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by jaza 5y ago
Has anyone ever actually played a full game? And did it take ~20 years, as estimated by Winkie?
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On the Proof of Humanity Project(greenash.net.au)
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by jaza 5y ago
This is consistent with their negative attitude towards crypto-related Wikipedia content: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:General_sanctions/Bl... > A community discussion at the administrators' not
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by jaza 5y ago
Mongolia still exists because both of its neighbours, Russia and China, accept that it's a useful buffer between them. In particular, the Soviet Union supported Mongolia staying independent, to prevent PR China from cutting off its acc
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by jaza 5y ago
Author here. Like I said in the article, "... I've picked up more than a thing or two when it comes to Linux sysadmin". I did harden my VPS here and there, over the years. And there never was a successful attack on my VPS - n
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by jaza 5y ago
Author here. For all my personal and small-client sites that previously had auth and a database, and that I previously hosted on my VPS, I realised that, no, none of them really do need auth or a database. An SSG (Hugo or Eleventy) and a si
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by jaza 5y ago
Author here. Re: search. It's not that site search is impossible, or even particularly hard, with a JAMstack site. It's just that I didn't consider it MVP for my personal site. I know how it can be done, and I'll impleme
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by jaza 5y ago
Author here. Sure, maybe successful attacks in those categories are unlikely. But my main point was, so long as I maintain my own VPS, they're still possible, and I'm responsible for defending my box against them. Whereas in SaaS
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by jaza 5y ago
It's up to you when you think a traditional server back-end is still warranted, there are certainly still cases where it makes sense. But if all you need is a contact form, then I'd argue that it doesn't make sense! Yes, I ag
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by jaza 5y ago
Author here. As I think I explained pretty thoroughly in the article, regularly running system updates is only the tip of the iceberg.
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by jaza 5y ago
Author here. That's right, I'd like to think I do have it pretty well covered, if the free provider just disappears. They're static sites, they can be hosted anywhere. I have almost no lock-in (except for a few config files,
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by jaza 5y ago
Author here. I never needed a VPS for the bandwidth. But I did need it for dynamic www hosting (mainly powered by Gunicorn + PostgreSQL). SaaS / PaaS alternatives (e.g. Heroku - which I've used occasionally), or IaaS alternatives
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by jaza 5y ago
Author here. Yes, I'm singing Netlify's praises, but there are plenty of alternatives - GitHub Pages, Vercel, Cloudflare Pages, to name a few - that are just as good. And it's a funny kind of "ad", when you consider
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by jaza 5y ago
Author here. A big part of why I'm saying "I don't need a VPS anymore", is because I'm also saying "I don't need dynamic sites anymore". I've been building dynamic sites for two decades (once upo
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I don't need a VPS anymore(greenash.net.au)
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Email-based comment moderation with Netlify Functions(greenash.net.au)
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Email-based comment moderation with Netlify Functions(greenash.net.au)
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by jaza 5y ago
It's nice to have the option of deploying static sites to your own server, more-or-less as easily as they can now be deployed to GitHub Pages, Netlify, Vercel, and friends. Funny timing: I just finished converting all my old sites to b
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by jaza 5y ago
But who does AWS make the most money from? Those with cloud-native solutions, running almost entirely on lambda and dynamodb? Or those who have lift-and-shift-ed legacy solutions, running almost entirely on reserved EC2 and RDS instances? A
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by jaza 5y ago
School is a game. If you master some winning strategies (whether they be getting good grades, being socially popular, being good at sports, etc), then you get through the game, and you're better prepared for the rest of the game of lif
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by jaza 5y ago
This is a great first step towards better online signing of contracts. I agree with what the FAQ says: "I've always thought that the fake cursive signatures that most electronic signature platforms make you use when e-signing a co
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by jaza 5y ago
I can imagine that, in the near future, there will be headstones in cemeteries, with nothing on them except a QR code, which will require an app to scan, and a key to decrypt the data. I wonder what future civilisations - where smartphones
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by jaza 5y ago
We pretend to run, and they pretend to allocate us CPU and memory.
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by jaza 5y ago
The Kobayashi Maru [0] is a no-win scenario. Unless you reprogram the simulation. Kirk called it original thinking. I call it cheating. [0] https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Kobayashi_Maru_scenario
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by jaza 5y ago
These units ship with nothing but a BIOS, and that's basically the only programming on-board for the first few months. No functionality except boot, sleep (no scheduler included), system bell (massively over-used), charge power, and fl
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by jaza 5y ago
I managed to disable "rock chair as far backwards and forwards as possible throughout meal" by adopting the Erlang approach of "let it crash".
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by jaza 5y ago
I agree with pretty much the whole body of the article, but I dislike the title. IMHO one of the most important rules of writing is "know your audience, and write for them". When coding, your audience tolerates no ambiguity, has n
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by jaza 5y ago
Thanks so much for acquainting me with "Hexing the technical interview" and "The Night Watch". I don't think I've ever before read great writing by great programmers. Now I have.
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by jaza 5y ago
It ain't called The Red Centre for nothing.
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by jaza 5y ago
Seems reasonable. They don't even require a pubic hair sample.

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