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by arkh 2y ago
What you describe is the state of most devops. Copy / download some random piece of code, monkey around to change some values for your architecture and up we go. It works! We don't know how, we won't be able to debug it when
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by arkh 2y ago
And it got lower before going back up. You could use the exact same argument with the Earth temperature: it was higher 50 millions year ago.
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by arkh 2y ago
> Teachers can't be expected to help 30+ children work through that. The big mystery is: how did teachers manage this miracle 50 or 80 years ago?
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by arkh 2y ago
It may be due to the hardware most constructors use and how they use it. If you're ready for 1h of info on some switch and how they're misused in mice enjoy this in-depth video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5Bh
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by arkh 2y ago
Or, let me be cheeky: you could add some `<php include('header.html')?>` in your html.
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by arkh 2y ago
> artsy frame Embedding a QR code or simply a barcode somewhere and you're done. Maybe hide it like a watermark so it does not show to the naked eye and doing some Fourier transform in the app won't require a network connection
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by arkh 2y ago
Time to main Qubes OS on your development machine. https://www.qubes-os.org/
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by arkh 2y ago
> My personal preference would be to have a single, on rails story, where the player don't truly have a choice. It's an interactive movie. I can't bother to play those kind of games. A movie will be able to deliver its sto
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by arkh 2y ago
But it suffers from being an adaptation of a Stephen King's book. King is really good at making you live through the eyes of his protagonists. Which is really hard to do in movies. Same thing with Shining were you follow Jack's fa
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by arkh 2y ago
The power of Kaiji is how the author via the main character thoughts go into the metagame of each game. The art style is "special" but the content of the anime and the manga (because you'll want more of it) are top notch.
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by arkh 2y ago
> whose internals are a true human centipede of bad practices and organic tendrils of doing things the wrong way Currently there. On one hand: lot of old code which looks horrible (the "just put comments there in case we need it lat
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by arkh 2y ago
In France, vote by mail was used between 1946 and 1975. It was stopped due to too much fraud (even if less than 2% of the population used it). Just the fact requiring a valid ID is a contentious idea in the US is baffling when seen from her
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by arkh 2y ago
> just google analytics or something like that wouldn't be that bad Google Analytics is the worse. Not on an individual website but by the fact it is almost everywhere. So Google has been getting everyone's web history since mo
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by arkh 2y ago
> Now about SSL/TLS, we programmers are often forced to do this because there are many users who, when faced with the absence of the padlock on the page, don't even bother to continue for fear of having their data stolen. I got
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by arkh 2y ago
My problem with Prolog is every time I want to start using it I feel like I'm populating a database then doing queries on it. So it feels like SQL with another syntax and less power. I'm sure I'm wrong and missing something b
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by arkh 2y ago
And on the other side you see a lot of single implementation interfaces; or 2 lines methods which call perfectly named methods 7 levels deep which could have been a 50 lines method easy to grok on a screen with zero scrolling. So things are
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by arkh 2y ago
> The interface can do exactly what it says on the tin. In theory. Do some code maintenance and you'll soon find that many things don't do what it says on the tin. Hence the need for debug and maintenance. And then going throug
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by arkh 2y ago
> code quality can be measured more objectively Well, that's a big assumption. Some people quality modular code is some other too much indirect code.
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by arkh 2y ago
> I imagine a large number of companies flout the above without realising. Most companies flout the 101 of GDPR. Do you have a registry of the personal data processes you do? Are you able to hand it in less than 48h after receiving a req
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by arkh 2y ago
> Don't you get the same problem with upgrades with Debian? I don't think you have to do some manual configuration to upgrade your distribution because it is a couple years old and current scripts don't support that (like
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by arkh 2y ago
> I'm curious how well docker on top of the Ubuntu vm works. Works well enough. Better than Docker on barebone MacOS if you have lot of file access in a volume. That's one of the thing which surprised me when I started using VM
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by arkh 2y ago
> I’ve found developers frowning up Ubuntu and preaching for folks to use NixOS, Arch, Debian or other distros. My setup is mostly one VM per project group / online identity. Most of them using Ubuntu. The problem is when I want to
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by arkh 2y ago
> I'm shocked so many companies use Discord for official purposes. Going back in time you can replace it with: Discourse, forums, website, IRC. New generations of devs / manager decide to use "the current tool" to con
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by arkh 2y ago
Do you write binary code or use a compiler? Do you design all the NAND gates in your processor to get the exact program you want out of it or use a general purpose processor? Current "coding" is just a detail of what you want to d
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by arkh 2y ago
> if it does I'll know right away and I can fall back to the old method of doing it manually It's well and ok with things you can botch with no consequence other than some time wasted. But I've bricked enough VMs trying co
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by arkh 2y ago
> Any time military language gets used And some military terms are never used. Reserve: the idle resource you have that you can deploy to stop a breach or to profit from an opportunity. Nope, we're using Human Resources like people
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People who setup an infrastructure which "just works" don't get promoted. You want to be extinguishing fires and be seen doing it. To be the hero who worked their ass off all week-end to save the company. That's how you
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by arkh 2y ago
> code freeze But they're saying they're doing "CI/CD". Why they do code freezes? Why are people still afraid to deploy on Friday? Because they're not doing Continuous Delivery.
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by arkh 2y ago
Ok, let's restrict the technology. What's the end goal? Because 1 billion years from now, even if humanity is back to before the wheel technology plants will have disappeared and the oceans evaporated due to the sun. If we want Ea
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> Philippe de Ryck Almost certain it is one of those presentations which got me on the BFF bandwagon. Really awesome speaker.

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