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by gregmac 3y ago
I can afford it, but have a hard time justifying the costs, not to mention scrapped (working) hardware and inconvenience (of swapping to a whole new array). I started using snapraid [1] several years ago, after finding zfs couldn't exp
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by gregmac 3y ago
I would think a combination of git, unit tests, and comments would solve this problem? Unit tests prove the code works as intended, and are basically examples of what the code is doing. Whether the code is actually "good" is a bit
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by gregmac 3y ago
I don't monitor services at that level at all, because it means basically nothing. More acutely: the the lack of a notification doesn't tell mean everything is "ok". I tend to monitor the actual service. If it's a w
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by gregmac 3y ago
> Some aspects of the business want to tweak things and it should be reasonably guaranteed that the automated side never touches it. What would a legitimate case for this be? It seems to me like any changes either must be done via IAC --
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by gregmac 3y ago
> I think you're conflating "cloud" to mean any computer on the internet. If you read "cloud" as "somebody else's computer" it entirely depends on perspective. If you're running a service on y
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by gregmac 3y ago
> it hasn't conquered that one place they've been trying to conquer since the start Who is "they"? There's are a heck of a lot of people happily building [software for] Linux systems that give precisely zero care
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by gregmac 3y ago
My company had tech leads that are explicitly not managers of the team. There are still managers scattered throughout - some of the tech leads, and some people who are otherwise ICs - but they are always from other teams. This is an interes
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by gregmac 3y ago
> The average length of time represented in 250 words of fiction had been getting steadily shorter since the early eighteenth century. That is a fascinating detail in itself. My first thought is this is reflective of life moving faster i
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by gregmac 3y ago
> UUIDs belong where you can't afford that simplicity. Where you e.g. cannot coordinate the creation of your primary keys. Or where you cannot allow them to be predictable. There you pay the price. You often don't realize you y
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by gregmac 3y ago
I've also moved it, but rarely disassemble. Drawers out, sure, but otherwise just move intact. Can almost always Tetris stuff together so it doesn't really save any space. Adding wood glue to any places with dowels or even any joi
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by gregmac 3y ago
Is this more than a different client interface to git? "fuse" looks like rebase. "switch" with automatic stash is handy (is there more to it?). It's a feature that several popular GUI clients have had for years.
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by gregmac 3y ago
This is one of those UI conventions that would be good, but is actually unusable and ruined because there's too much other bad UIs that don't even think about time zones.
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by gregmac 3y ago
> Everything else really isn’t worth the $65 bench fee And it's not like that is a guarantee. You might not find the cause in an hour, or two, or three -- and quickly you approach the cost of a replacement unit. Sometimes the proble
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by gregmac 3y ago
What do you mean by just "RNG"? Hardware ("true")?
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by gregmac 3y ago
> If you're working on a part of the code base you should just have to change classes in one single folder. A new feature should just be a new folder. That change alone speeds up teams by huge factors. This is a neat idea. Have you
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by gregmac 3y ago
Something that stuck out to me was a side-note: > Note that we do like endings that we didn't expect, as long as they derive naturally from character action. This, to me, is probably the biggest thing that makes me hate a story: The
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by gregmac 3y ago
It kind of is black and white, from technology point of view. You, the website owner, can control what your server does in response to HTTP requests a client makes. You control what data is sent, and under what conditions you'll send
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by gregmac 3y ago
> It’s never been so easy to create incredibly polished mockups The advice in this article applies even to literal mockups you do as part of regular development (ie: even as part of adding new features to an existing, polished product).
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by gregmac 3y ago
HTTP-01 works really well for when you host a custom domain on a SaaS application. The domain ownership stays with the customer, and all they have to do is CNAME/ANAME to your server. No messing with DNS TXT or NS records, 3rd party DN
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by gregmac 3y ago
The asthetics are hard, too. If it can't be completely hidden and has to sit out in the open, it needs to look decent (aka "spouse acceptance factor"). Amazon and Google have both done pretty good here, and I hope there'
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by gregmac 3y ago
A huge portion of "applications" I use on my computer happen to run in a web browser. And I mean this as a distinct activity from "browsing the web" (which might be something like HN or researching a topic or shopping).
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by gregmac 3y ago
What I've also experienced is a whole ecosystem has been built up in other departments in the organization (but outside of development ) around the crazy CSV file formats, eg: Marketing uses it to trigger campaigns; Accounting uses it
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by gregmac 3y ago
The most successful APIs I've worked with have been done this way. In one project we were rebuilding an old outdated UI. We started with being very strict about literally only implementing what was needed for frontend, for example not
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by gregmac 3y ago
I don't have an iOS device to test, but just found a video [1] showing someone connecting a USB keyboard and immediately using it with no prompts. Same on Android. Even better, here's [2] a direct example of this attack using an O
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by gregmac 3y ago
> if you aren't coding the solution to the problem, you shouldn't be allowed to define the solution I think you're on the right track here, but from the wrong direction. You pretty much stated it earlier: > the only way
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by gregmac 3y ago
> I quickly realized that despite a lot of techies being very loud about WLB, that's not how it works with exceptional people. > They are so interested in what they do that WLB is not really a thing. (I'm assuming WLB = work
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by gregmac 4y ago
Another thing I've been told by a manufacturer: paper quality is apparently the biggest factor in longevity of a printer. To the point they custom order "the worst paper" for testing purposes (which apparently a speciality pa
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by gregmac 4y ago
Pretty neat, and it definitely can generate some complex regex.. But I have to say I don't trust it! When I add a regex to something, I pretty much always also add a bunch of unit test cases for it, and I request the same if I see one
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by gregmac 4y ago
Well, your guesses are all incorrect. The "dual climate" does work decently well, though we don't actually use it that often. Seat warmers do a better job if you're actually cold (and my wife usually puts hers way higher
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by gregmac 4y ago
I have a 2016 Civic, it's almost identical to the video. All I can say is this is such a non-issue: The "auto" mode they implemented works really well. I use the temperature knob pretty much exclusively. If it's hot, t

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