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by gregmac 6y ago
> Parler should not have been de-platformed With this statement you are implying one of two things: * You are very unhappy with AWS for de-platforming them * You think AWS should not have been allowed to do so If it's the first on
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by gregmac 6y ago
> Individually, these things are small, but the small impedances these changes introduce does take a toll on people, especially when you're trying to just get stuff done. One of the problems is a parity disconnect. A developer/
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by gregmac 6y ago
If it's connected to the tv, sure, but otherwise.. what's the benefit? Wireless APs/routers are not great there, the TV will block signal. Everything else I can think of (home server, switches, smart hubs, etc) is IMHO better
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by gregmac 6y ago
Of course, leaving it unconfigured with the open access point has its own risks, given the password is hard-coded to 1111122222: https://twitter.com/silascutler/status/1354521609692995585
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by gregmac 6y ago
That's a great idea, I'll definitely be doing that in the future! I've added L-brackets to key spots on Ikea furniture before, and it often increases how sturdy it feels by an order of magnitude. Just the other day I fixed a
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by gregmac 6y ago
Another one to look at is snapraid [1]. Open source, also supports mix of disk sizes, adding/removing, and drives are usable alone. Negatives are it does scheduled (not real-time) parity, and you have to run mergerfs yourself on top of
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by gregmac 6y ago
When I'm coding, I generally have code on one, and the other has a browser with documentation, notes, issue tracker, or just used for searches etc. Usually that monitor is split and also has chat visible. When I'm testing/deb
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by gregmac 6y ago
This reminds me of one of my favorite Futurama lines as their ship is going underwater: "Dear lord! That's over 150 atm of pressure!" "How many atmospheres can the ship withstand?" "We'll, it's a spac
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by gregmac 6y ago
Absolutely, but it's still polite to schedule the synchronous call via async. "hey, need to talk urgently about x, are you available at 2?" or "...can you call me ASAP?" There's very few situations that warrant
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by gregmac 6y ago
> Eventually, the trim wheel made an abrupt twitch forward at the high rate, but only for a fraction of a turn. This, our instructor told us, was the MCAS system becoming active or “waking up”. What was happening behind the scene was the
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by gregmac 6y ago
While I fully agree about the need to record reasoning, my approach is to summarize and put it in either wiki or a ticket. Future me doesn't want to read a long chat or email thread (whether it was one I was involved with or not), and
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by gregmac 6y ago
Yes, I'm saying neither chat nor email solve this issue. Email is far worse, in fact, because: * Everyone has a unique view * Unless there are lots of cc-everyone style emails, you might not even have anything to find. (And cc-everyone
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by gregmac 6y ago
If someone told me "that is documented in the chat channel, just search", my response would be "ok. So it's not documented." Even with the best organization (old content deleted), I don't want to wade through t
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by gregmac 6y ago
Sarah Mei did an interesting thread [1] on one aspect. A few months back, they had an unexpected outage that turned out to be caused by hitting 2,147,483,648 notifications. That number should look instantly familiar to most programmers. [1]
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by gregmac 6y ago
I also changed to using client keepalives after something in our office network changed: they installed new switches and access points and suddenly my ssh sessions wouldn't stay open. After getting nowhere with IT (mainly just a low pr
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by gregmac 6y ago
> “Will you and several hundred more go with me to D.C. and fight our way into the Congress and arrest every Democrat who has participated in this coup?” [Marshall, Arkansas Police] Chief Lang Holland posted Friday on Parler, a right-win
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by gregmac 6y ago
This is a really good summary of the situation, and I'd add a bit about risk: It's relativity easy to estimate EC2 costs for running some random service, because it's literally just a per-hour fee times number of instances. I
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by gregmac 6y ago
It's as old as any "service" has existed, nevermind internet. If you go into a store or cafe and start shouting at the top of your lungs, the owner is free to refuse service, kick you out and/or even ban you from ever en
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by gregmac 6y ago
> ridiculed, ignored, and aren't allowed a day in court to even present their evidence. ..other than the nearly 60 court cases? [1] or the dozens of news outlets that have attempted and failed to find actual evidence? [2] Saying the
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by gregmac 6y ago
I'm not sure about the city taking your house, but certainly they can approve rezoning areas, and demolition and construction permits. If a developer gets approval and can purchase every house, there's not much difference (thoug
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by gregmac 6y ago
> you can quickly build an optimal City Skylines setup and then have not much else to do You can definitely get to an optimal state then stop, but you can also keep growing. As the city grows, it requires refactoring roads and public tra
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by gregmac 6y ago
> Also allowing people to order alcohol to be delivered within the hour probably isn't the smartest! Why? What is the difference vs someone who keeps a quantity on alcohol in their house (other than being exorbitantly more expensive
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by gregmac 6y ago
Useful life of a TV is at least 10 years. Useful life of a internet media device is generally significantly less than that, but also relatively cheap to replace/upgrade every couple years. (Aside: my 5 year old Nvidia Shield still ge
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by gregmac 6y ago
> I has bosses that expected me to do things their way This is a reason you need to learn to manage up. I'm pretty clear that I'm oriented around the final objective: I don't want to be told how to do something (though I
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by gregmac 6y ago
What are they doing to do? Shut down your instance and force you to switch to a different product....? Hmmmm
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by gregmac 6y ago
The take-away from this is if a vendor doesn't provide a good changelog, it's fair to assume they're trying to cover up incompetence (or some other shortcoming). With good automated testing, a bug recurring should be extremel
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by gregmac 6y ago
> The industry needs to change. Ticket prices for cinema likely pale in comparison to the changes as a result of technology improvements and COVID. In the past two decades we've gone from the biggest home screens being a huge heavy
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by gregmac 6y ago
I think the key is describing the user-facing effects and impact. This means knowing your users (are they developers, IT or highly technical? Do they automatically or manually update quickly, or do they take time to evaluate before rolling
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by gregmac 6y ago
I wonder how many people who complain about forced updates also complain(ed) about having to support users running decade-old versions of the OS/browsers? It really wasn't that long ago that most commercial software still had to s
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by gregmac 6y ago
I don't think that's a conscious decision though. What happens is: - I can't get this exact shade of cornflower blue - Oh, here's a solution that works! Oh, it doesn't work in all browsers - Hmm, here's a stack

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