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by bragh 10mo ago
Why should somebody donate to somebody else's luxuries if they could spend it on their own luxuries? Anyway, yes, direct donation is always better, be it to some random guy down on his luck in the street (unless they have just missed t
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by bragh 10mo ago
Corporate security hates websockets though, SSE is much easier for end-users to get approved.
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by bragh 11mo ago
And all those years could have been avoided by treating a new unknown disease as it should have been treated instead of trusting China's word on it. Go figure.
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by bragh 11mo ago
It doesn't matter how easy something is to set up and run from technology side if actually being able to set it up and run it takes half a year or more coordination calendar time, justification to several different departments, their r
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by bragh 11mo ago
It wasn't a few months, it was a few years of back-and-forth political and corporate shenanigans with a new narrative every few months that the $CURRENT_THING crowd happily ran along with. January 2020: there is nothing to afraid of, t
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by bragh 11mo ago
Yes, networking and sysadmin are hard, because the Internet is a much more hostile place than it was 20 years ago and the consequences for getting things wrong are much more severe. Early 2000s, ISPs had ports open by default and getting a
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by bragh 1y ago
> Those boys were not bullied, they were bullies. That is a very unnuanced take on the thing if you read more about the incident and the background of it besides Cullen's book.
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by bragh 1y ago
There is quite useful content in there, but the writing style makes it very annoying to read, it feels as if the original text went through some kind of LLM filter and made it corporately soulless, as seems to be the good practice now.
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by bragh 1y ago
Trying to paint Russians as the good guys, in 2025? > The most extensive and destructive of the Soviet air assaults was carried out on 9–10 March 1944 in connection with the Battle of Narva. A week before, the mayor of Tallinn had given
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by bragh 1y ago
Yes, but nobody ever died because of not having sex.
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by bragh 1y ago
The risks and consequences of crossing a busy street are nowhere near as unknown or potentially severe. Wait until all the traffic has stopped, look to your left and your right and behind your back (typical situational awareness during boun
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by bragh 1y ago
Carefully considering actions that might have life-ruining consequences is not overthinking.
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by bragh 1y ago
It makes no sense to have a high risk of getting blasted all over local Facebook groups/Instagram/Tiktok for daring to approach while being ugly when they can use dating apps for zero risk. And if dating apps feel expensive to use
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by bragh 2y ago
Yes, that is obvious, but the problem is that this requires some account to have permissions to start and stop services and to execute commands on the target host. Corporate IT departments are not too happy with that kind of approach nowada
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by bragh 2y ago
How do you deploy your code with Kestrel though? If you already have Windows Server licensed, then you get IIS and msdeploy without any additional tooling or vendor needed.
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by bragh 2y ago
If you are anyway forced to use IIS for hosting for some reason, then why not use msdeploy.exe for deployment? I have recently used this guide with great success https://dennistretyakov.com/setting-up-msdeploy-for-ci-cd-de..
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by bragh 2y ago
The reason borders were kept open was that it was considered xenophobic to close down the borders and globally public health guidance was saying that the virus was affecting only old, very young and people with weak immune systems. Only in
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by bragh 2y ago
But that's the thing: they do not have the data on things and usage patterns that exist outside the Microsoft ecosystem and/or on-premises/private clouds, such as work done within Atlassian stack, ERPs, desktop software and s
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by bragh 2y ago
This is the thing: Windows admins praise Windows when they are running a completely different edition of Windows with different configurable behaviors. It looks a lot different for home users who almost certainly do not even know what a GPO
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by bragh 2y ago
C# is very good as a language, have developed in it for 5+ years. The problem is the gap between what MSFT promises to management and actually delivers to developers when it comes to the ecosystem of libraries that you want to use with C#.
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by bragh 3y ago
Not sure that I follow... From what I have understood, a lot of corporations have these kind of set ups in place to avoid downloading malicious software, limit the possible impact of malware, monitor employees and so on. And it is clear tha
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by bragh 3y ago
Sorry, but you seem to be missing the context here — this is an environment where these kind of decisions are not made by the developers, but are in the hands of other departments. So the choice of antivirus or other corpoware or disabling
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by bragh 3y ago
The whole discussion around why a .NET shop might choose Blazor over Javascript ecosystem misses these critical things when it comes to developer experience: 1. Antivirus scans — it will take a lot more time for an antivirus to scan the ten
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by bragh 3y ago
It is probably less strict than a century ago, but it is still the case that if you never started or fell off the academic track somewhere, it is very hard or almost impossible to get from the technical track back to the academic track.
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by bragh 3y ago
Those games hit the exact sweet spot for kids who had access to internet at school or at parents workplace, but not at home. Run to computer lab between lessons, spend your turns for the day and then wait for new turns. My heart still belon
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by bragh 4y ago
This completely ignores the physical attractiveness side of things...
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by bragh 4y ago
It is quite simple: if someone does not have any sucess in OLD or outside work, then how come they are thinking that they will have something different going for them in the workplace?
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by bragh 4y ago
I generally agree with your post, but that question is really bad, as it can be seen as mansplaining. The fact finding is fine, but requires a gentler approach.
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by bragh 4y ago
They do have memory-holed some very inconvenient blog posts, such as this https://techcrunch.com/2009/11/18/okcupid-inbox-attractive/ (probably exists somewhere on archive.org)
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by bragh 4y ago
What was novel about COVID-19? There is a worldwide epidemic pretty much every decade https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_epidemics#Chronology

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