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by buro9 5y ago
I remember spending a couple of weeks in SF 4 years ago in an AirBnB... could I get a meal delivery in the evening? Nope. Needed a US phone number, or US bank account / credit card, or both. Things like Postmates didn't even allow
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by buro9 5y ago
You don't have to do that... NextDNS ultimately uses Cloudflare DNS under the hood, so just point yourself at 1.1.1.1 and you're done but it will block nothing. If you want a DNS server to block things, know that the definition of
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by buro9 5y ago
Android offers Private DNS, just point that at nextdns.io and block things even within apps that aren't browsers. The biggest benefit is definitely the sheer speed at which news websites load on my phone now, even when I'm on a cr
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by buro9 5y ago
Only you know your data volumes but for the scenarios in which I've reached for Jupyter they've often involved very large amounts of data and calculating on the server is what I wanted and needed. Agreed that for some things, it w
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by buro9 5y ago
Seek out any Bach played by Glenn Gould. The incredible thing here is that Bach left sheet music but sheet music of the age did not include time, so the music has to be interpreted. The "Goldberg Variations" are this interpretatio
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by buro9 5y ago
100% agree. Actually I go further, I think those into art should always express that through ownership. Books go out of print or the translation varies. Films are unavailable if they're not one of the top grossing films, and even if th
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by buro9 5y ago
Classical music is one of the hardest genres to surface through existing music apps. Where an app may have an "artist" field, classical music will have "composer" and then for the performers it will have "orchestra&
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by buro9 5y ago
Feels like the culture series "aura" for droids could fit here. Subtle colours indicating mood in the books by Iain M Banks, but could indicate system health.
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by buro9 5y ago
I tried this, got quite far. Will go a little further when I have spare cycles for it. Example: https://www.lfgss.com based on code you'll find on GitHub under microcosm-cc
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by buro9 5y ago
"miserable" mode. It was a mod introduced in vbulletin 2 by community members. When installed it extended the idea of banning or shadow banning as it degraded the user experience for the person in question. Basically giving the im
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by buro9 5y ago
This assumes the incentive is balanced for the vendor, that they'll win as much business (or more) than they'll lose. I don't believe this is true anywhere, but specifically those vendors who are most aggressive about creatin
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by buro9 5y ago
A killer use of Discord... push-to-talk audio connection to everyone else in the room. If your team is on-call and incident management could be improved, just try putting your team in a Discord room and see what happens. Don't put mana
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by buro9 5y ago
Manual via https://pkg.go.dev/database/sql with handwritten SQL in the majority of places... but with a wrapper to handle the more complex search scenarios. For example these from a multi-tenant SaaS forum platform (it
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by buro9 5y ago
Individual hotel rooms are expensive, single bed shared hotel rooms lack any private space, but apartments can be cheaper than both whilst offering individuals private bedrooms. For multiday stays being able to just have a normal sized frid
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by buro9 5y ago
Getting very close in my large side projects for everything to just be Go + PostgreSQL. Go is the API, business logic, and very soon the entire web layer. This is all on Linode, there are no containers I just put a binary on an LTS Ubuntu a
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by buro9 5y ago
Tell me about the sync... how complete is it? And the pricing... how do you accommodate OSS projects? Our scenario is that our work comes in from multiple places, i.e; OSS community (one repo), SaaS offering (another repo) and Enterprise of
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by buro9 5y ago
Agree on that... the intent behind it seems to be a big part of it.
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by buro9 5y ago
Yes, but similarity is not uniquely owned... 2 people may have resemblance and one may have given consent. Does the other have a right to demand consent too? Hypothetical example: A person who happens to look like Boris Johnson (PM of UK) c
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by buro9 5y ago
Taking this to an extreme: If an image is 100% generated and looks to be a nude of a human, from whom should consent be obtained? Especially if "this image is similar to me" is factored in, what degree of similarity makes an image
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by buro9 5y ago
Hard to know what to make of these comments. I've known a lot of far better engineers than I am. We've all been in this game a long time. Titles, companies and package aren't the most important thing to any of them. I'm
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by buro9 5y ago
Some companies do "hire fast, fire fast"... so yes. But I choose not to work for those companies, instead I prefer a strongly opinionated hiring process that won't play with anyone's life like that. That said, treating p
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by buro9 5y ago
I do not disagree. The more people who interview, the more average the candidate has to be to succeed. For all the talk of "hire fast, fire fast" the reality is that most companies do not know how to evaluate someone within the pr
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by buro9 5y ago
I can't say on the money front I didn't kick myself after I had declined, and the interviewing was at a very high level. At the time I was focused on finding a role that had my requirements for high job satisfaction and money wasn
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by buro9 5y ago
Ah Amazon... 14 interviews, an additional 5 hour technical test, spanning a total of 3+ months. Only to be informed at the end that I was too technical for the role they had in mind but they were offering me a Senior Principal SDE role inst
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by buro9 5y ago
gresrun works at YouTube, if by reference you mean citation then his comment is it.
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by buro9 5y ago
I remember interviewing someone who worked on a DNS platform where IIRC the DNS zone files were propagated by SMTP to DNS servers. The details on this were that there was a 5-minute SLA (I believe) on the loading of zone records, essentiall
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by buro9 5y ago
Agreed. However... I'd still argue if you have a car today that you own... Stretch ownership to another 5 years. I'm currently on vacation in the lake District in the UK and the car I have is Volvo T8 twin engine. I can't cha
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by buro9 5y ago
If uptime is critical and you don't want this to be a full time job then don't do it... Opt for PaaS. But for me uptime isn't critical, I can happily be down for a few days if needed. It hasn't happened once yet but I ca
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by buro9 5y ago
It was very little effort to setup. Used puppet to define everything I wanted the infra to be, and have pretty much left it be. It's only reachable from the app servers, backed up to tarsnap. It's really not a lot to learn and has
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by buro9 5y ago
Yes. A Postgres which is currently only 1TB in size. It's read heavy, the write workload is very low in tens to spikes of low hundreds per second whilst the read is in thousands per second. The workload is stable during traffic spikes

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