janfoeh

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by janfoeh 3y ago
Almost every time I read someone's insights who works in an environment with IaaS buy-in, my takeaway is the same: oh boy, what an alphabet soup. The initial promise of "we'll take care of this for you, no in-house knowledge
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by janfoeh 3y ago
Does anyone know whether he's still writing anywhere these days? I very much enjoyed reading his blog back in the day, as well as his book. I would be interested in reading his takes on more current matters.
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by janfoeh 3y ago
To some extend, yes. Hacker News, the _link list_ is still fine and surfaces interesting things at least every other day. The comment section however has fared less well, the heroic and thankless job the moderators have been doing notwithst
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by janfoeh 3y ago
> I honestly have no idea what you're talking about. Well yes, that much is painfully obvious. Have a good one!
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by janfoeh 3y ago
> Perhaps you're still looking for the 'blast far and wide' angle. Consider the idea that there is no angle here at all. What if you are simply witnessing people communicating with other people? No angles, no channels? You
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by janfoeh 3y ago
Well, at least I for one feel better now. plonk
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by janfoeh 3y ago
Part II: https://magicvideov2.github.io/assets/T2V/An%20elephant%20we... https://magicvideov2.github.io/assets/T2V/Flag%20of%20the%20... https://magicvideov2.github.io/as
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by janfoeh 3y ago
Right, phones! Sorry, I still tend to forget people surf on those as well. Best I can do on the go is this - part I due to size: https://magicvideov2.github.io/assets/T2V/A%20beautiful%20wo... https://m
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by janfoeh 3y ago
That's because they have set all 72 of them to autoplay. If you want to watch: - open your browsers developer tools before navigating to the site (usually right-click anywhere on the page and choose "Inspect") - open the cons
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by janfoeh 3y ago
I have the same issue with https://wiki.mutable.ai/d3/d3 - "Wiki not found".
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by janfoeh 3y ago
> Do you have the right app, there's no TestFlight just App Store link On chatonmac.com, the "Download on the App Store" button does not link the App Store for me either - I get a modal titled "Public Beta & Launc
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by janfoeh 3y ago
I for one would rather not have to click through heaps of grimace-faced thumbnails, "heeeyyy guuuys" and the other .. idiosyncrasies of the content-creator industrial complex just to get a frickin' glimpse of the gameplay. So
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by janfoeh 3y ago
Because apart from being noticeably heavier on resources than Safari, Firefox has become rather paternalistic (the "ask me again later" school of thought), pushy, annoying in the frequency of its UX changes, a lot less trustworthy
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by janfoeh 3y ago
> In fairness, it wasn’t practical to use even with a fallback until around 2015 and only became usable without a fallback in the last 2-3 (ish?) years. And because of that school of thought, about 20% of all sites I visit are currently
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by janfoeh 3y ago
That is good news. Additionally, I would appreciate any kind of steps taken to make it unviable to drive any other US-style truck here as well.
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by janfoeh 3y ago
It didn't need proof, that was just a couple years after a time when that would have been the norm. There have always been great, notable and successful games been developed by solo developers and bedroom studios, at any time. Introver
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by janfoeh 3y ago
A UI framework would be a real treat, no doubt about it. And I know what you mean — I've always done full stack too, and love it. People who are serious about frontends should do their own backends, to horribly butcher Alan Kay. As for
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by janfoeh 3y ago
Neil, Berkeley Mono is plain gorgeous. I bought it after five minutes of looking at the trial. Everything made so much sense when I saw the inspirations you listed - Eurostile, OCR-B and DIN 1451 all have a special place in my heart. But wh
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by janfoeh 3y ago
For what little it's worth, I fully agree with you. This _should_ be so blindingly obvious that I have yet to wrap my head around how one could think differently. Maybe it's a clout thing? That some people really want to make a li
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by janfoeh 3y ago
We've had that twenty years ago, in Internet Explorer no less [1]. It just never gained traction, likely because it was quite convoluted. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P3P
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by janfoeh 3y ago
I am wondering if it might have been chosen as a joke... 999 is a homonym for the German "nein, nein, nein" (no, no, no), which is rather fitting for a "go away" status code.
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by janfoeh 3y ago
I very much agree with your first and third point, from experience. As for the second one — if consuming dynamic data structures is hard in typed languages, maybe they are not the right tool for that particular job? What I have seen is endp
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by janfoeh 3y ago
Electric cars can and did exist without computers. There was an electric car driving on the streets of Paris in 1859. [1] I would argue it's the other way around: regenerative breaking is a nice to have, but good luck building a produc
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by janfoeh 3y ago
I'm one of those weirdos who still uses local-only, wired backups. And you know what? I still don't care about the transfer speed at all. Every couple of weeks I hook my phone up to my laptop and let it do its thing while I'm
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by janfoeh 3y ago
Thanks! How unfortunate. Maybe I'll have to give Linux + Proton a shot, although I don't relish the additional complication regarding hardware selection...
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by janfoeh 3y ago
I am currently building a gaming PC for my partner, and the OS is my biggest unsolved headache. Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC sounds perfect - can I ask you for a recommendation on where to get a license? I haven't had to deal with Micros
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by janfoeh 3y ago
I would call that maintenance, not feature creep. And sure, I would expect those problems to be resolved, too. It's just something I have not encountered myself.
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by janfoeh 3y ago
As a customer of theirs for probably around two years, I could not disagree more. As far as online services go, Feedbin is absolute perfection. They offer a clearly defined service. I give them money and they provide said service. It is roc
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by janfoeh 3y ago
That is good to know, thank you! I'm absolutely fine with a good enough classifier, as long as it is local. I would even be fine without one.
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by janfoeh 3y ago
It looks interesting; I might be in their target group. But after ten minutes of browsing around, I still have some open questions regarding privacy. What would I have to do to have an absolutely, unequivocally local-only install? Can I eve

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