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by erric 9y ago
Your definition of unsavory is likely different then someone else’s. I like whisky. I presume people who fit your definition of unsavory do as well. Should I re-evaluate my appreciation of whisky?
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by erric 9y ago
>You don't have to live here, but it bothers me that you feel so free to say that on HN. Yet, isn't the freedom to say what they think a core tenant of what it means to live in the us? Why would this bother you? >And it se
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by erric 9y ago
Good to know, Thanks. I’m sure I will be getting more questions from my co-workers, but adding these utilities is a good thing in the long run.
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by erric 9y ago
There are several reports about this happening. Granted it’s rumor: https://www.cultofmac.com/519763/apples-got-secret-plan-merg...
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by erric 9y ago
It was just a stream of consciousness and I was planning on editing it but got distracted. It also wasn't formatted very well. My mistake. I'm sure this has been going on for a long time behind the scenes. That is what happened wh
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by erric 9y ago
My questions: ARM? Walled garden of an app ecosystem? Command line? There has been convergence between iOS and MacOS for a while now.
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by erric 9y ago
Never had heard of rq, so thanks to the person above for that. I also use jp from JMESpath. I like it because both azure and aws cli use the JMESpath way of dealing with JSON so filtering between two different cloud providers is at least a
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by erric 9y ago
Maybe in a container build environment like CircleCI where having a small concise toolset is desirable?
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by erric 9y ago
>with no install of curl (which I believe is actually a default on Windows now?) Alas, no. It's just an alias to invoke-webrequest, or what ever their equivalent power shell incantation is.
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by erric 9y ago
I have been quite impressed with VS Code. I’m....honestly shocked I’m using it but it’s doing what it advertises and is doing it pretty well. Sublime is getting less use these days.
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by erric 9y ago
SOSTA/FOSTA was designed to be retroactive.
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by erric 9y ago
So Google didn’t buy them? This always struck me as a tech Apple would want in their phones, at 4MB though, apparently not. Also for a very large company, $40 million isn’t a lot.
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by erric 9y ago
Check out Jmeter
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by erric 9y ago
Sadly, it’s already been lost.
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by erric 9y ago
It wouldn’t be too hard for the Russian govt to set up shop in a residential neighborhood.
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by erric 9y ago
>But on one occasion, The Daily Beast has learned, Guccifer failed to activate the VPN client before logging on. As a result, he left a real, Moscow-based Internet Protocol address in the server logs of an American social media company,
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by erric 9y ago
Yeah, first I’ve heard of this and I read a lot of different sources for news. >The bill is worded so broadly that it could even be used against platform owners that don’t know that their sites are being used for trafficking. The legal c
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by erric 9y ago
Aren’t Israeli nukes an open secret? As in they never acknowledge they have them, but pretty much everyone believes they do?
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by erric 9y ago
Maybe, but I suspect not.
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by erric 9y ago
This statement is in the same domain as “thoughts and prayers”, which is the same as saying, ”I’m wishing at you really hard”. Rest implies an awaking or movement at some point in the future, but for Hawking, he didn’t believe in that. Mayb
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by erric 9y ago
It does seem quite a bit verbose for a simple print statement.
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by erric 9y ago
Most of the 13 year experiences I have there can be summed up as: if it isn’t broke, fix it until it is.
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by erric 9y ago
>The thinking goes, if everyone is involved in the decision-making process, then when something inevitably goes wrong, there’s no individual person to blame! Problem solved. This is _exactly_ how life in the US Govt. IT sectors go.
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by erric 9y ago
Or maybe we’re just first? Depressing either way.
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by erric 9y ago
Just the Birthday Problem in action.
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by erric 9y ago
I find Brian Greene’s books to be well done and engaging.
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by erric 9y ago
It’s interesting that their website doesn’t have info on the Equifax breach anymore.
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by erric 9y ago
You can get a nice magic eye effect from the photos, too.
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by erric 9y ago
PowerDNS has served me well and has a terraform provider. Many of the DNS SaaS offerings are also have decent APIs as does AWS route53
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by erric 9y ago
Its pretty, usable, friendly, however No one is going to use this to manage more then a few systems.

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