lamasery

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by lamasery 6mo ago
> It's usually because your company doesn't fundamentally want it. BINGO. Managers and execs want (or get sold on) "agile" but only want it to affect the structure and processes for the very lowest-level workers. They
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by lamasery 6mo ago
It doesn't really fail any worse than other inflexible top-down process mandates from management. That's where it becomes "impossible to implement"—you can't impose it as a cookie-cutter solution driven and controll
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by lamasery 6mo ago
I really, really wanted a non-violent mode in Far Cry 5 for my son. If a mode that removed the hostiles and weapons had existed I can guarantee that would have been my son’s (he was probably about 6 at the time?) favorite game for a couple
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by lamasery 6mo ago
I've backed up and restored ~14-15TB[0] with their B2 product. IIRC sync each way took three or four days, not really that bad. I used rclone, though, not any official client. And that's B2, not their "unlimited" backup
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by lamasery 6mo ago
Damn, that's decent, yeah that'd get you a ways. Imma stick with free peer-to-peer VPN via Tailscale because it's already working for me, but I can see the appeal of that.
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by lamasery 6mo ago
> If you were in tech in 2005-2007 you were part of a small minority of the general population. It often didn't feel like a small minority because, well, you knew all those other people on the Internet, but that's a pretty stro
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by lamasery 6mo ago
I'm not saying it's a good idea, I'm trying to get a handle on whether Spain is on track to de facto spend more than this per resident in lost economic productivity (to say nothing of whatever value we might like to place o
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by lamasery 6mo ago
> The adoption isn't there yet. It's worth noting that after ~50 years[edit: to preempt nitpicking, yes I know we've been using computers productively quite a bit longer than that, but that's roughly the time when the
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by lamasery 6mo ago
$20/yr per Spanish resident? That's very few wasted labor-hours per worker per year (on average).
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by lamasery 6mo ago
How's the bandwidth and transfer limits on that $5 VPS, would be my next concern? One approximately-perfect-Bluray-quality 4K movie can be north of 50GB, decent quality, still 20+GB. Very-high-quality 1080p is gonna be like 8-12GB for
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by lamasery 6mo ago
I wonder how close they are in broad economic damage to it being cheaper to just pay FIFA or whomever for some kind of nationwide viewing license (which they'd surely be able to negotiate way lower than a simple "cost to view ev
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by lamasery 6mo ago
Yeah you gotta pick which Plinko board to drop your chip in. Even if you have a separate machine randomly pick one for you, you've still gotta do it. Plinko board don't play itself.
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by lamasery 6mo ago
I remain baffled that anyone thinks dragging brains into discussions of these things does anything but make everyone more confused. This kind of thing is exactly what I'm getting at—that it's common for even people in the compute
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by lamasery 6mo ago
All these years later and the Eliza effect is as powerful as ever.
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by lamasery 6mo ago
I’d not put Jellyfin on a public IP, even indirectly. I’d be surprised if it’s not full of exploits.
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by lamasery 6mo ago
Get your elderly mother an Apple TV and infuse, then connect with Tailscale. It’s pretty friggin’ smooth in daily operation. Apple TV’s UI is no easier to get lost in than Roku, and actually has fewer pitfalls if you toggle one setting (the
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by lamasery 6mo ago
Yeah in my case it mostly just encouraged me to clean up some nonsense I’d been meaning to anyway. I think some folks who have strong opinions about things like organizing their files under folders by director or something find it grating,
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by lamasery 6mo ago
IIRC the Azure “portal” does this. Also likes to not record things as navigation events that really feel like they should be. Hitting back on that thing is like hitting the back button on Android, it’s the “I feel lucky” button. Anything
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by lamasery 6mo ago
The training or system prompts have shoved the probabilities toward a space that tends to select “halt” sooner. You need to drag the probability weights around until they are less likely to reach “halt” so soon. Nice language often sorta do
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by lamasery 6mo ago
It’s not a blind roll of the dice, then. Among other factors that make it pretty different.
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by lamasery 6mo ago
> The only hiccup was when she tried to watch during one of her lectures. I had to explain that Jellyfin is only at home ;) (for now) Tailscale got me outside-the-home Jellyfin with a grand total of maybe 30 minutes of effort, including
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by lamasery 6mo ago
The one trick is to make sure your file naming & organization is good. They have good documentation on it. Everything's pretty much automatic then, almost zero further work. The naming conventions aren't too bad, and the res
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by lamasery 6mo ago
Forced server transcoding for everything. Ouch. Thought maybe at least mpeg2 or something would play directly.
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by lamasery 6mo ago
> Unpopular here, but I judge degree of development / maturity of societies on 2 major factors : 1) how it can take care of the vulnerable members in need - mostly heathcare, with som basic social support to help you bridge between
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by lamasery 6mo ago
I think nobody cares about the moon thing because 1) they aren't landing, and (this one's more for people who are paying some attention to this stuff to begin with) 2) it's basically the same mission they already ran on auto-
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by lamasery 6mo ago
IIRC the story is it basically predates when they figured out exactly what a "national park" is supposed to be as distinct from other kinds of national-whatever, and it stuck. Similar story for the one in Arkansas I think. Both wo
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by lamasery 6mo ago
Working for a salary on other people's ideas, LOL. Mostly incredibly boring ones. One interesting ones that fizzled due to too-low investment and too-safe management (odds are it would have fizzled anyway, of course, though I do think
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by lamasery 6mo ago
Source was we used it, and that's what we saw, ~20% of clients on three continents (about half in North America) consistently had terrible connectivity to DO (not none, but it was really bad) and we spent a lot of time trying to fix
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by lamasery 6mo ago
Yeah, 25 years in the industry, zero business ideas right here. I can build whatever, I just have zero clue whatsoever what to build. Never have.
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by lamasery 6mo ago
Last I saw, AWS has way better peering agreements than DO. Lots of problems with terrible throughput and lots of dropped packets for various clients (in several cities in North America, not just overseas or in the middle of nowhere) that

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