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by lmm 7mo ago
Maybe decades ago. My current one doesn't.
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by lmm 7mo ago
> For a solo dev, what are the advantages of _not_ building on your own machine? I end up with all kinds of random crap on my own machine. It's very easy to accidentally e.g. globally install a library that wasn't properly list
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by lmm 7mo ago
Ok, that solves like 20% of the problem. How (and where) are you provisioning these VMs? How are you managing what versions of what are installed on them, and is that process reproducible? None of this is hard, exactly, but you do have to
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by lmm 7mo ago
There was geocities (now gone) and a couple of *.tk domains that would inject their ads all over your page. Neither makes a great substitute for GitHub pages these days.
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by lmm 7mo ago
I find CI very valuable even on my solo projects. > what is CI (in practice today, not in theory)? It's just a set of commands that run on a remote machine and then the output of those commands is displayed in the browser and it als
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by lmm 7mo ago
> Finding an HTTP+FTP server was easier than finding github. No it wasn't. Seriously, where?
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by lmm 7mo ago
> Then why wasn't it a problem before? It is. Thousands of people have died because of aftermarket headlights. Harder to assess, but probably much larger, is the number of excess deaths from nitrous oxide etc. emitted by modified ca
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by lmm 7mo ago
> On a clear day, you can see the white cliffs of Dover from Calais, France. I believe at its narrowest point the English Channel is 17 miles wide. At its peak the German army in WW2 had ~10 million soldiers and a massive industrial war
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by lmm 7mo ago
Sure. But the US has substantial domestic production. So China (and everyone else who has to import the majority of their oil) gets hurt more.
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by lmm 7mo ago
> If, on the other hand, we acknowledge "Netanyahu...is playing an extremely short game because it benefits him politically and personally to do so," we can allow for similar levels of narcicism and stupidity in the U.S. Sure.
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by lmm 7mo ago
The Swedish military famously works the same way (or at least used to) - they're trained to uphold the Swedish constitution themselves regardless of what their leadership says, with the result that they saved many lives in former Yugos
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by lmm 7mo ago
> As a general rule, always read the book first. In this case, that holds true - there was too much in the book to cover completely in the movie. That's normal, and precisely why my general rule is the opposite. Watch the movie firs
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by lmm 7mo ago
The problem is that if information can flow from the untrusted window to the trusted window then information can flow from the untrusted window to the trusted window. It's like https://textslashplain.com/2017/01&#x
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by lmm 7mo ago
The bowdlerisation of today's internet continues to annoy me. To be clear, the joke is traditionally "HAHA DISREGARD THAT, I SUCK COCKS".
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by lmm 7mo ago
> Dear downvoters: softbank has been optimizing their datacenters for robotic technicians since 2020. > They are about to have fully human free datacenters by the end of this year. What I'm hearing is that they've been tryin
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by lmm 7mo ago
> It's not about agile or waterfall or "functional" or abstracting your dependencies via Podman or Docker or VMware or whatever that nix crap is. It is though. Picking the right approaches and tools makes more difference t
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by lmm 7mo ago
> it's not axiomatically or definitionally true. Depends which definition you're going by. Some people do define "engineer" that way.
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by lmm 7mo ago
> Kyiv is frequently attacked with Shahed drones and it is far from frontlines. reply It's a couple of hundred miles from the frontlines in Kharkiv, and the Russian border to the North is even closer.
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by lmm 7mo ago
> Every rusty trawler is a viable launch platform for Shahed type drones And where exactly are you planning to operate that trawler out of? Or are you going to send it across the Atlantic on its own (well, with a couple of tankers accomp
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by lmm 7mo ago
He's speaking from a military, America-first perspective (which I suspect may be somewhat affected, because he is hoping to convince people who sincerely think that way). The people in these countries are not strategically important.
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by lmm 7mo ago
As it should. If they can read those messages they can read anyone's messages.
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by lmm 7mo ago
> It costs me nothing to install both stores on my PC. But you wouldn't bother unless you have a reason to. I put off buying games I wanted to for months because I'd've had to install a new store. No-one is going to instal
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by lmm 7mo ago
> Nobody mentioned the US upstream of your comment until you did. No, because programs sending telemetry to the US is so routine that and pervasive that we don't even remark on it. > This is obvious propaganda Now who's comm
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by lmm 7mo ago
> Scala is interesting. How do they resolve conflicts? If there are multiple possible instances you get a compilation error and have to specify one explicitly (which is always an option). So you do have the problem of upgrading a depende
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by lmm 7mo ago
> You realise you can walk into any US bank right now and they'll just open an account for you with nothing more than some accurate ID? There's an ocean in the way, not to mention how risky visiting looks right now. I changed m
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by lmm 7mo ago
> But the fact that a company can manufacture consumer(ish) routers in Latvia means it's very practical that another company could manufacture consumer routers in the US. Assembling them in Latvia, or the US, from internationally so
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by lmm 7mo ago
> legal avenues exist to hold those manufacturers accountable Maybe in theory. I think the practical chance of enforcing anything meaningful through those legal avenues against a US manufacturer is not meaningfully higher than the chance
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by lmm 7mo ago
> Other than duck-typed languages (and I count Go as basically that), which languages actually provide this feature? There are only like 3 significant languages with trait-based generics, and both the other ones have some way of providin
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by lmm 7mo ago
Like who? HN loves to rave about GitLab but they're even less stable than GitHub.
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by lmm 7mo ago
> The UK uses imperial units for most of the things you use units for in daily life (roads, cooking, drink sizes, body weight, utilities, land area...) Not really. Old people might cook with funny old temperatures/measures and weigh

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