscaler or SaaS is going to g
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by 2ion 5y ago
I think security at NPM is "done". It's a public repository of stuff. End of story. Why should NPM do the job of vetting everything? They aren't getting paid for it (or most of it).
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by 2ion 5y ago
Unlike the C/C++ compiler landscape which for industry use cases has a few high profile high quality candidates, and all vendors of these solutions are pretty much guaranteed to employ top level experts to evolve their softwares, the p
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by 2ion 5y ago
The money cost of 10 all-new nuclear reactors is minor when compared to the economic cost of electricity prices doubling and tripling again, gas and oil prices doubling again until EOY 2022. Rolling blackouts are not unreasonable to expect.
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by 2ion 5y ago
After digging a bit in Azure for the purpose of checking it out I left in despair and utterly confused how identity, policy and permission intertwine. Bonus points for enabling Azure DevOps on a Github account and finding out how that ties
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by 2ion 5y ago
It's just many things piling up. transit.yahoo.co.jp for long and short distance public transport, maps.yahoo.co.jp instead of US map services, tabelog.com for restaurant reviews, navitime for car navigation etc. Note that the desired
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by 2ion 5y ago
To be fair, Japan has specific digital service offerings in a lot of niches that outdo most of internationally aligned competitors with their eyes closed.
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by 2ion 5y ago
CloudFormation can be very flexible, especially with tools like sceptre, it can work very well. A huge issue is that WITHOUT tools like sceptre, you can't really use stacks except as dumb silos. You already need additional tooling (sce
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by 2ion 5y ago
Yes, but in this context, everything depends on the interaction with the merchant. While most merchants are not pricks, they are businesspeople and won't unconditionally accommodate any claim even if it is reasonable. Based on my exper
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by 2ion 5y ago
elster.de is the official means to input your tax info supported by the tax office. However, it's largely an online form with some legalese and dry formal explanations in a sidebar. You can largely use it if you know what you are doing
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by 2ion 5y ago
- direct bank transfer = debit. When you send money using SEPA you have no right at all to charge the money back, as it's always a voluntary authorized transaction. The marchant got you by the balls. - In DE at there are fast "in
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by 2ion 5y ago
Besides the SF content, A Deepness in the Sky is also one of the very very few books that have completely disgusted me about a fictional character, namely in this book, what happened to Qiwi and Kira Pen Lisolet. I had to stop reading a fe
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by 2ion 5y ago
I think in a lot of "markets", uselessly drawn out sex scenes were just never there. In fact, I find this trait of Western movie and TV making highly annoying. Because those sex scenes are always the same. If you have seen a few,
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by 2ion 5y ago
Prime membership has no bearing of whether I buy at Amazon or not. I buy expensive electronics on Amazon because they'll refund broken/repacked pre-used/counterfeit stuff without question. I seriously do not get the point of
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by 2ion 5y ago
So an unprivileged service can map drive letters on Windows?
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by 2ion 5y ago
It needs to run with elevated privileges in order to do this, right? So into the trash it goes. This is right up there with keyboard and mice configuration software running as daemons with administration privileges.
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by 2ion 5y ago
Our helpdesk will recommend Devs to switch to canonical multipass + podman on their mac dev machines, away from Docker Desktop for mac. Currently, the helpdesk is whipping up a provisioning package that includes scripts that make docker CLI
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by 2ion 5y ago
...they do that because they university pays a pittance. No choice but to have as many jobs as doable, as lecturers get paid by the course unit and not a wage.

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