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by deckard1 6y ago
> Don't you have a way to disable it and go back to what Microsoft calls Traditional Sleep? Yes, on some laptops, such as Lenovo, you can switch from "Windows" to "Linux" sleep mode in BIOS (yes, they are really
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by deckard1 6y ago
You're getting into Ken Thompson's "Trusting Trust" territory here. When you lose trust you end up with your crazy uncle leaving Fox News for Alex Jones and YouTube. You have people becoming QAnon followers. I say this n
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by deckard1 6y ago
Docker feels like the equivalent of the teenager that doesn't want to clean his room so he just pushes all his mess under the bed. The complexity is still under the bed. We're all going to have to dig under that bed one day. Or we
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by deckard1 6y ago
eh. I've been doing remote work for nearly 8 years now. It's always painful. The problem isn't fancy headphones. That's just flippant. It's that mute/unmute and everything has latency. You can't just chime
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by deckard1 6y ago
> You don't know what scaling problems you're going to get until you've scaled. This is the point I keep repeating. If you find yourself needing to scale, the way you scale likely does not match what anyone else is doing.
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by deckard1 6y ago
yeah but this is where you really have to be careful where you do your rounding. 3.089 * 10,000 = 30890 3.09 * 10,000 = 30900 A one cent rounding added up to $10 difference. It's easy to screw this up in code, sending values t
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by deckard1 6y ago
shudder I can only imagine needing to toss in standard/daylight timezone switch in there. Billing code really is the pinnacle of developer pain. It mixes the arbitrariness of special case business and customer rules with the absolute
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by deckard1 6y ago
GDPR/CCPA were always a way to punish the many (i.e. us) for the sins of the few (Facebook and Google). And, I might add, it's to their benefit. What we're entering is a future where only Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Apple
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by deckard1 6y ago
> Most of nuclear plants in the world are not in tsunami endangered areas though and are operated safely. How can one begin to even make this claim knowing: a) Chernobyl, b) Three Mile Island, and c) Fukushima? They clearly aren't
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by deckard1 6y ago
yes, but you can't just recreate a print at high quality unless there happens to be a digital image of it floating around. Here's Beeple's $69 million artwork in full resolution (warning: 300 megs!): https://ipfsga
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by deckard1 6y ago
I'm pretty sure people understood earthquakes and tsunamis from the 1960s to 2011. > not exactly a scathing indictment of nuclear power itself. No, but it's certainly a statement about our ability to operate nuclear power. You
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by deckard1 6y ago
if you need a static site, there are a thousand generators out there much easier to use than React+nextjs. Some of these are easy enough that a non-developer can use and update. Using code to generate static sites is not new or particularly
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by deckard1 6y ago
> Assuming NFTs become more mainstream and integrated with banks for land deeds and the BMV for car titles, something more official would likely be put in place Ummmm.... elephant in the room! NFT is the trust mechanism You're say
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by deckard1 6y ago
Obviously. That's not what I'm saying. What I'm saying is that someone can just as easily hack in and steal the key and forge new NFTs as if they were the artist . Which now, as someone else mentioned, you need a database of
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by deckard1 6y ago
Yeah this is always the idea the pro-NFT crowd throws around. As if Disney is going to let Mickey Mouse be in some random video game. Imagine Mickey mowing down people in Call of Duty. Or Mario smoking crack and taking an axe to prostitutes
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by deckard1 6y ago
What if hackers hack into the artist's computer and steal their key and create new NFTs?
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by deckard1 6y ago
> app-DB roundtrips could soon dominate the whole thing and they do. We have a GraphQL API backed by multiple microservices at a place I work. You become increasingly paranoid at every call you need to make. It's also where ORMs com
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by deckard1 6y ago
I'm a big fan of Svelte. I've raved about their documentation before, but it bears repeating: this should be the gold standard. You can read it all in a day. There are examples to follow right next to the documentation. Svelte is
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by deckard1 6y ago
I'm not sure this is even possible today. SaaS is literally you being subject to unpredictable A/B tests, UX changes, API changes, etc. This is what people signed up for. Automatically managed updates. I don't know too many p
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by deckard1 6y ago
Those instant answer cards are often wrong. Perhaps more troubling are the instant answers Google gives you but you aren't aware they are wrong. It's the Gell-Mann Amnesia. Considering 2/3rd of searches end there, I wonder ho
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by deckard1 6y ago
> Abstractions are a way of trying to find a common ground conceptually. What's always amused me, in a tortured sort of way, is that SQL is already the abstraction . Then people go and layer an abstraction on top of it, such as som
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by deckard1 6y ago
> the top-end version of the Am386DX launched in 1989 at 40 MHz. I had this CPU. 386dx 40Mhz. What a beast. It was my first PC that I purchased myself. It was also my first online purchase. I bought it off of FidoNet through a BBS. I&#x2
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by deckard1 6y ago
I was recently watching The Brainwashing of My Dad. Rush Limbaugh made millions of dollars selling lies to the American public. At one point there is a video clip of him admitting that the truth of what he is saying on radio is irrelevant.
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by deckard1 6y ago
> The title calls it "rare" I believe they are referring to the rarity of hitting this bug during the period of time it was broken, and not the rarity of the bug in general. People were speculating on this here: https:/&#
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by deckard1 6y ago
I moved from Macbook to a ThinkPad (trackpoint+trackpad+mouse buttons+trackpad buttons). I never used gestures. But I seriously miss inertia scrolling. You never realize how much a pain in the ass it is scrolling web pages until you don&#
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by deckard1 6y ago
> the XPS is slightly preferable to me because the matte vs glossy finish outweighs the extra resolution at that size for me. I have a ThinkPad, and this has been my experience. Sitting next to my Macbook Pro 13" retina, there is no
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by deckard1 6y ago
Just install Syncthing. And if you have an Android, you can even sync photos/notes to and from the device to your computers.
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by deckard1 6y ago
Firebug. Every developer from around 2006-2008 knows what I'm talking about. Debugging JS in IE6 was like trying to build a house blindfolded with both arms tied behind your back. Firebug is when JS went from just a web augmentation to
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by deckard1 6y ago
probably neither here nor there, but I always see manual transmission in new cars as an anachronism bordering on placebo. Primarily because everything else is still an abstraction. Specifically steering. I recall BMW or maybe Porsche gettin
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by deckard1 6y ago
> Just like any tool that doesn't offer more than an abstraction layer over OS features, eventually it becomes irrelevant as OS tooling improves You'd think. But I think what we're seeing here is the opposite side of the c

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