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by antod 4y ago
Compression formats can be made to handle rsync, even if it isn't a thing out of the box - in my ignorance gzip is the only example I'm aware of. https://beeznest.wordpress.com/2005/02/03/rsyncable-g
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by antod 4y ago
Heh, coming from 8bit BASIC I remember how complicated it seemed setting some pixels in TurboPascal for DOS :)
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by antod 4y ago
No, a good number of Rails devs stayed around and it became more of a mature community, but the hype driven growth/mindshare was over. There is a certain loud percentage of webdevs driven by fashion, and that portion follow the latest
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by antod 4y ago
It had some use. I'm pretty sure IE used to support client side transformations when rendering XML that linked an XSLT file. I know one SaaS used to do that before they rearchitected their front end. But XSLT was not fun work with.
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by antod 4y ago
What a lot of people don't seem to realise is Ruby was eating Python pretty badly around 2005-2010 as Rails and Github exploded and other things like Vagrant, Puppet and Chef took over. Ruby had all the mindshare and hype over Python b
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by antod 4y ago
There is more capacity on the way, but planning/approving these things is slow. The beauty of wind power in NZ is that the more you have spread around in different places, the more more hydro lake capacity you can keep up your sleeve f
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by antod 4y ago
According to Bill and Ted, "heaviosity" is a most excellent word and the usage here is totally non heinous.
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by antod 4y ago
Same for me, I hate exercise for exercises sake. I always have to make it a side effect of something necessary or fun I'd rather be doing - commuting by bike, mountain biking, standup paddling or windsurfing etc.
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by antod 4y ago
Even if Arnie had killed anyone prior to the reveal, it would've still been consistent. He didn't have any orders not to do that until later, and the way he took them onboard it seemed clear that the orders were a change to his ta
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by antod 4y ago
I remember VRML going nowhere fast.
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by antod 4y ago
Sometimes I wonder whether Douglas Adams was the most prescient sci-fi writer when he came up with the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation. Year by year it seems to get closer, and I can't help feeling recent AI developments will only accel
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by antod 4y ago
Yup, I remember the 80s. The moral majority types were the biggest supporters of censorship and threat to free speech. It was the young and the artists etc protesting for free speech.
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by antod 4y ago
Back in the day I had W2K Pro running (very slowly) on a 66MHz 486. XP was only 18 months or so behind that, and the system requirements probably weren't much different. Wouldn't wanted to have to use it for anything though.
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by antod 4y ago
My M1 pro is also way fiddlier and flakier with thunderbolt docks than my Linux thinkpad. Just monitor detection and enabling itself seems slower and buggier on a mac.
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by antod 4y ago
Or we imagine chatgpt running on a beowulf cluster to confirm that bsd is dead.
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by antod 4y ago
Doh, spending too long in Ruby lately - got some catching up to do.
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by antod 4y ago
> That snippet looks like Python/Lua/C with the for, case and close being used Not really Python like at all - apart from the one line with for. Python doesn't have a case or when statement, or syntax level regex, doesn&
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by antod 4y ago
That sounds more like a microframework vs a kitchen sink opinionated framework issue though than a language issue. eg Flask is a DIY collection of libraries with your own architecture vs say Rails or Django where you have 95% of those decis
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by antod 4y ago
I think McNamara's Fallacy is increasingly becoming standard management these days. It's a growing annoyance for me sadly.
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by antod 4y ago
No, CO2 was just the context of the discussion.
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by antod 4y ago
My first web search seems to disagree on those numbers: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1185535/transport-carbon... But if everyone just cherry picks a worse example than themselves to justify not doing anythi
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by antod 4y ago
You call out "Great logic" with an immense whopper of your own. Where did I say it was OK for billionaires to waste so much? Did calling them wasteful and hypocritical sound to you like I was supporting them? If we want to extend
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by antod 4y ago
> How can you tell me I'm the problem with my single truck and couple of commercial flights each year when you've got multiple Teslas and hundreds of private flights each year? Because there are hundreds of thousands (million
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by antod 4y ago
I have a long history of Python and it fits my brain well, but the last 7 or so years have been in Ruby shops. I still struggle with trying to write idiomatic Ruby sad to say. I do like `unless` in Ruby, but only when it is the one liner fo
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by antod 4y ago
Back then, grub and initrd didn't understand mdadm so would be set to boot off one of the boot vols as a raw disk. Once initrd handed over to the root vol, it would understand mdadm properly. If a disk with a boot vol failed, it would
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by antod 4y ago
> Sight Reliability Engineers Is that title inflation for optometrist?
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by antod 4y ago
The way I used to do it (back then getting grub/initrd raid aware wasn't really doable - not sure about now) with mdadm was to use RAID1 on the boot volume such that a disk from a broken mirror was still usable by itself. Other vo
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by antod 4y ago
> The entire system requirements of a windows 2k PC were 64M of ram, It was 128MB (and XP doubled that. Which was on of the reasons I abandoned Windows XP for Linux) I tried 2000 on a 486 with 64MB. It installed and ran fine without cr
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by antod 4y ago
I had a couple of those IBM 8MB drives - they were a lot larger (physical size) than anything since. I didn't even know USB storage was a thing until they included them in the box with some Thinkpads. Compared to floppies they were ama
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by antod 4y ago
> back when balmer jumped up and down in a presentation yelling "developers, developers, developers", they were still good (despite balmer's terrible leadership). My memory is probably faulty so corrections welcome, but

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