EamonnMR

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by EamonnMR 3y ago
YMMV, but I've only seen Rails fans use any of those.
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by EamonnMR 3y ago
Rails was really good at building a very specific type of website and that kept Ruby popular for a while, but SPAs resulted in back end web apps that mostly just shuffled json around, something you don't need Rails for (though rails do
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by EamonnMR 3y ago
The tray loaders are in fact easier to replace than the slot loaders. But you can find working slot loader drives too.
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by EamonnMR 3y ago
Much of my earliest experience with computing was on these, because they had them at school. Hyperstudio was my first taste of building little interactive applications. EV Override was the first game that felt like it contained an entire wo
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by EamonnMR 3y ago
I'm still trying to wrap my head around why IA would do something like this.
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by EamonnMR 3y ago
Why is the Internet archive choosing these battles?
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by EamonnMR 3y ago
Have you considered making a plain HTTPS frontend like Confluent's REST proxy? Or even just designating a bucket as 'incoming messages' and letting people use the S3 API to write messages? Kafka is great but if you're ta
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by EamonnMR 3y ago
That would be a killer feature. Once we switched to MSK back at a previous gig, our biggest care and feeding task was adding new event types to our kafka-to-redshift ETL thing. Well, that and dealing with scaling our http wrapper...
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This code smells of desperation(os2museum.com)
250 points by EamonnMR 3y ago|89 comments
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by EamonnMR 3y ago
Most of them get a "scam likely" flag these days though.
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by EamonnMR 3y ago
For what it's worth, I found this post via my RSS reader.
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Free Public WiFi(computer.rip)
371 points by EamonnMR 3y ago|175 comments
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by EamonnMR 3y ago
Yeah Cyberpunk wasn't so much a dream as a dystopian reaction to modern life; instead of exploring space, people do crimes to scrape by. I certainly wouldn't want to live in Snow Crash or Neuromancer...
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by EamonnMR 3y ago
Blowing away the form on submission is the worst sin if form design. Only blow it away if it was accepted! I wonder if this is a deliberate (legal) submission reduction technique.
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by EamonnMR 3y ago
It lets you quickly tab back and forth between different containers and keeps everything on one screen. You could accomplish the same thing by fiddling in tmux, but this has it all ready to go in one command.
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by EamonnMR 3y ago
Compared to what we had before, react is pretty nice.
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by EamonnMR 3y ago
Lazydocker is really nice, used this a lot.
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by EamonnMR 3y ago
Our librarian used this site in a class about media literacy, with the lesson being that you can't believe everything you read on the internet. I guess it was a good lesson because I still remember it.
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by EamonnMR 3y ago
The layout on this linked site: https://vasilis.nl/nerd/how-to-disagree-with-googles-privacy... Is incredible.
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by EamonnMR 3y ago
I wonder if the 'true nature of the universe' refers to the simulation hypothesis? There's a belief in some circles that a sufficiently powerful AGI would be able to 'hack the simulation.'
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by EamonnMR 3y ago
The indie developer from two weeks ago[1] needed to hear this. 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36505035
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by EamonnMR 3y ago
There's a part that tries to recreate it: https://www.retrokits.de/index.php/hdd-clicker-hdd-sound-sim...
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by EamonnMR 3y ago
It's probably going to be /home/you/project/venv/bin/python
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by EamonnMR 3y ago
I was unaware of the literature on different misfolds able to replicate their own specific misfolds.
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by EamonnMR 3y ago
> Most people aren't particularly good drivers. Indeed the vast majority of lethal accidents (the statistics are quite brutal for this) are caused by people driving poorly and could be close to 100% preventable with a properly engin
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by EamonnMR 3y ago
Are you sure they undergo evolution, and aren't just a self-spreading phenomenon like Fire?
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by EamonnMR 3y ago
TIME must have gotten a lot of clicks off of their Yudkowsky op ed. As always the answer isn't 'cool, let's regulate AI to limit its profitability, thus limiting AI development' but rather 'we should keep throwing m
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by EamonnMR 3y ago
Outside of a few niche genres, the expectations have scaled faster than the tech has, compensated by scaling up team sizes.
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by EamonnMR 3y ago
I made and later closed a tiny sub before this whole kerfuffle. I haven't received any flack from Reddit yet.
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by EamonnMR 3y ago
I wonder if the NTSB will do a report on this.

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