Twirrim

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by Twirrim 2y ago
Optical media is neat, but has a number of drawbacks when it comes to large scale operations. What you're talking about already sort of exists, albeit media hadn't reached "cheap" yet, because the manufacturing scale was
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by Twirrim 2y ago
"Stop'n'grow" is a famous example product. Doesn't work for me, I'm apparently that determined to chew them, and clearly not bothered to the point of actually breaking that habit! I think part of the problem
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by Twirrim 2y ago
My likely overly cynical concern here is that this suggests trie-hard will soon end up abandoned, as you're making it sound like it is a stop-gap solution for you.
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by Twirrim 2y ago
"Don't sweat it" is the most important thing, I've found, especially with tinnitus. As with a number of things, I've found I can actually move the needle when I give myself grace to fail, as long as I can genuinely
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by Twirrim 2y ago
> The biggest problem with them, by far, is how do you collect this mile information? In the UK every car is required to have an MOT done, which is an annual, comprehensive, safety check of the vehicle. The results are recorded with the
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by Twirrim 2y ago
Why would you expect patterns to appear?
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by Twirrim 2y ago
It's not working for me on Chrome under Linux, nor on Android, for what it's worth (though Firefox is what I use for practically all my browsing needs). Something really odd with their detection logic.
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by Twirrim 2y ago
>AFAIK there is no other distro that does this, what they do is that they would download crates from crates.io (`cargo vendor` is a command that does this automatically) and build against that. Note your examples are all bleeding edge &#
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by Twirrim 2y ago
Suggestion for the blog. After "I adore Nerves", put a comma and a brief description of what Nerves is.
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by Twirrim 2y ago
Ahh yes, that's right. I can live here and get to have no opinion of any value whatsoever on what surrounds me. It's hilarious in a kind of tragic way, how Americans continually tell me things are impossible or can't possib
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by Twirrim 2y ago
>All effective unions are mandatory. That's a very US centric view. Unions are ample powerful in other countries without requiring mandatory membership. Previous places I've worked in Europe it's not unusual to have mult
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Microsoft Copilot falsely accuses court reporter of crimes he covered(osnews.com)
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by Twirrim 2y ago
Nothing new, I've found myself diving in to Project Euler again. https://projecteuler.net/ The set of puzzles is really tickling my fancy at the moment, for some reason.
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by Twirrim 2y ago
My favourite thing to do for "coding" interviews is to give the candidate a piece of absolutely awful python code that a friend of mine came up with for use for interviews. There are code smells, side effects, errors, confusing sy
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by Twirrim 2y ago
I'm an expat Brit, been living in the States for a decade and a half. I've been through the NHS for various more significant health things, and had family that have opted for private. I don't think you grasp just how expensiv
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by Twirrim 2y ago
Yes, just like you also do with Airbus too, and any other plane manufacturers. You already factor in risk every time you set foot in a car, too, and a car is a far more dangerous vehicle. Danger from crashing is an inherent danger in trav
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by Twirrim 2y ago
Double checked mine, same. How bizarre. Desktop doesn't have it by default but mobile does.
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by Twirrim 2y ago
You can change between ones that you have a search tools extension for, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/extensions/category... , but you can't just put your own custom search engine in. That said
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by Twirrim 2y ago
There is no such thing as a root cause of the failure. There's over 40 years of academic research on the subject providing evidence, but still, here we are. Trying to reduce an incident into a single cause.
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by Twirrim 2y ago
Disappointing to see feedly in the misbehaving bucket. It's an online service, you'd have expected to get this right
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by Twirrim 2y ago
That's what my suggestion came down to. A two column table with company id and category id. They had ids already. They could index off category and get the results in split seconds
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by Twirrim 2y ago
Back about 15 years ago, I worked for a web hosting company that provided some sysadmin consultation services. Customer paid us, and I would take a look. I had one customer who came back with the same request, slightly differently worded,
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by Twirrim 2y ago
The speed impact is one reason I've never liked oh-my-zsh and similar for other shells. It's also why I love starship https://starship.rs/ . Lots of plug-ins to customise what I want at the prompt, and all of it na
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by Twirrim 2y ago
This is the inherent problem with Amazon's support of 3rd party vendors through their platform, and the general lack of quality controls. I increasingly use specific companies for purchases, because I can't guarantee that what I o
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by Twirrim 2y ago
I ran in to all sorts of problems with Google Maps and Waze navigating me in the UK. Google Maps cannot understand that just because a road's speed limit is theoretically 60 mph, doesn't mean it's ever possible to travel at t
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by Twirrim 2y ago
But.. But.. But.... This is HN. You must use AI / LLMs for everything! /s
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by Twirrim 2y ago
We've tried at shorter time periods, back in the earlier days of our platform. Unfortunately what we've found is that the few times we've tried to lower it from 15 minutes, we've ended up with Windows users experiencing
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by Twirrim 2y ago
It's probably been raised before, but the CrowdStrike terms of use ( https://www.crowdstrike.com/software-terms-of-use/ ), section 6.1, have the usual blurb on them (emphasis mine): > Neither the software or any
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by Twirrim 2y ago
> Most of our nodes are boot looping with blue screens which in the cloud is not something you can just hit F8 and remove the driver. It took a bit to figure out with some customers, but we provide optional VNC access to instances at OCI
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by Twirrim 2y ago
> apparently GCP cannot reliably “stop” a VM in a timely manner. In OCI we made a decision years ago that after 15 minutes from sending an ACPI shutdown signal, the instance should be hard powered off. We do the same for VM or BM. If y

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