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by alisonatwork 1y ago
Last time I looked into this I found this unresolved issue, which is pretty much the same thing: https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/7004 We run on-prem k8s and do the pip install stage in a 2CPU/4GB
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
I recently did the same at work, just converted all our pip stuff to use uv pip but otherwise no changes to the venv/requirements.txt workflow and everything just got much faster - it's a no-brainer. But the increased resource usa
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
This dilemma might exist if Ecosia was thoroughly censored and corrupted to the point it was completely unfit for purpose, but it isn't, so for now it seems more like a hypothetical concern than a real one. What is a real concern, howe
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
I remember back in the 90s there was somewhat of a backlash against the 303, which presumably was part of what Norman Cook was getting at with the name of the song mentioned on the top of this thread. Ironically - or perhaps deliberately -
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
Unfortunately it really is a niche thing that only appears to speak to certain people. As someone who feels like the sound of the 303 touches me deep in my soul, it's constantly disappointing to be reminded that other people don't
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
The first UNIX account I ever got was on a BSD, and the first thing I saw in the first file I learned how to open was: # A righteous umask umask 22 I'll never forget those lines because they seemed so mysterious and cool. And
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
I agree that it's neat to have software synths that can run in the browser nowadays, but this isn't really a good TB-303 emulation. The accent doesn't have a slow enough attack to create the "wow" effect, which is a
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
This is a weird quirk of history. I feel like open source, and especially free software, was at least left-adjacent when I was coming up in the 90s. The bad guys were the megacorps. Open source was the counter-culture. I guess it changed ar
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
My mother worked in academia on the teaching and administrative side and said it was pretty much the same there too. In her experience even at public universities, it was all about the money. In order for the department or faculty to justif
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
It's not just a way for landing a job either. It's also a ticket for white collar immigration on "specialist" visas that have a much shorter waiting list, higher quota or better perks than regular work-based visas. I was
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
I understand what you are trying to say, but I also feel like these kinds of statements don't really add to the discussion. In fact, they distract from it. If someone says "government A has a bad policy on issue X" and then t
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
I was surprised when it happened to me too, but it seems to be an anti-feature that has been rolling out for some time now[0]. The ability to use a password has vanished completely. The thing that makes it particularly egregious is that Boo
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
When I lived in China a common way of "logging in" was to enter an OTP sent to your phone via SMS. By the time I left a few years back it seemed increasingly that signup and login flows were on the way out in favor of simply using
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
This recently happened to me on Booking.com and... I ended up not using Booking.com to book a hotel. So long, genius status, or whatever. It absolutely drives me nuts that the western world is moving to "as seen in China" login-vi
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
I'm mostly backend but have been fullstack in a few positions and remember expending a bunch of political capital advocating for moving to React when it first came out because it seemed to solve a lot of problems we were having with pr
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
I'm not sure what the parent poster is getting at about information on Chinese business, politics and culture being hard to find because that stuff is widely written about in the global media, and there are plenty of English language s
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
This latter piece is something I am struggling with. I have spent 10+ years working on teams that are primarily composed of people whose first language is not English in workplaces where English is the mandated business language. Ever since
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
You can kind of extrapolate this meta layer if you switch languages on the same topic, because different languages tend to encode different cultural viewpoints and emphasize different things. Also languages that are less frequently updated
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
FreeTube and PipePipe largely solve this problem for me. I just subscribe to people I am interested in and watch their videos. If they link or recommend another creator I have a quick browse and subscribe there too, or not. When I get bored
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
It's not worth getting upset about. I am sure there are leftists who read HN, but the popular tone of the political commentary here tends to slant pro-capitalism, libertarian, anti-woke, meritocracy, dark enlightenment etc. It makes se
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
Every country has the talent, software development isn't some esoteric knowledge. But even if you imagine that only people in developed countries are capable of writing software, there is Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Taiwan for s
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
Now imagine you live in one of the other 190 countries of the world who do not or no longer have significant players in the industry because they were crushed by those five foreign companies. It's not competition when the wealth and po
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
Basically, this. I already spend all the energy I have available for socializing just going to work five days a week. The idea of people socializing outside of work for the sake of work is supremely depressing to me. It's like, so now
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
To me the core purpose of code review is clear - knowledge sharing. If the only person who knows about a particular change is the person who wrote it, then you have a critical point of failure. If there is an issue in a subsystem whose owne
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
In theory this makes sense, but in practice now that LLMs are writing the PR summaries we just have even more slop to wade through to figure out exactly what the change is trying to achieve. I think the slide in this direction already start
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
I had this experience even before LLMs, in particular when working with developers who came up in a non-western educational environment. There was a mindset that the only thing that matters is making the boss happy, and in a code review con
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
Not really, because the security of letters is guaranteed by the state. The security of Discord is guaranteed by some private citizens based in the US. At least on paper the state exists for the benefit of the people. Discord exists for the
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
This is basically what Microsoft wants to do with Recall and they got slammed for it. Which drives me nuts because it's the only feature from the recent AI hype wave that excites me because it's the only thing so far that sounds l
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
On podman this is built in as native command podman-image-scp[0], which perhaps could be more efficient with SSH compression. [0] https://docs.podman.io/en/stable/markdown/podman-image-scp.1...
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by alisonatwork 1y ago
This is a cool idea that seems like it would integrate well with systems already using push deploy tooling like Ansible. It also seems like it would work as a good hotfix deployment mechanism at companies where the Docker registry doesn&#x2

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