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by kijin 5y ago
There are differences even among quartz watches, due to the quality of the crystal and the circuitry surrounding it. A normal sub-$50 Casio watch will gain or lose a few seconds every month, accumulating to more than 1 minute of error per y
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by kijin 5y ago
Kirkland Signature is good value for the money in pretty much any category it's available in, whether it's wine, whiskey, olive oil, nacho chips, toilet paper, batteries, or whatever. If you have a Costco membership it's the
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by kijin 5y ago
In most urban areas, parking spaces for cars are paid for by people who actually use those spaces. If you don't pay for the space you take up, you get a ticket. The same should be true of parking spaces for scooters if we want to conve
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by kijin 5y ago
Designated parking spaces are a good idea, but they should be paid for by companies that make a profit by renting out scooters. Not taxpayers. Public funding might be justified if the majority of scooters were owned by individual citizens w
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by kijin 5y ago
It's not just corporate communication. Post on any internet forum about some minor drawbacks of Technology X, and the comments will instantly split between those who feel personally offended and must defend the sanctity of X, and those
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by kijin 5y ago
Tell that to management. As soon as they hear "P2P" they will decide to perpetuate the status quo that makes P2P hard, because P2P is evil and illegal in their books. And we sit here wondering why the powers that be are not intere
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by kijin 5y ago
Unless you have a gazillion servers at home, port forwarding through a router is fairly simple and has the additional benefit of a rudimentary firewall. So there isn't a clearly visible benefit for most people. Most people can't e
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by kijin 5y ago
That's very close to what I'm doing, except I now refuse to touch certbot with a 10-foot pole. Plenty of better, do-one-thing-well, non-paternalistic ACME clients out there as you said. The fact that there are alternatives, though
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by kijin 5y ago
Not OP, but here are some things I've personally experienced: 1. Supposedly more secure challenge types such as TLS-ALPN-01 are far from stable, as the current incident shows. Your cert can be revoked at any time through no fault of yo
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by kijin 5y ago
+1 for MXRoute if you're just looking for an affordable alternative to Google Apps and not some fancy API. They bill by storage and not by the number of accounts, and they offer discounts around the year if you look around. Also don&#x
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by kijin 5y ago
> there wouldn't be any point in the pharma companies sending out salespeople to do lunch seminars to convince the GPs to prescribe this or that drug Right, but there would be a lot of point in making deals with whoever builds Wat
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by kijin 5y ago
Just dump your substance of choice into the cabin HVAC system. No need for individual passengers to manipulate heat sources. No need for them even to take off their masks!
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by kijin 5y ago
The outer layer of your skin is mostly made of dead cells. It's cold, dry, exposed to the elements, constantly discarded, and has the wrong pH for most biochemical processes that are optimized for the inside of your body. It takes a fa
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by kijin 5y ago
Unlike VSCode and most modern IDEs, Notepad++ has no concept of a workspace. I can use it to open any file anywhere on my filesystem or on a remote server, and Notepad++ won't balk about those files belonging to different projects or t
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by kijin 5y ago
Yeah, the mod_fastcgi/mod_fcgid split on the Apache side was a total mess. The Apache modules also took on the thankless task of spawning and manageing PHP-CGI processes themselves, whereas nginx had FPM take care of it. IIRC lighty&#x
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by kijin 5y ago
Back in 2008, if you had a FastCGI backend that produced a large body, such as a file download, lighttpd would allocate the same amount of memory and forget to free it afterward. Everything would work fine for a while, but then someone atta
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by kijin 5y ago
Off topic, but never underestimate the read performance of an SQLite database with all of its indexes warm in the page cache. :)
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by kijin 5y ago
Yeah, most of the missing features that jQuery used to provide are no longer missing. But the vanilla JS alternatives are so verbose, they look like they were designed by a committee of German philosophers. Luckily, we now have frameworks t
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by kijin 5y ago
Totally agreed. Despite PHP's reputation as a beginner-oriented, haphazardly designed language, the ecosystem as a whole feels much more mature and well-organized with multiple stakeholders and strong safeguards.
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by kijin 5y ago
> Why would one pick PHP over Java except because "you already know PHP"? If it's a lifestyle business or hobby project, it usually costs less to host a PHP app somewhere than to find a place where you can get decent perfo
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by kijin 5y ago
There are definitely parts of PHP and its ecosystem that have been trying to copy Java. On the flip side, PHP is quite similar to Java when it comes to its value proposition, so I can appreciate why the devs have chosen that path. Like Java
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by kijin 5y ago
Syntax sugar is nice. It helps PHP sidestep the age-old criticism about its crappy API, although the crappy API is still there if you want to use it. What's really great about PHP these days is the development environment. Composer is
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by kijin 5y ago
The "alternative" is exactly what Linux distros like RHEL and Debian do. They have editorial control over every package and often make changes the original developers don't like. It seems to work fairly well as long as you do
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by kijin 5y ago
Who said it was a live server? And it can take much longer than a couple of seconds. Did you even read the parent comment?
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by kijin 5y ago
Restart is fine. It only takes a fraction of a second. But APT doesn't do restarts. It stops services and doesn't start them back up until it's finished with all the other packages. This can take a few minutes if there are ke
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by kijin 5y ago
A related gripe I have with Debian-based distros is that APT shuts down daemons and keeps them down for an unreasonably long time while it updates seemingly unrelated packages. This is especially annoying on desktop Ubuntu boxes with automa
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by kijin 5y ago
> Ah, so I can stop people from depending on internal details by documenting it! /s That actually makes sense. If some behavior is not to be relied upon, document it explicitly as such. With scary warning if necessary. At least this
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by kijin 5y ago
Even if you're right, I doubt it's going to be much worse than the level of the average irritated driver.
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by kijin 5y ago
You can have redundancy and horizontal scaling with private servers and still end up paying less than what you would on AWS and the like. I have some clients who use AWS and others who prefer colo and/or dedicated servers from traditio
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by kijin 5y ago
You can host on AWS and still get hours-long downtime, as has happened recently. Whether the cost of trying to add another 9 to your uptime is worth the marginal benefit is for each company to decide. Each 9 gets exponentially more expensiv

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