benley

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by benley 8y ago
> you want to get an older version of one particular dotfile, you'll also be getting older versions of other dotfiles as well. That doesn't really follow; it is easy to check out old versions of a single file with git: gi
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by benley 8y ago
Just to throw a few possibilities out there: Correctness? Ease of writing? Portability?
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by benley 9y ago
> You could go down the route of outputting each compiled object file as a derivation... You could, but I believe you would find that Nix becomes pretty inefficient in that scenario. There is a surprising amount of overhead involved in
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by benley 9y ago
Take a look at Zulip, if you're not already familiar with it. They nailed threaded chat in a way I haven't seen anywhere else, with the possible exception of Zephyr.
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by benley 9y ago
There can be, basically. But you often end up with huge repetitive mountains of JSON data, which isn't a ton of fun to maintain by hand, so then you write a tool to generate it from some other input data. Surprise, now you've in
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by benley 9y ago
There have been a bunch of papers published discussing these topics at great length, and many attempts at producing simpler systems that still work at non-trivial scales. I'd suggest taking a look at https://nixos.org/
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by benley 9y ago
What you're describing here is remarkably similar to Jsonnet in syntax and style. Jsonnet is quite nice, imho! http://jsonnet.org/ https://github.com/google/jsonnet
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by benley 9y ago
Heptio appears to be working on Kubernetes, not Nomad. Nomad is a Hashicorp product. Who is the "they" in your question?
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by benley 9y ago
Does sshuttle still cause occasional kernel panics on MacOS? (This is a real question, not a troll - I haven't used sshuttle for several years and it was a known issue among my colleagues at the time)
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by benley 9y ago
Jut hit ctrl-b to collapse them. I don't know how to completely get rid of the icon strip, but it doesn't have to be a big sidebar.
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by benley 9y ago
For what it's worth, it's fortune.com that annoyed me, not your link to it. Thanks for looking for alternatives at least :-)
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by benley 9y ago
Mesos isn't really a direct replacement for Openstack, but you're probably still right to be pushing for it. If you roll with Mesos you will still need to solve a bunch of lower-level infrastructure challenges: machine provisioni
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by benley 9y ago
I very much agree. Clicked link, read five words, site started screaming some garbage advertising at me, closed tab immediately. It's not even the video that bothers me so much - it's the autoplay audio that causes me to immed
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by benley 10y ago
You're right, it is not the same thing, and I don't mean to imply that the two are equivalent. Just that we already live in a place where people feel unsafe as a consequence of posting things online.
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by benley 10y ago
I haven't tried to do it with Ubuntu specifically, but I do know that ZFS-on-linux works fine atop LUKS full-disk encryption. My laptop is running NixOS with such a setup, and I'm pretty sure I followed the Ubuntu ZFS documentati
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by benley 10y ago
"oh no I only have _an entire year_ to deal with an API deprecation what ever will I do?" :-P
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by benley 10y ago
How much advance notice did they give when they were shutting down that email service? I bet it was like eight months or more. Things change, you have to deal with it sometimes. Seems kinda normal.
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by benley 10y ago
The standard "lol google will kill it in 6 months anyway" troll doesn't really apply to Google Cloud services. They know better than to be fickle with infrastructure offerings.
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by benley 10y ago
If you're using a Charge HR, I'd suggest checking out the newer generation of devices. The Charge 2 and Alta are way better designs. The entire category of problem you're experiencing will not exist in those. ... and I sa
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by benley 10y ago
I agree that the nice graphical tools available for Elasticsearch are super useful, but it seems to me that those are not a feature of the logs storage or query interface, but rather one of an external app (e.g. kibana) that queries the sys
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by benley 10y ago
You are aware that Dart was not released in 2016, yes? The first public release was in 2011. Feel free to stick only to your company's Recommended Best Practices Industry Standard Languages and Libraries. But, there are lots of langua
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by benley 10y ago
mini-displayport to VGA adapters are also still a thing :-P
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by benley 10y ago
I recently discovered that you can use xrandr to improve things quite nicely. Try something like: xrandr --display eDP-1 --scale 1.25x1.25 If you run into weirdness with your mouse cursor you might also need to run: xrandr -
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by benley 10y ago
Another cool one is Mathics, which is a Mathematica-like system implemented in Python, using SymPy behind the scenes: https://github.com/mathics/Mathics http://www.mathics.org/
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by benley 10y ago
Gitlab's UI has evolved considerably in the last couple of years. If it looked just like Github when you last saw it, I would suggest checking it out again because it's quite different compared to the gitlab of 2013ish. also I ag
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by benley 10y ago
Personally, I tend to consider that to be a wildly successful outcome for an OSS project fork. The project community continues to exist, conflicts get resolved (hopefully amicably), users benefit, developers benefit. Everyone wins!
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by benley 10y ago
If virtual machines with live migration is what you're after, vmware is not your only option. You can get largely the same effect without involving any iscsi/FC/SAN tech with another open source project, which happens to ori
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by benley 10y ago
How long do you expect to maintain BeOS binary compatibility? I see in the trac roadmap that R2 is slated to be the deprecation point; is that still likely to be multiple years away? Has there been talk of an abi compatibility layer that
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by benley 10y ago
I'm pretty sure the pebble cloud services are going to be up and running for the foreseeable future. source: I do infrastructure stuff at fitbit. Also they explicitly said this in the developer.pebble.com blog post.
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by benley 10y ago
Yeah - this stuff is why I advocate so hard for Bazel. It actually gets this shit right, unlike nearly everything else.

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