eljimmy

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by eljimmy 4y ago
This is unrelated but what's with the fascination with HN users and My Little Pony? I've noticed this on a lot of posts in the past few months.
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by eljimmy 4y ago
That's the same article and author.
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by eljimmy 4y ago
That's the conviction. He was supposed to be sentenced June 30th, 2020.
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by eljimmy 4y ago
Interestingly I can't find any news about his sentencing. Did it ever occur?
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by eljimmy 4y ago
It's almost funny seeing almost every comment referencing AWS. Just another layer of abstraction...
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by eljimmy 4y ago
This monopoly is actually disrupted in the province of Saskatchewan where there exists a government-owned telecom provider, SaskTel. The existence of this provider has driven down prices from the big 3 (Telus, Bell, Rogers) because they hav
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by eljimmy 4y ago
4) Regret posting this publicly.
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by eljimmy 4y ago
Damn, that was sad to read. Kid needs to get unhooked from social media.
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by eljimmy 4y ago
It'd be an interesting to look at that, no doubt. Do they publicize that information in their quarterly reports?
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by eljimmy 4y ago
I recently cancelled my Spotify subscription and switched to Youtube Music. Costs a couple $ more each month but has the added benefit of no more ads when I watch videos too!
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by eljimmy 5y ago
The biggest security vulnerability is the human element. Proper education on phishing and the dissemination of personal information trumps all else, IMO.
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by eljimmy 5y ago
There's so much to do in life, why not find a completely new skill to master? Or if you've got so much free time - consider becoming a teacher. It is arguably the most important profession that exists in our world and knowing you
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by eljimmy 5y ago
The golden age of the Internet was also distinctly different because I'd wager that the majority of people online back in those days had some technical know-how. You knew you were interacting with people who could operate a computer we
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by eljimmy 5y ago
I remember reading about his discoveries on the Puma chipset and that was actually really useful information when I was debugging cable issues myself. No idea what his most recent issue is but hey, thanks for your work bud, it was useful to
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by eljimmy 5y ago
This is awesome! Will be sharing this with friends with kids.
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by eljimmy 5y ago
I'm the same - I can count on one hand how many times a year I take a pain killer. However, I have horrendous allergies all year round, so that balances out my suffering :)
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by eljimmy 5y ago
A friend of mine recently bid on a house and came 2nd highest in the bids. The winning bid was $75,000 more than his... That's a good example of blind bidding driving up overall prices.
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by eljimmy 5y ago
I run my own mail server and host all my websites on a cheap Linode instance ($5/mo) - it can be a pain in the ass to setup, but once it's up and running, there isn't much you need to do. Been running for 15 years now.
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by eljimmy 5y ago
serverless-offline ( https://github.com/dherault/serverless-offline ) is a great tool to use for local development of serverless applications. It's not a complete mirror image of what you get but it's close eno
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by eljimmy 5y ago
I really enjoyed that book and highly recommend it to anyone who hasn't!
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by eljimmy 5y ago
I've no idea - but it's probably worth replacing either way.
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by eljimmy 5y ago
Well now I feel compelled to install a web server on mine. I've got a fully functional i486DX2 66Mhz, though the PSU is a little shoddy. Maybe we can create an old school banner network linking all these old computers together :D
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by eljimmy 5y ago
Worth noting that with Postgres 12+ you can REINDEX CONCURRENTLY so no need for the 3-step process mentioned in this gist.
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by eljimmy 5y ago
Read the comments in that thread.
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by eljimmy 5y ago
Happy to read so many others here are doing #1. The country of origin for where a product was made is a great way to stop funneling your money to China. I've managed to spread this habit to a few of friends of mine but for the most par
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by eljimmy 5y ago
My take on it is that as adults you mature and begin to abide by all the rules of society. Alcohol lowers your inhibitions and "allows" you to act like you were as a child.
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by eljimmy 5y ago
I checked the tuition fees for my university CS degree and it's now just over $10,000 CAD per year for a bachelor. That's actually not that bad of an increase considering I was paying around $6,000 CAD about 15 years ago. I presum
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by eljimmy 5y ago
I've often wondered how much further along we could be as a species if we shared all knowledge with each other and worked towards a common goal instead of competing and warring with each other. Though I suppose you could argue there wo
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by eljimmy 5y ago
I really like Drudge Report because the layout is so basic and similar to websites from the early days of the web. I figure it's also worth noting that despite the conservative lean, I do find it is a good source for lots of various wo
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by eljimmy 5y ago
The repeated asking for donations is a bit much, I agree. I do still donate to Wikipedia though as I find it is an amazing resource to have available.

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