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by bigiain 2y ago
This makes me feel old. In '92 I was maintaining COBOL code for a custom written warehouse management system for a wholesale boat bits distributor. The company that wrote it had lost almost all their COBOL devs, and were all in on Wind
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by bigiain 2y ago
Perl footgunned itself with the Perl5/Perl6/Raku and almost 2 decades between major releases debacle. I wrote a _lot_ of Perl, starting with Perl4 cgi scripts in the mid 90s, then Perl5 and FastCGI and Apache ModPerl. I loved it a
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by bigiain 2y ago
That works the other way too. Somethings the higher ups don't know anything in detail, and just believed the new hire guy who said "I can't believe you're still using jQuery! We need to throw this all out and re write it
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by bigiain 2y ago
> I think not everyone thinks that money solves all things. I'd go further and say money ruins most things.
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by bigiain 2y ago
"The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco." -- Mark Twain I suspect moisture damage from Karl The Fog rolling in every afternoon is more likely to kill it.
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by bigiain 2y ago
I doubt the "design brief" for this involves ensuring it's got thousands or days worth of expected battery charging lifetime. There's already people here discussing the best way to locate it. Sooner or later someone&#x27
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by bigiain 2y ago
Had to re read that last sentence several times, initially assuming you were talking about the biker/dive bar down on Valencia and Duboce.
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by bigiain 2y ago
Does it do the S3 storage and http range requests to seek to the needed byte offsets thing? I think one day I'm gonna have a thing where I need a few GB or tens of GB of database to be available in a web or mobile app, but where that d
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by bigiain 2y ago
Like I said, I was doing that with memcached about 25-30 years back. Nobody had yet built "a service that provides a cacheable request-response interface" to move the db behind. Just last week I helped one of our devs through &quo
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by bigiain 2y ago
Back in the day (and I'm talking about when memcached was still written in Perl here, so late 90s or so) "bursty-write workloads" were a really good fit for us - using SQL queries as keys and storing the responses as values.
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by bigiain 2y ago
Drone flight controllers can use 3 axis magnetic field sensors combined with their 3 axis gyros and accelerometers, and use various sensor fusion algorithms to produce higher accuracy compass headings which shouldn't have _any_ long te
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by bigiain 2y ago
I am currently pondering the idea of building a modern electronics "replica" one of these, with 3d printed sphere halves containing stepper motors, magnetic rotary encoders, and a 6dof compass/gyro imu. If you put an Arduino
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by bigiain 2y ago
> The alternative to privacy respecting advertising is the malware-ridden surveillance machine that exists today. That's just not true. TV, newspapers and magazines supported themselves just fine using zero tracking on the advertisi
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by bigiain 2y ago
<sings> Seventy-six trombones led the big parade With a hundred and ten cornets close at hand (I have no idea why that's still in my head, I probably haven't heard it for 40 years or more... https://genius.com&#x2
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by bigiain 2y ago
My 13Pro only displays the clock for ~30 seconds before turning the screen off (when I do the turn it sideways while charging thing, "Standby mode" I think its called?) I think the always on screen is a 14+ feature.
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by bigiain 2y ago
How many _other_ important things have "slipped your mind"? This isn't about ssh keys specifically, it's using ssh keys as a canary - an example of a thing someone who has internalised enough Linux sysadmin and security
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by bigiain 2y ago
Those concerns are kinda the raison d'être for WPEngine. For anywhere small enough to not have an IT department, or so large and where the IT department has effectively become obstructionist to other department's jobs, just buy ma
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by bigiain 2y ago
> The problem is that marketing wants a website that ... they can publish and update content without having to get IT involved - just like they did at their last job where the website was WordPress. Oh, and IT who thinks their company ha
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by bigiain 2y ago
> Which means, if we want to kill WordPress, we need to offer a better solution. Not just for WordPress, but a coherent system that also reimplements the top hundred or so plugins. And a solution for which a typical non-tech business can
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by bigiain 2y ago
All the same techbros who were into NFTs a couple of years back, and DAOs before that, and various Etherium shitcoins before that, and Bitcoin before that. (And some of who are in leadership positions at OpenAI now.)
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by bigiain 2y ago
Sorry, but you're still well into the "don't know what you don't know" stage of learning, which is _not_ the time to become responsible for a colocated server. Go home, from the colocation idea. Start with way less
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by bigiain 2y ago
On the other hand, it's nice to be able to take a no-reboot AMI of the machine you're futzing with, risk breaking it, then just re provision from that AMI if you fucked up. And if you're chasing three or four nines of uptime
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by bigiain 2y ago
Or all your cat pictures get crypto lockered. Or your user database full of PII gets popped. Or your html/css/javascript gets modified to send all your supposedly secure Stripe checkout credit card details to eViLHackerz.ru (Or yo
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by bigiain 2y ago
If you are new or rusty, Stop. You are not ready for this. Seriously. Not knowing or remembering abut ssh keys is way below the minimum baseline of skills that are needed to manage a server connected to the internet. Managing colo-ed server
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by bigiain 2y ago
Well they _might_. But not at full "retail" AWS bandwidth costs. They are very open to negotiation once you get anywhere near a million bucks a month in spending. But yeah, they'd have to be discounting very very seriously fo
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by bigiain 2y ago
Question, how old are you? I lost the ability to be able to drink coffee late at night and still sleep well in my mid/late 30s. Also, coffee power naps are totally a thing, I get a real boost if I drink a coffee and immediately lie dow
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by bigiain 2y ago
Pretty sure there's some age related effects too. Over the last ~20 years I've gone from being happily able to drink coffee after dinner, through not being able to drink it after 5pm or so, and now to having the espresso machine a
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by bigiain 2y ago
I think POC||GTFO carries on some of the spirit of those times.
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by bigiain 2y ago
> Am I ever going to play the copy of Dungeon Siege again that I bought in ca. 2002? No. It looks unbearable today. On the other hand, I fairly regularly fire up an emulator to play Space Invaders or Galaga. And there's no end of pr
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by bigiain 2y ago
I mostly agree with your rant, but I counter your example of sticking $100 bills up in your front yard as "art". There are many people who spend hundreds or thousands (or more) sticking up outrageous displays for halloween or xmas

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