Carpetsmoker

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541.
by Carpetsmoker 8y ago
Flying cars will always be less efficient (and thus, more expensive) than driving cars due to the physics of it. I wouldn't hold my breath on flying cars replacing driving cars, just as airplanes haven't replaced trains.
542.
by Carpetsmoker 8y ago
> If the main argument is economic costs Economic, human, and ecological costs. I am not hugely in favour of reducing everything to economics (although it's definitely an important part). I also don't think that it's as si
543.
by Carpetsmoker 8y ago
Politicians say that business must self-regulate or that consumers must choose different. Businesses say that they are following the laws made by the politicians and are meeting consumer demands. Consumers say the government should regulate
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by Carpetsmoker 8y ago
> The only thing not fine is whether humans survive what they/we ultimately have brought about. Humans will be fine, as a species. But the human and economic costs will be large. Compare it to the Hurricane Katrina: most people in N
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by Carpetsmoker 8y ago
Sounds very optimistic, but also depends on a lot of "if"s and "maybe"s. Fact is that while a lot of hard problems do get solved by new innovations, not all of them are, and systems do fail catastrophically sometim
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by Carpetsmoker 8y ago
> Earplugs make me feel claustrophobic, and I have the uncontrollable urge to rip them out after 15 minutes. I used to have similar problems; but I've learned to adapt to them with time and patience. All other things being equal, I&
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by Carpetsmoker 8y ago
I tried to use BFG to clean a repo of excessive large files once. After the `git push --force` our entire repo was gone. Oops! Use with care, do it on a Sunday (or other time most devs aren't working), and be prepared to restore a back
548.
by Carpetsmoker 8y ago
I'm not sure if we've got enough wrappers yet. I think we want several more!
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by Carpetsmoker 8y ago
I never advocated rewriting anything. If you have a RoR/Django/PHP/Java app and it works well: keep on truckin'! But I've also found that writing new applications in Go has some good benefits over e.g. RoR. Things
550.
by Carpetsmoker 8y ago
Yeah; I use https://github.com/DATA-DOG/go-txdb Works pretty well.
551.
by Carpetsmoker 8y ago
I've been using a lot of Go to write web applications the last three years, and I find it's a very smooth experience. I don't have a hate-on for Ruby on Rails; my last job was as a Rails dev and I liked it. I still like, even
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by Carpetsmoker 8y ago
> Containers are basically a few syscalls wrapped in a ball of mud I don't think it has to be; I mean, the current Linux/Docker situation is kind of that, but that's just a single implementation. > most containers are b
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by Carpetsmoker 8y ago
I think Amsterdam (and more recently, Rotterdam) are not representative for the rest of the country though. A lot of the problems in Amsterdam are just because there are too many tourists. There are currently about 18 million/year. It&
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by Carpetsmoker 8y ago
A lot the companies that store the data aren't. It's not TechDirt storing most of the data: it's all the 3rd-party crap they load. But that's not really the point I think, the article claims that they care "very muc
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by Carpetsmoker 8y ago
There have been many free ad-supported services that don't collect your data for many years: newspapers, TV channels, radio, etc. "Accept data collection or pay for it" is a false dichotomy. Ad-supported websites don't n
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by Carpetsmoker 8y ago
I think pledge (and unveil) are really good ideas, but that doesn't mean it's a substitute for containers. They're kind of different: pledge mostly just enforces correctness of a program, whereas containers enforce separati
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by Carpetsmoker 8y ago
What's the alternative to Android though? Apple has its own well-documented issues, as well as a rather large price-tag. I just use my phone for maps and some chat services, don't need a very fancy phone. Even the iPhone 7 is list
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by Carpetsmoker 8y ago
They are not "platitudes" though, but real-world practical concerns. To give a specific example, even with these extensions you won't be able to handle NULL bytes in your shell script. So if you ever want to store, say, a PNG
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by Carpetsmoker 8y ago
Adding to this, it's not just bash you have to worry about: also grep, wc, head, cut, and all other external utilities you're calling. There are actually quite a few incompatibilities between different implementations and versions
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The shell scripting trap(arp242.net)
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by Carpetsmoker 8y ago
I think it was some tool at moz.com, but I don't recall from the top of my head. I don't think it was Google itself. I have no idea what effect that has; I'm not really in to that world. > I have had no issues with even le
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by Carpetsmoker 8y ago
"man pf.conf" is also very useful.
563.
by Carpetsmoker 8y ago
Yeah, that was an error >_< I fixed it. Thanks!
564.
by Carpetsmoker 8y ago
I like the "Ruby approach" of: if foo ... else ... end It solves some of the issues that you can have with Python, while at the same time also avoiding the whole nonsense with the braces. I find i
565.
by Carpetsmoker 8y ago
I wrote this article, and at this point I don't really have a strong preference for any one format. I think a lot depends on what it's used for. YAML can actually be pretty useful. For example, recently I wrote a tool to generate
566.
by Carpetsmoker 8y ago
I generate Swagger/OpenAPI files, and use YAML because it's easier to read. If I had to write OpenAPI files manually I'd probably choose to jump out of the window.
567.
by Carpetsmoker 8y ago
Thanks! Last time I checked my domain got penalized for having abnormal low markup or some such, which apparently makes it look like a spam site. I am proud of this.
568.
by Carpetsmoker 8y ago
JSON is slightly easier since you have actual start/stop marks in the form of `{`, `}`, instead of relying on 2-space indentation. (are there 8 or 10 spaces there? Hard to see).
569.
by Carpetsmoker 8y ago
This is ugly.