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by jacurtis 3y ago
I aspire to never write a postmortem again.
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by jacurtis 3y ago
People tend to be really shortsighted when it comes to home prices. People get excited with the thought of selling their home and "extracting profit". But how do you extract profit? You still need another home, right? Unless you p
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by jacurtis 3y ago
eh... don't pop the Champaign on your 10% value increase just yet It's only worth 10% more when you sell it for 10% more. Right now home closings (the finalized deals) are 50% lower than before the pandemic and lower than in 2007.
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by jacurtis 3y ago
> I'm resisting buying the full game because I know exactly how it'd end. It won't end, thats the problem
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by jacurtis 3y ago
My Kagi Quick Result: > No, you cannot melt whole eggs.[1] When heated, eggs will coagulate and solidify as the proteins denature and unfold.[1] However, egg yolks and whites can be gently heated to make scrambled eggs or custards withou
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by jacurtis 3y ago
Yep, just this week I saw a Quora result in Kagi. Clicked it and remembered how useless the website was. My CPU gave an audible scream from inside its aluminum case from the spike in client-side tracking and JS the website has. Firefox noti
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by jacurtis 3y ago
Quora is already a dumpster fire. Everytime I go to quora from Google, I see the question at the top, but then right below it I see answers for different questions. You have to scroll past those, past a block of ads, past a sponsored answer
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by jacurtis 3y ago
I work with several individuals who are consistently irrational and frustratingly real.
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by jacurtis 3y ago
This book is on my reading list. I listened to an interview of the author who said that their primary motivation of the book was less about teaching math, but teaching the value of looking at the world abstractly to determine patterns and c
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by jacurtis 3y ago
> the flight plan was recorded on a punched tape that told the aircraft where to go, when to turn, and when to turn the sensors on and off. This is equally fascinating to me. Before each flight, someone had to generate a flight plan and
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by jacurtis 3y ago
> Free RDS Alternative RDS is a managed service. This is a code repo. It is useless until you deploy it at which point... it's no longer free. Then you have to manage it yourself and deal with the overhead yourself. This is like say
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by jacurtis 3y ago
Bottlerocket does not off FIPS mode like most other enterprise *nix distributions. Just to save anybody the trouble who needs FIPS approved encryption for host OSes that you use at work for various compliance programs. This makes Bottlerock
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by jacurtis 3y ago
I think its the same as it has always been. They went from being bad compared to everything else to now feeling good compared to everything else. Basically they stayed static and the rest of the internet worsened around them and our perspec
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by jacurtis 3y ago
Its extremely short sighted. The cost is much more than (hourly wage x code hours). There is ongoing maintenance cost that no one considers. I've never seen a project that gets built and just sails off for eternity with no maintenance
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by jacurtis 3y ago
A lot of this is the fault of the politicians and public education. Both are largely influenced by one overwhelming organization with nearly infinite money. If you live in Utah you know who i'm talking about. They don't care about
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by jacurtis 3y ago
I used to live in Utah, and this attitude across most of the population is what led us to this dire place. The consequences of this lake shrinking (or ultimately disappearing at this point) is significant. Not just for Utahns, but for the e
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by jacurtis 3y ago
To be fair... k8s offers both: Write declarative code with yaml and kubectl. This solves most use cases and interactions. Write operators in a variety of languages (usually golang) if you need direct control of the underlying control loop,
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by jacurtis 3y ago
I mean... do you really need thunderbolt for a phone? Are you powering multiple 8k displays and daisey chaining a hub connected to an external raid storage array? I get that it would be cool. For the ipad i think it makes sense to do that,
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by jacurtis 3y ago
Nothing is really changing. Currently: - 70% of people have been buying the absolute cheapest lightning conforming cable they could find on amazon. They buy them in 3 packs, use them until they inevitably catch fire or fray within a few mon
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by jacurtis 3y ago
That has been my argument in favor of Route53/AWS for a while. They have the best API for updating dns records, plus powerful well-supported CLI tools and they have first-class integrations with all Infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraf
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by jacurtis 3y ago
Thats the main reason I don't register through CloudFlare too. I've heard lots of comments like the parent "its good enough". But I don't want to centralize my domain and my CDN. A little separation is nice. So I re
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by jacurtis 3y ago
By default, Cloudflare tries to proxy your domains and subdomains, but there is a little switch next to each record that you can turn from orange to gray which will make it "DNS Only". So then, it is only a DNS record. It's a
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by jacurtis 3y ago
I have a ton of domains on Namecheap and have been using them for 10-15 years. Their business has gone downhill significantly in the past 5 years or so. The MFA is a joke. I recovered a client's MFA myself with almost no effort. It wor
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by jacurtis 3y ago
I always used the word "magic" to describe Ruby syntax. It was my biggest complaint with it too. RoR took that even further by adding even more magic through a framework, where simple functions did HUGE amounts of hidden work. I w
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by jacurtis 3y ago
Or Julia, a language custom designed for data science. Also, MatLab was the go-to before Python took over the scene. So it definetely has competitors. Python's strength is that it is the "jack of all trades" language. Its not
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by jacurtis 3y ago
That was the one mantra from the zen of python that I always laugh at too. Because my #1 complaint with python is that there are so many ways to do the same thing. It sounds nice in theory if you are a new developer because you can create y
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by jacurtis 3y ago
> it feels optimized for porn So I was relatively unimpressed with the first few images, they looked incredibly unrealistic. But then after reading this message i decided to add "topless" to the notes just to see how crazy the
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by jacurtis 3y ago
> My nephew is now 20. When he was 5... So that was 15 years ago when these mortgages were taken out in his name? Placing it between 2007 and 2008. That's basically right at the inflection point when the housing market had gotten ou
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by jacurtis 3y ago
Yes, yes, a thousand times yes! I have been trying to enforce this concept inside of my current organization. There is the saying that a picture is worth 1,000 words. I would extend that, suggesting that a diagram is worth well over 10,000
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by jacurtis 3y ago
100% accurate. This post from 2 years ago shows how common this is in America, we have ongoing commentary on it: > Every "heartwarming" human interest story in the United States is like "he raised $20,000 to keep 200 orpha

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