Shish2k

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by Shish2k 4y ago
Why rely on electronics at all when you can just send smoke signals? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by Shish2k 4y ago
If shops don’t like shoplifters, they should stop putting products on shelves where anybody can just take them and walk out - it’s dumb to get the police involved to keep sustaining this obviously-flawed business model.
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by Shish2k 4y ago
> An AWS large server is around $500/year For the use-cases I was involved in (image gallery hosting, 2-3Gbps traffic), costs looked like: AWS: $400/mo for app servers, $40,000/mo for CDN bandwidth Bare metal: $400/mo
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by Shish2k 4y ago
> Considering how easy it is to implement these things without anyone noticing since it's closed source I see you’ve never heard of Jane Manchun Wong...
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by Shish2k 4y ago
Same at FB - vscode with ssh backend is the recommendation, ssh+vim works perfectly fine; last time I checked X forwarding did work, but even with a multi-gigabit connection and 20ms latency it was too painful so nobody did that...
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by Shish2k 4y ago
I’m hoping for this too - for me I like self-hosting, and I also like throwing money at companies who produce good products. If there was like a $20-per-device tailscale-pro app which was identical except for allowing a custom server, I’d b
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by Shish2k 4y ago
> Objective-S script is actually not code golf, although it may appear as such … this is not the compliment that you think it is
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by Shish2k 4y ago
It is specifically both: - trying to access an arbitrary element in a slice, the compiler will emit bounds checks (`if index > len: panic()`) to avoid an uncontrolled out-of-bounds memory access — https://godbolt.org/z&#x
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by Shish2k 4y ago
> I will forget what a project is. I sometimes completely forget what a project is, but I nearly _always_ forget how to build / run / test / deploy it… Now I make sure that simple copy-pastable one-liners for those four st
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by Shish2k 4y ago
The industrial revolution was supposed to completely negate #3, and look where that got us...
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by Shish2k 4y ago
Thank you for this, I wish every oft-repeated discussion on HN had such a great summary :)
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by Shish2k 4y ago
How does that compare to today’s data though, given larger numbers of higher-bitrate higher-resolution videos? Perhaps during the first year of youtube’s existence people uploaded an exabyte of video… but if people today are uploading one e
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by Shish2k 4y ago
If you define “optimal outcome” as “people who don’t like having their benefits revoked quit”, yes. But I think a lot of people would define “optimal outcome” as “people who don’t like having their benefits revoked don’t get them revoked”.
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by Shish2k 4y ago
Does PHP have a debugger which doesn’t totally cripple performance just by being installed yet?
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by Shish2k 4y ago
> as far as I know, that is the only portion of tailscale that tailscale keeps proprietary Also the iOS client, which is hard-coded to only use the first-party control plane, so you can’t use headscale if you have iOS clients :(
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by Shish2k 4y ago
> VS Code has a feature like this but I hadn't used it much before switching to Zed full-time. Please check it out — being able to edit / run / debug code on a linux server using a mac desktop over ssh, and having the whol
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by Shish2k 4y ago
Most people are happy paying moderate prices for 99.9% reliability. Very few people are willing to pay extreme prices for 99.99999% reliability.
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by Shish2k 4y ago
“Trust a democratically elected government to act in the interests of its citizens” isn’t ideal, but I’m not sure “trust a combination of tech-bros and anarchy” is an improvement? I’m working in a legal-but-taboo industry, where mastercard
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by Shish2k 4y ago
My setup does all of those things — HTTP->HTTPS redirect and Let’s Encrypt are handled in the global static config: https://gist.github.com/shish/f346a3102f5d690be2f64f6d1eb7d7... And then only the per-container set
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by Shish2k 4y ago
> I sort of envisioned a system that could read out running container names and create "$name.$domain" proxy entries automatically. Traefik does this :) That’s what I’m using for my personal server - one traefik instance, a wil
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by Shish2k 4y ago
That hasn’t stopped anybody so far - what makes you think it’ll stop people in the future?
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by Shish2k 4y ago
The instance of the software was started from scratch; the communities (which are the hard part) were largely cut & pasted
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by Shish2k 4y ago
The thing that I’m most looking forward to: the ability to have multiple drives of different sizes, and expand the array with new oddly-sized drives (great for a homelab NAS built of spare parts; btrfs can do this, but zfs can't), comb
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by Shish2k 4y ago
> Web3 should feel no different to the end user than web2, except for the fact they "sign in" via their wallet Ok but we’ve had this technology for decades and nobody cares. Why is doing this via the blockchain suddenly going t
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by Shish2k 4y ago
> It’s unnatural to ignore nonverbal communication In my experience, most people do pay a lot of attention to nonverbal communication… and they're really awful at interpreting it. Basically taking any vague body motion as evidence
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by Shish2k 4y ago
This is what happens with a first-past-the-post voting system — you agree to band together behind your side’s resident extremist, or you lose :/
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by Shish2k 4y ago
It’s really hard to have a meaningful discussion if we’re warping the definitions of words so much that “keylogger” now means something other than “a thing that logs keys” :(
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by Shish2k 4y ago
Funnily enough I have ~40 smart devices in my home, around 30 IKEA and 10 Aqara, controlled by Home Asssistant on a raspberry pi with a ZZH USB stick — aside from some initial fiddliness where the aquaria devices would pick a random peer to
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by Shish2k 4y ago
Imagine if we’d had the opportunity to complain about PHP or JS back in their early days, and had the opportunity to fix some of their awful decisions _before_ they became practically set in stone?
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by Shish2k 4y ago
Much like IRC, I expect the old-timers to keep insisting that this ancient un-extendable mess is “good enough” (Who cares about mobile phones? They’re just a fad, nobody really uses them) - until something like Discord comes along to show w

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