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by alyandon 4y ago
the web pillow-smothered decent desktop UIs Application development has gone backwards so much compared to the RAD tooling from the 90s. I really can't even properly describe it to the younger generation. :(
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by alyandon 4y ago
That is extremely disappointing to see as I'm in the market for a new printer and I guess Brother is no longer in consideration. :(
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by alyandon 4y ago
Same here - for $VERY_LARGE_COMPANY.
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by alyandon 4y ago
I am not going to pretend to be a process engineer (I am chemical engineer by education) but I can't imagine any other way to do it than as you described. Would really love for someone more knowledgeable to chime in though.
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by alyandon 4y ago
Magic (at least as far as I'm concerned). I would love to see an updated version of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGFhc8R_uO4
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by alyandon 4y ago
I spent time in Goonfleet many years ago and generally did stuff like protect mining fleets. The actual work involved in maintaining access to null-sec space, running stations, etc and being part of a large in-game organization required an
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by alyandon 4y ago
I am a chemical engineer by education and I am also part of this problem. It did not take me very long at all to figure out where the actual money is and transition to full time software development.
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by alyandon 4y ago
By team they actually mean automation - at least the AI was kind enough to verify that the AI agrees with itself.
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by alyandon 4y ago
You aren't joking about them being unafraid of people. I was sitting out on my back deck one evening here in $RELATIVELY_BIG_CITY and had two adolescent racoons approach me and start engaging in playful behavior. One of them even ran
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by alyandon 4y ago
I eventually had to switch off Thunderbird as well for similar reasons and just live with mutt. TB just really didn't perform well at all on large mailboxes (dozens of folders, thousands of messages per folder) without freezing the UI
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by alyandon 4y ago
Not at all rose colored, I merely... avoided surfing sites that did that?
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by alyandon 4y ago
Sounds like they are using cgroups to enforce memory limits then? I seem to recall that being a problem with containers getting killed as well because FS cache counts against their memory limit.
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by alyandon 4y ago
This rather humorous take is still as relevant today as it was in 2004 - https://lwn.net/Articles/104185/
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by alyandon 4y ago
Perhaps if web browsers in general returned to that crazy, old idea that ram is not an infinite resource and that I as a user should be able to set a reasonable limit on the maximum amount of ram a single web page or extension should be all
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by alyandon 4y ago
Amber alerts playing at full volume without any regard as to what the current output device actually is is exactly why I have them disabled on my phone now.
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by alyandon 4y ago
That seems like a pretty big miss for something that wants to replace distro level packaging. :-/
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by alyandon 4y ago
You can also start with minimal(-ish) Ubuntu Server and generally add the packages you want.
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by alyandon 4y ago
Is there any way to actually show the details of a remote flatpak package without installing it first? Something similar to apt show <package>?
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by alyandon 4y ago
Yeah, I was able to briefly get access to an account that was stuck in the infamous "thanks for proving you own the recovery email but we still can't determine you are the owner of this account" loop by contacting a friend at
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by alyandon 4y ago
Yeah, it's pretty obvious to me the author doesn't like Go and some of the arguments raised really aren't concerns in (my very limited part of) the real world. I've written a fair amount of Go and I am not bothered at al
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by alyandon 5y ago
There is no optimizer that is capable of getting the correct result 100% of the time. Even Oracle with decades of costly engineering behind it requires query tuning (either via explicit hints on the client side sql or via server side plan
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by alyandon 5y ago
That is really strange - I just searched for both on bing.com and got relevant results back. Search bubble?
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by alyandon 5y ago
Yeah, same here. I've used HE tunnels and DNS for close to a decade myself and have zero complaints about the free public service they provide.
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by alyandon 5y ago
Thank you for being part of creating a usable Linux desktop back in the day. Even though I long since migrated to Unity and KDE desktops I really appreciate the work.
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by alyandon 5y ago
It wasn't even actual ram pressure - there was ~500 GB of unused ram but something like 800 GB or so of negative cache dentries. So, it was over some threshold that the kernel decided it was time to start reclaiming all those entries a
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by alyandon 5y ago
So much fun it is to have multiple servers with 1.5 TB of ram slowly fill up with negative cache dentries to the point that the server kernel finally decides that memory pressure is a thing and purges the negative entries all at once - whic
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by alyandon 5y ago
"Americans deserve to feel safe when they’re traveling." It'd be better if the .gov was engaging in reasonable security practices that also includes mechanisms for citizens and legal residents to seek redress when the
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by alyandon 5y ago
I forced myself to use emacs for about 6 months coming from IDEs and vi(m) to get past the "this is unfamiliar" stage. At the end of the day, it was a very nice text editor with a development environment embedded in it and the abi
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by alyandon 5y ago
I do something similar with firehol lists and iptables/ipfw scripts and it cut my auth log spam down to almost nothing - single digit auth attempts per day per server now usually. My first pass of blocking .cn network space on its own
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by alyandon 5y ago
Indeed. Added sugar and high fructose corn syrup is in everything. I have to go out of my way to find a brand of bread that doesn't have added high fructose corn syrup. It's ridiculous.

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