francis-io

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by francis-io 4y ago
Agreed. I like keeping make as my universal abstraction for all commands in a project. I keep a template to use on each new project with all the best practice fixes I've found over the years. I keep my own documentation as comments for
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by francis-io 4y ago
Where would you start if you knew nothing about electronics but wanted to create this as a way to learn?
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by francis-io 4y ago
I'd love this, but I even have close friends who wouldn't want to have that stress. If we got a critical mass of people to want this, things would change, but no company is going to change it's practices for just me.
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by francis-io 4y ago
Twitter contractors got holiday pay? Maybe it's an American thing, but here in the UK I've never heard that. You either work or don't get paid.
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by francis-io 4y ago
I have found that when you pair it's easy for both people to lose sight of some greater context. You become one big mind and become susceptible to as many blindspots as an individual.
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by francis-io 4y ago
I can also recommend moneydashboard.com. I load in multiple banks and credit cards, it will update all my banking transactions via api into a central view. I can set a budget for each type of expense and it all just seems to work.
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by francis-io 4y ago
I did cancel my delivery plan a while back and noticed you had to go via support. No excuse for this in 2022 with such a modern setup. Obviously it was to retain me as a customer.
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by francis-io 4y ago
These days I try to avoid physical shops as much as possible. Here in the UK, we have a "supermarket" called Ocado. If you haven't heard of them, please look them up on Youtube[0]. They don't have any physical shops I kn
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by francis-io 4y ago
I've some a similar thing with my NAS on a Supermicro X10 (I think) on Linux. I have had all kinds of trouble getting quiet fans on this board under Linux. I think it's a mix of BIOS fan control and other things that I ended up si
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by francis-io 4y ago
Yea, as I get better educated and more experienced at my job, I'm thinking more and more that the lessons of the past 5-10 years are less "serverless is the future" an more "the real gains are things like immutability fo
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by francis-io 4y ago
in the uk, everyone wants to work on daily rates. 600pd-650pd as a devops engineer. So, £75, or $86 an hour. This is 5 days a week, 40 hours a week. I bill around £14k a month and after taxes i walk away with about £7k a month.
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by francis-io 4y ago
No one is forcing you to rent in a specific place. Go buy a flat or house yourself.
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by francis-io 4y ago
I think you have to take a break. Step back for a bit. When you come back, find out what really interested you in tech in the first place and follow that. The fact you think 300+ people are applying to the same jobs means the market might b
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by francis-io 4y ago
As someone who is neurodivergent, reading is exhausting. I like audiobooks played at 2x speed.
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by francis-io 4y ago
The problem with oncall teams that are different to the usual SRE/DevOps teams are the lack of understanding of the system. This can obviously be fixed with good documentation, but in reality, no one has good enough docs. The second pr
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by francis-io 4y ago
theres some third parties that give you an API directly I believe. Firefly III lists salt edge and nordigen. https://docs.firefly-iii.org/data-importer/
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by francis-io 4y ago
"...reminding Lucy of her mandatory vaccination" is very chilling.
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by francis-io 4y ago
As someone who does this day to day, I think k8s is worth it for anything non-trivial. If I didn't already have this understanding, then it might be a different trade off.
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by francis-io 4y ago
People have a finite amount of bandwidth to focus on certain things. A DevOps Engineer should be a programmer focused on infrastructure, but we share toolkits.
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by francis-io 4y ago
Looks great. I don't play games much, but when I do it's things like Factorio and Rimworld, so this looks really fun to me. Does it run on Linux?
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by francis-io 4y ago
Have you tried https://github.com/bgregos/foreground or https://github.com/theunraveler/taskwarrior-web
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by francis-io 4y ago
This might show my ignorance, but can Nix replace something like asdf ( https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf )?
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by francis-io 4y ago
Thank you. As someone who uses containers a lot (even to run local programs, shout out to https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/docker-containers-on-the-desk... ) this makes some sense to me. I'm a little way into the Nix
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by francis-io 4y ago
No one asked, but I feel like I've been down this road before. Heavily customizing a system with obscure lines plucked from strangers dotfiles. These days I use VS Code and Firefox for almost everything.
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by francis-io 4y ago
Currently I use Ansible to deploy my dotfiles, along with anything else needed to setup a workstation. I keep seeing people mention Nix. Would it give me anything that Ansible and Git can't give me?
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by francis-io 4y ago
I also can't eat dairy or wheat for intolorence reasons. Its hard to live live a normal person sometimes. You try to date but can't go to a restaurant confidently (big cities are better though). Most sauces and prepped food have e
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by francis-io 4y ago
As childish as I know this sounds, as a white male in my early 30s, I don't really eat fish. I like the occasional can of tuna, but thats it. It might be an aspergers thing with me about texture, but I don't like the bones. I also
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by francis-io 4y ago
This was taught to me in my first linux admin job. I was running commands manually to interact with files and databases, but was quickly shown that even just writing all the commands out, one by one gives room personally review and get a pe
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by francis-io 5y ago
The professional (T series) line of the Thinkpads are my go to. I've been running ubuntu 20.04 for the past few years. You can have hot swap batteries and an inbuilt SIM slot if you choose. Not sure if the fingerprint is working (I did
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by francis-io 5y ago
I know nothing about ARM, but I think it's time to learn. Am I right in saying you need to compile the OS and all applications to run on ARM? If so, I bet at least one thing I use daily wont work, and I don't want to commit to a l

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