Arbortheus

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by Arbortheus 4y ago
Why on earth should any software developer care about the calculus underneath their database? That is surely only the domain of database developers, researchers, and hobbyists?
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by Arbortheus 4y ago
Sorry if I am being ignorant, but can someone explain to me Hackernews' obsession with Lisp? I don't hear anyone talk about Lisp or use Lisp anywhere except on Hackernews.
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by Arbortheus 4y ago
We use bazel for our builds at work, I think it works quite well, but then our bazel guy left the company and no one else dares touch it aside from basic updates because it’s really complex and a bit of a dark art in itself.
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by Arbortheus 4y ago
I think in this scenario "edge" is a general term for a localised server. I imagine the problem people are trying to solve is just wanting to manage infrastructure in modern GitOps/Infrastructure-as-code ways. Ultimately peop
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by Arbortheus 4y ago
I think in this scenario it just means a localised server. I imagine the problem people are trying to solve is just wanting to manage infrastructure in modern GitOps/Infrastructure-as-code ways. Ultimately people want to deploy all the
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by Arbortheus 4y ago
My team does exactly this too, especially during the pandemic when we couldn't socialise outside of work. We spend 10-15 minutes before standup bantering and our team has come out stronger for it. Even though we'd lose that 15 min
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by Arbortheus 4y ago
E.g. a supply chain attack.
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by Arbortheus 4y ago
Providing cloud services and thereby improving digital connectivity in poorer economies == colonialism. OK…
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by Arbortheus 4y ago
One of my favourite Go security features is the single binary output, it means I can build my binaries into a distroless base image container for running in K8S. It removes a huge attack and vulnerability surface that containers introduce.
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by Arbortheus 4y ago
This is great, I particularly like the part about using compute from old unwanted iPhones. Quite an inventive way to reuse/recycle otherwise obsolete hardware!
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by Arbortheus 4y ago
That’s very trusting that there isn’t some race condition on the POS that ends up charging them all.
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by Arbortheus 4y ago
Yeah, I did debate not including that part. I think I would elaborate by saying… Saving the earth isn’t profitable for companies in the business of making consumer products (in most cases). But for companies that make essential sustainable
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by Arbortheus 4y ago
Saving the earth is a complex aim with so many different areas to prioritise. Synthetics may produce micro plastics, but then natural fibers like cotton require huge amounts of pesticides and water, viscose or bamboo requires a shit load of
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by Arbortheus 4y ago
An operating system isn’t a tool, it’s a means to an end. It’s like saying it’s bad I don’t know how all the internal components of my car work because I rely on my car to get to work. As far as I am concerned, my operating system is a blac
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by Arbortheus 4y ago
Funnily enough, this is the exact spec of laptops (except with Nvidia GPUs) that all of my colleagues who have had these problems use.
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by Arbortheus 4y ago
In principle I would love to use Linux, as the developer experience isn’t great on Windows, and I would rather not be tied into expensive Apple computers. However, I don’t want to learn about components of my operating system, that is below
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by Arbortheus 4y ago
Oh wow I wasn’t expecting it to work that way. I was expecting to have to use some kind of podman aliased compose alternative that copies the CLI of docker compose.
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by Arbortheus 4y ago
Nice, thank you
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by Arbortheus 4y ago
Is there any Linux distribution with MacOS levels of reliability, simplicity, and productivity, that can reliably be updated without the boot partition getting full, random things like thunderbolt docks not working, or sleep states being fa
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by Arbortheus 4y ago
Huh this was literally 2 weeks ago I looked into this and ended up using a third-party community podman docker compose substitute. I will have another look.
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by Arbortheus 4y ago
Is anyone aware whether Bitwarden encrypts everything, or just the passwords like lastpass?
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by Arbortheus 4y ago
My company has a large python repo. Anyone that develops in this repo on a Mac is considered a sadist because… Running Pylint on a Linux machine in docker: 3 hours from no cache Running Pylint on a Mac in docker: 9+ hours from no cache unle
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by Arbortheus 4y ago
Podman has been a massive disappointment for me. I stupidly gave up my docker desktop because the company was trying to make cost savings and it was supposedly a drop-in replacement. Some short-lived containers like our repo’s linter takes
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by Arbortheus 4y ago
I agree about Go. One quite frustrating scenario I have ran into multiple times is if you unmarshal (parse) some JSON into a struct, you can’t tell if an integer field with value 0 was specified in the JSON input as 0, or missing from the i
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by Arbortheus 4y ago
Yes, but it's something your grandparents might say rather than a widely held belief. I think people nowadays are clever enough to know that colds are a transmissible infection.
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by Arbortheus 4y ago
Air quality should be a bigger consideration in schools, I bet students will be more attentative and able to focus better without high CO2 levels. We should create the conditions to allow them to succeed.
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by Arbortheus 4y ago
I disagree, I think that handling the failure cases properly is much more complex and requires more consideration than the success cases. Sure, in many cases you’re going to bubble up the error (perhaps a syntactic sugar for this scenario w
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by Arbortheus 4y ago
Fluoridated forever chemicals can’t be composted in any scenario.
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by Arbortheus 4y ago
That’s the problem with big tech. When they own all the roads, it makes organic competition almost impossible, as they will always be 2 steps ahead.
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by Arbortheus 4y ago
My mum has a philosophy that when travelling you'll have more enjoyment by visiting the second or third best version of everything. You'll turn up at a tourist attraction and be trampled on by a biblical quantity of people, then t

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