kevstev

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by kevstev 8mo ago
Didn't you find though that systemd was just a black box? I was hoping to learn more about it as well- and I did manage to get a fully baked LFS CLI system up and running, and it was just like "ok install systemd..." and now.
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by kevstev 9mo ago
No, Walmart. Their drivers were actually quite nice as well, at least the ones I met. The standards were high, I have mixed feelings about Walmart overall with respect to their line level employees, but in general everyone meant well. This
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by kevstev 9mo ago
There is actually. I used to work in grocery e-commerce. The model is pickers in a store --> a "dark store" that looks more like a home Depot with only pickers, not open to public --> warehouse like environment with various
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by kevstev 9mo ago
I kind of hear you on this- its not super necessary, but it can be convenient. I use Synology VideoStation which is a part of their NAS Suite. We keep a small library of often rewatched stuff- holiday movies, a few of the wifes favorites, e
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by kevstev 10mo ago
Looks like this site does: https://totalrealreturns.com/n/VFINX,VBMFX,USDOLLAR,XRX Dividends are so out of favor now for most companies, it's not something I have personally cared that much about. But it is import
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by kevstev 10mo ago
Easily found on Google finance or similar sites: https://www.google.com/finance/beta/quote/XRX:NASDAQ?sa=X&sq... Not quite 50 years, but you get the idea.
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by kevstev 10mo ago
So I was actually looking at it yesterday, and the top end ranges of todays EVs are actually the same range as my 2007 Honda Accord. Maybe I am unique, but I have never taken a road trip so long that I needed to get gas midway going one way
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by kevstev 10mo ago
What do you mean by a worse time? The advantages are substantial- No oil changes ever again, performance that is on par with high end sports cars, less moving parts which should lead to higher reliability, in my state you don't even ne
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by kevstev 10mo ago
I also find that docs have gotten a lot better over time as well. I feel that Y2K era of numerous large tomes was largely to fill in the gap left after software publishers stopped shipping even their full price boxed software with meaty man
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by kevstev 10mo ago
Nothing inherently wrong with the core product IMHO. The issue is more with Confluent, who have been constantly swinging from hot buzzword to hot buzzword for the last few years in search of growth. Confluent cloud is very expensive, and yo
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by kevstev 10mo ago
OP IMHO was obviously being sarcastic.
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by kevstev 10mo ago
Typically means more time to take tests than the standard allotment, but could mean other things- a digital version with a screen reader that speaks the questions to you, or something else specific to your disability.
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by kevstev 10mo ago
checkout https://poe.com - it does the same thing. I agree with your assessment though, while you can get better answers from some models than others, being able to predict in advance which model will give you the better answer
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by kevstev 10mo ago
What was a little different then was that tech jobs paid about 30% more than other jobs, it wasn't anything like the highs we have seen the last few years. I used to describe it as you used to have the nicer house on the block, but the
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by kevstev 11mo ago
No floppy or CD? You were just asking for trouble then IMHO. It was common to have to reinstall windows every 6-9 months in the win9x days. That didn't even really work for ME, but by then win2000 came in to save the day. Software was
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by kevstev 11mo ago
The equivalent in the win world to obscure command line settings is the registry. There is a whole heap of documented and undocumented config in there. 99% of the time you don't really need to go in there, but its often the more automa
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by kevstev 11mo ago
Is there a real source that confirms this with data? I generally like xda, but the quality of their articles is uneven and they trend towards click bait headlines that try to shock/surprise you with thin content underneath. There have
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by kevstev 11mo ago
That's also 4 entirely different curriculums which need to be taught. I volunteer taught CS for about 10 years, and the first year I taught a new class- and this was a single class for high school kids- I always found I was much better
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by kevstev 11mo ago
Maybe I am not exactly what you mentioned, but I do feel OOP set us back about a decade or two and do think the general concept of microservices is a good idea. But maybe to your point, these beliefs are completely orthagonal to one another
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by kevstev 11mo ago
I feel this. Tbh I was excited about most of the previous tech fads I have come across. Sure, people got overzealous with them and also failed to realize that what F*NG needs is not what your three person startup needs, but there were alway
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by kevstev 11mo ago
All those examples date back to the 2000s. Android has seen some significant improvements, but everything else has stagnated if not enshittified- remember when google told us not to ever worry about deleting anything?- and then started back
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by kevstev 11mo ago
I think the real win with microservices is that when you are air-gapped between services, it really forces modularity and independence. Almost all the time in monoliths things slowly degrade into tangled dependencies. Once clean interfaces
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by kevstev 11mo ago
If you have a nas, I highly recommend you set up a VPN back to your network. It's been a bit of a game changer for me. I don't fiddle around with Dropbox or gdrive anymore, it's just on my nas and it just works. I was even mo
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by kevstev 11mo ago
Can be relatively simple inside of Home Assistant. I have my alarm attached to Konnected, and that has an HA integration. I can both arm and disarm my alarm through an HA dashboard, and also have it arm itself if both myself and the wife ar
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by kevstev 11mo ago
https://systemcrafters.net/emacs-from-scratch/ This was my aha! moment where I actually watched someone install and use packages and was like oooh yes, this is both nice and will actually be very helpful. And I have be
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by kevstev 11mo ago
Heh I still have the first mp3 I downloaded in 1998.
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by kevstev 11mo ago
At my last job I took over eng at a Series B startup, and my (non-technical) CEO was an ill tempered type and pretty much wanted me to tell him that the entire tech stack was shit and the previous architect/pseudo head of eng was shit,
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by kevstev 11mo ago
I saw what was possible with emacs via systemcrafters: https://systemcrafters.net/emacs-from-scratch/ And I should note I have been using it for about 25 years, and was mostly in the dark about what it was capable of,
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by kevstev 1y ago
You mean a 529 account right? 527 seems to be associated with political contributions. I looked it up to ensure I wasn't missing out on something I did not know about...
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by kevstev 1y ago
GM sold 4M cars in China in 2017, its peak year. While BYD is indeed eating their lunch, they still sold 1.8M cars in China last year: https://stockdividendscreener.com/auto-manufacturers/gm-chin... American brands wer

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