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   by entropyie 4y ago

   Nginx: static hosting, proxy pass, grpc pass, direct socket passthrough, custom modules, tls oid parsing, tls session tickets , horizontal scale out, regex mappings, lua, etc ... There is a lot to this "simple" tool...
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   by entropyie 4y ago

   Why would anyone ever need to see an ad for prescription medicine? That's what doctors are for... Illegal to advertise any prescription meds where I come from, let alone quack cures for cancer. I was absolutely shocked the first time I
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   by entropyie 4y ago

   I advise you to go visit a Stasi museum in Germany sometime, look at what they were able to do with paper documents and film/tape. Now imagine what they could do with today's telemetry obsessed economy. When I was in my 20s I thou
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   by entropyie 4y ago

   That's fair, and as I posted recently, I am not against charging a one off fee per support call, especially for free tier customers... but as a reference, I have a super cheap cpanel shared hosting plan, less than €15 per month, and I
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   by entropyie 4y ago

   I pay my cable company a comparable amount of money per month, and if it's broken, they will spend an hour on the phone with me fixing it. I can open a bank account, save €30 per month, and get in person support and advice in branch. T
6. 156.▲
   by entropyie 4y ago

   Am I the only one who instinctively thought this story was going to be about sweaters? https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/jumper
7. 157.▲
   by entropyie 4y ago

   Similar to arguments about getting human support from Google being impossible... There is a very simple solution: allow users to pay a modest amount, say €25, to get 10 minutes of real human support. This will immediately rule out people sp
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   by entropyie 4y ago

   I have a similar story. Although not quite as old, accomplished or rich, i started as a teenager and could retire comfortably at 50. One thing I don't see mentioned by others is that ultimately, helping and giving to others can bring h
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   by entropyie 5y ago

   I rarely lie to my children. I always encouraged my children not to go around saying "there is no Santy/Santa". But at the same time, I really resent the omnipresent peer pressure from other adults to actively maintain the li
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    by entropyie 5y ago

    We can't have a discussion of Le Corbusier and modernism with mentioning the concept of "legibility" as illuminated here: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/07/26/a-big-little-idea-call... Relevan
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    by entropyie 5y ago

    I just changed jobs after 8 years. I am one month into the new gig. What it did was spend the first two weeks solid, doing one-to-ones with all key stakes holders, and taking copious notes from each and every one. That includes engineering
12. 162.▲
    by entropyie 5y ago

    FYI, a good solution for youtube on Android is FireFox + "Video Background Play Fix" https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-backgro... or the NewPipe App...
13. 163.▲
    by entropyie 5y ago

    There is only one state named Ireland. And it's not "Republic of Ireland" either. That is a disambiguation, not the official name of the state.
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    by entropyie 5y ago

    The first half of this book was absolutely amazing... Could have been one of the best sci-fi books ever, but the second half was mediocre and unconvincing... Such a disappointment. Still worth it though overall.
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    by entropyie 5y ago

    I believe the Bluetooth Serial Port Profile supports AT commands, and I've seen phones connect to bluetooth devices while locked... so...
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    by entropyie 5y ago

    I migrated from Gmail to a hosted domain on a cheap cpanel account 10 years ago. That was fine for a long time. The trick was to setup an auto responder with the new address, then systematically go through each incoming Gmail and go update
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    by entropyie 5y ago

    A lot of the nutrients are in the skin, so the real trick is to buy organic (no pesticide), then eat the skin also... Reducing food waste is a bonus.
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    by entropyie 5y ago

    I am just a couple of years older than you, also using Windows since 3.0 (and MS-DOS for years before that) and Redhat Linux since the 90's. I've moved all my family over to Fedora, and support calls have dropped enormously. Windo
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    by entropyie 5y ago

    Everyone can vote in local elections in Ireland, no matter their citizenship. In fact everyone can run for local election too... If you live in a place you should have some say on how it is run, how your taxes are spent. It causes no proble
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    by entropyie 5y ago

    WhatsApp is 13 years old, like it or not, it is not a fad. I've seen it used on Nokia's with Symbian and series 40 candy bar phones 10 years ago. Outside the USA it dwarfs iMessage and will continue to do so for a very long time.
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    by entropyie 5y ago

    I also have a tonne of stuff running on a single, fanless server via docker compose. It is amazing, barely breaks 20% CPU, better uptime than aws ;-) ... One overlooked aspect is that if you use something like my Streacom db4 case, beautifu
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    by entropyie 5y ago

    Renting a coworking desk helped my morale after a year of working at home. Even a cafe once a week could help.
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    by entropyie 5y ago

    i see your point, minimum size rules for appartents in Ireland cause similar issues. But I draw the line at windows. They are a basic human necessity and a fire hazard mitigation. I stayed in a hostel underground once in Liverpool, and it w
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    by entropyie 5y ago

    If you think this is strenuous and unreasonable for an able bodied person, then I think you need to level set with the rest of humanity. Also, just get a bike with a basket if you don't like carrying stuff. Personally I feel super stre
25. 175.▲
    by entropyie 5y ago

    The images are more than 8mb each! Crazy...
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    by entropyie 5y ago

    So legal is going to tell you which NPM package to use in your NodeJS project? Is legal going to be sitting beside you when you're surfing github and see an awesome library that just happens to have an Affero GPL license? If you'r
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    by entropyie 5y ago

    This. I've Interviewed multiple senior engineer and dev manager candidates who couldn't tell me anything about software licensing, anything .
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    by entropyie 5y ago

    Same here, turnip was the tradition in Ireland in the 80s/90s, pumpkins were an American import. Like others have said, it was hard work :)
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    by entropyie 5y ago

    I would have synthesised a brief approximation of the real reason. Transport being one real possibility. The point is that this is a two way transaction with a real person, who has their own hidden state, goals and limits that are not alway
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    by entropyie 5y ago

    Consider that the shop is unlikely to have the laptops stored or annotated by box size. Dan was asking the employee to expend considerable additional effort to find the smallest laptop box when he potentially knew the model number, or least