karlmdavis

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by karlmdavis 5y ago
Indeed! Instead, you’d get to live under a much smaller, less experienced, and more resource-starved government —- possibly a corporatocracy. Yay!
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by karlmdavis 5y ago
Communities aren’t people? What in the actual fuck is going on with this university’s IRB?!
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by karlmdavis 6y ago
Have you ever tried writing the same application on both a JVM language and in Rust, and then measuring the latency & throughput differentials? Blew my mind the first time. Of course, if speed isn’t a concern for you, then please carry
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by karlmdavis 6y ago
Both of these things are true: 1. Developers can be far more productive when they can run everything locally. 2. Until you’ve deployed into and tested against production, you don’t know if your shit actually works. In fact, they’re compleme
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by karlmdavis 6y ago
As a desktop user, not so much, no. I want things to work. I don’t want to spend my time arguing with my tools, just for the sake of having the latest and greatest. I might go through and upgrade everything every couple of years, at most. B
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by karlmdavis 6y ago
Needs air quotes: “started”.
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by karlmdavis 6y ago
I’m considering proposing this just to watch my security friends’ heads explode.
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by karlmdavis 6y ago
I mean... Rust literally doesn't have a GC, in the usual sense -- certainly nothing resembling most GCs' generations, mark, sweep, etc. approaches. Steve lays it out far better than I could, coining the term "static garbage c
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by karlmdavis 7y ago
> Again.. we are running in circles, and this industry will never learn, because most “senior” people haven’t been around long enough. And that likely won't change in our lifetime, given the rate of growth in demand for software: we
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by karlmdavis 8y ago
This is a fine basic intro to the topic, but the whole argument is hung on a very sketchy benchmark (as noted by the article itself in a footnote). Some things that'd help improve the argument: 1. Account for table/row locking in
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by karlmdavis 8y ago
I'm a software developer so for me: dev tools, basic shell utilities, PostgreSQL, Docker, etc.
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by karlmdavis 8y ago
> I want my technology to work out the box, and Mac does that. Same here, but with a twist: out of the box, Linux makes it easier for me to install the things I need to do my job. The display, power management, etc. issues are all frustr
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by karlmdavis 9y ago
You forgot the <sarcasm/> tags, I think (I hope).
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by karlmdavis 9y ago
From personal experience: PostgreSQL's COPY commands aren't really all that performant, indexes or no. Our project saw SIGNIFICANTLY better performance with batched multi-threaded INSERTs. If you can run a few hundred load threads
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by karlmdavis 9y ago
One side note I'll offer: don't view the change as a permanent one. I've bounced back and forth over the 10+ years of my career, and that's been a surprisingly good idea. As an engineer, I have a better understanding of
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by karlmdavis 9y ago
Apologies if I'm wrong, but it sounds like you're not that familiar with Ansible's roles and the public Ansible Galaxy repo for them? https://galaxy.ansible.com/intro There are tons of roles available, for ju
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by karlmdavis 9y ago
I've lived in Baltimore now for three years, and this has to be literally the only time where I (a very not-interested-in-sports person) wrongly that something DID involve football. The National Geographic domain gave it away.
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by karlmdavis 9y ago
I'd love to know, too. Best as I can tell, the only really secure option is to read them in from STDIN. Depending on how the process is running, it may also be reasonably secure to read the secrets from files. But getting this right is
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by karlmdavis 9y ago
I don't think I've ever read about an engineering culture that I agree with more than this one. It sounds shockingly humane and practical. From the somewhat... wistful tone in places, I gather things have taken a bit of a downward
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by karlmdavis 9y ago
My 2017 Volt is amazing for these reasons and more: best car I've ever owned. It's also completely gameified me reducing my carbon footprint: I do everything I possibly can to avoid letting the gas engine kick in, mostly just beca
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by karlmdavis 9y ago
Or they could just, you know, use cruise control. I almost never touch the gas pedal once I've reached the speed limit: I just turn on cruise control and focus on the road, rather than my speedometer. Makes me a far safer driver, with
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by karlmdavis 10y ago
> but there's nothing that says it is pervasive Untrue. There are many, many accounts from current and former employees that say it is pervasive. That is far from "nothing."
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by karlmdavis 10y ago
I totally get that -- and it's a perfectly reasonable stance. Every distro doesn't have to be all things to all users. Yay for distro choice! But I'd keep my more general point in mind, too: that thread had the wrong question
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by karlmdavis 10y ago
As a couple of other folks have mentioned, it’s important to keep in mind that the premise of that original post was, "what could Ubuntu do better?" In that context, what you DON’T see there are the things that Ubuntu does well al
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by karlmdavis 10y ago
Where in the government do you still have to fax things?
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by karlmdavis 10y ago
I can absolutely understand why you would want this, but for me it'd be a huge net negative. I'd guess that points towards it being a configurable option somewhere.
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by karlmdavis 10y ago
I'm not sure about having it enabled by default, but I would absolutely love for it to be just installed by default, and with solid control panel integration to manage it.
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by karlmdavis 10y ago
Sadly, the ctrl+alt+f# trick doesn't work for me (OP). I wish! And btw (should have mentioned this): ThinkPad W530 running nVidia drivers.
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by karlmdavis 10y ago
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop - HEADLINE: Please, please, please fix space issues with /boot. - DESCRIPTION: I'm constantly running out of space in /boot, due to kernel updates. It drives me so incredibly batty. If I had to guess,
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by karlmdavis 10y ago
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop - HEADLINE: More stable dock/undock and sleep/wake handling. - DESCRIPTION: I've noticed that my system often hangs unrecoverably with a blank screen during dock/undock and sleep/wake events

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