damagednoob

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by damagednoob 3y ago
Surely, if you get to the position of running a multi-billion dollar company on some level you should know what you're doing? No one is taking a rookie kart racing driver and putting them straight into Formula 1.
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by damagednoob 3y ago
'Top CEO', not 'Average CEO'. How much does LeBron James make in salary/endorsements/etc vs the average NBA player or Ronaldo vs the average professional soccer player?
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by damagednoob 3y ago
> If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him. - Cardinal Richelieu This was going through my head when I recently deleted 15 years of Facebook data. I am not
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by damagednoob 3y ago
> Why is buying something 10x more powerful than you'd need at 2x the price "good value"? I would argue in the same way that buying an expensive pair of boots that last longer than a cheap pair to be good value. > You s
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by damagednoob 3y ago
There's something ironic about having so many features that you have a dedicated page telling users which ones not to use.
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by damagednoob 4y ago
PEP 684: https://peps.python.org/pep-0684/
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PEP 684 has been accepted. A Per-Interpreter GIL coming in Python 3.12(twitter.com)
9 points by damagednoob 4y ago|2 comments
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by damagednoob 4y ago
But how? Surely it was worth more than that?
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by damagednoob 4y ago
I think there are two other factors that people forget. 1) Most (if not all) FPSs at the time (Quake 3, Halflife etc.) had respawn times of around 10s after death. Counter-Strike introduced the idea of rounds which only ended when your who
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by damagednoob 4y ago
Or csvkit[1]. [1]: https://csvkit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
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State of Infrastructure-from-Code 2023(klo.dev)
2 points by damagednoob 4y ago|0 comments
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by damagednoob 4y ago
People are so short sighted when it comes to imposing these types of laws. Sure, they get what they want so long as their side is in power. What happens when the Republicans get voted out? Would they be okay with the Democrats having these
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by damagednoob 4y ago
> I would have very little faith in my tests if they were run against a different type of database than my production one. Hence why they were run against MySql on CI.
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by damagednoob 4y ago
> You will never switch databases We used SQLAlchemy on a Python project which allowed us to use an in-memory SQLite DB in our integration tests. This gave us blazingly fast database tests during development where a database was torn dow
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by damagednoob 4y ago
> how to make backups safe in age of encrypting ransom ware. Versioned, offsite backups. For instance, if you have a database in an AWS account: * Give the backup process write only (I.e. no delete permissions) to a GCP account. * Create
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by damagednoob 4y ago
Buildkite[1]. You never give them any secrets. It is essentially a frontend for agents that live on your infrastructure in the cloud, e.g. AWS. The company I work for does the CI runs on spot instances which is perfect for this kind of inte
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by damagednoob 4y ago
> The GitHub acquisition was part of their plan to start repairing their fractured relationship with developers - almost a PR tool. I think that's a surface-level interpretation of the benefit to Microsoft. Azure and GitHub CI are a
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by damagednoob 4y ago
Yes this struck me too. I wouldn't describe the language used as 'neutral'.
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by damagednoob 4y ago
Why does this feel like Iraq all over again? You oust Putin but what of the power vacuum that is left behind? I can't help but this is a common gambit of dictators: You think I'm bad? Wait until you see what comes after me. With n
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by damagednoob 4y ago
> ...in places like the US it is considered normal to have a 30yr mortgage... Check the historical interest rates of the US/UK vs SA for why that exists.
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by damagednoob 4y ago
Usually I like BBC's More or Less but their episode[1] on this situation really rubbed me the wrong way. They dismissed one elderly white couple's concerns with implied racism and didn't look at the trendline of per capita ou
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by damagednoob 4y ago
> And they reinvented the wheel. Buried amongst the comments was this from one of the creators: > On the live environment we were told at the time we had Perl 5.6, and a few BBC approved perl modules. Nothing more! So that meant that
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by damagednoob 4y ago
> That meant that existing scripting code that used those libraries would need to be rewritten to use an equivalent .NET library. We naively thought that was what people would do... AFAIK, that's what JRuby does but Java had (has?)
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by damagednoob 4y ago
Hasn't total wealth gone down by $10 in your scenario?
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by damagednoob 4y ago
Hah, now I know where he got it from: https://youtu.be/jVkLVRt6c1U?t=53s
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by damagednoob 4y ago
I don't understand poverty statistics. With this news, the UK now has more people living in poverty than India (16% vs 22%?). If it is valuable to judge poverty on relative income, you would think the rational course of action would be
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by damagednoob 4y ago
"Valuable data can be kept for three days, and metadata for 30 days. One leaked document states that all metadata is usually kept: 'we pull in everything we see'." https://www.amnesty.org.uk/why-taking-go
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by damagednoob 4y ago
At the very least you have to say he has a knack for hiring the right people.
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by damagednoob 4y ago
If a project never signs in with thanks.dev, what happens to their donations?
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by damagednoob 4y ago
Also not to be confused with watchexec (my tool of choice for executing commands on file changes): https://github.com/watchexec/watchexec

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