2ion

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by 2ion 6y ago
Data needs to be built, but who can say no to a supplement that's relatively cheaply available, in ample supply and doesn't hurt to take reasonable doses over a few weeks?
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by 2ion 6y ago
What's troublesome for me is that I have been using * xetex when I needed a font that was not easily achievable in pdftex over the past decade * pdftex for everything else because microtype(TM) just works(TM) (even though kerning can
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by 2ion 6y ago
Docker Desktop is the only non-hacky way to get a decent Docker (and k8s) setup for development purposes on macOS and Windows. Linux on the desktop never needed that, but those other two do.
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by 2ion 6y ago
pass has excellent terminal UX (shell completion), can be versioned using git. Currently it's a perfect fit for me in the private environment, because I keep browsers 100% jailed and all passwords out of browser context (so I wouldn&#x
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by 2ion 6y ago
The solution is geo-redundant API endpoints with Anycast. I imagine few IoT gimmicks are launched by vendors who both have the resources to implement this, maintain it and actually care. Keeping a geo-redunant data set in sync is pretty tri
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by 2ion 6y ago
Only because the state is throwing money at it like crazy. No taxes on EVs. Subsidies to the tune of 10000€. Per private purchase. There are certain types of lower end EV (like Renault Zoe) that can be purchased effectively for nearly free
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by 2ion 6y ago
> The second thing I’ve done is avoid containers. VMs work fine for many types of applications. That’s especially true if provisioning and configuration is mostly automated. A product like Google Cloud Run looks interesting for a few low
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by 2ion 6y ago
> The cat is out the bag, so to speak. I foresee a lot of adware, spyware, and malware leveraging DoH now to evade just about every DNS-based monitoring/blocking/provisioning solutions. But tunnelling X in Y is not new at all a
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by 2ion 6y ago
Always when management decides to attempt to replace $enterprise-solution with $foss-solution that cost "$0" I tell them: * You need to maintain the system and manage the full life cycle * You need testing * You pay for al
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by 2ion 6y ago
Hearing new stuff like https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.20.20215863v... every day and witnessing the stupidity of the populace at large does not help.
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by 2ion 6y ago
Will Apple to transparent emulation (x86-on-ARM) or just not run x86 binaries?
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by 2ion 6y ago
This is actually, in any jurisdiction, what I take the most issues with: presidential systems headed by practically very soon-to-be-dead men. I have changed with age; surely the flexibility, inventiveness, and power an individual can constr
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by 2ion 6y ago
Of course, thanks for pointing that out. Wayland should have been the Y system ;)
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by 2ion 6y ago
Would be a catastrophe because I haven't seen a no-code system that can successfully reproduce and elevate itself into a fungible foundation on which significant new technologies can be build --- like for example CPU microcode breathes
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by 2ion 6y ago
The big mistake with W was leaving so much of function specification to the implementor. W was a spec, but totally incomplete for what was needed to build a usable power user desktop. The Linux DE landscape was already fractured to the degr
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by 2ion 6y ago
ECS is a joke. Implementing scaling policies is way too complicated, don't even get me to talk about scaling out with EC2-based capacity providers [1]. Combine that with the mediocre job cloudwatch does at collecting and allowing to ac
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by 2ion 6y ago
> I don't like Windows, but its UI is not that bad, come on. I don't know. I am very OK with Win7 but I tried installing Win10 the other week on a VM in the intent to let it superseed my Linux on the desktop. The 125% scaling o
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by 2ion 6y ago
> It's also fraud and a felony for anyone who does it... Because that stops people who are planning to tamper an election in the first place?
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by 2ion 6y ago
In any case, yes: If it's a userspace-based model with kernel modules (like nvidia) - yes, you can insert/remove kernel modules without rebooting and exchange userspace libs freely. If it's an in-kernel driver part like the i
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by 2ion 6y ago
Exactly our use case, esp. for things that are outside of k8s, for example, standard tasks that every cloud account of ours needs to perform (they are heavily segmented due to regulations) and developers or k8s ops do not get to touch. Almo
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by 2ion 6y ago
Wait until you get to work with the CDK, it's worse.
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by 2ion 6y ago
Which I would love to pay as a consumer Win 7 Pro user but unfortunately MSFT is not interested in that. Win10 -- which I also own -- has horrible UI and takes the simplicity + familiarity out of Windows, and I just don't want to move
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by 2ion 6y ago
I was trained on Bach piano literature in technique and theory from the intermediate level onward before being "allowed" to explore the corpus of works of other composers. Most impressive at the time were Gould's recordings o
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by 2ion 6y ago
Logging people out seems like a hella low price to pay to pay for a potential security issue. Of course, hats off if you hold your engineering organization to such a high standard for normal changes.
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by 2ion 6y ago
This actually has tradition, see the Irix and POSIX environment subsystems of earlier WinNTs. I think the current approach by Microsoft owes to the developments in the OS and virtualization tech space both in hardware + software over the pa
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by 2ion 6y ago
> I've seen security through obscurity misused too often as the only line of defence, or as a "temporary" stop-gap that outlives its usefulness. It can lead to a false sense of security. Exactly. > we need for some reas
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by 2ion 6y ago
> Making less humans seems to be morally taboo, no one wants to go there. The train will eventually have arrived at that station while people continue to pretend it didn't.
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by 2ion 6y ago
Too limited IMO to be useful.
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by 2ion 6y ago
> 1. Linear and limiting Perfect for information discovery. Rich annotations and hypermedia features (external links, document-internal links, TOC) in PDF fix pretty much all issues stemming from this. All searchable (if the PDF has been
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by 2ion 6y ago
The fetching of content is done by a long-running update daemon that is separate from any PHP code that is the UI. The worker code is pretty naive, does not use a blocking queue etc, and sleeps for a configured interval before the next feed

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