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by dmwilcox 2y ago
Wow! I never gave it much thought that a train could get stuck in Donner pass. I grew up in the area and the snow can really come down. Warning, if you wait until snow is sticking in Reno then you might not make it through. I've had se
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by dmwilcox 2y ago
I feel like this was my last week. Welcome to the UK as an American tech worker. You use a custom Android ROM, too bad, you can't setup your visa. Want to book something on Ryan Air too bad, "computer says no" (really I shoul
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by dmwilcox 2y ago
California is not the Bay Area and LA metro. There are lots of places in California you won't get "California salaries" either. Having grown up in rural California I have will return the favor I get for confusing the UK with
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by dmwilcox 2y ago
Love it. Very similar to mine which I embarrassingly have not written about (other than a readme) for the going on 3 years I've been using it daily. But I think the point of these type of systems (small, immutable, simple) is that they
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by dmwilcox 2y ago
I haven't used this in a few years since switching off of Qubes but something no one mentioned is that output PDFs are *huge*. They're practically PNGs with a .PDF extension in terms of size. I love the idea of making PDFs dumber
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by dmwilcox 2y ago
It seems like we don't need a technical solution for this and making one would be dystopian as you point out. Why not just (a) make it illegal so the parents and tech companies see it that way and (b) put some fines on the responsible
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by dmwilcox 2y ago
I'm not an openbsd person, though maybe one day!, but why change to complicated failure-prone tech when you could have something simpler and more secure? https://man.openbsd.org/signify https://github.com&#x
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by dmwilcox 2y ago
I love this stuff. Thinking about how our software and its supply chain break down so dramatically given small adversaries like 'intermittent internet access' or 'old crappy machines' has definitely changed the way I thi
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by dmwilcox 2y ago
Ran a business with it, payroll, administered the 401k accounts, etc. Solid. Expense tracking good enough for a business with limited expenses, or background as a bookkeeper (my teenage job). But being able to generate balance sheet and pro
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by dmwilcox 2y ago
Networkd is fine if you don't need vlans, bonding, and a bunch of semi-esoteric stuff. /e/n/i does fine there. Journald is too monolithic IMO. Direct access to the files in a text format is standard Unix stuff. Forcing e
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by dmwilcox 2y ago
it's funny that many people mention boot time as a metric when for most servers, VMs and laptops the devices are either always on or sleeping. startup times do nothing in those cases. personally I use a custom alpine live-usb that is i
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by dmwilcox 2y ago
Let me tell you the story of how i came to love and use sc-im instead of my own solution. Multi-country taxes are too much fun. Every dollar/GBP amount needs to be converted to the other currency for taxes in that country. I originally
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by dmwilcox 2y ago
Context: I write mostly write Python for a living and run a Django app as a major responsibility I always wonder if python, auto scaling, and cloud change the kinds of businesses (and margins) required. Running 60+ pods of gunicorn for an a
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Uncharted waters: what startups can learn from pirates about compensation(devonzuegel.com)
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by dmwilcox 2y ago
I'm impatiently waiting for the systemd shell and editor /jk (and to be clear I hope this is a joke but I worry sometimes)
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by dmwilcox 3y ago
I would imagine for phones and laptops the extraction of materials (rare earth metals to make fancy new chips, lithium for batteries,etc) is probably the bigger issue. Having gotten away from 500+ watt desktops as the standard for light non
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by dmwilcox 3y ago
@dang spam alert, sorry not sure how else to flag
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by dmwilcox 3y ago
I was going to say, in 2023 I looked around and for Clojure at least Conjure seemed like the best option. https://github.com/Olical/conjure/wiki/Client-features Unfortunately, in the table linked above the CL
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by dmwilcox 3y ago
I've been writing python for going on 20 years now and while it was a good language to cut my teeth on thus sort of analysis brings only horror. Many thanks to the author for dropping into plain view. I'm going to go back to learn
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by dmwilcox 3y ago
I've run musk based distro for a couple of years with no trouble (KISS Linux and now some hacked up Alpine monster I put together). I don't do streaming video that requires DRM -- which will be a non-starter due to the widevine&#x
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by dmwilcox 3y ago
Love it. Everything is tied together with shell scripts which isn't everyone's taste but I appreciate being able to hack up something quickly for a phone UI. I wrote an alarm clock script (on the pine phone itself during my commut
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by dmwilcox 3y ago
I had a niggling feeling they were different (realized after I posted) and I would get some reading. I haven't taken an EE course in a long time and miss it. Thank you!
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by dmwilcox 3y ago
Nit: Mblaze is lovely but it is not a TUI. It's a maildir-enabled copy of the "mh" command suite so you can manage and read your email from the command line and use your default editor. Other than that, yes please plaintext.
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by dmwilcox 3y ago
This book taught me that a flip-flop is sometimes called a latch ;). Not just for babies apparently
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by dmwilcox 3y ago
What I heard and I'm not sure how much truth is in it -- but it's fun gossip so enjoy -- is that upstart needed some work done, and Poettering went off for 6 months and came back with a replacement (instead of a fixed upstart). If
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by dmwilcox 3y ago
Re: expensive. Hard disagree. To put things in technology terms roads don't scale to meet commuters needs. And as others have pointed out it is a unit cost problem with your reasoning (total cost per commute). At some scale we aggregat
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by dmwilcox 3y ago
I feel obligated to mention that large projects occurred in Python before types (and were not spaghetti). But I cut my teeth in the 2.4 era with google docstrings which obligated the author to put the types in the docstring. Sorry for anoth
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by dmwilcox 3y ago
If new neighborhoods had to pay for their own pipes, roads, electrical hookups and couldn't put that on existing tax payers it'd help municipal finances a lot. Sprawl is expensive from an infrastructure perspective. And the spendi
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by dmwilcox 3y ago
Roads are all fine, I just want them to be gravel or dirt ;). While we're dreaming that is. I grew up in rural California and dirt roads were quite common not far out of town, it's a different way of driving and one that'll m
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by dmwilcox 3y ago
I loved Luiz, I worked for him in platforms (his datacenter development department). He was truly one of the kindest people I have ever met. I deeply miss our banter around the coffee machine and am saddened the last time is past. We'v

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