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by jacurtis 3y ago
> Mac laptops' screens are ultra brittle I'd be careful extending one anecdotal experience to an entire class of computers. Given how much scrutiny Apple goes under, for example the heat-gate fiasco on new iPhones and the man
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by jacurtis 3y ago
It is only needing to produce 33% more frames for 40fps vs 30fps. Compare that to producing 60fps which is 100% more frames. So you are only sacrificing a small amount of performance to get 40fps but a significant amount to reach 60fps. In
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by jacurtis 3y ago
I've always described VSCode as a text editor with IDE capabilities. I would personally call it a text editor and not an IDE though. If you do a fresh install of VSCode you may notice that almost everything is a plugin. Even basic lang
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by jacurtis 3y ago
> Plugins for Visual Studio Code or Eclipse would be nice Can't you just use the docker plugins and configure the binary of the docker plugin and point it to the podman binary and it should work. Or just alias podman as docker
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by jacurtis 3y ago
> It is a tool for those that prefer working with containers with a GUI instead of the terminal. Sort of. In the case of podman desktop, that is true because you can opt to just install the cli podman if you prefer. But in the world of D
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by jacurtis 3y ago
Same here. I pay for YT Premium. I never knew this war was waging on. You click a video and it starts playing. A few days ago someone wanted to show me a video on their iPad. The video was ~10 mins long. We had to watch 2 pre-roll ads, and
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by jacurtis 3y ago
Nothing in the American legal system is that straightforward and simple, even less so among our Supreme Court. Things got even more confusing now that this year the Supreme Court has set a new precedent that they can now overturn their own
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by jacurtis 3y ago
You’re right, the shipping itself is no slower or faster than with prime, especially since they essentially have their own shipping company now, everything is technically same day shipping now, the difference is how long until it ships. The
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by jacurtis 3y ago
I was introduced to them by playing Command and Conquer.
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by jacurtis 3y ago
I'm going to give a controversial counter-example. Ticketmaster itself is actually a really good product. It is just so overpriced and is an example of a "true monopoly", a far stronger example of a monopoly than the current
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by jacurtis 3y ago
I think the fact that you have to ask this proves that it is objectively a bad paper. The whole point of academic papers is to contribute to the larger global knowledgebase. You acknowledge the work that was done before, you submit your con
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by jacurtis 3y ago
I remember interviewing someone once that claimed to have 200 direct reports. I was really blunt and said "nobody has 200 direct reports". They assured me that they did. So I grilled them on the mechanics of it. If you had biweekl
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by jacurtis 3y ago
That was my question, I think this is just a good old fashion all-american "corporate do-over".
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by jacurtis 3y ago
Honestly AI's hallucinating isn't a whole lot different than real life. Only a small minority of humans fact check anything anymore before believing it. So "irl", we see people like Alex Jones that get up on their big pl
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by jacurtis 3y ago
Maybe the real secret is to embrace the fact you have a bullshit job. Allow me to tell you a story of my corporate hero. I'm going to call this guy Jack to preserve his identity, because he continues this ruse to this day. To jump to t
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by jacurtis 3y ago
Earlier this year, we had this one developer who has worked with us for a while (8 months or so). He was never a top developer, but he was average. Anyway, I have to review all of his code, and I've been doing this the whole time he wo
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by jacurtis 3y ago
> New way: Winner bids $1.00, 2nd place bids $0.80, Google adds 15%* markup to 2nd bid, Winner pays $0.93. This is true. But the story gets crazier. Let's say that CorpA and CorpB are both bidding on the term "Valuable Widgets&
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by jacurtis 3y ago
Good advice. When I was young I used to just "plug in" for one constant (more or less) session all day long. I don't know how I did it to be honest. But yeah now, I NEED breaks. Walk around, get a snack, go for a quick walk o
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by jacurtis 3y ago
A WARNING for anyone who thinks this article doesn't apply to them: If you are reading this post and thinking, "oh I don't have these problems, I'm going to read something else", I encourage you to pause. Having bee
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by jacurtis 3y ago
I don't have much to say, because I am at a loss for words. I like to think of myself as an "out of the box" thinker, but if someone had asked me if this was possible before reading this, I would have said it isn't. I ab
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by jacurtis 3y ago
As soon as I read that Ansible was easier than Terraform, I knew you were probably doing something wrong. Ansible is fine to be clear, for managing things like configuration within compute instances and databases (such as user accounts for
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by jacurtis 3y ago
Terraform already does a three way reconciliation at plan/apply time. It checks declared state (your code), known state (your statefile), and current state (api calls to your providers). If you want to see this, just make a terraform a
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by jacurtis 3y ago
An easy solution would be to just encrypt the whole statefile. This would work the same as state locking works now. You can apply an extra provider for state encryption/decryption just like you do for state locking/unlocking. It&#
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by jacurtis 3y ago
This isn't versioning your state though. This is using git commit history to essentially determine state at "apply-time". Versioning your state is a good idea and is already easy to do. For example if you use the S3 backend y
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by jacurtis 3y ago
My argument is basically this. It is a misuse of git. The author wants to eliminate state, so they suggest using git because as it turns out... you do need state. But the author didn't eliminate state at all, they just eliminated a sep
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by jacurtis 3y ago
Is that not what they were? I didn't click any of them, but I assumed they were links the entire time.
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by jacurtis 3y ago
This is the biggest problem that I think the author left out. For those that don't know, the way you delete a resource in Terraform is to remove reference to it in your code. So for example to create an EC2 instance, I make an EC2 reso
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by jacurtis 3y ago
Honestly, all Hashi products are generally really good. I do think they do suffer from moving too fast syndrome. They pushed to go public and most or all of their recent shortcomings can be traced back to trying to push stock prices. Early
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by jacurtis 3y ago
True, Hashi can cask it just fine if they wanted to continue to distribute through homebrew. I doubt they would though, they have already been recommending direct binary installation from their servers for the past few years. That is how th
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by jacurtis 3y ago
I mean, if its truly the same then it sort of defeats the purpose. That's my way of saying: it is seperate infrastructure Remember that Cloudflare is probably the second largest DNS Resolver in the world. They aren't just going to

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