DanielHB

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by DanielHB 2y ago
I haven't phrased it very well, I meant to say _american_ style suburbs are very... wasteful on resources, land and capital. European cities have suburbs as well, they are just usually 4-6 store tall buildings close to metro stations w
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by DanielHB 2y ago
Suburbs and detached houses are available in Europe as well, often with good public transport access (although there are plenty where you need a bicycle to get to a train station). It is just apartments are much cheaper and you can often no
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by DanielHB 2y ago
European cities have suburbs as well. In fact most people live in them, not in the city center. They are just VERY different from US ones. Mostly 4-6 story tall buildings clustered around a major transportation hub like a metro or train sta
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by DanielHB 2y ago
The "prey upon the poor" is just as bad, if not worse, in Brazil. Growing up there you don't really realize, but after living abroad for a while it is painfully obvious. Just a small example, stores that sell anything >30
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by DanielHB 2y ago
I was thinking the same thing the other day. Like how much of the US GDP is tied to their suburb-living car-dependent lifestyle. What percentage of the GDP is all that infrastructure (sewage, heating, power plants, power transmission, car p
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by DanielHB 2y ago
> A: This is great! Perl is much maligned but a fantastic Swiss army chainsaw and still runs so much critical infrastructure. You know, I hear this a lot (especially earlier in my career) but I _never_ ran into any system made in perl, e
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by DanielHB 2y ago
Man, TTD music was the only management game that made me HYPE to get down to managing. Like I vividly remember Sim City 3000 music as well, but that game was more chill, like a sunny winter day. TTD was like a spring day where you plan you
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by DanielHB 2y ago
On a related note, I once used puppeteer and headless chrome in a docker image to generate PDF manuals from our web page documentation using the print to PDF feature of headless chrome. I am not sure if it would be viable to use for thousan
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by DanielHB 2y ago
But the original soundtrack is still a banger.
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by DanielHB 2y ago
> I had my unfounded suspicion it was some internal subtle theft going on Had you watched Office Space recently?
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by DanielHB 2y ago
> I hypothesized, given how shitty the codebase was, that they must be tracking this stuff poorly. That is like half of the plot of Office Space
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by DanielHB 2y ago
Just to be pedantic, the fuel has some weight too. I think your average cars have a 50 to 80l tank, which is an extra ~40-60kg when full.
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by DanielHB 2y ago
> The vast reserve, which could be the largest single reservoir of the valuable metal left anywhere on Earth, is worth billions of dollars and caused the global price of gold to skyrocket to near-record highs. Someone explain please? Tha
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by DanielHB 2y ago
I am using a USB3 drive as a samba drive and it works fine, although I use it mostly for streaming video not to transfer large files. My OS however is in the SD card which is Sandisk which I assumed was the good fair price brand.
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by DanielHB 2y ago
I got a raspberry 4 recently and was tinkering with it. I was appalled at the apparent disk IO performance of the thing, opening a browser takes several seconds. Is that just me or do I have a particularly crappy SD card? Anyone got any tip
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by DanielHB 2y ago
Curious about the organizational dynamics around this kind of decisions. There is no reason why google couldn't do the same. I assume there is little will internally because everyone there is so focused on their performance reviews and
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by DanielHB 2y ago
The worse is when your CLI tool depends on some random runtime[1] being available on your system, most notably cloud provider CLIs relying on python being available in the system (GCP CLI still does this, AWS CLI used to). When step 1 of yo
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by DanielHB 2y ago
> than provisioning a bunch of new VMs each time a team need some services deployed. Back in the old days before cloud providers this was the only option. I started my career in early 2010s and got the tailend of this, it was not fun. I
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by DanielHB 2y ago
Terraform has the same problem as Kubernetes sidecars with terraform providers trying to do magic for you. If you stick to the cloud platform provider it is actually much nicer than using the CLI. Although my experience is with AWS, I find
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by DanielHB 2y ago
> What does fucking kill me in the Kubernetes ecosystem is the amount of add-on crap that is pitched as "necessary". Sidecars... so many sidecars. Yeah it is the same with terraform modules, I was trying to argument at a previo
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by DanielHB 2y ago
Well I was comparing to python codebases before they added type annotations
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by DanielHB 2y ago
I am pretty sure if it were for the Typescript creators they would not allow exceptions in the language, but they had to work within the confines of Javascript. Heck they even refused to make exceptions part of the type-system. It is unfort
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by DanielHB 2y ago
You hit the main gripe I have with Go, its types system is so basic. I get people raving type-correctness of Go when they come from Python but the type system in Go is simply pre-historic by modern day standards.
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by DanielHB 2y ago
I heard that Meta also has a monorepo but most of their open source projects are very community driven. I think it is corporate mandate thing, no resources to be spent on open source and not tracking open source contributions as part of car
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by DanielHB 2y ago
It is not only that, but often when google uses an open source project not owned by them they either try to take ownership of the project or fork it instead of trying to contribute to the original.
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by DanielHB 2y ago
You can actually if you have energy trading between regions. The problem with California is that during peak-power use times (18:00->20:00) there is no where to buy more solar from. But California can sell its solar for other regions pea
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by DanielHB 2y ago
> code from Google. I spilled my coffee, I was just talking the other day to some coworkers how I don't trust google open source. Sure they open their code but they don't give a damn about contributions or making it easy for yo
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by DanielHB 2y ago
Ah okay, that makes more sense. We used wireguard for remote management and we never got into MQTT (I wish we had).
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by DanielHB 2y ago
> vertically integrated monopoly is the cheapest option I would like to remind you that you can use google, gmail, google maps, google drive and a bunch of other services for free (and the best consumer value even if accounting for their
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by DanielHB 2y ago
If they are that small and autonomous the concept of a port would likely be very different than what it is today. More like thousands of small drop-off points around the coast.

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