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by gernb 5y ago
Is there are part that does the rest? Deployment, Staging, CI, Backups & Restore, Rolling Upgrades with fallback, etc.... or is that still left as an exercise for the reader?
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by gernb 5y ago
While I agree that's a great dock, IIUC, it's not technically a USB-C dock, it's a Thunderbolt dock. I know it's the same cable but IIUC it's not USB-C?
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by gernb 5y ago
Grew up in LA. Never had people flake. My guess is via random variation, some people get unlucky, have a few people flake, and assume it's the cultural norm. You can insert "people from ____ are flaky" and find complaints abo
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by gernb 5y ago
I'm not sure it will matter at FAANG. For > 15yrs meetings always had video conferencing for other offices or team members at home etc... So it's not that much different except at home I can turn off my camera if I'm dishe
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by gernb 5y ago
Those are not close to top end TVs. They're old tech. Their 65inch QLED consumer model is $900. The signage model is $6400 (yes, 7x) https://www.samsung.com/us/business/displays/pro-tv/bh-serie...
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by gernb 5y ago
Not as bad but still upsetting is the Google TV experience. I got a "top of the line Sony 65 A90J" a few months ago. It has Google TV. Turn it on and the screen is covered with ads for movies and TB shows. There's no way to t
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by gernb 5y ago
No I didn't miss the tutorial. But I didn't need to role to beat the guy that it fails to teach you to roll on. I say fails, because in old Zelda's you literally couldn't pass a training course until you could successful
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by gernb 5y ago
The content makers also have limited time to make content. There's no difference. The accountant made some content, a tax form, I copied it. The movie maker made some content, a movie, I copied it.
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by gernb 5y ago
Plea for tips... I tried to play Elden Ring, no knowledge, lover of BotW, and ... I first picked Wretch. I didn't know that it matter and maybe it doesn't but it seemed more cool to start with wimpy looking character and see it ge
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by gernb 5y ago
dumb question but .... isn't it a problem that private ssh keys are stored in ~/.ssh and that any random app, npm dependency, build script, etc could copy them across the network?
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by gernb 5y ago
That I should have spent more time finding a partner. Everyone said "don't try, it will happen naturally". Well, no, it didn't. Now in my mid-50s.
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by gernb 5y ago
I'm totally on board with copying is not theft https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeTybKL1pM4 Except that it is something. I go to my tax accountant, have them calculate my taxes, then, when they send me the filled out pa
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by gernb 5y ago
I pirate because I don't want to be tracked. I don't want Amazon, AppleTV, Netflix, building a profile on me based on my viewing history.
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by gernb 5y ago
I'm sure Japan is not at China's levels but in the time I lived there are I saw several lines get completely, several stations get rebuilt (A good example would be Shinagawa Station) and an 11km underground highway built. Meanwhil
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by gernb 5y ago
I'm sure I'd live to regret this idea but I really wish I could send video of other vehicles breaking the law to some government agency and have them fine the drivers of those cars. And, I don't really care they don't kn
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by gernb 5y ago
Father (unvacced) died of Omicron in January. Self (2 Pfizer + 1 AstraZeneca), haven't had it yet. https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor... claims there's currently > 1200 deaths per
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by gernb 5y ago
I feel like I could say the same about infinite news which I'd define as a site I can check several times a day and see new "top stories". This would include Reddit and HN. I find it super addicting to check too many times an
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by gernb 5y ago
The Police Union and the Teacher's Union have certainly been reported to be responsible for making it hard to fire people.
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by gernb 5y ago
If you just want hacker news results then https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+...
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by gernb 5y ago
Is there any way to get access to a GPT-3 like API that can be run locally (color me ignorant, I know generating net for GPT-3 is huge but I have no idea how small the usable result can be stored so that usage can happen locally instead of
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by gernb 5y ago
Sorry.
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by gernb 5y ago
I hate twitter because it's 90% self promotion, virtual signaling, humblebrags. I guess I'm old and this is some new evolution of humans. Back before twitter most of these narcissists and sycophants didn't have a platform and
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by gernb 5y ago
Wrong https://flutter.github.io/samples/web/form_app/#/form_widget...
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by gernb 5y ago
No, it doesn't. Try dealing with accessibility, emoji, screen readers, non-English languages. The people in charge left all of that "TBD" and now they've backed themselves into on unsolvable corner with their "rende
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by gernb 5y ago
Flutter is shit for web stuff. Makes all non-Western language speakers 2nd class citizens and sucks for accessibility. It also sucks for extensions including language extensions and accessibility extensions. I can't believe it's g
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by gernb 5y ago
Do what? Record who came in and out of your house?
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by gernb 5y ago
When do they announce they want 30% of all payments made with this system?
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by gernb 5y ago
What's your age? I know several people between 55-60 that got hired at FAAMG companies
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by gernb 5y ago
when you say "it's seasonal" what do you mean? It certainly is not a "winter" thing given that until omicron, Japan's highest numbers were in the middle of hot and humid summer.
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by gernb 5y ago
I'm curious what do you think should have been done differently? my un-educated thinking is (1) kids catch covid like everyone else, they don't get bad symptoms, but they bring it home and give it to their parents, grandparents, e

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