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by kilburn 3y ago
Can you point to that configuration in the apple store? I can't find _any_ M2 Air that can have more than 24Gb.
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by kilburn 4y ago
Your quote is from the 2002/58/EC directive, which is amended by directive 2009/136/EC [1]. The latter says : > (66) [...] Exceptions to the obligation to provide information and offer the right to refuse should be l
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by kilburn 4y ago
It is important to point out the several unusual things that went right in this story: 1. Your decision makers recognized that the important number to pursue is "engaged users", not "number of emails in the list". 2. You
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by kilburn 4y ago
Hikaru Nakamura (one of the best players in the world) tried it too [1]. GPT got confused at some point and tried to play illegal moves, but then it seemed to regain the games' thread. He never finished the game because he hit the usag
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by kilburn 4y ago
> Demand deposit holders getting wiped out is unthinkable. Taking any non-negligible haircut on their demand deposits (yes, even over $250k) will destroy confidence in the banking industry. This is far worse than the moral hazard of a ba
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by kilburn 4y ago
What definition of enterpreneur are you using? According to [1] 14.5% of all EU workers are self-employed (i.e.: they have their own business, as small as it may be) whereas only 6.6% are in the USA. [1] https://data.oecd.org&#x2
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by kilburn 4y ago
The comment you are replying to provided links that include actual evidence to the contrary. Your reasoning is acknowledged in those links, and then they explain that this narrative sounds good but the data proves it wrong. Some things real
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by kilburn 4y ago
The article claims: > The past two years have not been as rosy for Amazon’s stock price. It fell 2.3% in 2021 and a whopping 49.5% last year. This explains the headline. I guess that the figures depend on the specific dates you pick?
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by kilburn 4y ago
There are not many places on the internet where you can read the mods apologizing and backtracking on their decisions. Thanks!
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by kilburn 4y ago
You have to ask to the appropriate forum though, and that's what he got completely wrong. Getting npm to scream for help when a developer installs your package is equivalent to asking your peer for a raise. I'd say that over 99.99
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by kilburn 4y ago
I understand that you're a DX at Netlify and your job is to advocate for whatever tech happens to be on your backyard. You openly acknowledged it and I thank you for it. However, there is still a line that, when crossed, turns you into
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by kilburn 4y ago
> Meanwhile, Gatsby Inc have created very powerful build and content orchestration tooling which is currently only available to Gatsby.js users. This acquisition will result in those capabilities being made available to any frameworks fu
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by kilburn 4y ago
It is not _necessary_ to get large investments and people who dedicate every walking minute of their lives to build a succesful company. There are plenty of businesses built on the back of solid work done under healthy life-work balance con
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by kilburn 4y ago
Containers are supposed to contain the entire stack a program needs to run. When you want to update anything in there, the correct answer is to build a new image. Of course, this means that you'll not just stop, but completely destroy
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by kilburn 4y ago
The mass-cancellations were to the D&D Beyond software [1]. It is the official tool to help with character creation and progress tracking, as a quick reference, etc. I definitely see the utility, and the cost (6USD/month for the to
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by kilburn 4y ago
We tried this approach and ended up with the same kind and amount of problems that everyone else plus a mark-up on the price. Our conclusion was that you absolutely must be on top of things or you'll end up disappointed.
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by kilburn 4y ago
> Why do people continue to tout this as some sort of gotcha? Android has multiple app stores yet this doesn't occur. It is very possible that this hasn't ocurred because google has not enforced the same level of privacy-relate
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by kilburn 4y ago
Honest question because I'm totally ignorant here: can anyone shed some light on the typical roadblocks for large corporations to release documentation like this one, other than "it's just easier not to do it"?
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by kilburn 4y ago
> Biggest difference so far is that Minio is just files on disk Minio _was_ just files on disk. They don't support that mode anymore since 2022-10-29 (see the big yellow warning box at [1]). [1] https://min.io/docs&#
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by kilburn 4y ago
What I see missing in most of those is that decentralized immutable storage is the only part solved by blockchain technologies, and: - Storage is not the hard part of all those proposals. Standard formats and a shared ontology between all p
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by kilburn 4y ago
It's not normal to work past 8pm in Spain. However, I know several people happily attending international meetings from home between 8-11pm because 8pm is the standard go to bed time for the kids.
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by kilburn 4y ago
GTK's implementation of text rendering is is admittedly broken in several subtle ways that nobody seems to know how to properly fix. [1] Also, this is while _not_ supporting fractional scaling, which is something that users definitely
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by kilburn 4y ago
Fist, the 10,000 hour rule is false common knowledge [1,2]. Second, splitting a general role ("backend engineering") in arbitrary atomic skills doesn't make sense because there's no end to it. Backend engineering -> O
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by kilburn 4y ago
I can't comment on haproxy because I haven't used it enough, but I think that the "nginx's config is easy to grasp" posture has a bit of Stockholm syndrome in it. - Do you want to add a header in this "location
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by kilburn 4y ago
If someone from Cloudflare is reading... please don't do this. I'm asking for two reasons: 1. Cloudflare has been great at rapidly iterating (compare the timeline between HTTP/3 support in Cloudflare vs Cloudfront... let alon
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by kilburn 4y ago
> While browsing HackerNews, [...] you might think that PHP is never used nowadays because whenever it’s mentioned, everyone is hating on it in the comments. This is one of those things that "everyone knows". It may have been t
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by kilburn 4y ago
This headline is dishonest at best. The study it is based on [1] claims: - That 24% number is for youngsters who would like to work from home 100% of the time. - Right next to that number the study finds that the "average desired numbe
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by kilburn 4y ago
> Imagine trying to figure out ECS, Fargate, Lambda, ACM, CloudWatch logs, alarms and metrics? In case anyone is curious, we went that route. - ECS + Fargate + CDK took one of us two (8h/day) weeks for the initial setup. We've
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by kilburn 4y ago
> If you separate javascript code into 2 main parts The point is that you don't do this. You do: const App = () => { // Client-side counter const [count, setCount] = useState(0); useEffect(() => {
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by kilburn 4y ago
Hydration only makes sense when you have a vdom that you have to "synchronize" with the initial state of the page (the html you got from the server). The act of performing this synchronization is what hydration is about (notice th

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