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by decasia 3y ago
I write Ruby professionally and while I agree that this can lead to some very sloppy code, I don't find that this causes a lot of problems in practice. A place where we would use nil conversions is especially in logging and error handl
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by decasia 3y ago
There's something eerily true about TFA's observation that data centers have a big footprint but really low headcount. I work in the Atlanta area, and it's amazing how long you can work in tech without ever setting foot in a
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by decasia 3y ago
One of the comments in the thread links to a useful writeup for the AWS side: https://www.knowmatic.app/how-to-migrate-aws-ec2-instance-fr... I didn't find such great docs on the Cloudflare part, but some of these were
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by decasia 3y ago
I mean, I used to rent the $5/month VPS, and it worked well. In fact, it had much nicer developer experience than EC2 for many reasons. But my provider (digitalocean) raised the price, and I don't really need a lot of CPU resour
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by decasia 3y ago
Yep, it crossed my mind that AWS has no incentive to optimize this particular process since they have planned to monetize it :/
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by decasia 3y ago
OK so — I just migrated my personal website to use IPv6 only. It runs on AWS EC2, and my motivation was purely to save on paying the IPv4 fee that AWS is introducing next week. I put it behind Cloudflare which can provide an IPv4 proxy addr
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by decasia 3y ago
I met Graeber once or twice because we went to the same graduate program. He was a very modest person in some ways, almost shy sometimes, while of course quite politically unusual in some ways, and often irascible. I didn't agree with
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by decasia 3y ago
I see what you mean. For what it's worth, I wasn't mainly trying to comment on whether classical music notation is a good general language of music. My view, to emphasize, is that classical notation is very useful in certain co
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by decasia 3y ago
My experience with classical musical notation (as a pianist) is that it gets much easier to read the more you understand the conventions of the music . After you have a sense of what conventional classical music sounds like, of the kinds o
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Ask HN: What do you use to replace incandescent lights?
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by decasia 3y ago
It kind of reminds me of this, except substitute coding for "hammering": https://www.buzzmaven.com/old-engineer-hammer-2/
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by decasia 3y ago
I have been having the following debate with my friend who does AI and neural network stuff: Him: Coding will soon be obsolete, it will all be replaced by chatgpt-type code gen. Me: OK but the overwhelming majority of my job as a "seni
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by decasia 3y ago
I've gotten into songwriting this year and I think this article captures some very real things about how lyrics can be created. I always start by scribbling on a piece of paper with some experience or some idea that's on my mind.
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by decasia 3y ago
I looked just now and I actually have an EPS of something I drew on a mac SE in 1993. It's amazing how if you can manage not to lose all your files over time, they become an archaeology site documenting long stretches of your life.
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by decasia 3y ago
Just that until now I didn't realize I would need to.
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by decasia 3y ago
I have EPS files from 25 years ago that I still want to be able to open, these old graphics that help me remember my dad, a graphic designer. This sucks.
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by decasia 3y ago
It's always a little unexpected when the security vulnerabilities are in the tools we use to build software instead of just in the software. I suppose it's a class of supply chain vulnerability. In this particular class of imperso
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by decasia 3y ago
I mean, I used to work at a digital agency that pulled in way, way more than $50k MRR. It did high quality work across a range of services (copywriting, web development, graphic design, social media engagements, online advertising). Mostly
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by decasia 3y ago
So I used to use DigitalOcean for around the same intro price point, but after a while I realized that I could pay $22/year for a t4g.nano ec2 instance instead of $72 for the cheap DigitalOcean VPS. I guess in the end, the $22/yea
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by decasia 3y ago
Yep I think that's plan B, thanks.
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by decasia 3y ago
Sigh, so basically it's impossible to switch without shredding an already tiny audience. I'm sure it won't be a nice UX either to have a "can't connect to this IP" error in someone's browser. IPv6 has been
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by decasia 3y ago
So I have a tiny personal website hosted on ec2. Right now the DNS points to the server's public IPv4 address. But I don't really want to pay $40+/year for an IPv4 for my personal project. Does anyone have experience switchin
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by decasia 4y ago
It's interesting to read a little bit about the history of film editing. It gives you a sense of what this activity is like when it is at a professional level, what kinds of things are important if you do this for a living: https:&#x2
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by decasia 4y ago
It gets to the point where it's hard to even know what to say about the nth tech layoff announcement. It's a good reminder, if we needed one, of how fragile the good times are, for anyone who is an ordinary professional working in
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by decasia 4y ago
The thing is, every language has serious issues, whether usability issues, documentation issues, performance issues, community issues, standard library issues, dependency issues, whatever. And for every issue, there are some people who just
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by decasia 4y ago
It's interesting, it seems at first somewhat gratuitous to have such a complex gamified system for something like running along city streets, and you can find yourself wondering why humans find such joy from following self-invented rul
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by decasia 4y ago
I love the hacker thought process of "Is there an HTML element that can hide and show content right out of the box (without js), and now can we borrow it to implement a completely different data structure that wasn't obviously par
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by decasia 4y ago
Bonus points if zsh measured startup time by default and issued periodic warnings about slow startup dependencies. I wouldn't mind seeing the occasional message to STDERR telling me that `kubectl xyz` is actually adding 250ms to shell
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by decasia 4y ago
I guess everyone has their own solution to this. Here's mine: - Write some static html and one stylesheet - Pay DigitalOcean for the cheap plan - Run nginx + letsencrypt - Apply linux security updates promptly - Occasionally pay to re
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by decasia 4y ago
I mean, if someone asked me about this in an interview, I would say something like "As a working software developer, what I can tell you is that sometimes the line discipline gets broken and borks the line endings, and I know how to re

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