lazyant

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by lazyant 2y ago
"plenty of people have pointed out that vintage scifi is full of rocketships but all the pilots are men. 1950s scifi shows 1950s society, but with robots. Meanwhile, the interstellar liners have paper tickets, that you queue up to buy.
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by lazyant 2y ago
You have a very valid point; chess or music benefit from structured/known/repetitive learning and those techniques don't work as well on more chaotic environments.
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by lazyant 2y ago
thanks, I ended up reading the whole thing. If you watched a movie about this you'd think the writers went too far.
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by lazyant 2y ago
I haven't met anyone I couldn't tell in less than a month if they were good (enough) or not (about two weeks if you push me and two work conversations if you push me even more). I don't understand doubts after a couple months
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by lazyant 2y ago
maybe they arrived themselves to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martingale_(betting_system)
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by lazyant 2y ago
surprisingly (to me), Chilean accent is pretty much the same anywhere in the country
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by lazyant 2y ago
This was a bit of a straw man argument against DevOps and normal CI/CD that describes as only safety net the PR review and forgets about automated (unit, integration and end-to-end) testing and other de-risking activities like canary r
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by lazyant 2y ago
I find the "pg connections take a lot of memory" to be mostly a myth. The number floating around is 10 - 20MB per connection but it looks it's more like 2MB per connection https://blog.anarazel.de/2020/10
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by lazyant 2y ago
Everybody is self-taught. If you went to university (for example), the professor was there to set the curriculum and force you to study (things that otherwise you didn't know were important or didn't want to pick on your own). Tea
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by lazyant 2y ago
You don't want to do Leetcode, or apply to any job that requires algo coding challenges (at least for now). Some good bets for you imho are fractional CTO and director-level jobs at tech companies. For those you want networking and pra
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by lazyant 2y ago
> Navigate to the Payouts section of your Balances page > Filter by “method” I have no "method" filter on that page, only "date", "amount" and "status". Also they talk about 2 business days paym
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by lazyant 3y ago
For people new to Linux see also https://linuxupskillchallenge.org/
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by lazyant 3y ago
Whole series is in YouTube https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUA9kG1DciUwY2VSvIGk3...
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by lazyant 3y ago
the generalization of this is: "feelings is the clash between expectations and reality"
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by lazyant 3y ago
Reminds me of the “discovery of hunger” in 1967 when Robert F. Kennedy visited the Mississippi Delta https://www.processhistory.org/green-hunger-health/
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by lazyant 3y ago
I suggest you create your code in GitHub or GitLab and separate that long pastebin in three files: README.md (explain Why and What this is, add your gofundme and other comments), LICENCE file and actual code file.
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by lazyant 3y ago
Sounds more like scope creep (due to "Right Way") rather than arguing about details.
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by lazyant 3y ago
> much like the Inuit people, who have many words for snow, this is a myth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskimo_words_for_snow
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by lazyant 3y ago
> I've been using them long enough to know, without hesitation, that you don't use a relational database as your job queue. I'm also very familiar with jobs and I have used the usual tools like Redis and RMQ, but I wouldn&
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by lazyant 3y ago
> - env variables are often easily accessible by other processes A process would need to have the same permission (same user) or root to read /proc/$PID/environ no? or what mechanism is there for a process to read another
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by lazyant 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_management#The_Eisenhower...
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by lazyant 3y ago
https://pgbarman.org/ , haven't used with a Docker image but there seem to be several (non-official) options
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by lazyant 3y ago
Flyway and Liquibase are typical migration tools. Best practice is to have your new code backwards-compatible with the old schema so you can do blue-green deployments.
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by lazyant 3y ago
"The poor man's dollar goes to market twice" is a saying where I grew up
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by lazyant 3y ago
A "couple" to me is between 1.5 and 3 more or less for things that are continuous like time. "Took me a couple weeks/months", I'm expecting that range, not exactly two. Had a silly argument with a neighbour (Ca
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by lazyant 3y ago
For comparison, the local tuition for the CS program at the U of Waterloo is about CAD $6k for a semester (for three courses), or about US $4.5k. It also includes things like health insurance.
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by lazyant 3y ago
I'm so confused, what's the role of Redis here? , looks like a "special case" of running redis instead of pg?
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by lazyant 3y ago
Because Cuban voters in south Florida
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by lazyant 3y ago
Not only BestBuy; at the Apple store for an iPhone repair, they made me turn off "find my iPhone" and reset my password, so I guess it's SOP.
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by lazyant 3y ago
I'd say it's four things: - Dockerfile. - Docker image. - Docker container. - Docker repository. the docker desktop and docker hub is an implementation of one of those, other concepts like overlay filesystem as we

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