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by jturpin 5y ago
Before Amazon, if I needed a specific electronic component, my options were Radio shack or a specialist hobby shop. Both were incredibly expensive and often didn't have what I need. Ebay and Amazon have been an absolute game changer an
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by jturpin 5y ago
This is really cool and I appreciate the JpegXL support as well, even if it's not super well supported right now. I recently moved all of my photos from Dropbox to a local Nextcloud and I have a bunch of old photos that I don't wa
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by jturpin 6y ago
I was thinking this as well. For how much tech this thing seems to have, and for such a high price tag, they could easily justify putting, I don't know, two or three IR sensors down there.
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by jturpin 6y ago
Perhaps it would be comforting, or not, to know that the recent calls to suppress free speech don't come as a result to any credible threat to democracy and are unilaterally supported from people who have significant political gain to
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by jturpin 6y ago
Does anyone have any advice on how to make the most out of books like these? I'm trying to read more textbooks in subjects that I really phoned in during college this year. My current strategy is to make some note cards and take notes
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by jturpin 6y ago
I just mean that having some kind of platform is important to the definition of speech, since it involves communicating over some medium. I don't necessarily mean platforms as in Twitter or Facebook or what-have-you. And I would agree
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by jturpin 6y ago
I have not yet concluded whether I believe in free speech without limits, but I can at least say with confidence the following: - Freedom of speech is of extremely high importance for any free society and should not be taken for granted - R
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by jturpin 6y ago
I have absolutely no idea what can be done. I think the best thing that could most realistically happen is that things "cool off" in the months after Biden is inaugurated and the world continues to spin.
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by jturpin 6y ago
Freedom of speech is important enough to where the logic of disallowing shouting fire in a theater should not be taken for granted. There are few if any black and white cases to be had here - it might seem like that since we are living in t
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by jturpin 6y ago
I've had the same experience in trying to use a web framework that had a dependency of a dependency of a dependency that used a yanked version of Ring. No more web framework. I'm appreciative of all the work that has gone into Rin
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by jturpin 6y ago
Here's something - does anyone else's brain try to tell them that the trees are 3D? That's certainly a cool optical illusion!
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by jturpin 6y ago
> Configuration getting messed up sounds more like a k8s problem than anything else. In any case, if you aren't using git and don't know how to at least back things up you really should be asking yourself if a tech company is r
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by jturpin 6y ago
All of these tools (Terraform, Kubernetes, Github Actions/Other CI) seem like overkill until a node dies and you need to recreate it, or configuration gets messed up and you don't remember how you deployed it in the first place. I
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by jturpin 6y ago
Setting up Kubernetes is a fixed cost in the beginning with clear payoffs. Things like microk8s, Rancher or GKE/EKS make it a lot easier to set up than it used to be. Deploying your app is then just a simple Helm chart, or another way
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by jturpin 6y ago
I believe this is the correct usage of the term, but it seems that articles now use it to mean any vulnerability of any kind regardless of disclosure/patch turnaround, which can add a lot of confusion when reading.
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by jturpin 6y ago
If it were up to Hackernews commenters, no software created after 1998 would be used - everything would run on a single monolith, use Postgresql, run with System V and written in, I don't know, Perl with CGI. It worked fine back then,
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by jturpin 6y ago
I agree. You can extend this idea to the idea of freedom of religion - the goal isn't to have some Free Market of religion where the "good ones" win and the bad ones die off, it's just a fundamental human right. Same as
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by jturpin 6y ago
I mean not conceptually, but with major traders then yeah it could happen, and that would be where the value of cryptocurrency comes from.
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by jturpin 6y ago
This game has been a ton of fun for me. The load times are annoying, but it runs well for me most of the time on my two-years-ago-it-was-high-end PC (6th gen i7, 1080 not-TI, m.2 drive, 16Gb RAM). I managed to find my 10 year old flight sti
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by jturpin 6y ago
> The first amendment does not grant you the right to a platform. It simply doesn't. This feels a little hand-wavy: in the past there have been "designated free speech zones" that are of course critized organizations like
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by jturpin 6y ago
This is a point that's really attractive to me as well. Faster language and runtime means I can run on fewer, cheaper servers which means when its time to scale 10 or 100x, it's not a massive cost increase.
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by jturpin 6y ago
That's a good point, I didn't know Audi was shipping a model with Lidar out and the price point is around where the Tesla's are. Certainly the reasons to not include Lidar are dropping.
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by jturpin 6y ago
Maybe, the problem right now is that there is no module that Tesla can purchase and use on their cars. All the Lidar modules currently in use are these large and more importantly expensive spinning devices mounted on top of the car. These m
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by jturpin 6y ago
I do think it is technically wrong to call it dogma - the decimal is a geometric series with a limit, right? And limits have an unambiguous definition, it's the smallest value that the series approaches but never exceeds as it tends to
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by jturpin 6y ago
Part of knowing what you're doing involves knowing the standard library of the language you've chosen to use. There might be (very rare) times you need to use exec in a PHP application - a file upload script is not one of them.
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by jturpin 6y ago
Yeah this is a fairly weak article - calling something a _fallacy_ is exceptionally bold, as if it's logically inconsistent in some kind of provable way, and it's only barely backed up by the rest of the content. Sure, I guess tak
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by jturpin 7y ago
We do both and it seems to work well - normal users do LDAP, and machine users generate certificates out of Vault that are extremely short lived, 10-30 minutes for CI jobs.
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by jturpin 7y ago
I agree - this fear of "reinventing the wheel" needs to go away. People gravitate towards products that suit their needs, and if they don't they'll cook something up themselves. It's really not the end of the world
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by jturpin 7y ago
> Why is one type of price gouging accepted as capitalism and another type not? It's not. No one is on the other side of this except those profiting. We all want medicine to affordable to everyone, not just the wealthiest of us.
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by jturpin 7y ago
I'm glad for the honest writeup of Cockroach. I like CockroachDB, and hope they continue it in the future, but the performance and backup capabilities are something to consider. Still, I'd rather deploy it to Kubernetes whenever I

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