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It was surprising that Kleppman's book was mentioned only at the very end of the article, but at least it came with an understandable caveat. That book is incredible - although in all honesty it does require solid foundation of distr
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Am I the only one who thinks that many of the listed gripes are core features? > TOO many bots log entire channels out to public html sites. Fair enough. This would be a likely problem with any non-private chat system. > It won&#x2
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About the density of a technical drawing paper, IIRC. Our school had those metallic optical mouse mats back in 1990. I distinctly remember that some of the lines were blue, but there were silvery lines in a finer pattern between them.
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It's not just the money, it's all the things around using corporate money. Procurement is its own level of hell. Dealing with (or even having to think about) vendors' sales critters is a drain on brain cycles. The frustrati
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Whoah, that is a seriously neat trick. Thank you.
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I'd settle for a Markdown import. You could do your editing and writing of raw text in whatever you feel happy with, and then have gdocs transform it to its supposedly native format on upload. Gdocs would then really only need to suppo
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by bostik 3y ago
> Writing should happen where you are comfortable editing text. For that particular context of text. I write my code, notes, text and emails in vim. Some in markdown. But to this day, I still miss the incredible usability of LyX 1.x wh
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Perception, yes. Being on top of the CPI tells nothing about how well the country is doing. It merely highlights how bad the situation is even for the runner-up.
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I don't try to claim it's easy in any way, but for me it is a thing to aspire for. Nuance takes time and space. So does conveying context. Nonetheless, if there is a way to compress the core of the message into just seven words, I
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I've taken Feynman's rule as the guiding star of all communication: if you can not explain your point of view understandably, you do not understand it well enough yourself. (Implication: shut the f##k up until you do, and can.) I&
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Possibly a side effect from S3's eventual consistency model. Until couple of years ago there was no guarantee that an object you had written to S3 would be visible to another process looking for it. About two years ago AWS made a big a
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It's the outliers and "surely nobody could be THAT awful" that kill you. Every time.
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Both Q10 and Q11 are good. I have one of each in their respective uses. Q11 may possibly be even better for someone prone to RSI, because you can set the halves up angled even wider apart. Just make sure to get a good wrist support to go wi
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Likely due to technical limitations. At least docker does its port-forwarding with iptables (or these days, nftables), and the forwarding rules themselves span multiple custom tables/chains. If you ever do 'iptables-save' to
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And to make sure the incentives were properly perverse, Post Office executives were paid bonuses for each successful conviction. As far as I am concerned, justice will not have been done until all of their bonuses are clawed back, and a
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Probably yes, but for any program of sufficient complexity, that finite number may have an inconvenient number of digits.
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As life imitates art, the lines between paranoid conspiracy theories and marketing campaigns continue to blur.
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> Wait until we see swarms of (semi)autonomous drones Slaughterbots[ß] becoming reality in 3...2...1... ß: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-2tpwW0kmU
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by bostik 3y ago
Funnily enough, I had an interesting discussion with a client's lawyer (who, to their credit, is reasonably tech-savvy) before the holidays. I had redlined "FIPS 140-2" from their contract language. I'll omit the context
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No need to bet on the intent. At least for software in financial services, starting from 2027 all Chinese companies are supposed to use 100% homegrown software. Any use of foreign-supplied software must be explicitly approved by the respe
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Or turn that around: the service was providing insufficient value for the user to bother looking at how to opt in for their notifications.
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In a way, yes. It stays out of the way - in fact, there is no desktop. i3 is a tiling window manager, and rather minimalistic at that. Sway is a wayland-native reimplementation of i3, with the same (lack of) appearance, and i3 configs work
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The truly sad thing is, there was a killer form factor for phones. N900. Full touchscreen, with a slide-out physical keyboard. It wasn't a perfect device, far from it. The details of the form factor were still off: the device was too
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by bostik 3y ago
The correct term for this recurring abuse of end users is "Stockholm Syndrome". Finns have an age-old saying about the same thing. Loosely translated... At first it hurts. Then you get used to it. And then you start to like it.
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Code reformatting is, apparently, surprisingly hard. This classic article has popped up on HN a few times over the years: https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/09/08/the-hardest-pr... (one reappearance at
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> at the moment, every dollar spent on fusion is a dollar not spent on building more solar panels and wind turbines You are of course technically correct ("the best way to be correct"), but let's be honest: figuring out
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Beyond ludicrously small systems, refactoring of live 24/7 production systems is never easy. Reality has a surprising amount of detail, and any non-trivial, customer-facing system will have accumulated weird code paths to account for
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I believe it is more nuanced. Full disclosure: before moving to UK I worked for seven (7) years in a remote-first company. And while it is certainly possible to run with a fully distributed, remote-only organisation, not every company can
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The shoemaker's children have no feet.
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As a counterpoint, Ryzen 7530U + 16GB here and with Linux+Firefox the page generates a fairly constant 25% CPU load. So while clearly heavy for what is essentially a few streaming counters, it's not a system killer.

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