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by kakwa_ 6y ago
Also, a key idea of Graeber's book is that money is in fact debt (the example with English soldiers checks being used as bills in Hong Kong bars is quite striking in my opinion). Money is basically a small abstraction over explicit deb
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by kakwa_ 6y ago
Today, even older 10 years old laptops are quite good at doing usual things like checking emails, browsing the web, watching a video or doing things like that on the go. Even coding is generally doable (unless your project is extremely mass
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by kakwa_ 6y ago
I'm far from an expert there, but most hunting riffles I've seen, at least here in France, shot shotgun ammunition (birdshots and the like).
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by kakwa_ 6y ago
Well, hunting riffles, even if there are extremely common in most countries, specially in rural areas, are hardly in the same class of weapon as a bolt action/(semi-)automatic riffle or an handgun. The latter also has a different goal
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by kakwa_ 6y ago
Buying the cheapest tool can also easily discourage newcomers to a field. As an example, I was nearly completely discourage from learning the guitar by the first guitar I bought. It was a really cheap stratocaster clone (<100$) with a re
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by kakwa_ 6y ago
Completely agree, Terraform doesn't abstract away the cloud specific bits, it pretty much exposes the raw resources. Terraform is "multi provider" not "provider agnostic".
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by kakwa_ 6y ago
The Pakistani situation is actually not unique. There are precedents, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Mexico_City_Learjet_crash A Mexican government Learjet plane carrying the Secretary of the Interior
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by kakwa_ 6y ago
If I recall correctly, at the time, BSD was stuck in a lawsuit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_Laboratories,_Inc.... . I'm wondering if it had a detrimental effect on adoption of *BSD, and thus increased
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by kakwa_ 6y ago
There are abuses. But for cars, even with the insane markups, having car parts is still a win, specially compared to tech devices like iphones. Also, cars are 1) a bit more complex 2) a bit more granular in design, which leads to more swapp
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by kakwa_ 6y ago
From an European perspective, this has not exactly been my experience working with an international team. The US collective mentality is sometime overly optimistic specially in public. This is sometimes a positive since it removes almost an
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by kakwa_ 6y ago
It is quite common where I live (France). Personally, I've been working for ~9 years now, I worked for my first employer for a bit more than 5 years, my current job being the second job in my professional life. And I have a few friends
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by kakwa_ 6y ago
Vacuum is online, but with a caveat iirc, it locks the table with a lock that does not block inserts/updates/reads. But if your application use exclusive locks, things can get blocked.
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by kakwa_ 6y ago
License cost tend to be negligeable compared to the cost of devs, dbas,sysadmins, etc, that's true. But at the same time, it's a can be a huge speed bump in term of procurement. Waiting several weeks for accounting to accept the p
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by kakwa_ 6y ago
I would vote for something around ~100 with a tolerance for ~130 (CI/linter warning if between 100 and 130, maybe with a threshold limiting the proportion of lines per file in warning so that the tolerance is not abused).
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by kakwa_ 6y ago
.rpm and .deb are geared more towards distributions needs. Distributions want to avoid multiplying the number of components for maintenance and security reasons. Bundling dependencies with apps is forbidden in most distribution policies for
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by kakwa_ 6y ago
I've mixed opinions over the recent breakages I've witnessed in OpenSSL. On one hand, I absolutely hate a library which breaks its API (I think lack of stability in interfaces is one of the bigger bane of the software industry and
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by kakwa_ 6y ago
I'm pretty sure it was only one CD. Keep in mind that the 600MB of CD was just huge at the time, so more than enough place for both versions. At the time I had only an old 486 with a 500MB disk under DOS, and I played this game quite e
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by kakwa_ 6y ago
Moving from a DB engine to another, even if technically possible (right abstractions and everything), is often extremely painful once you have a few years of data. (I'm currently involved in migrating quite a few large DBs, and it&#x27
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by kakwa_ 6y ago
Architecture is also really useful in another regard: making the right (or at least "good enough") decisions on things that will be really painful to change later. Think for example the choice of programing language or the DB tech
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by kakwa_ 6y ago
Well, it's hardly a new issue. Hardware support and lack of polishing has always been an issue in the Linux world and all distributions have suffered from it one way or another. Having spent quite a lot of time in the past on this kind
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by kakwa_ 6y ago
I've seen companies using Gentoo (with a lot of tooling around it) in specialized context. Particularly in military contracts, Gentoo brings you several things: 1) you have a full audit trace from the compilation, and in paranoid situa
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by kakwa_ 6y ago
This is indeed an incredibly dismissive view, only seeing the SRE as the poor soul you offload responsibility of things running well in production, despite the fact he is likely to have far less insight on what might go wrong and means to f
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by kakwa_ 6y ago
Also, it must not be forgotten that there is a lot more than writing the pages themselves. On a document this big, you need to properly organize and index it so that the maintenance personnel would be able to find the relevant bits easily.
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by kakwa_ 7y ago
Developing an Open Source software can have some incentives to have cleaner code. Talking from personal experience. Here are my though on it: First, with Open Source software, you expose (potentially) what you write to the while world, as a
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by kakwa_ 7y ago
Also stability of APIs/ABIs: within a major Ubuntu/Debian version, there is an implicit contract in most cases that if you build something against a library/software provided by the distribution, it will not break after an up
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by kakwa_ 7y ago
It's not the case, the PRs, bug tracking and other metadata are stored inside an SQL database: Here are the tables on my at home deployment: mysql> show tables -> ; +---------------------------+ | Tables_in_gogs
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by kakwa_ 7y ago
Personally, I kind of like the balance of gogs/gitea on that subject. You can switch language quite easily using the menu in the bottom center/right. Also, in a self hosted context you can disable/enable languages in the conf
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by kakwa_ 7y ago
I'm not sure why choosing a configuration file format like ini or yaml prevent configuration validation. This logic can be expressed within the program itself: parse the file, and validate inside the program that the configuration is c
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by kakwa_ 7y ago
CI systems tends to be more about defining a workflow than setting simple parameters, specially if they also handle CD. For that reason, something looking more like a programing language feels more appropriate to me. I kind of like the Jenk
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by kakwa_ 7y ago
Yes, iirc, towards the end of Capital in the 21th century, he takes universities investment funds as an example (as they can quite large and data is public). And there is a strong correlation between the size of the fund and it's retur

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