danudey

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by danudey 5y ago
So not only is the Facebook/Instagram "try to lock users into our own browser to track them" thing user-hostile, but it actually harms companies that are using ads by having them drop in the middle of the funnel?
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by danudey 5y ago
For the longest time I was getting Amazon ads on Instagram that were for products I had recently viewed - even viewed less than an hour before in some cases. Moreover, the Amazon account we use is my wife's, which we pay for Prime on.
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by danudey 5y ago
Maybe they had a drop-down saying "How did you hear about us?" with just "Facebook Ads" and "Not Facebook Ads", that's my theory.
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by danudey 5y ago
Or the logging output only outputting timestamps when they're different so you can clearly see what happens and when.
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by danudey 5y ago
Rich is probably the biggest lifestyle change I've ever had because of a single library. Every one of my scripts now has quick and easy progress bars, console management (including saving a copy of console output), tables with columns,
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by danudey 5y ago
I once set up a new Dell system, and it took something like 30 minutes to actually start and get to the desktop, and then a huge amount of time afterwards answering "yes I for really really real don't want your stupid demo" t
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by danudey 5y ago
This might be an option for business or enterprise versions; I know our company buys everything from Dell so we have a good relationship, and I've seen discussions of being able to send a system image to Dell for them to put onto lapto
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by danudey 5y ago
That thread is from two months ago.
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by danudey 5y ago
Also on the mobile app, refreshing my feed results in a bunch of "empty" posts with media but no title. Basically every time, and for ages now. They also took away the "news" tab for a while, but then it came back again
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by danudey 5y ago
In our Jenkins system, we have remote build nodes return data back to the primary node via environment variable-style formatted files (e.g. FOO=bar), so when I had to send back a bunch of arbitrary multi-line textual data, I decided to base
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by danudey 5y ago
Here's the wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_D "The Pentium D brand refers to two series of desktop dual-core 64-bit x86-64 microprocessors with the NetBurst microarchitecture, which is
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by danudey 5y ago
Also minimal in the sense that it doesn't ask you to log in, suggest you use their password manager, etc.
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by danudey 5y ago
If you don't have two floppy drives, you're not cool enough to be on the internet.
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by danudey 5y ago
What's that old saying about rolling your own crypto? Something about it's definitely always a good idea to do, I think.
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by danudey 5y ago
Thanks for the suggestions, I'll give that a try! And yes, some of our repositories are huge. This one is about 240 GB, and comprises multiple projects/products. Our "most important" repository is only 313,000 revisions,
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by danudey 5y ago
There are lots of people who can specialize though; being the person who can bridge specializations (or determine what specialization even applies) is incredibly valuable. It's hard to reconcile that with our society's typical exa
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by danudey 5y ago
My wife and I have ADHD, and your description sounds exactly like our lives. Dive incredibly deep into a new thing because it's new and exciting, immerse yourself for a while, and then be completely unable, even if you really want to
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by danudey 5y ago
Sorry for the late reply, but: 1. I'll try doing some profiling and see what happens 2. The latest repository I tried to import has 671,190 revisions
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by danudey 5y ago
This article sounds like someone who's never successfully implemented either solution. Things that are wrong so far: Monolithic apps need monitoring (e.g. Prometheus) just as much as microservices. Monolithic apps can have scaling issu
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by danudey 5y ago
Clarification: * Java 8 is Java 1.8.0 * Java 11 is Java 11.0.11 (at the moment) * Java 17 is Java 17.0.1 (at the moment) SunOS/Solaris is what I use when I want to get nerd-rage mad about minutae: https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by danudey 5y ago
Specifically, Go was designed to be effectively and safely writeable and readable by mediocre programmers.
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by danudey 5y ago
Reposurgeon was a pretty enticing option for us, as we're currently in the migration of SVN to Git, and the string of tools we have is kind of complicated to explain to newcomers. Currently the workflow is svn-all-fast-export (SVN to G
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by danudey 5y ago
None of this is really what this service is intended for. If you read the whitepaper, they list examples of what this would be useful for; namely, covering your own space with your own 5G for your own devices. Deploy it in these areas inste
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by danudey 5y ago
Option 3 is to become very profitable and then have Facebook create its own competitor and integrate it into their own apps, killing your business overnight.
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by danudey 5y ago
Too many people are trying to create a startup with short-term success in order to get acquired. Get that $500m acquisition in the bag and then retire. Boom, done.
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by danudey 5y ago
> I's really interesting to see just how low-res screens were when it was in it's hey-day, given that they are nearly unusable on a 4k monitor. This reminds me of the realization that modern MacOS apps can have icon sizes large
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by danudey 5y ago
I've been looking for years and I have yet to find any systems (TV, receiver, or injector) which actually take advantage of this feature.
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by danudey 5y ago
Run it through pihole to block the ad networks? Or just whitelist hostnames/addresses one by one until the setup works. Not exactly a user-friendly option, but an option nonetheless.
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by danudey 5y ago
Economies of scale, and subsidies. TVs that ship with Netflix buttons on the remote, Prime Video app, and built-in crappy ads all over the place are being subsidized by those companies. Meanwhile, no one is buying non-smart TVs, so lower qu
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by danudey 5y ago
And melting holes through engine blocks.

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