FunnyLookinHat

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by FunnyLookinHat 5y ago
Interesting! What were the features or differences that changed your mind after switching?
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by FunnyLookinHat 5y ago
My toddler is currently dragging the original version of this toy back and forth across our house. I think I'll stick with that one.
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by FunnyLookinHat 5y ago
I'm in the market for a new splitting axe - thanks for the recommendation!
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by FunnyLookinHat 5y ago
I think calling this spyware is a pretty far stretch. We're talking about SAAS platforms that want to record events based on user behavior for a myriad of purposes; these are platforms that you are choosing to use, not tracking pixels
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by FunnyLookinHat 5y ago
I kept trying lightweight DEs like this over and over again (XFCE, LXDE, MATE, etc.) - I wanted them to work because I'd rather not give the desktop any more CPU resources than necessary. Time and time again there were a handful of th
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by FunnyLookinHat 5y ago
That's not too many requests, but running any form of a home network would still benefit moderately from a local DNS server. You could even install something like dnsmasq on the most heavy-using boxes to cache lookups locally. Granted
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by FunnyLookinHat 5y ago
I built one of these with my dad (the version with only a single skirt) in the sixth grade - it was awesome! Unfortunately, the skirt we created wasn't quite even around and couldn't hold enough pressure for me to ride it, but th
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by FunnyLookinHat 5y ago
I thought it was accurate - k-cal are usually represented as Calories (capital C) as opposed to the individual unit of measure: calories. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calorie
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by FunnyLookinHat 5y ago
At the time we picked CloudFlare, Fly.io wasn't really on ours or anyone else's radar yet. I've been meaning to experiment with Fly.io and Fastly - thanks for the reminder!
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by FunnyLookinHat 5y ago
> So while AWS has 17 ways to run containers and 7 ways to do async message processing, all overlapping and reinforcing and supporting each other, Cloudflare will tend toward introducing singular primitives, stuff them in a box, and try
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by FunnyLookinHat 5y ago
> It's one thing to buy into something that does have wide portability like a postgres but much harder to buy into the platforms that aren't open source. I tend to feel the same as you - preferring portable solutions that I can
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by FunnyLookinHat 5y ago
Anecdotal evidence, I know... But there were several things that just didn't work right for me on vanilla Ubuntu that Pop made right when I switched 3 years ago. Mostly graphics related in my case. I think it's important to remem
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by FunnyLookinHat 5y ago
I've been wondering why we don't all have squid proxies setup for NPM or other centralized dependencies. When I run npm install, I'm hitting the local cache 99% of the time, so I'd imagine that it's a perfect use c
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by FunnyLookinHat 5y ago
Oh that's awesome! I still have my TI-89 - maybe I should find some weekend time to do some projects on it... that sounds like a fun one!
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by FunnyLookinHat 5y ago
So many fond memories hardware hacking my TI-85. I remember learning to solder so I could add an extra battery pack with 4 D batteries (played too many games!) and writing apps to play music out of the jack. Hacking on my TI-85 and wanting
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by FunnyLookinHat 5y ago
> The US can barely afford to school its children Ironically, I was just listening to this today: "Why Does the Richest Country in the World Have So Many Poor Kids? (Ep. 475) " [1] There really isn't any excuse - it's
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by FunnyLookinHat 5y ago
Add to that the added benefit of "as long as I make my payments, this place is mine forever" - which is certainly not the case with renting. There's a whole slew of intangibles that come with "owning" your home that
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by FunnyLookinHat 5y ago
I think Juju (and Charms) really shine more with bare-metal or VM management. We looked into trying to use this for multi-tenant deployment scenarios a while ago (when it was still quite popular in the Ubuntu ecosystem) and found it lackin
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Streamline: A super-efficient branching and CI strategy(medium.com)
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by FunnyLookinHat 5y ago
I've had similar experiences with git or other tools - not being able to help a junior dev because the GUI they're using is obfuscating whatever it is the underlying tool is trying to do. I think the irony is that we've got
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by FunnyLookinHat 5y ago
We got an alert in Jefferson county letting us know specifically that there was no Tsunami.
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by FunnyLookinHat 5y ago
That was certainly the perception I used to have, but this demo video changed my mind. :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn3KWM1kuAw
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by FunnyLookinHat 5y ago
What an awesome Summer of Code project! I wish opportunities had been around when I was learning to program. I remember constantly looking for open source projects to contribute to, but each had such a high bar for entry that there was no
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by FunnyLookinHat 5y ago
This seems to work really well in cases where you're just laying down boilerplate. A few cherry-picked comments seem to suggest that React components are an ideal use case - which makes sense, that's a lot of munging and syntax t
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by FunnyLookinHat 5y ago
Ironically, our last one was this past Friday. That was announced a few months ago along with the opening up of most US States and the soon-to-be-widely-available vaccines. I can't speak for everyone where I work, but this felt like an
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by FunnyLookinHat 5y ago
This is excellent. My workplace (Moz) has been giving us the third Friday of every month off since April of 2020 due to COVID. The CEO called them "Breather Days" - a day to catch our breath, catch up on chores or home life, help
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by FunnyLookinHat 5y ago
Yeah no disagreement there. I had totally forgotten about the JS POC - ugh! The JavaScript argument is interesting to me in that it's already flawed. I suppose I'd rather focus on the security issues with browsers running code o
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by FunnyLookinHat 5y ago
Should we have a debate as to whether or not Spectre mitigations matter for some (or all) desktop computers? I know that, theoretically, I could install a piece of software on my Linux box that is malware and could try to read my memory vi
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by FunnyLookinHat 5y ago
I've been looking for some new tech podcasts - thanks for sharing. I've also been enjoying On The Metal - which is put out by the people who started Oxide Computer. https://oxide.computer/podcasts
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by FunnyLookinHat 5y ago
System76 released one recently - https://github.com/system76/recognizer You're right though - we have a home rolled one where I work that is very robust and could easily be generalized, but it's also fairly s

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