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   by bityard 3y ago

   That won't help either. The problem in those areas is local and national corruption. If you bring farming equipment into an impoverished third-world community and teach them how to use it, the local warlord/drug gang just comes in
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   by bityard 3y ago

   > Other self-taught narratives, such as starting with Wordpress-based design backgrounds and moving from more simple themes to more complex themes where PHP knowledge is required, to plugin development is a completely valid narrative, bu
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   by bityard 3y ago

   I can't find any examples now, but I'm positive that there have been "coding" fonts which do this that have hit the front page of HN. Highlighted as a feature in the screenshots, even. Another example of form over functi
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   by bityard 3y ago

   It's only going to cause problems for software which tries to be too smart for its own good. Applications should not try to guess what the user meant in ambiguous situations because they will often get it wrong.
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   by bityard 3y ago

   My favorite scene: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RDUsZay38es
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   by bityard 3y ago

   They were clearly scraping the bottom of the barrel on the last few seasons, but yeah, Community had some great stuff in it too. Brooklyn 99 was also pretty consistently hilarious.
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   by bityard 3y ago

   gzip has the advantage of being ubiquitous. It's pretty much guaranteed to be available on every modern Unix-alike. And is good enough for most purposes. Zstd is getting there but I personally don't bother with it on a daily basis
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   by bityard 3y ago

   Seems to be a growing trend lately to confuse objectively and subjectively. There's no universal law of nature that says shell scripts must be named a certain way, or contain exactly a certain shebang among several alternatives. These
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   by bityard 3y ago

   A great many good things that I still use on a daily basis are written in php. Roundcube and Nextcloud for starters. Some of the most fun I ever had writing basic CRUD apps and simple interactive websites was in PHP and Codeigniter back in
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    by bityard 3y ago

    It turns out that befriending people who hold opposite and even toxic opinions is actually a great way to bring them back to more moderate and rational thinking. There is a Jordan Harbinger podcast about a black man who single-handedly dism
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    by bityard 3y ago

    I use syncthing to get photos from a motion sensitive security camera on a mobile data connection to my vps. Beats writing a shell script all to hell.
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    by bityard 3y ago

    Personal politics, IMO, is not a good reason to avoid living in certain areas. I'm a liberal-leaning moderate but many of my favorite people (friends and family) are conservative, and many of my hobbies tend to be populated mainly by t
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    by bityard 3y ago

    I was listening to a podcast recently where a guy was fairly well-known in his niche. To paraphrase, "I didn't get where I am because I'm better than everyone else because I'm really not and never will be. But I'm a
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    by bityard 3y ago

    In an "Enterprise" setting, the dev or ops team that needs certificates for internal services often has no direct access to the company's external web site or DNS, which may be owned by some other team like marketing or IT. S
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    by bityard 3y ago

    > The collections agency had also put a black mark on my credit history. This doesn't seem to be true. According to Experian, the original _creditor_ is the one that puts the black mark on your credit history when they sell your deb
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    by bityard 3y ago

    Did you click the link? > The workers’ negotiators also want Apple to adopt a tipping system, letting patrons offer gratuities in increments of 3%, 5% or a custom amount for in-store credit-card transactions. Not 10%, unless you have mon
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    by bityard 4y ago

    I've used Craigslist for, what, decades and I never found it to be user-hostile. If I owned it, I would probably make a few tweaks here and there but I have no trouble at all placing an ad or browsing the listings. It's a very hon
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    by bityard 4y ago

    I sense a disturbance in the force...
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    by bityard 4y ago

    Unless I'm missing something embarrassingly obvious, redirecting HTTPS->HTTP doesn't help those use cases at all.
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    by bityard 4y ago

    There's not a lot of low-hanging fruit when it comes to the middle-class consumer market, and that's just the way it is. The only companies that do well in this space spend vast amounts of money on marketing to convince the middle
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    by bityard 4y ago

    Not sure how these are even related. Y2K was a specific technical problem with an obvious solution. The only "issue" was that the whole thing got massively overblown by the media and a tiny minority of preppers. (Who also overreac
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    by bityard 4y ago

    Among other things, uBlock Origin blocks resources that the developers and filter list maintainers consider privacy risks, of which "pixels" are a subset.
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    by bityard 4y ago

    Location: Ann Arbor, MI Remote: Yes (Hybrid is a possibility) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Linux, Docker, Ansible, Python, shell, virtualization, LAN networking, storage, relational DBMSes (Postgres, MySQL, SQLite), IoT Resume: ht
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    by bityard 4y ago

    Believe me, I am all for people having thicker skins and less entitlement overall. I believe offense is generally taken rather than given, and social media's culture of constant outrage over some thing or another is a form of intellect
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    by bityard 4y ago

    Did they really buy a whole domain to host one short op-ed?
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    by bityard 4y ago

    Also, never underestimate the utility of being able to perform upgrades (either the app or the underlying infrastructure) with little to no downtime.
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    by bityard 4y ago

    I run my own mail server too. Rspamd does a reasonable job of cutting back the amount of down that gets though, but I feel like I have no control over it or visibility into what it's doing. What tools are you using to implement the con
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    by bityard 4y ago

    That's actually a really clever hack.
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    by bityard 4y ago

    > My current biggest complaint is apps putting widgets in the title bar area. Agreed and I don't know what the reasoning for this could possibly be. My guess is that they _actually_ wanted to get rid of title bars altogether, and th
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    by bityard 4y ago

    GNOME seems to be built for the lowest-common denominator of user. They go out of their way to make sure there is only one possible way to do something and almost nothing can be customized without writing an extension. I imagine their devs