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by dig1 3y ago
My main challenge is people, especially "experts," who come, preach whatever popular cloud stuff is today, and then leave. This leaves me with a lot of shi* to deal with. We should keep things simple, KISS. My few key points for t
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by dig1 3y ago
You are probably looking for this summary [1]: https://www.vultr.com/legal/tos/ Section 12: You hereby grant to Vultr a non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, fully paid-up, wor
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by dig1 3y ago
> AWS of course is the single biggest reason why projects are flocking to more restrictive licenses Don't forget that AWS is one of the biggest reasons so many OSS projects became popular. Redis, Mongo, ES, HashiCorp stuff, a comple
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by dig1 3y ago
> here is no demand for (paid) background removal anymore as every iPhone can do it nowadays. Proper background removal of even remotely complex content is still in demand, especially on a large scale. I doubt you'd use an iPhone to
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by dig1 3y ago
IMHO, two things keep Boeing running afloat: 1) the Airbus production queue is already full for upcoming years, and 2) their military connections and strong lobbying within US airline companies. If there were more competitors in the US, Boe
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by dig1 3y ago
> That said I also don’t think it’s a reasonable expectation for old binaries to continue to work indefinitely. Maintenance is a reality of life of a software developer, and personally speaking There is a fine difference between keeping
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by dig1 3y ago
> The main destinations were Algeria, Tunisia, Kazakhstan, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Costa Rica. These countries are known to have bad regulations and are easy to bribe, which creates a loophole for big corporations to get richer (and let
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by dig1 3y ago
I don't want to be a party breaker, and the article is nicely written, but why are these animations pervasive these days? When I click a button in the real world, it changes the state instantaneously. It gives me an instantaneous feedb
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by dig1 3y ago
I'm not in devops-land, but I pretty much hear the same from devops guys: "Instead of running pip/poetry/npm/yarn/whatever-is-popular-this-month, wait for it to download gigs of dependencies, setup nginx in a s
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by dig1 3y ago
Exactly. Every startup these days is shoveling "AI" in their summary or description, trying to attract some VC money. Reminds me of the crypto/blockchain bubble a few years ago. Guess, Nvidia again was the main beneficiary :)
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by dig1 3y ago
This reminds me of a YouTube video from a black female from the US, where she argued that Montenegro sounds too racist. Yet, that name existed way before the US was conceived.
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by dig1 3y ago
I think this is more a personal preference rather than something practical. As a counter-example, I've implemented Ansible-like syntax as a configuration for a couple of unrelated projects, and people like it because it is similar to A
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by dig1 3y ago
Great app, and I'm happy someone picked it up. I have been using it for a few years after I switched from MobileOrg [1]. Regarding sync and conflict handling, I find using it with git a much better experience, assuming the git client i
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by dig1 3y ago
I have yet to gain positive experience with Cloud Run. I have one project with it, and Cloud Run is very unpredictable with autoscaling. Sometimes, it can start spinning up/down containers without any apparent reason, and after hunting
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by dig1 3y ago
Running mail isn't hard if you know a few bits about how things work. As a matter of fact, if correctly set, it can be left running for years without significant time investment. But I'm getting the impression that anything that c
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by dig1 3y ago
> Mozilla was originally the Netscape browser, which was a paid browser. All browsers were paid at the time, until IE came along and was bundled for free with Windows. Firefox broke that chokehold, and make an open web possible. AFAIK Th
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by dig1 3y ago
> however Mitchell is a huge reason (if not THE reason) why we have Firefox today – and, even if you don't currently use Firefox, a huge reason why we have the web we have today. IMHO, this is far too stretched. Give me a single pro
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by dig1 3y ago
> because we don't use any of these features. We just use them as external data storage for a single application. You are using it :) Reboot the server where the database runs or suddenly cut off the connection. Unless you have ACID
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by dig1 3y ago
> They seem to solve many issues on the surface, but not really in practice I believe you haven't had a chance to work on problems that require an actual database. Multi-user access, ACID support, unified API (odbc/jdbc), commo
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by dig1 3y ago
> and because nobody trusts the security of the Linux kernel Seriously? I imagine all the infra worldwide is run on FaaS and short-lived VMs, right?
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by dig1 3y ago
Great work! I always liked the simplicity of C and the neat design of STL. After some quick sneak peeks, I'd suggest allowing the user to set up a custom memory pool and/or allocator (malloc/free). These could be set via addi
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by dig1 3y ago
Nice trick! I'd usually set alias in ~/.ssh/config and set origin to match that alias, e.g. Host project-foo Hostname github.com User git IdentityFile ~/.ssh/some_key Then I'll pull the
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by dig1 3y ago
YMMV, but I find ctags/global way more versatile (and faster) than LSP, especially if the codebase contains multiple different languages.
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by dig1 3y ago
I'll assume those 15 years of Vim acquired a lot of stuff in your .vimrc. Stock Vim is similar to stock Emacs (as you concluded), so I don't know about this comparison. > then do three days of Googling to add basic features lik
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by dig1 3y ago
You'd be surprised how many banks, electrical grids, oil rigs, and large ships run on old hardware. If ain't broken, you don't replace it. But keeping the system up-to-date is always a benefit.
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by dig1 3y ago
The thing is that coreutils is used everywhere - servers, desktops, and embedded devices, including 30-40 years old machines. You want to update coreutils on old SPARC or some even older mainframe? Every byte counts. So, saving as many byte
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by dig1 3y ago
I'm not fond of this writing style without concrete substance; it feels immature. Yes, the author may have tried to be funny, but I don't see a compelling reason to stop using fail2ban. Let's be clear here - fail2ban will no
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by dig1 3y ago
I just learned about vidir [1]. Emacs Dired [2] can rename & delete files by editing the buffer directly, and let's say I was thrilled when I saw someone replicated that behavior as a general Unix tool. [1] https://githu
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by dig1 3y ago
Also, the author does not seem to understand how C callbacks work. Gtk uses the same stuff, hiding them under "signals". Qt had an awful hack to support C++-style callbacks through the MOC preprocessor, which, in the end, were &qu
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by dig1 3y ago
IMHO, the problem, especially in the US, is that you pay the premium not for the knowledge but prestige and alumni access. Essentially, you pay for a bling. Education should be freely accessible, and one of the best things that came from Ea

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