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by macNchz 3y ago
Ugh, it has been a few years since I did any software development directly within MacOS, but when I did I found it really annoying to have SIP fully enabled. At the time, though, disabling it didn’t take away core features of the computer.
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by macNchz 3y ago
Yeah, I misattributed a lot of minor annoying things with my Linux machine to “general desktop Linux jank” for the past couple of years and would have said Linux+Nvidia was totally fine. Then I replaced my Nvidia GPU with an AMD and realize
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by macNchz 3y ago
There's a big generational gap here, I think, between people who did and did not come of age during a time where telemarketing was a nascent industry and–when then the phone rang–you had no idea who it was, and they couldn't leave
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by macNchz 3y ago
I worked on a piece if software that had originally been developed by a single engineer who fit that description. After struggling to understand and work effectively with the code for some time, and questioning my own abilities, I learned t
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by macNchz 3y ago
> Why hasn't an alternative emerged? To my understanding, mostly because the MLS services are owned by realtor associations, and the current model of how they work is highly lucrative to the industry, so they're incentivized to
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by macNchz 3y ago
Given that MLS services’ current existence is less about the technical innovation of disseminating market information with a shared database of listings, and more about aggressively protecting the status quo of the real estate industry by m
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by macNchz 3y ago
Surely there are plenty of potential mechanisms to discourage perpetual grad student-ism by just limiting the contracts and number of years one can be paid to work at a given institution, rather than paying so poorly that the rest of societ
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by macNchz 3y ago
In my experience, in web apps built on top of ORMs there is often a TON of low hanging fruit for query optimization when database load becomes an issue. Beyond the basics of "do we have N+1 issues", ORMs sometimes just don't
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by macNchz 3y ago
Over the years I think I've encountered more pain from applications where the devs leaned on denormalization than from those that developed issues with join performance on large tables. You can mash those big joins into a materialized
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by macNchz 3y ago
Not sure how you’re defining a “very cold” climate, but when I looked into buying a Tesla a few years ago I got the impression that for my use (US Northeast, often at houses I don’t own), in winter it’d wind up using nearly all of the power
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by macNchz 3y ago
> The article itself is clueless… it doesn’t engage authors’ concerns at all, and just portrays authors as stoopid AI-fearful luddites. Going off of some of the tweets about this that initially whipped up the outrage about this…it’s not
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by macNchz 3y ago
If you’re an author of books intended for children, your texts are likely already being quantified to produce a reading level difficulty score: https://metametricsinc.com/parents-and-students/lexile-for-p...
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by macNchz 3y ago
That's great if everything you're running plays nice with journald or generates logs in the same structured format, but the problem I always run into with production systems is the mess of various formats coming out of each piece
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by macNchz 3y ago
For some reason noise cancellation in Meet is gated by the tier of Google Workspace you’re on, it’s available on the $12/mo/user plan, but not on the $6 one. This has always struck me as a weird business/product choice, since
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by macNchz 3y ago
For me, having not really played many video games between ~2008 and 2020, Red Dead Redemption 2 has continued to really wow me. It's is particularly impressive in both its breadth and depth: not only does it have huge beautiful landsca
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by macNchz 3y ago
I think a lot of people in America simply don’t have a great concept of what living somewhere within walking distance of amenities can be like. Walking totally sucks in most of the country, so it’s very reasonable to devalue it. I grew up i
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by macNchz 3y ago
I can't actually remember off of the top of my head, I tried it out a year or two ago but didn't get too far because during profiling it became clear the biggest opportunities for performance improvement in this app were primarily
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by macNchz 3y ago
I put PyPy in production at a previous job, running a pretty high traffic Flask web app. It was quick and pretty straightforward to integrate, and sped up our request timings significantly. Wound up saving us money because server load went
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by macNchz 3y ago
Many treated wood fence posts have a lifetime warranty, though you might reasonably expect 10-20 years out of them. In my opinion, mostly just based on seeing a wide variety of plastics in outdoor uses, 50 years seems very ambitious.
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by macNchz 3y ago
The experience of Napster, Limewire and Kazaa was pretty bad at the time. Plenty of songs were low quality, mislabeled, skipping, incomplete, or radio recordings with announcers talking over them, which was especially frustrating when it&#x
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by macNchz 3y ago
I imagine also anyone who, despite being on an approved distro, has had to enroll their own key to build and sign drivers as well.
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by macNchz 3y ago
The video by one of the creators (at the very bottom of the page) is super interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3i3db-QgHYE I was too young for this when it happened, but it reminds me a bit of when randomized video
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by macNchz 3y ago
I have heard people talking about how AI support is going to be much better than the lowest-bidder outsourced support that many companies use right now, but I think this sort of dis-empowerment is the root of the issue, and it's not li
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by macNchz 3y ago
The NYC area grocery chain Fairway–of which most locations have sadly closed after a bankruptcy in 2020–took this concept a step further with a mobile checkout app, you could weigh your produce and enter it into the app as you shopped (as w
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by macNchz 3y ago
EZ Pass is a cooperative partnership between all of the participating toll agencies, not a private corporation.
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by macNchz 3y ago
Makes me think about intentionally corrupting the magstripe on my cards. I wonder if that’d cause any issues. I can’t remember having to fall back from the chip to a swipe in ages, and I have a couple of cards, so I could keep one as a back
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by macNchz 3y ago
> I found after creating a LinkedIn account, attacks went up on my account 12x. I'm curious to know more about what you're doing to quantify this as an individual–I think I have a fairly sophisticated personal security posture
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by macNchz 3y ago
> Putting DRM encryption on it is similar to a private company putting a gate on a national park and charging people to go into the park. Sadly not all that far from reality given how Booz Allen Hamilton has profited off of running recre
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by macNchz 3y ago
> Is there any reason the "Farmacia" model of Latin American countries, where you go in and pay per-pill for whatever you want wouldn't work here? It seems that, at least in Mexico, this model leads to massive overuse of a
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by macNchz 3y ago
It has been several years since I worked on a system that implemented listen/notify, but I recall there was a significant caveat that if the listener was unavailable at the exact moment the NOTIFY executes, the message would be lost. T

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