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by ctur 4y ago
I don't think you are anywhere near that line. Using human beings as part of a punchline is pretty much the opposite of funny. Trying to rub something in the nose of people who were laid off is rather tacky, too.
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by ctur 4y ago
Being able to ask questions well, be it in public online or in the workplace, is a skill worth developing (as is answering such questions). I compiled a shorter and hopefully more actionable list of similar guidelines based on a few differ
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by ctur 4y ago
My general flow is “do it, teach it, automate it” where the middle step is explaining it to someone else who then also does it then (hopefully) helps, or at least consults, on the automation. This way you can iterate a bit before codifying
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by ctur 4y ago
The lz4 developers are the zstd developers :) In this case I suspect the IO reductions on the output are what matter -- while lz4 is faster, it also produces more output (of course) which you then have to write to disk. This can make the
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by ctur 4y ago
Pretty suspicious; certainly dubious, potentially just a scam. Collecting sensitive information, no actual information on the site about who is behind it (bonus: it's a one page site whose backend is a third party), submitted to HN by
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by ctur 4y ago
The Decoder Ring podcast did an episode[1] recently about the supposed death of the mall. It's a fun listen and covers a lot of the history and evolution of the mall as a concept and how it shaped, and was shaped by, transportation ch
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by ctur 4y ago
In many ways you can think of large, long-living tech companies not unlike old cities like, say, London or Paris. The buildings and roads you see are built on top of older buildings and ruins. The streets are weirdly shaped and intersect
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by ctur 4y ago
It feels obligatory to reference Technology Connection in a thread about heat pumps. TC is a super fun YouTube channel that digs j to everyday technology and has had a number of episodes on heat pumps and modern thermodynamic management ch
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by ctur 4y ago
What? No, this is incredibly short-sighted. It overlooks the fact that much grid energy is renewable already and will become more so in the future. Go with electric sources for cooking and heating (home and water), then let the grid hand
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by ctur 4y ago
Every MacOS update, I do run a sudo command and get the password prompt. I cancel, and instead do... sudo cp ~/Dropbox/etc-pam.d-sudo /etc/pam.d/sudo Type the password once and you're done. I've
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by ctur 4y ago
Finally! A potential solution to the housing crisis. Newly VC-infused and rehabilitated Adam Neumann. Yes yes yes. The world needs more of this. This is also a good hedge against the crypto pyramid starting to slow down. Leveraging peo
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by ctur 4y ago
Half of my interactions with the Slack UI are desperate attempts to not accidentally lose notifications, particularly through threads. "Mark Unread" is the most frequent command I use I think.
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by ctur 4y ago
I find this spreadsheet handy for thinking about AWS region-wide outages and frequency. This seems to be the first major us-east-2 outage, indeed, vs us-east-1 and other regions. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d&
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by ctur 4y ago
If a "FUSE to replicate SQLite" solution came from anywhere else, I'd be quite skeptical, but there is a lot of very interesting tech coming out of fly.io these days and Ben certainly knows this space well. It still feels a
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by ctur 4y ago
https://archive.ph/6QqAn
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by ctur 4y ago
This is not a particularly thorough article overall and is made worse by the overly ambitious title. It basically starts with "ssh has problems" and moves immediately to "use an arbitrary separate tool" to solve them.
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by ctur 4y ago
In general, it is preferable now to use squashfs for most tar use cases three days. Random access, high compression levels, and completely operable with userland tools and a FUSE file system. tar does have some niche uses (streaming) but
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by ctur 4y ago
It is interesting seeing the evolution of open source maintenance in the light of new (or increasing) supply chain attacks and acts of political protest. There always has been a "what is your obligation to quickly respond to a securit
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by ctur 4y ago
Not to go full neckbeard on this one, but in addition to FUSE-based options, there is at least one approach that achieves as good (or better) results using more trusted and common primitives in Linux: Just use cryptsetup on loopback mounted
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by ctur 4y ago
I love these kind of real world tests of technologies applied in the field. A great YouTube channel along a similar vein is Project Farm, https://www.youtube.com/c/ProjectFarm While he doesn't go into the science
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by ctur 4y ago
This seems pretty incomplete if it doesn't include anything about brotli, lz4, or zstd, or Finite State Entropy in general. It's basically missing the past decade or more. There's a lot of good history here, but just be awar
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by ctur 4y ago
The 1st edition of this book was very influential for a generation (or more) of engineers. I can't wait to see how it's evolved and what I learn reading a new edition through again.
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by ctur 4y ago
This article has a lot of good points and suggestions for site creators, but for consumers, there is something you can use: the Decentraleyes browser addon ( https://decentraleyes.org/ ). It basically intercepts calls to wel
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by ctur 4y ago
What a misogynistic jerk. I don't know what is sadder; that he has so much of a following, or that his garbage POV resonates with a small number of deplorables in our industry. The rest of us need to do our best to push back and ensu
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by ctur 4y ago
For those not wanting the overhead of running a service on your network, NextDNS sells what is basically managed pihole. I’ve used it for about a year and have been very happy. It also lets you use it on mobile devices for when you aren’t
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by ctur 4y ago
Nice post — one suggestion would be to use zstd instead of gzip though. Out of the box it is much faster and will result in smaller files, and allows tuning to fit inside memory and cpu thresholds different use cases might prefer. Friends d
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by ctur 4y ago
It takes a while to get to the point so I’ll save others some time and tldr this very lengthy and agenda-driven blog post: jq had a tough learning curve so you should switch to zq which is a (closed source?) wrapper around an obscure langua
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by ctur 4y ago
The SCM ecosystem at Facebook is tremendously powerful and the result of some of the best minds at Facebook working on those systems for many years. From the scaling of the monorepos to the code review workflows, nothing really matches it.
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by ctur 4y ago
Check out mutagen (discussion on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30957156 ) -- it basically does bidirectional, background, transparent rsync. It also does port forwarding if you need that. It looks quite solid for th
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by ctur 5y ago
Citation needed. The addon certainly seems far less legitimate than Decentraleyes. For instance, who maintains this, why did they fork it, who has validated it isn't a malicious fork, etc etc. At least for Decentraleyes you have it

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