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by creshal 5y ago
Depends on how much latency/what big a time window for data loss between runs you can afford. We went from streaming cyrus-imapd replication to minutely send/receive for availability, but that introduces a 30-90 time window where
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by creshal 5y ago
Replication and backups are usually different things. If you need replication, yes, backup tools won't cut it latency wise. But proper backup tools like rsnapshot, borg, etc. pp. have no trouble correctly backing up email servers even
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by creshal 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_genocide is a distinct term.
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by creshal 5y ago
Emphasis on "when no Russian layout is available". If anyone told you "no, this is the Russian layout", you'd still flip them off.
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by creshal 5y ago
https://wiki.debian.org/AptCacherNg still exists and still works fine.
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by creshal 5y ago
The SQLite of NoSQL is still SQLite: https://www.sqlite.org/json1.html
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by creshal 5y ago
At one point, we used Wordpress for everything from websites for small restaurants to collaborative desktop publishing platforms, but none of this turned out a great idea longterm. We still use wordpress occasionally, but no longer for thos
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by creshal 5y ago
> Your average business owner wants to focus on the important thing: their content. They want to type in a box and push publish. End. They don’t care about how crap (or not) the code is. They don’t care about performance too much. They d
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by creshal 5y ago
ASICs have had shipping shortages for months now, there's probably a lot of people using GPUs for bitcoin again, on top of ASIC-hard "crypto""currencies" that always abuse GPUs.
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by creshal 5y ago
Long-term hodling of chocolate is still an unsolved problem in my experience. It tends to just disappear over time.
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by creshal 5y ago
But you know what's worse? The government helping you! t. anarchists
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by creshal 5y ago
> Personally, I draw the line at a week for non-business travel to Europe, and two weeks for Asia. Sounds about right, especially when you factor in jetlag.
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by creshal 5y ago
It's just as stupid going the other direction IMO.
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by creshal 5y ago
Taking a 3 day vacation overseas definitely is a joke. You'll spend as much time sitting in a plane or waiting at the airport as you'll spend at your destination, how's that supposed to be relaxing?
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by creshal 5y ago
> Would this still be possible today? It's a certain timeframe (for software) where this was possible. Today it's things like SAP, integrated systems and DMCA on top of it (or Excel). There's still a lot of utterly awful,
856.
by creshal 5y ago
A mix of that plus Elon dunking on it plus China tightening regulations plus Ethereum news about PoS progress, probably.
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by creshal 5y ago
> selling me a good at how much I value it …after spending a substantial amount of R&D into how to brainwash you into artificially inflating your value estimation. The deception is fractal, with makes it just so much harder to over
858.
by creshal 5y ago
> I by myself use it with WordPress and GitHub - write content and then by using either html source or markdown source publish it on those platforms. I'm not too familiar with Github pages, but in Wordpress's case it sounds inc
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by creshal 5y ago
What's exactly the use case, here? When would I want to use this and not a markdown editor, or word/gdocs/lowriter/…'s HTML export? Or something like TinyMCE? Static site generators, maybe? Assuming it can be taught
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by creshal 5y ago
> How often is it really only a few days, though? Depends entirely on what you expect the devs to do, naturally. Junior devs are IMO not supposed to make informed decisions of significance in any language, that's what you have sen
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by creshal 5y ago
In theory, that's what template languages like jinja, liquid and twig are for. But as you can see, there's n+1 standards for it, and in practice none of them has a Javascript implementation good enough for productive use. So it&#x
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by creshal 5y ago
Steam API integration is entirely optional, so it's not just indie games that ignore them or fail gracefully. Obviously you can't access Steam's online services in the game, but that's not a stopper for many games.
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by creshal 5y ago
If someone gets their health advice off Hackernews comments I'd say they need a psychiatrist first. Yes, they're the least bad treatment options we have right now , I can still be hyped about potential improvements. > You can
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by creshal 5y ago
> There are plenty of open-source modules in Node which were released more than 5 years ago and are still in use today. And how stable was their API over the last five years? It hardly counts if over 5 years the APIs change so much they&
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by creshal 5y ago
4x increase compared to what baseline? And will these curious people trying it out convert to paying customers or will people give up on it again, like they apparently did in April 2020?
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by creshal 5y ago
Every console loses money on the hardware, because you'll immediately make up for it with software sales. Stadia's still struggling with the latter part.
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by creshal 5y ago
Steam is a rent model too, but nobody seems to mind. It helps that Steam also works offline, or on an alleged DSL connection out in the sticks, or when you're visiting your parents who still have the same awful wifi router you told the
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by creshal 5y ago
> what's nice about Node/TS is that the frameworks are more loosely coupled so you can pick/choose your best components. For about two weeks, then one of them becomes deprecated again and you have to migrate everything all
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by creshal 5y ago
And yet – Apollo advertises its easy Python interoperatibility right on the front page, as one of the features that makes scaling easier.¹ GraphQL arguably makes decoupling frontend and backend languages even easier than classic REST APIs,
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by creshal 5y ago
We are training our employees. Learning the ropes of a new language/framework enough to make easy changes is trivial, so why wouldn't we? Much better than crippling our choices in software stacks we can use.

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