macNchz

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by macNchz 4y ago
Yes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8LE9gxtxTY
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by macNchz 4y ago
Totally, though I think in a fast paced/under-resourced environment incentives matter, and ephemeral cloud vms incentive admins to use configuration management, whereas it's easy to take a shortcut in the moment and quickly manual
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by macNchz 4y ago
The dedicated server deployments I worked on at smallish software companies 10+ years ago wound up being really annoying. I enjoy sysadmin type stuff and this idea has tempted me, but I think it’s a false economy in most cases. The incremen
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by macNchz 4y ago
It is certainly not unheard of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal
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by macNchz 4y ago
The tricky bit IMO is when you’re at the threshold of being able to identify errors it makes. I tested some situations a while ago where I asked for some physics calculations functions. I’m an experienced programmer but haven’t really done
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by macNchz 4y ago
I think the highly productive programmer who ships features like crazy but leaves a trail of garbage in their wake for others to clean up is actually the most common archetype I’ve seen in real life. The core issue is the disconnect between
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by macNchz 4y ago
Certain 80s/90s Toyotas had something funny about their keys, where they were widely interchangeable between different cars. A friend of mine tells a story about how there were a few students at his high school with identical looking b
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by macNchz 4y ago
I am generally not inclined to engage with comments like this, but in this case I will: I am a pragmatist and not an absolutist, stopping all tourism is obviously a non-starter, so are other things that would be high impact like making ever
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by macNchz 4y ago
That is basically franchising, you exchange some cash upfront and ongoing royalties for a brand name and some level of support with training/business planning/marketing/leadgen/software etc. There’s a franchise for just
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by macNchz 4y ago
There was plenty of inexpensive hosting when Facebook launched. You could run several tiny PHP/MySQL web apps on a single shared hosting account for <$10/mo, and Linode had recently launched, offering a VPS starting at $20&#x2F
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by macNchz 4y ago
Absolutely, organizations need someone who will stand up and ensure important things are dealt with, but doing so does not require being unpleasant . This is something I’ve actively tried to cultivate in myself, and have been happy to rece
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by macNchz 4y ago
There’s obviously a super complex web of things involved, but I personally think that the nature of the post-2008 economic recovery (in the US) has had an impact on this at a societal level. I think people perceive that the opportunity to h
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by macNchz 4y ago
There's definitely a lot of psychological interplay with running and willpower/self discipline. I think I read somewhere that there are disproportionate number of professionals/PhDs/otherwise successful people who are in
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by macNchz 4y ago
I think some of the ability to differentiate a light run from a hard run requires having a degree of baseline fitness. A lot of people who are not especially fit will find that they can run quickly for a minute or two, or very slowly for ma
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by macNchz 4y ago
I think this is a phenomenon less specific to choice of OS and more based in some bad part of the human psyche that inclines people to punish nonconformity/“the out group”. 20 years ago using a Mac was often greeted with similar nasty
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by macNchz 4y ago
This definitely explains a portion of these "nasty encounters", but I think only a very small portion. The majority of people will at least attempt to be gracious even if they're having a really bad day. Riffing off of the au
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by macNchz 4y ago
Many people consider not having election deniers in government to be a “real issue” in and of itself. Having people in office who sow discord and continue to promulgate a fantasy about election integrity actively takes focus away from more
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by macNchz 4y ago
I have gripes with some things in the current state of Python, package management particularly, but choosing JavaScript because Python's standard library is "barebones" doesn't really make any sense to me. I've alwa
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by macNchz 4y ago
Here in NYC I've been to a couple of coworking spaces in the past 6 months and was surprised to find them downright bustling, I had trouble finding a quiet space to work. There are definitely serious problems in commercial real estate
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by macNchz 4y ago
The value of deeply understanding “edge cases” depends a lot on the context. An edge case where my beta release mobile app doesn’t work on some outdated phone when it’s being held upside down is irrelevant. “Edge cases” on the highway lead
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by macNchz 4y ago
Generally I agree, we should absolutely design roads to guide drivers into proper behavior, but there are some drivers who are simply way more dangerous than others^, and I'd love to have this feature to know where to be extra alert fo
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by macNchz 4y ago
Just goofing around with it, ChatGPT does pretty well at that, I'm really impressed with this: https://imgur.com/a/lVcWbAH
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by macNchz 4y ago
Surely if this style of search becomes very popular there will be people dedicating tons of effort to gaming the system to ensure the chat bot is primed to answer questions like “what’s the best kind of mattress for a side sleeper?” in a wa
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by macNchz 4y ago
I had the same thought recently, this reminds me of old-school forums where the single admin would just make ridiculous arbitrary rules based on specific random things that bothered them. “No more posts about doughnuts ever, after what pwny
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by macNchz 4y ago
As a datapoint, my “bookmarked songs” playlist that I’ve been adding to for about 10 years is ~600 tracks, roughly 10 of which are greyed out, having been removed from Spotify.
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by macNchz 4y ago
The “opposite” thing you’re describing sounds like a tarpit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarpit_(networking)
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by macNchz 4y ago
The printers refuse to print if you disconnect them from the internet.
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by macNchz 4y ago
It checks regularly, and if the server is unreachable for any reason the printer will refuse to print until it’s able to reconnect.
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by macNchz 4y ago
The seller can turn around and spend the cash instantly, anywhere, whereas the cashier’s check takes at least a day to clear, and in theory the bank could hold the funds for some period of time while it investigated the transaction for frau
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by macNchz 4y ago
I bought a somewhat rare car with cash several years ago. The seller had a buyer lined up across the country (and showed me evidence), but said that if I could bring him cash he’d sell it to me instead. I went to the bank, brought him an en

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