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by athenot 4y ago
"What if?" is the one thing that brought me into computing as a hobby when I was a teen and has consistently been with me in my 2+ decades of work. Everyone has different motivators, but for me, this has been the single most power
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by athenot 4y ago
One way is to maintain 2 sets of files: a normalized one with no redundancies and just references, and another one with everything fully rendered and expanded. That second set is what you serve (bonus: it will be fully static); the first se
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by athenot 4y ago
It's only 6mm wider than A4, but 18mm shorter (about 3/4 inch) A4 210mm x 297mm Letter 216mm x 279mm
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by athenot 4y ago
This may have been meant in a tongue-and-cheek way but assuming that were true it would still be useful information: signifying that crash-prevention is where the focus should be. (Leaving out the discussion: effects to environment, seden
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by athenot 4y ago
Big fan of numi, somehow I like it better as a smaller window tucked on the corner of my screen than a full browser page.
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by athenot 4y ago
At least as lonely as WALL-E...
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by athenot 4y ago
That was a point I remembered from Apple's Human Interface guidelines. From the 1987 edition, on modal dialog boxes: Because it restricts the user's freedom of action, you should use this type of dialog box sparingly. In partic
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by athenot 4y ago
This has been my experience as well. What does seem to help is a blank sheet of paper on my fridge with the main things I have in it (meats, fishes, main perishables), and the various days I plan on fixing them. I generally enjoy cooking bu
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by athenot 4y ago
"...today"
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by athenot 4y ago
It was slow and ugly by today's standards but you could still do actual e-commerce well before the web was ready, like buy a train ticket without having to talk to a human.
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by athenot 4y ago
Not sure about literature but that was a known thing in the Ops circles I was in 10 years ago: never use the same brand for disk pairs, to minimize wear-and-tear related defects from arising at the same time.
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by athenot 4y ago
It's possible. I've been in a Fortune 100 company that did this. They explained the timeline too, with a deadline to accept a voluntary leave package, then a later date where those staying could be affected by layoffs. Being a lar
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by athenot 4y ago
My biggest issue with OKRs comes from those who practice what could be called "Aimless Key Results". Instead of thinking about an intuitive objective and then try to come up with some form of measurable Key Result that can help
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by athenot 4y ago
This only looks at one dimension: temperature. There are other dimensions to look at: - Humidity, or rather: Dew Point. 22ºC / 72F feels awesome or nasty depending on whether dewpoint is 10ºC or 21ºC. Anything above 16ºC is generally u
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by athenot 4y ago
The UPS person who delivered my full size punching bag was not super thrilled. 100 lbs and 150cm tall odd shape. I wish I was there when delivery happened as I was prepared to tip them for the inconvenience.
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by athenot 4y ago
For me the big ones have been: - Adobe - Equifax - Zappos (prior to their acquisition by Amazon) - Gizmo (defunct VoIP service aquired by Google) - Tumblr - Amazon (though that's likely via a seller)
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by athenot 5y ago
Usually a voting official standing nearby will ask that you pick from at least 2-3 piles.
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by athenot 5y ago
I really appreciate that a blog post about a language update starts with a simple sentence to describe what the language actually is. > Pharo is a pure object-oriented programming language and a powerful environment, focused on simplicit
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by athenot 5y ago
Five9 | Cloud Engineer | Melbourne, Victoria (WFH or Onsite) | Full-Time * THE POSITION * I am actively seeking a Cloud Engineer. You will act as a lead technical problem solver and decision-maker during critical incidents, and also work on
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by athenot 5y ago
I use a full size mac keyboard so I mapped the right-most function key (F19) to Mute/Unmute in Zoom. Global shortcut, regardless of what app is in the foreground and super convenient to locate by touch. Recently, I added the key right
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by athenot 5y ago
Cloud Hosting, in the Center Aisle of Lidl, next to the other random items for sale. In all fairness, this move makes sense to monetize any surplus they have in DC capacity. In terms of competition, their offering competes more with Equinix
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by athenot 5y ago
Same thought; I would love if there were a way to toggle between "latest commit message" and "first line of documentation for the file", depending on whether it's a familiar project or a new one I'm browsing.
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by athenot 5y ago
Maybe they meant: The scenario here is analogous to walking away from your computer at a coffee shop... with your computer unlocked and logged in to various things
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by athenot 5y ago
Twitterific (iOS) hides comments by default. TweetDeck (desktop) does the same.
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by athenot 5y ago
And if you're working with an existing system that doesn't accomodate the suggested options, a well placed comment can go a long way. Provide the unit as well as WHY that value exists. # Session inactivity, in seconds ti
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by athenot 5y ago
The original article by Edward Tufte which is referenced by this blog post can be found here: https://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=...
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by athenot 5y ago
Large-scale storage clusters like Hadoop, Cassandra, ElasticSearch are generally slow, expensive, hard to set up properly and require a lot of monitoring to stay healthy. Use them only when other solutions won't do. If your data will f
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by athenot 5y ago
The whole premise of "almost working" autopilot is the logical thing to do from Tesla's business perspective but deeply flawed from a safety one. The allure of having a car that drives itself is to relax the mind from paying
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by athenot 5y ago
> [2] www.newsinslowspanish.com Oh wow I've been after something like this for a long time. It's awesome because it's relevant content (news) but at a pace that beginners can follow. I don't know Spanish but knowing F
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by athenot 5y ago
This leverages Perl's BEGIN block which runs before the main part of the code. I suppose the same fun could be had in other languages: if day_of_week is "Friday" eval(piece_of_incorrect_code) else do

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