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by cdogl 5y ago
Big fan of I3. This may sound superficial, but I've moved away from tiling window managers because everything just looks so ugly. There's something to be said for having a window at ~75% full size with drop shadow around it and a
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by cdogl 5y ago
I've encouraged numerous non-technical friends and family members to switch to DuckDuckGo and they've all gone back to Google within a week.
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by cdogl 5y ago
The concept of a soul is a rich one, and for many people is largely metaphorical or figurative. You can subscribe to a materialist account of our cosmos and still draw meaning from the idea of a soul.
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by cdogl 5y ago
I have found Dr K's interviews and videos to be profoundly helpful on a personal level. He and his guests have touched on issues that relate closely to my own experiences and several times I've come away with concrete changes in p
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by cdogl 5y ago
I suspect that people don't fall into such neat categories. You could pose a similar question re: lawyers whose bread and butter is protecting and representing people associated with organised crime (the kind of individuals represented
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by cdogl 5y ago
I think I understand the point you’re trying to make, but I don’t understand this formulation: “you can’t be an immigrant”. It sounds like you are, by definition, an immigrant. I wonder if this statement would more accurately capture the tr
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by cdogl 5y ago
I'm intrigued by this example. What's an example of a domain or problem set that produces a function with 100 input parameters and a boolean result that can't be broken down cleanly?
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by cdogl 5y ago
I’ve been working in tech for a decade, I’ve scaled several large products and worked on distributed complex systems with a lot of users and some seriously workloads. Memory use has been a major issue perhaps two or three times total.
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by cdogl 5y ago
Counterpoint: you don’t need to go through the setup and management hassle of self hosting for this kind of content.
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by cdogl 5y ago
Because Go as an ecosystem has some really attractive properties that few other languages offer in the same combination: portability, stability and a strong compatibility guarantee, quick onboarding for new learners, a robust and scaleable
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by cdogl 5y ago
If you can get your hands on one. Here in Australia a few friends and I have just given up for the time being.
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by cdogl 5y ago
I'm not a loner - I'm quite a social person - but I nonetheless agree. My work can be rewording and enthralling but it's also draining and it's full of people who I would (mostly) never spend time with outside of that se
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by cdogl 5y ago
The two aren’t mutually exclusive. The children of the very wealthy often (usually?) share their parents’ economic advantage, thus perpetuating the inequality that originated due to economic factors. But that doesn’t mean they’re driven or
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by cdogl 5y ago
I agree with your points about sex workers and speech about sex in general, but your comments about people in autocratic regimes ring a little hyperbolic. Chinese [1] users were able to use Signal until the Chinese state seemed to block it
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by cdogl 5y ago
I couldn't agree more. The feeling you are describing is felt particularly acutely by individuals who are junior, or for one reason or another (low self esteem, flagging mental health, membership of a group that experiences disproporti
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by cdogl 6y ago
Frankly I think this is a pretty good refutation of my comment.
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by cdogl 6y ago
I don't much care for the term "mansplained", but I think it's a stretch to say it's sexist language. It's a simple colloquialism that refers to a well-known phenomenon.
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by cdogl 6y ago
Chrome's V8 engine made quite a stir around the turn of the last decade because it it compiled JavaScript down to native code. It would even watch how code was called (if it couldn't statically figure out a safe way to compile it)
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by cdogl 6y ago
Fair point. I see everything through the lens of my cloud / SaaS niche but Go is now used far more broadly than that.
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by cdogl 6y ago
Nice reference piece. I personally have rarely found the need to handle TLS in my application code; even in a cloud-native environment where you want to secure traffic inside your network, I prefer to do TLS termination in another process (
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by cdogl 6y ago
The city metaphor is evocative and new to me. I like it. > Conversely, if we built our cities the way we build our software, you would need to enter the shop through the special garage, and exit through the roof to walk a wire to get to
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by cdogl 6y ago
Signal's UX still needs work and a lot of features just don't work very well (e.g. the desktop sync). That's fine in and of itself - the team is small and they're funded by donations - but if they're spending time o
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by cdogl 6y ago
My view is that the public in general has a right to universal services that can realistically only be delivered through taxation. That right needs to be balanced against the right to transaction privacy. It's one thing to say that fri
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by cdogl 6y ago
Long-time Signal user here, with a number of technical and non-technical friends, colleagues and acquaintances who also use it. I don't know who was asking for this. And I think it really dilutes Signal's message. I believe that e
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by cdogl 6y ago
Indeed. Arch's disadvantages are obvious, but the educational contribution of the Arch community to all its users has been immense. Almost everyone technical that I know personally has really levelled up through it at some stage. I thi
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by cdogl 6y ago
The trick that really opened my eyes was this: $ telnet google.com 80 Trying 142.250.70.238... Connected to google.com. Escape character is '^]'. GET / HTTP/1.1 HTTP/1.1 200 OK Then adding a couple
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by cdogl 6y ago
My framing of this issue partly inspired by this piece: https://www.eigenmagic.com/2020/09/07/a-deep-dive-into-googl...
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Tim's perspective here is disappointingly narrow. The line he's drawing in the sand has already been crossed in all sorts of ways in many different jurisdictions and commercial/legal contexts. This is a complex (and tiring) d
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by cdogl 6y ago
Indeed. Presumably many such IDs exist in Amazon's transaction system. It must be deliberate that they are not used for this purpose.
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by cdogl 6y ago
D'oh. Thanks.

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