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by aequitas 4y ago
Exactly what the cloud is best used for imho. You can focus on your core problems and still shift to a different solution later on when that becomes more effective cost wise. But still, when I first started in AWS we had lift and shift&#x27
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The Lambda functions will just be running your business logic code. Only specific part Lambda provides is the glue. Which is easy to replace with any other cloud or self hosted alternative.
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This is one of those cases where the solution seems difficult, but the difficulty is in the problem itself, not the solution. The source of the conflicts is the fact that you work with multiple people, in a distributed way on the same codeb
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by aequitas 4y ago
You can, for circleci for example: https://registry.terraform.io/providers/mrolla/circleci/late...
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by aequitas 4y ago
> so we're asking teams to spend potentially hours or days fixing things At the risk of sounding pedantic, but this is why you have everything as IaC. These kind of changes should not cost days. It should take merely minutes or an h
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by aequitas 4y ago
Yes, HAR2009.
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by aequitas 4y ago
I remember them standing at a hacker event where you would get a free “tosti” (ham and cheese sandwich) with every (also free) registered .tk domain. They had a booth to register domains on the spot. Edit: actually it was the other way arou
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by aequitas 4y ago
> and gets it's always-on processes reused by the browser when you launch it Which is a moot point on macOS, since you hardly ever close the browser application. You just close the windows and the application stays activated in the
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by aequitas 4y ago
Keychain is a big one for me. In the past, Chrome used to support Keychain for their passwords, which meant I could sync all my secrets on any browser on any of my devices.
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by aequitas 4y ago
There is always the second hand market if you don’t want to pay full price. Which currently for digital games doesn’t exists, because everything needs te be bought through first party stores and is DRMed.
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by aequitas 4y ago
That’s funny. Because when the iPhone launched Apple offered just that: their own native apps and the rest had to contend with web based apps and a api to access phone specific features and UI elements. Only much later they announced the A
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by aequitas 4y ago
Blender’s API is the entire reason I started venturing into the Python ecosystem. Found out I was no good at designing 3D but a lot better at programming.
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by aequitas 4y ago
Also fingerprint readers and indoor rock climbing don't go well together. At a job I had I needed to have my fingerprint reprogrammed every week or so because enough had rubbed off during climbing that it was not similar enough.
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by aequitas 4y ago
When I was a kid I thought the Pascal language was a German programming language and Basic was English. This was because when I started with computers I got a book from my uncle about programming serial and parallel ports. The book was in D
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by aequitas 4y ago
A while back I taught my oldest how to turn the printer on (and get the paper coming out, so I don't have to walk and get it myself) and she also wanted to "learn" how to print, so I explained the 2 mouse clicks needed for th
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by aequitas 4y ago
You don't even need the bottle, just make sure the water is in the correct phase: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thbSSuo1Z00
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by aequitas 4y ago
This resonates very much with the Connections[0] series by James Burke. It's an old series, but well worth the watch. Back then it already discussed what would happen if the grid would collapse, and how everything is interconnected. No
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by aequitas 4y ago
Back when macOS was still called Mac OS X, (a subset of) PDF was the internal rendering format for Quartz rendering engine[0]. Their tech demo's also boasted about the ability to trivially edit PDF's. I don't know if any of t
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by aequitas 4y ago
> The F-keys are still widely used people and make sense to be their own key. This depends on your platform. On macOS, almost all keyboard shortcuts are centred around the cmd/apple key next to the spacebar (where alt would be on a
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by aequitas 4y ago
They do. Reminds me of a previous job long ago where a datacenter tech was checking where a network cable went by tugging on it, resulting in a network switch blade being yanked out of a chassis, bringing down half of the production environ
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by aequitas 4y ago
> There's an obscure option to GNU dd to get it to display a progress meter as well. But why bother memorizing that? If you learn the pv trick once, you can use it with any program. On macOS and BSD’s it’s as easy as pressing ctrl-t
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by aequitas 4y ago
> I really hope that someone remakes a modern version of Connections. The premise of the show is still very actual, even more so with current technologies.
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Yes, but "The Copy Data Bay" just doesn't have the same ring to it.
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by aequitas 4y ago
This problem is already leaking into the world of physical consoles. Afaik the only (legal) way to backup your savegame data on a Nintendo Switch is to transfer it directly to another Switch (and deleting it from the first) or get an online
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by aequitas 4y ago
I don't remember exactly, but I believe this was promised in some sense when I decided to get on board a year or 2 ago. At the time you got a free Chromecast + Controller when buying Cyberpunk which was also a pretty good deal to pass
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by aequitas 4y ago
You can always license out your software to those people under a special license for them. Which might include a fee or any other conditions. Just that your software has one open source license doesn’t mean you can’t distribute it with othe
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by aequitas 4y ago
I have a Sony android tv and with almost every setting (eg. brightness, motion blurr processing, etc) I change I get a warning it might “increase power consumption”. So it might just be it is testen under the bare minimum functionality. But
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Metal touching the ground does not guarantee a proper earth. The resistance might be to high to function properly under all circumstances a ground is needed.
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In my country (NL) it is advised against that (though it used to be common practice), since a bit of water pipe running from your house might have been replaced with a plastic one and the metal bit still sticking out into your house might n
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> That said, the "cars make noise go vroom" argument hasn't really worked for decades now. Tires often make more noise than car engines nowadays. I live along a busy street and often I can't audibly distinct a Tesla f

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