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by aequitas 6y ago
> you have such a tiny footprint compared to corporations that naturally value profit over the environment. They can only get those profits because they supply a demand in an economy of scale. Any law against a corporation will only refl
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by aequitas 6y ago
Problem is even though it looks familiar it feels anything but. I spent a considerable amount of time making my work Linux environment feel (I don't care mucht about the looks) like my Mac at home, Things like keyboard shortcuts, termi
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by aequitas 6y ago
But now you have to manage those VM's, the OS lifecycle, different distributions, application deployment, configuration and dependencies. And we're back at containers. Or you have to go towards lambda. For K8s you need to manage t
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by aequitas 6y ago
The difference is the deer and turkey don't get to read and accept the ToS. Autodesk seems clear about what you sign up for[0] (1 year, non-commercial licence). You're choice to accept the terms and risk not being able to use this
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by aequitas 6y ago
Agree, You can't expect a company like Autodesk to offer such a expensive tool for free forever. They seem to be preventing abuse with these changes, while still allowing hobbyists to continue to use it for small projects. And that&#x2
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by aequitas 6y ago
> Besides that, e.g. Steam is extremely convenient; installs are rapid and safe, saves are synced across different machines, mods are often well integrated with Steam Workshop, etc. For me Steam is a huge annoiance: every time I want to
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by aequitas 6y ago
Awesome. The only thing that drew me away from Apple Mail is the fact it didn't have build-in snooze functionality for emails like Gmail has. Does/will Mimestream support this too? To bad it has a macOS 10.15 requirement.
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by aequitas 6y ago
I think the IDE's are highly overrated. Some may provide good product specific documentation, autocomplete, flashing and debugging. But most of the times they are highly opinionated programs with their own quirks and annoyances you nee
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by aequitas 6y ago
Could it be this was the name inspiration for Mutt?
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by aequitas 6y ago
I clicked this link expecting to find obscure ways to start an Apple Xserve.
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by aequitas 6y ago
> This is particularly worrisome because for most people Google Play is the only way they understand to install apps at all. So this hurts discoverability and credability ("if it's not bad software, why isn't it allowed in
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by aequitas 6y ago
But they often just blow over whereas terrorists can keep a lingering presence.
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by aequitas 6y ago
> I definitely see a lot less of "TDD as religion", where all code is written in TDD In my experience it helps to drive a new technique or paradigm to it's extreme for a while (for example by employing it religiously in a
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by aequitas 6y ago
It would be much better if the application would take care of this on the first run (or a subsequent run if it is copied from a backup or other device). Restricting these things to only the installation phase makes App's less portable.
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by aequitas 6y ago
You don’t need admin to simply run software on macOS. And even then installed is (or should be) nothing more than extracting the app to a directory and running it. Installers are and anti pattern in macOS afaic.
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by aequitas 6y ago
There is also a big "runs-on-my-machine" factor. Where the machine is the developers high-tier laptop hooked up to Gigabit LAN and Fiber WAN with <5ms ping and >100Mbit symmetric. Luckely there are tools like Lighthouse[0] b
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by aequitas 6y ago
My old neighbour taught me a valuable lesson back when I was a teenager fixing his computer problems: you don't get paid for the time you spend on something, but for the time you save the other person. For me fixing his computer was ea
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by aequitas 6y ago
I finished setting up my Homelab Kubernetes setup this week. It's running two K3s[0] (a lightweight kubernetes) "clusters". One single node on a HP Microserver for media, storage, etc and one multi-node on Raspberry Pi's
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by aequitas 6y ago
Also the promoted speed for DSL is often the max speed you will be capped at, if your connection can attain that speed that is. Where I'm from most ISP's won't sell you a DSL less than 40-50Mbit. But my line only supports up
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by aequitas 6y ago
Aren't all imperial units standardized on metric values nowadays? So technically Americans are using metric, they just use a different notation?
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by aequitas 6y ago
For those who still remember Graphite, the team over at Grafana labs have started maintaining Graphite-web and Carbon since 2017 and it is still in active development getting improvements and feature updates. It might not scale as well as a
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by aequitas 6y ago
The friction of one wormgear is already enought to prevent rotation in the other direction. But with this many, impossible. I also doubt if any of the gears except for the first ones rotate at all before the first gears are worn through, le
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by aequitas 6y ago
This can also go suprisingly wrong when management decides code size is the performance metric needed to improve the site and hires a "performance engineer" who abolishes all structure and abstraction in the code, making it near-i
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by aequitas 6y ago
You could maybe compare it to putting the movie Schindler's List on a reading list. (Text)books can only take one a certain depth into understanding these parts of history. Visual media helps making the unimaginable imaginable. Interac
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by aequitas 6y ago
Though everyone keeps referring to me as cowboy, I love wearing my Australian Barmah hat. It keeps my head and glasses dry when I go for a walk in the rain. And in the summer it keeps me cool and prevents the sweat from running down into my
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by aequitas 6y ago
My pathway into software development was through electrical engineering and embedded systems. So I don't know if this applies to other ways into software development as well. But what really stood out to me in the beginning was how use
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by aequitas 6y ago
It will be partly to attract new (young) customers to their brand and also to reaffirm the brand image with existing customers. You see this a lot with car commercials. You won't buy a car after seeing the average car commercial. Most
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by aequitas 6y ago
> and I'm serving you ads about that one item you've searched on Amazon last week) As a side note, Amazon is not that big yet in the Netherlands so it would probably be something searched on Bol.com. The problem I'm having
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by aequitas 6y ago
I could imagine if you want to fetch external resources for first boot configuration on embedded or satellite installations. You need DNS for that, and NTP (or hardware time) for https to work. Nowadays even pre-OS processes (UEFI) use inte
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by aequitas 6y ago
Thanks for the feedback, it's noted: https://gitlab.com/internet-cleanup-foundation/web-security-...

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