Tsarbomb

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by Tsarbomb 6y ago
Can I ask what kind of apps and functionality you use on it. I have a BB Passport in my drawer and occasionally turn it on.
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by Tsarbomb 6y ago
For the same reason why Canada regulates a whole array of things you might find mundane. To ideally benefit society. For example, in Canada it is illegal to sell unenriched flour. Flour sold in Canada has to fortified with things like folic
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by Tsarbomb 6y ago
Egalitarian PC Revolution? What are you smoking? PCs were only available to the very wealthy and only the fortunate and privileged could hope to break into that industry. The entire space also quickly became a copyright and patent minefield
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by Tsarbomb 6y ago
I am surprised this wasn't available earlier, I guess I just took it for granted. The way Microsoft had reorganized itself has obviously made the whole corp much more agile but at the same time I feel like they've lost their verti
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by Tsarbomb 6y ago
You can run kafka on a single node no problem. Give this a try: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-inst...
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by Tsarbomb 6y ago
In my experience, the reason it is more work is because you end up with something much more well defined and robust. Each service having well scoped and defined RBAC or AuthZ for its focused set of features makes the whole architecture as a
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by Tsarbomb 6y ago
Because it too collects telemetry data.
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by Tsarbomb 6y ago
You do realize Java has maintained it's backwards compatibility making choosing your deployment runtime significantly easier.
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by Tsarbomb 6y ago
Good luck when you need to deploy to a system with a different version of libc.
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by Tsarbomb 6y ago
Except you need to make sure you built against the correct version of libc because you cannot statically link that. I remember when docker first came out and people were losing their minds about how they will be able to deploy their applica
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by Tsarbomb 6y ago
You are the first person in the thread to bring up the fact that they are Chinese.
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by Tsarbomb 6y ago
Didn't the UK last year rip into Huawei after reviewing the networking software, finding something like 18 different versions of OpenSSL inside of it with various vulnerabilities. At some point, continuing a trend of stupidity should b
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by Tsarbomb 6y ago
How can you say it was going to be a shadow of its original goals if was unable to scope creep.
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by Tsarbomb 6y ago
This is such a fantastically American point of view.
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by Tsarbomb 6y ago
The capabilities of Docker and similar technologies all stem from LXC which depends on the capabilities of the Linux kernel.
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by Tsarbomb 7y ago
Iteration is what originally gave the Soviets the advantage in the space race.
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by Tsarbomb 7y ago
Nothing wrong with preflight checks. What’s wrong is that a SPA will make 100 calls to a web server for data that isn’t even that complex. So much poor API design out there that most would be better off with server side rendering.
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by Tsarbomb 7y ago
The difference between X and Wayland is way more than needing window-manager integration. You are forgetting that keyboard and mouse inputs run through Xorg so the problem goes way deeper.
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by Tsarbomb 7y ago
Not with the Directors of those system administrators though. Nobody got fired for buying Intel is a thing. I had to fight to get our recent server purchases to be AMD.
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by Tsarbomb 7y ago
> And I'm saying "Eventually" is actually a month. I was the technical lead on a project where I warned the product owner that implementing a certain feature the way they wanted in AWS would have astronomical costs. I was
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by Tsarbomb 7y ago
> there's no reason to accept Google as the standard bearer This is pretty much it. Google is fundamentally an advertisement company and that scares me.
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by Tsarbomb 7y ago
I walked away from taking a job there after I had a "peer lunch" with the team I would be working and found out it was mostly vacant due to firings and departures for "performance reasons". Any place that can lay off a s
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by Tsarbomb 7y ago
I was a workshop at the google office in Toronto a while back, and people asked when Google sheets would be able to perform big data analysis. The presenter looked confused, and then the group asking the question clarified that their big da
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by Tsarbomb 7y ago
Her name is Xiaoning Sui, she had $400,000 in cash to wire around, the whole thing was setup through a translator, and her alleged primary residence is in Surrey, BC. Rest assured, this person is a mainlander washing money in Canada.
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by Tsarbomb 8y ago
Can someone explain to me what the big draw was for Hortonworks or Cloudera? Working as a lead in a small team that deals with a colossal amount of data (human genomics), it was always easier for us to hand roll deployments with terraform&#
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by Tsarbomb 8y ago
The performance of gcj would have to be equal or worse than the jvm almost by definition as it would lack the ability to do optimization at runtime in the way the HotSpot VM does.
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by Tsarbomb 8y ago
That discussion doesn't mention that when people commonly refer to Toronto from abroad they refer to the GTA which is a population 6,300,000 or the broader Golden Horseshoe urban area which can include the other tech hub (Waterloo) whi
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by Tsarbomb 8y ago
Startup time was definitely faster than Insomnia on my Linux laptop. Also no issues with scrolling either.
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by Tsarbomb 9y ago
The internal structure of an atom is vastly different from the impression that most science books give you with their illustrations to the point that the question of us being able to clearly seeing an atom is almost nonsensical/doesn&#
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by Tsarbomb 9y ago
It would be an incredible advantage. Salaries are already lower when compared with the other major North American tech centers. Add the exchange rate into the mix and Amazon's money will go a long way.

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