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by baobun 2y ago
Right answer, otherwise garbage source with much incorrectness. Please stop using CGPT links as references or source-of-truth.
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by baobun 2y ago
Different person with similar stance: Those specific examples? Whatever. We did get absolutely burnt by other manifestations of the DataDog approach: The billing model was (is?) very much not good, transparent or predictable and staying on
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by baobun 2y ago
...in what sense has Clojure actually won over Scala? I see way more Scala in companies last ~5y and have the impression of its ecosystem being more robust. Not uncommon for greenfields. It's longer than that I even encountered an acti
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by baobun 2y ago
Counterpoint: I do both. There are situations that make one or the other clearly preferred within a repo, besides per-repo/org-consistency for more widely shared work. After a few years excavating in a merge-only-salt-mine as well as w
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by baobun 2y ago
If you manage to get identically named branch and tag you're probably up for a lot of confusion if you're not familiar enough with checkout...
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by baobun 2y ago
How about Postium? If you're willing to pay good money there are actually bunch of options even for individuals. https://www.postium.com/8k-series https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/176897
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by baobun 2y ago
Tangential but I've learned to skip any comment starting with the word "imagine". Ironically they tend to be the least imaginative and insightful and usually only serve to aggravate and polarize.
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by baobun 2y ago
Sceptre has a few 55 inch and 65 inch models. E.g. 4k 55" for $599: https://www.sceptre.com/TV/4K-UHD-TV/U557CV-UMRB-55-4K-UHD-T... I've also seen Supersonic and Caixun mentioned in these discussions. Ca
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by baobun 2y ago
I can't delete my account because they blocked any access until I upload a passport scan (despite never IDing previously). Guessing it got triggered by switching IPs/proxies. Any appeal attempts went unanaswered. It does suck that
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by baobun 2y ago
A headset...? You need to provide more details.
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by baobun 2y ago
Similarly: I thought I had some bad workstation hardware (brand-name mobo and PSU), seeing severe memory corruption issues. After putting it behind a UPS (only after losing a zpool from it), it's all clean.
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by baobun 2y ago
Step 0: Use a reasonable device. Story from a few years back: I have an old Samsung Galaxy I needed to migrate off of. As I recall, the only way to back up all the important data without involving trusted cloud infra was unlocking the bootl
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by baobun 2y ago
Cheers! What I meant was : Skip even naming/introducing the two words/concepts at all. "Managed node" and "self-hosted nodes" are examples of more familiar concepts you can utilize to communicate.
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by baobun 2y ago
It does look like it! Personally I'm off the k8s train and don't currently have a use-case but best of luck! feedback: why make a clear distinction between "magic node" and "BYON"? Two new concepts to learn whe
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by baobun 2y ago
Misconfiguration and skill issues (aka poor docs). IME not a big difference vs 99% of the failures of business IT systems in general...
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by baobun 2y ago
> and you can't self-hosted email because sender reputation is too important in business. It is not uncommon to self-host everything except the outgoing sending. So you can mostly bring it all home without tackling sender reputation
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by baobun 2y ago
This misses the main factor, I think: Vendor lock-in. There is no unification of APIs - every provider has their own bespoke abstractions typically requiring heavy integration into further vendor-specific services - moreso if you are to lev
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by baobun 2y ago
> You still can't stream video >720p from any major streaming service, for example Say what? I'm playing 1080p fine. Sounds like you could be bit by drm ("that's not a bug, it's a feature"). If so the iss
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by baobun 2y ago
> Nobody wants a 10 year old video editor Terrible example. Many professionals, hobbyists and casuals do, actually. The only reason I still have a Mac is running ancient versions of CS and Premiere.. The only things Im really missing are
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by baobun 2y ago
records = rows
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by baobun 2y ago
Can also be a feature to cap the potential scale for a PoC you want to keep from getting productized as-is.
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by baobun 2y ago
> while traditional numbers can, uh, be purchased anonymously at the corner store. That is a closing window and the case in fewer and fewer places. It wont be long until most people would need to fly across the globe or get involved with
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by baobun 2y ago
Why random Wikipedia rehash and not just link the actual damn letter that OP is reading out? https://www.connexions.org/CxLibrary/Docs/CX5576-RussellMidE... http://www.russfound.org/RToP/RToP%
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by baobun 2y ago
You are confusing authentication (even less relevant in context than encryption actually) with authorization. Doing proper authorization without cryptography is difficult. Mixing it up with authentication is unnecessary but popular. The aut
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by baobun 2y ago
Replicant is an older still relevant project that could use some support! As I understand they have been held back by lack of modern handsets with clearly separated modem chips. It still great on Galaxy S3... The Pinephone has been identifi
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by baobun 2y ago
No. How do you think we got here? Turns out network effect can compensate for a lot of incompetence and lethargy. Many (most?) big tech engineers are likely already cruising. Try do something you actually believe is good instead of coping b
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by baobun 2y ago
This is very much on-style both for dream movies in general (ever watched anything Lynch/Tarkovsky/Fellini?) and Kubrick. The connections are supposed to happen in your mind. Their significance is up to you. Related Kubrick quote
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by baobun 2y ago
What does "intelligent packaging" mean for you and for the sake of this thread? Search results give definitions like: > Also known as smart packaging, intelligent packaging is a rapidly growing industry that combines traditiona
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by baobun 2y ago
No, this is the exact opposite of what we want. Ability to maintain pseudoanonymity for maintainers and contributors is paramount for personal safety. We mist be able to keep online and meat space personas separate without compromising secu
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by baobun 2y ago
As someone who's been in this position a few times and observed it even more: The company will be fine. If you give them some heads up and are helpful in handover you might be shocked to see how smoothly things are carried on by people

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