EamonnMR

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by EamonnMR 5y ago
Having to stand downrange of it to windlass it is intimidating.
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by EamonnMR 5y ago
People forget that this is possible, but it's well worth mentioning. I once got someone to release some old game assets under a real license via email (and I'm still telling the story!)
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by EamonnMR 5y ago
I was comparing queues to HTTP endpoints for sending messages, I can't speak others besides Kafka and Redis. Redis is an order of magnitude easier to work with but struggles under loads that Kafka has no problem with. Also every once i
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Ask HN: Why drive users away from the login button?
64 points by EamonnMR 5y ago|24 comments
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by EamonnMR 5y ago
I am not aware of any other way to wake up a MacBook with the clamshell closed. Step 1: plug it in. If it doesn't turn on step 2 is to hit keys, right?
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by EamonnMR 5y ago
First responder who needs to deal with deer probably has a pair of earmuffs, might not have enough pairs for everyone standing around looking at the deer.
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by EamonnMR 5y ago
All very good points. What I like about Kafka is that you can queue up a bunch of messages without needing to be able to handle that load immediately. It lets you build very resistant patterns: if your message-senders overwhelm your message
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by EamonnMR 5y ago
What you can do is have a really large number of partitions and scale consumers up only when needed (workers need not be 1:1 with partitions.)
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by EamonnMR 5y ago
It's nice when you have a bunch of discrete events that you want any number of clients to work on without interfering with each other. Think of it as a fire-and-forget pub-sub. You can always have a worker dumping the queue into a data
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by EamonnMR 5y ago
Not to mention potential hearing damage.
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by EamonnMR 5y ago
Without concrete steps, this type of messaging from an industry leader feels disingenuous.
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by EamonnMR 5y ago
This morning I plugged in my macbook and tried to turn it on. No dice. Hammered the external mouse and keyboard. No luck. Opened up the clamshell, started testing USB-C ports to figure out which one wants to charge today. Hammered the &quot
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by EamonnMR 5y ago
Without the "only we can make it" factor, studios with the budget to market them would be less compelled to make and market them. Sure, anyone could make another Spiderman movie, but at least I wouldn't have to hear about it.
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by EamonnMR 5y ago
If IP expired quickly like patents we wouldn't be subjected to so many franchise films and that would be a huge win.
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by EamonnMR 5y ago
There are other reasons for the dearth of mods nowdays. The PC is no longer such a dominant platform so many people who might be persuaded to try modding are playing on a device unsuited to it like a game console or phone, a pure consumptio
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by EamonnMR 5y ago
Pinterest strips away the original context of the image. You cannot follow or like the artist who created the image. You cannot find out what it's an image _of_! Any value the image had to its creator as an advertisement or portfolio p
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by EamonnMR 5y ago
Something I always told myself I'd get around to. I've been meaning to set up Ubuntu on my desktop so I can use it for development, anyone have a good tutorial for setting up steam/proton?
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by EamonnMR 5y ago
I feel your pain, but can't help blaming Apple rather than Homebrew. They made an OS that users can't bear to upgrade because of removed features, homebrew is merely following their lead and focusing on bleeding edge users. Maybe
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by EamonnMR 5y ago
Having readable unicode in string literals is nice.
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by EamonnMR 5y ago
If you're using well known loops, people will notice. I hear GarageBand's old loops sometimes to this day! Man, I really have to get around to extracting the ones from 1.0...
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by EamonnMR 5y ago
I would say musicians but don't most people use Macs anyway? I guess someone must be using Linux Renoise besides me...
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by EamonnMR 5y ago
On my previous macbook it was a showstopper because it would lock the machine up returning thousands of irrelevant files.
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by EamonnMR 5y ago
I've .gitignore'd it and never looked back.
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by EamonnMR 5y ago
Oh you don't want every search to find every python bytecode file on your whole system every time?
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by EamonnMR 5y ago
Almost everything else I do in an application, so the most I interact with the OS is when I clumsily look around for a file. I've started using fzf (you can install it with brew) and open but I shouldn't have to. QOL would be on p
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by EamonnMR 5y ago
Oof, non-english gdpr popup. Not sure which option I'm supposed to select.
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by EamonnMR 5y ago
It's a lot easier to be a hardcore smoker and still function though.
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by EamonnMR 5y ago
If any apple product managers are reading this, the biggest thing holding MacOS back is that it global searches when you search a folder. I know there's a config setting for it, but dammit I want the default to be local file name searc
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by EamonnMR 5y ago
If secondary market teslas start bursting into flames it's going to hurt Tesla's reputation even if they swear up and down that it was an unlicensed shop every time. So they'd better start sharing repair manuals.
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by EamonnMR 5y ago
I know someone who had that exact experience on an ICE vehicle.

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