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by davb 7y ago
I switched because CPU usage on Mac OS was so much higher under Firefox than Chrome. I tried so many different things, following suggestions in Bugzilla, HN comments and just about every site I could find through DDG and Google. Nothing wor
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by davb 7y ago
Absolutely - I think we could all benefit from being more pragmatic and not sweating the small stuff.
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by davb 7y ago
I remember having an old 2x Traxdata drive with almost no buffer - so I certainly lived through the hassle of early drives. It's just exciting to read about other peoples' work flows.
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by davb 7y ago
I'm less interested in the GPL violation aspect, and mot excited to get an insight into what it was like to work on that team, 20 years ago. Minutiae like how to burn a build to CD https://twitter.com/0xGradius/sta
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by davb 7y ago
Much appreciated! (I've not seen it come through yet but I'll keep an eye out for it).
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by davb 7y ago
USER=dave PLUS=hn DOMAIN=davebarker TLD=xyz EMAIL=$USER+$PLUS@$DOMAIN.$TLD Thank you very much!
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by davb 7y ago
I always liked the look of lobste.rs but never knew anyone active there who could invite me (I've spent the last few years working at tiny startups and haven't spent nearly enough time networking with others outside my immediate c
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by davb 7y ago
This reminds me of how we used to create thick client desktop software, connecting directly to the database. Doing most of our business logic on the front end and leaning on the database for auth, relational constraint enforcement and (via
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by davb 7y ago
And it's so vague and broad too. It's laughable that "Data analytics technology -> Visualization" (which, on the face of it, could include the dashboard I built to show which clients have been billed properly this mon
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by davb 7y ago
I'm actually using Virtualbox. In my case, the guest doesn't see the host's files - it's the other way around. 80% of the file operations happen within the VM, with the rest being in VS Code on the host (via a mapped dri
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by davb 7y ago
I noticed file IO was slow too. My solution is to do most of my work in headless Linux VMs, using WSL as the interface to manage and connect to those VMs. This way I get the bash shell and ssh client I love but get isolated environments for
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by davb 8y ago
The third party Monzo uses is called TrueLayer. It's being discussed on the Monzo forums at https://community.monzo.com/t/monzo-labs-connected-credit-ca... A couple of people have raised concerns about security an
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by davb 8y ago
The Mac or the Lenovo? I'm not sure about the Macbook's bundled SSD. For the Lenovo, I'm incorporating the cost of upgrading to a 1TB Samsung 970 Evo Plus NVMe SSD (which has a stated sequential read/write speed of 3500&
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by davb 8y ago
Monzo in the UK recently added a beta ("labs") feature in their app to check your Barclaycard balance from within the app. Sounded ideal as the Monzo app is the best banking app I've ever used. I figured they'd be using
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by davb 8y ago
I have the same, but the proprietary SSD interface and soldered RAM mean I can no longer upgrade so have to move on. I'm looking at either the Lenovo E490 or T490 (learning towards the E). For half the price (in the UK) of a current-ge
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by davb 8y ago
I'm not sure if DO's offering has the feature parity you need, but it works really well for us, at our scale. Having done many migrations between technologies over the years, I think it's prudent to have some level of skeptic
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by davb 8y ago
I recently used Digital Ocean managed PostgreSQL 11 and was pleasantly surprised. Having used Amazon RDS in the past, I found DO's offering to be simpler and faster to provision. I did have an issue whereby the password they showed for
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by davb 8y ago
> "Apple also says that it’ll use machine learning and Apple Maps to label stores that you use in the app, and use that data to track purchases across categories like “food and drink” or “shopping.” " - I guess this is novel in
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by davb 8y ago
I never look at them, at all. Some of the worst programmers I've met have got some fantastic portfolio/showcase work on their github. Conversely some of the best coders have no OSS contributions at all. In all, I find it to be a f
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by davb 8y ago
> Try to compile the Linux kernel from scratch and see for yourself When I started using Linux around 20 years ago, with Red Hat 6, manually compiling the kernel was the only to way to enable all sorts of hardware support that's ena
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by davb 8y ago
> The Pale Moon devs weren't super polite The weren't super polite. In fact, they weren't polite at all. They were rude and demanding. I can't blame anyone for not wanting to collaborate with them after reading that t
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by davb 8y ago
> And your experience is irrelevant here... That seems unnecessarily harsh. But I do agree with your other points. Kubernetes introduces a lot of moving parts, even if the minikube interface is relatively straightforward. Over the years,
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by davb 8y ago
> Seriously: when was the last time you were infected with malware from ads? This is a talking point from a different millennium. I still see this very frequently. I work in tech, so broadly speaking, I'm less likely to find my mach
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by davb 8y ago
I've used both but recently there was a discussion on Github about Blokada secretly reporting analytics to the developer. Given that the app is primarily used by the privacy conscious, it seemed like a bad idea. They just added an opt-
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by davb 8y ago
Similarly I did come across some water treatment plant SCADA panels in another country because I didn't limit my Shodan query to my own country. Turns out my city's name exists in another country where there are a bunch of exposed
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by davb 8y ago
That's interesting! There is a HikVision office in town too. Thinking about the possible deployment scenarios, you're probably right. Municipal project, hospitals, even a large supermarket chain with 20+ cameras per store. I was j
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by davb 8y ago
This was a really interesting idea and inspired me to do something similar. I had some Shodan credits from a Humble Bundle, so searched for all servers on port 80 in my city. Then I wrote a very simple Python program to screenshot each of t
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by davb 8y ago
Yes. See https://www.w3.org/WAI/policies/ I know it's currently trendy to make digs at China (increasingly common in HN comments) but it's a huge country with plenty of talented engineers and accessibili
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by davb 8y ago
I wonder if they'll penalise paying users who also happen to be running an ad blocker. I pay for a Spotify family subscription but also block advertising and analytics domains in the hosts file on each of my devices. Spotify queries Sc
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by davb 8y ago
I found the fact that they're using modified 4G over unlicensed spectrum to control the robots pretty interesting. Latency, scalability and consistency seem to be the key drivers. There's more on that at: https://www.mo

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