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by kakwa_ 3y ago
It's stretching it by a lot. But Apple used to be pretty great for gaming. I remember playing tons of games like pong or snake clones, dark castle, shufflepuck cafe or airborne on our Mac SE when I was a child.
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by kakwa_ 3y ago
I guess it's an explainable reaction given it was the other way around for years. Go back 2 or 3 years ago and the level of idolization and fanboyism was just incredibly high. Tons of 'Elon is a genius' or 'Elon could fi
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by kakwa_ 3y ago
I'm really confused, is JavaScript just a rebranding of Java applets? maybe with some minor overlays on top of it? That sounds more like a marketing stunt to me.
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by kakwa_ 3y ago
> The captain's unclear headspace became evident by his protracted tirade. He was likely mentally unfit for the task of captaining that day, and the rant was evidence of it. Reading through the article, that's not the feel I ge
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by kakwa_ 3y ago
> We will never know, but what we know for sure is not implementing these advice made him successful "Made him successful" implies a causality that is a bit too strong. Indeed, we will never know for sure. Maybe implementing th
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by kakwa_ 3y ago
Well, better doesn't mean good.
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by kakwa_ 3y ago
Système D has both a positive and negative connotation. There is indeed a resourceful part, but also an 'it's an ugly hack' part (but justified by the circumstances). As an example, my parents used to leave in Africa, and at
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by kakwa_ 3y ago
Also, the cost of the monitored service being down far exceed (hopefully) any compensation for SLA breach. Honestly, PD is probably the service I would the least complain about in our (large org) monitoring chain. At least, it's reliab
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by kakwa_ 4y ago
As another side note, using ChatGPT as a search engine is not so great. Recently, I was trying to find golang libraries for managing authorization. The first one was a well known library (I was incidentally trying to avoid). But the others
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by kakwa_ 4y ago
This article makes me wonder: what tools do you use when reversing a custom file format? Personally, having done so recently to reverse a custom game archive format, I have only used the usual hexdump, strings, grep, sed, etc. I'm wond
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by kakwa_ 4y ago
Restricting Usage or Distribution makes it de-facto not OSS. It's actually a slightly different form of an old debate. I'm thinking in particular about the Crockford license (the MIT-like one with "The Software shall be used
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by kakwa_ 4y ago
Honestly, I don't think giving 21m to DragonflyBSD would be a good idea, not sure how the project could adapt back to a shoestring budget after the money runs out. I would not be against giving them a few 100Ks so that they could get o
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by kakwa_ 4y ago
In a recent personal C project (a custom archive file extractor), I have used chatgpt to generate tons of unit tests. And honestly, I was extremely impressed. With a bit of context, it was able to generate almost correct test data for a fai
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by kakwa_ 4y ago
Golang (most likely a rest API using the Echo framework). Postgres and maybe Redis if I need a message queue or cache. React for the front. Nginx and certbot for the reverse proxy. Everything hosted on a cheap OVH VPs. Mostly because it&#x2
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by kakwa_ 4y ago
As a student, I've actually put an overheating PowerBook G4 in a fridge just to finish an install
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by kakwa_ 4y ago
We apply the overall same strategy (individual DB for each test created from a template). Our whole test suite (integration + unit tests) takes ~80 seconds to run for ~800 integration tests (each with their own DB) and 300 unit tests. And t
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by kakwa_ 4y ago
We do that too, in fact it's not only the DB that run in docker, but the whole build + CI process. Our overall strategy is to create a master "test" DB with a test dataset, and for each test, copy this master DB to a test spe
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by kakwa_ 4y ago
> it’s incredible how fast Germany built these new terminals. Except they weren't really "built" in 9 months. Höegh Esperanza (the floating terminal), was commissioned in 2018. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by kakwa_ 4y ago
The Gendarmerie also contributes to OSS quite significantly. Lemonldap (SSO solution) for example.
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by kakwa_ 4y ago
That's likely optimistic. Maybe the user facing site, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. There are plenty of internal/backend/restricted systems to support and/or monetize this part. And that's not countin
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by kakwa_ 4y ago
The $9/h is obviously click baity, by itself it doesn't mean the software was malfunctioning. But it highlights a general policy of outsourcing to the lowest bidder. This is generally a symptom of badly managed company placing spr
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by kakwa_ 4y ago
> do you think the gas taps will just be turned back on? Well, kind of, whatever the outcome, Russia will have depleted much of its military strength and will need to reequip its army. That costs money, so they will be more or less force
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by kakwa_ 4y ago
Yes, but most of things built during wartime are quick expedients, not long term planned things. For example, in both WW1 and WW2 a lot of capital ship constructions were canceled in favor of cheap quick to built ships (like cheap destroyer
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by kakwa_ 4y ago
"Après moi, le déluge" (Louis XV). For ages, people in power position have been at the same time, both nihilistic, knowingly pushing toward the cliff and afraid of an impending collapse. This is both creepy and reassuring, despite
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by kakwa_ 4y ago
I'm really wondering how many out of these are almost copy pastes of existing pictures. I just saw down the list an almost verbatim copy of the well known photo of the heart in the Amazon, so I'm really skeptical.
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by kakwa_ 4y ago
Personally, I am using Debian Sid. The only somewhat painful part are the proprietary Nvidia drivers when a significant kernel upgrade occurs, but it's usually just a matter of selecting an older kernel in grub for a few days. Other th
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by kakwa_ 4y ago
Another big parameter is how many people are in the on-call rotation. If the rotation is spread only on 2 or 3 Ops in the team, well, being on-call every other week, even on reliable systems, can really suck (given you must always make your
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by kakwa_ 4y ago
Just in case, check the number of workers (assuming you are using mpm worker and not mpm event)
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by kakwa_ 4y ago
Well, that's only a recent development (compared to the life span of these historical buildings). A lot of these Cathedrals managed to survive long period of neglect with minimal to no maintenance. There is a bit of survivor bias in th
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by kakwa_ 4y ago
Another beautiful cathedral around Paris is Amiens. It's a more recent cathedral than Notre-Dame, and consequently higher, nearly as high as Beauvais in fact, but this one didn't collapse (even if she needed a very costly iron bel

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