folkhack

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by folkhack 6y ago
Yeah - they admit that they're mixing it with two other sources of entropy... All I could think when I saw this was "not enough entropy - what the heck..." My guess is they have a couple of quantum HRNGs in those "Linux
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by folkhack 6y ago
> we'll start to see things get standardized enough that the wizardry required to keep it running will become a more commodity skill set I am so ready for this! Constant scale-up/scale-down and dynamic load is what I jump at K8
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by folkhack 6y ago
> I feel we as a civilization have uncorked a financial poison pill in the innovations of Robinhood. We will just have to ingest and process it to move forward, there is no way to go back. There will be a price to way in lost savings and
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by folkhack 6y ago
> just curious why you blame that on containers and k8s? Crawl, walk, run sorta stuff. We had never just gotten the application/monitoring/everything humming on pure Linux hosts skipping that entirely because "K8s and cont
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by folkhack 6y ago
When I was working in a stack like this I found people spending outstanding amounts of time not actually working to improve the stability/performance of the application. The reason you triggered that memory was "GKE, Prometheus, S
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by folkhack 6y ago
I'm really considering doing this for a new spin-up myself... The stability of Debian tooling for large-scale, hyper scaleable solutions is outstanding. I just feel like the world balks at me every time I do something considered slight
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by folkhack 6y ago
Yea - criminals typically have more repercussions to their actions where-as a cop has lots of protection behind them. Usually the worst-case scenario for a cop pulling the trigger is a boring early retirement with one heck of a pension. I&#
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by folkhack 6y ago
Incredibly common here. I was a teenage passenger in a car when a friend of mine held up his wallet in the light of the back window to see if he had his bank card or w/e. Cop car was behind us in traffic, pulls us over, and two cops ge
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by folkhack 6y ago
Although terrifying, many people in the US won't see that as a problem along the lines of "she broke the law and these are her consequences". I don't know if that's getting too "into the fray" for HN but..
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by folkhack 6y ago
Get a USB mouse jiggler for this situation - have used them in the past with great success.
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by folkhack 6y ago
Apple's mouse/trackpad/touch drivers are out of this world. Anecdotally as someone who collects laptops - you can't beat them. There's polish there that doesn't exist on any other solution on the market!
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by folkhack 6y ago
I've been the "over the moon" guy when someone comes aboard who wants to improve stuff. Sometimes when you're in the trenches competent help arriving can be a godsend. Not saying this is your situation, but people may ju
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by folkhack 6y ago
> Imagine if git was lost and it had to be recreated, would it make sense to rebuild it exactly as it is now? I find your argument to be "if things were different, wouldn't they be different?" which I don't find to be
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by folkhack 6y ago
> It's probably laziness. Is that such a bad thing though? Yes. > I think its ok to expect tooling to be easy so we can spend our times on actually writing code. I have never seen someone use a git GUI alternative as quickly and
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by folkhack 6y ago
This. I've open-sourced a couple of tools throughout the years and all it's done is prove to me that I don't have the emotional energy to deal with it. I still get emails that somehow both call me a piece of s&#t but stil
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by folkhack 6y ago
No it's not. If you're a dev/SWE you should be able to grok a semi-complex CLI API to control software... but the further the world gets into "everything as UIX" and "everything has to be 'easy'"
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by folkhack 6y ago
Because it's still not a great solution. I've done a TON of work in this for reasons and can tell you that streaming over 2.4Ghz especially is an anti-pattern unless you're dealing with super low-quality streams and/or o
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by folkhack 6y ago
Yeah - I have no clue why you're being downvoted. I have the exact same professional experience where Wayland is slow out-of-box vs X. I also share the experience of getting X to work on ancient hardware without much difficulty. Let&#x
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by folkhack 6y ago
> Rackspace is very mature Nahhh - it went public and everything is a race to the "bottom line" while exec/investors skim money off of the company vs. re-invest in an ever-changing market. Their stagnation has effectively
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by folkhack 6y ago
Eh - this has happened to me. Literally word-for-word: "You can't quit! You're fired!" I know it seems like it could be right out of a Simpsons episode or w/e but managers can have some pretty backwards egos. The sa
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by folkhack 6y ago
Yes, well aware. In-industry we call this "managed" and "un-managed" hosting. All of my issues actually happened with "managed" hosting 10 years ago. I was in my early-20's and still getting my feet undern
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by folkhack 6y ago
Yes - I'm aware. The age of a product does not correlate to the maturity of the product. Thanks for the "correction"
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by folkhack 6y ago
> Currently, to delete a cloud server, you're required to call support. This is insanity to me. I'd leave a VPS/cloud provider so fast if they started this. Even back in the day I always had the option to delete a Rackspac
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by folkhack 6y ago
> I'm surprised, always thought the Rackspace premium price was to prevent or significantly reduce these issues. I've found that these systems are often there to make the business-minded customer feel better vs. offering up any
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by folkhack 6y ago
This is completely anecdotal: If you find yourself on Rackspace hosting I would absolutely migrate to something more mature. Personally I've had great luck with Digital Ocean and Linode for basic/affordable VPS hosting, with AWS b
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by folkhack 6y ago
6+ hour interviews are common for senior-level+ engineering roles at big orgs. They fly you in for a day of interviewing. Some orgs will even break this up to a 2-3 day thing to even it out. If you're a bay company that's taking a
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by folkhack 6y ago
I'm not 100% convinced it's satire because I've run into people who think/act like this in regards to interviewing, on-boarding, and team building. They're sociopaths.
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by folkhack 6y ago
Yep - I get the "it just works" argument. But just remember folks, Windows 10 telemetry is basically Microsoft-sanctioned adware/spyware right on your computer. I've done a "base setup" of W10 sniffing traffic
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by folkhack 6y ago
Same, and it's just layer on layer of extra tooling and complexity. Typescript, Babel, Webpack, JSX, TSX, etc, etc. It gets in the way of development as much as it helps.
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by folkhack 6y ago
> I-frames in the RTSP spec It's non-standard for the spec but is common for security industry. All of my Axis cameras support it, and some of my other vendors support it too... unfortunately it's vendor-specific but it's

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