laumars

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by laumars 5y ago
I absolutely hate it when people do this.
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by laumars 5y ago
Are you actually reading peoples comments before replying? You’re posting these completely irrelevant tangents as if it’s a contradiction to earlier posts (it isn’t) and in a tone that suggests you’re the only person who knows C (you’re not
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by laumars 5y ago
You’re a bit quick to comment there because the GP said “highER”. ie another language that is a highER level than C. So technically their post is correct
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by laumars 5y ago
They do but not by a significant margin these days. The kind of domains where this is an issue isn’t what you’re average engineer would be concerned with. Where VMs do help the average engineer is they have more secure defaults. It’s pretty
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by laumars 5y ago
It was a dead market. Everyone wanted 3D because that’s what they saw at the arcades so that’s where Sega’s developers were already skilled at. Plus that’s what was already appearing on PCs.
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by laumars 5y ago
I wasn’t finger pointing. I was just making the same point you did. :) Knuckles Chaotix was originally penned to be Sonic 4 but I think it was always planned to be a Mega Drive release. There were a couple of failed attempts at bringing Son
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by laumars 5y ago
It wasn’t so much over engineered but more old before it’s time. Sega bet on 2D and then retrofitted their console to be 3D after rumours emerged that the PlayStation and N64 were 3D-focused systems.
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by laumars 5y ago
Depends on the industry. For general purpose computing it’s generally not an issue but it does matter for some specific workflows. I tend to look at it the other way though: given containerisation is so easy these days, what are the compell
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by laumars 5y ago
It didn’t help that the Saturn didn’t ship with an SDK and was painful to develop 3D titles on due to being a sprite based machine (3D was effectively transforming sprites. Which caused bugs like breaking alpha blending). The PlayStation wa
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by laumars 5y ago
The 32x was released by Sega America and the Saturn by Sega Japan. The two groups couldn’t agree on much in that era.
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by laumars 5y ago
If I was rolling my own and concerned about polluting, I’d favour a language like Rust or Go because I then don’t need to install the Python runtime, have random undocumented dependencies for the bash etc. Or I’d use Docker. But as said bef
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by laumars 5y ago
I fully believe some people are doing AWS wrong. But you cannot compare the worst offenders in AWS against the best defenders of deploying on prem - it’s just not a fair like for like comparison comparing the worst against the best. Hence w
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by laumars 5y ago
Not having your application packaged up for quick removal strikes me as more polluting. And I don’t really see how an independent solution with almost no documentation and zero configuration management support (eg Ansible) is easier to repl
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by laumars 5y ago
> You really don't need almost any of this stuff. If you have small on-prem needs just grab a couple fiber links, try for diversity on paths for them (good luck), add some power backup if it fits your needs, and be done. Then you’re
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by laumars 5y ago
My analogy wasn’t saying it’s niche. It was comparing the difficulty. And yes, there are trained people (I’m one of them ;) ) but that doesn’t make it easy, cheap, nor even less error prone than using cloud services. Which was my point. Als
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by laumars 5y ago
indeed but that wasn’t the type of facilities that the GP was talking about when they said running web services were a solved problem. If you do move to an established data centre then you’re back to my earlier point that you’re still then
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by laumars 5y ago
Are they though? Let’s look at what the recent AWS outages have been: a single region (but AWS makes multi-region easy). The biggest impact to most people is the AWS console, something that one seldom actually needs given AWS is API driven.
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by laumars 5y ago
Sure. But for every edge case where virtualisation bridges the gap, there will be containerisation solutions that further the gap too. Also I’m not really in the mood to engage in a dumb flame war. I’m just answering the question as to why
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by laumars 5y ago
Because there are laws on what you can and cannot fill with fuel. So you may find you have to make smaller but more frequent visits. Also buying fuel for a petrol station is going to be more expensive than having a commercial tanker refill
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by laumars 5y ago
But then you’re still reliant on those hosting providers not fscking up; just like with cloud providers. Literally the same complaint the GP was making about AWS applies for OVH et al too. In fact I used to run some hobby projects in OVH (a
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by laumars 5y ago
Containerisation makes much more sense than virtualisation in a lot of areas: * lower runtime overhead * quicker deployment time * smaller image foot print Plus most of the advantages of VMs can still be applied. However it does massively d
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by laumars 5y ago
FreeBSD is the appeal. Back in the earlier days of containerisation Linux had no options (Linux was pretty late to that particular game) and Solaris wasn’t free. So FreeBSD made a lot of sense. These days the tooling around Linux is better
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by laumars 5y ago
I have run high availability (HA) systems in prem and your statement vastly understates the difficulty and expense. You need multiple physical links in running to different ISPs because builders working on properties further down the street
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by laumars 5y ago
> I didn't want to install and configure Apache or nGinx. In fact, I didn't want any configuration. If you ignore all of the manual installation instructions and any dev time you took to create this, then sure. I’m not going to
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by laumars 5y ago
On the one hand I never understood why Americans get so outraged by boobs. Or, more specifically, why the male nipple is fine but a female nipple is somehow offensive. It’s not sentiment shared in Spain (where this Twitch steam was from). B
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by laumars 5y ago
DevOps specialist here and I agree with your complaints about IaC meaning JSON and YAML documents. sigh
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by laumars 5y ago
Murex https://murex.rocks
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by laumars 5y ago
> I'm curious, though, what other shells offer 'quality of life improvements' To be honest most alt of them do. Bash has enough footguns to incapacitate a small army. Seasoned users like ourselves know how to mitigate th
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by laumars 5y ago
I’m also a bash expert but I disagree with your point. Bash was good enough when being a sysadmin meant your structured data was largely just flat lists of plain text. However the industry moved away from that model years ago. And these day
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by laumars 5y ago
> The disclosure process was terrible, they clearly had no time to perform a thorough validation of the hotfixes, and this is the result. Even with proper disclosure, patching can be harder than it seems at face value. Take shellshock (t

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