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by fapjacks 9y ago
It's interesting and brings up a yet-another-interesting consideration which is more broadly what is the "best" place to couple your applications/services to your provider... I suppose that's why I like containeriza
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by fapjacks 9y ago
When cloud computing commoditized running your own hardware or datacenters, people started tightly-coupling their applications to these cloud providers. One of the great benefits of containerization is that it commoditizes the cloud provide
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by fapjacks 9y ago
Probably once or twice a year, I find some piece of electronics out on the curb by the street (stereos, TVs, whatever). It is almost always a blown capacitor on the power board, because we don't have a grid where I live, and so we have
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by fapjacks 9y ago
I will be honest with you. Lately everyone's been grinding the word "terrifying" into the carpet with their boots. But this. I was simply not prepared for this. This was terrifying .
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by fapjacks 9y ago
You and I should go bowling sometime (or actually maybe just watch a YT video about professional bowling and not go anywhere). There are some real treasure channels on Youtube. Here's a curated list of some of my favorites: 3 Brown 1 B
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by fapjacks 9y ago
This is a shill post for malware [0]. I'm clearly being brigaded by the poster but it is imperative that people NOT visit this link! This poster/site/company distributes malware! [0] https://malwaretips.com/bl
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by fapjacks 9y ago
Right. They even call it "Hollywood Accounting".
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by fapjacks 9y ago
Oh, you're one of those people that thinks we're exceptional from our historical counterparts. Or exceptional as Americans from the rest of the world. You would do well to read some of that history you're supposed to be pulli
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by fapjacks 9y ago
So, I'm not going to get too much into semantics because it's not interesting, and we could grind on it forever. But the essence of social interaction and group dynamics has hundreds of thousands of years of permutation behind it,
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by fapjacks 9y ago
I think people underestimate the inherent conflict that arises from the complex cultural systems you're talking about. I mean, obviously there is conflict, but I think it's way more intrinsic to our species than most people believ
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by fapjacks 9y ago
I think this is right. The problem is people being forced or coerced to do things that don't actually make them happy. An ideological rigidity about expectations. But this tribalism is what makes human beings human. We're not goin
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by fapjacks 9y ago
DOSBox is also a great little debugger for x86 applications! It comes built with some excellent debugging features.
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by fapjacks 9y ago
You can't target personnel with incendiaries (e.g. white phosphorus), but you can target their equipment with incendiaries. While this normally means stuff like artillery pieces or crew-served weapons, belts and canteens are also con
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by fapjacks 9y ago
DoorDash in particular is exorbitantly expensive. Absolutely terrible markup and horrible experiences ordering through them. They're on my list of personal trade embargoed companies along with Dell and Domino's. Hmm. All three are
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by fapjacks 9y ago
Why would it presume liquid inside the barrier and not simply a fluid (including e.g. gasses)?
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by fapjacks 9y ago
Yes.
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by fapjacks 9y ago
> except for the hottest nights
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by fapjacks 9y ago
Come to Hawaii in the summer. Not in a hotel, just in a normal apartment like a normal person. You'll ditch any covers whatsoever.
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by fapjacks 9y ago
Hey I just wanted to post in solidarity with you about the truly harsh environment (and having to suck it up) of learning C programming in the early 90s. I still to this day tell people in interviews that the most difficult and challengin
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by fapjacks 9y ago
Actually, interestingly, I've been introducing this concept as a "party game" with other nerds at RL gatherings for some years now. The goal is to start on a random page and find the shortest path to another random page by on
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by fapjacks 9y ago
I don't think we'll be able to break the cycle until we encounter aliens and there's a whole new spectrum to use as a measuring stick to label outsiders. The cycle persists because of how different the outsiders are compare
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by fapjacks 9y ago
Maybe, but I've lived in those places you mentioned (except the east coast cities) and the problem is stifling in Austin. I'm originally from a small, liberal college town in a conservative plains state which in the 80s might have
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by fapjacks 9y ago
Ah! You know, that makes me feel a little better, knowing I'm not the only one sort of balking at the idea of Node.js running on those little dev boards... Even though I've also done it in the past haha! Very funny. :)
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by fapjacks 9y ago
My favorite part of the story is their sysadmins! Their names are great in this context and make it sound almost like an ancient Greek epic: "Our long-suffering and amazing sysadmins Theodotos and Stelios contacted our puri.sm registra
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by fapjacks 9y ago
Well, there is a big difference between "Austinites" and people that moved to Austin from somewhere else and now make up 4/5ths of the population. I made up that number, but it's not a bad guess. Austin is an east coast
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by fapjacks 9y ago
Well, this is kind of unexpected, but "highly secure" environments surely won't be running containers on the default bridge without any of the capabilities configured.
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by fapjacks 9y ago
Yeah, historically I have tended to agree with the parent's posts on HN, but here I couldn't disagree more. Our phones are definitely closer to small workstations than embedded devices. Not only because of the available resources,
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by fapjacks 9y ago
Phone software as in, like, smartphone software? The phone in my pocket is literally more powerful than the PS4 I bought last year. 8GB of RAM, 128GB of flash storage, 8-core 2.45GHz 64-bit ARM processor. Meanwhile, a couple of weeks ago, I
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by fapjacks 9y ago
Well, "good embedded programmers" are a subset of "good programmers" so yes. The point I'm making is that as embedded programmers get more experienced, we are able to do more with less. And so the hallmark of a goo
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by fapjacks 9y ago
... And then there's embedded programming, which flips this whole thing on its head, and a programmer's skill seems to be measured in how much smaller (more efficient) you can make your code while also keeping and improving clarit

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