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by aarmenaa 6y ago
systemd-timesyncd is an SNTP client; that's what an SNTP client does. For a lot of use cases, desktops and even most servers, it's perfectly fine and a whole lot less complex. I understand it's not a good fit in some cases;
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by aarmenaa 6y ago
> Maybe the most painful thing is package management. Is Composer inadequate? Or maybe just not widely adopted by the community? I only used it for a short period of time several years ago.
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by aarmenaa 6y ago
> updates can be made on any DNS server (e.g., "multi-master") This cannot be overstated. I'm currently in the process of trying to rehabilitate an existing DNS infrastructure based on BIND, and it is a complete disaster.
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by aarmenaa 6y ago
Datadog has shit the bed for us multiple times in the last six months. Unannounced breaking API changes, unaddressed bugs, and now their embedded cert expired. Our org is currently divided over further commitment to the service, or leaving
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by aarmenaa 6y ago
I've noticed that two-finger scrolling, which should be one of the easiest things to get right, is wrong on basically anything that's not MacOS. Windows and Linux arbitrarily insist on 3-line scrolling in a lot of apps. Even whe
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by aarmenaa 6y ago
It's not like I did any market research, but I recall people liking the Windows 8 interface on phones and tablets. My personal impression from playing with Windows phones in stores was very good. Opinions were (predictably, IMO) less
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by aarmenaa 7y ago
> Scroll snap is a useful feature. The way you can tell that it's useful is because a ton of sites are already doing it, but in a manual, hacky way with JavaScript. This works better and uses less code and CPU. A win all round. Usef
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by aarmenaa 8y ago
Google has you covered on the smugness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rykmwn0SMWU&t=42s They specifically called out Apple for losing the jack, and a year later the Pixel 2 didn't have one either.
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by aarmenaa 8y ago
As I recall, the perpetual fallback thing was added to appease their customer base, who were enraged when IntelliJ announced that they were moving to a subscription model. The term "rent-seeking" was thrown around quite a bit the
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by aarmenaa 9y ago
I hadn't realized that they didn't sell them with just the integrated GPU anymore. Combined with the reduced battery, that seems like a poor decision. As far as I'm aware, you've never been able to fully disable the dGP
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by aarmenaa 9y ago
- Escape button is on the touchbar - Touchbar at all - Battery reduced from 99 whr to 76 whr - Lost magnetic charging port - Lost every other useful port - Keyboard generally considered worse I currently have a 15" mid-2015 MBP, and I
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by aarmenaa 9y ago
Brighthouse did it before they became Spectrum. They did allow me to turn it off though. I've heard that this is still the case with Spectrum, but I haven't tested.
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by aarmenaa 9y ago
I'm one of those who disliked pgAdmin3, at least on Mac. It crashed reliably if the database didn't disconnect cleanly and you tried to continue using the program. It crashed randomly when using SSH tunneling. It crashed random
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by aarmenaa 9y ago
I don't recall anybody ever having a kind word to say about them. As I recall the product used to be the cheapest Atheros chips the vendor could find plus a proprietary driver that was snake oil and bugs. Not better than a Realtek an
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by aarmenaa 9y ago
htop, at least in the version I'm using, only shows steal if it's non-zero.
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by aarmenaa 9y ago
The previous model of the Retina Macbook Pro 15" (the one without the touchbar) had a 99 watt hour battery, which is right at the limit for what they'll allow you to take on a plane. The new one with the touchbar is 76 watt hours
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by aarmenaa 10y ago
As far as I know they consider RAID0, 1, and 10 to be stable. Last time I used it rebuilds were substantially slower than ZFS or mdraid. Rebuild performance seems to one of a few issues that BTRFS has had trouble solving. RAID 5 and 6 we
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by aarmenaa 10y ago
I assume that if email was coming along today it would look more like internet telephony, which is built on things like e164 to encode addresses into DNS using A, SRV, and NAPTR as the record types.