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by majewsky 5y ago
> I see people who "know how Docker works" put no care at all in the order of their image builds and end up doing 10-100x more IO than they need to. I don't want to go into no-true-scotsman territory here, but this really
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by majewsky 5y ago
The main appeal of containerisation is not security, the main appeal is having a deployment process that's consistent across the entire team/org/company. Sure, if all you have are Go binaries, you can just run those directly,
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by majewsky 5y ago
> What's the point of an python:3.9 image, when it's never actually updated? The library images are usually kept current. For instance, python:3.9 tag was last updated 6 days ago according to [1]. What's true is that you d
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by majewsky 5y ago
So then what's the issue here? Honest question. He got birthday money and spent it on things. That's how it's supposed to work. If he then finds that he cannot purchase something else that he wanted because he blew his budget
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by majewsky 5y ago
Just because there are more users reading news on the same site, doesn't mean that each individual page must be larger. Just because there is a cloud storage app somewhere else, doesn't mean that my blog article needs to be more b
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by majewsky 5y ago
If anything, I'm collaborating more as a senior than I did as a junior. Junior dev work often means getting a work assignment and working on that by yourself. Senior dev work often means getting together with different stakeholders to
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by majewsky 5y ago
Where's the ad-hominem? I honestly don't see it.
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by majewsky 5y ago
> if adverts were more targeted they would become more profitable and therefore pay for better content. If ads were more targeted, that doesn't necessarily increase neither the ad spend of companies, and it most definitely doesn&#x2
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by majewsky 5y ago
> Can't wait for [...] gmail [...] to have paywalls With my mail service, I pay 1€ per month for my mailbox (on a pre-paid model where I deposit 20€ at a time into my account and get reminded when the balance runs low). That's
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by majewsky 5y ago
> Newspaper advertising never had the means to attack newspaper readers. FTFY - They totally would have done it if it had been possible and profitable.
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by majewsky 5y ago
This is being downvoted, but it hits the point on the head. The differentiating feature of blockchains is removing the reliance on social capital from a technical system. While interesting from a theoretical PoV, it's mostly an answer
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by majewsky 5y ago
IANAL, but I imagine that could give rise to (attempted) obstruction of justice. (Maybe it won't hold up in court, but it still gives the DA an opportunity to go after the mail provider.)
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by majewsky 5y ago
A 2% death chance may look small on its face, but Covid is not the only thing you can die from. If you accept a 2% death chance ten separate times, your death chance overall is 18.3%. I bet those are numbers which a lot of people won't
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by majewsky 5y ago
> As far as I can tell, the organisation could not have made the registration as a legal entity before existing. Domain name ownership can be transferred. It's trivial for a founding member to register the domain name first, then t
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by majewsky 5y ago
They are doing a lot of work on Wine as part of Steam Proton (the Wine distribution built into the Linux version of Steam), so I'd imagine they have at least some of this type of developer on staff.
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by majewsky 5y ago
> A lot of consoles are sold at a loss I don't believe that's the case anymore. Newer console generations have moved on from exotic ISAs and the like towards using a lot of off-the-shelf parts for smartphones or PCs. The Switch
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by majewsky 5y ago
Tangent: My first job out of college was maintaining parts of one of these seemingly impeneterable legacy codebases. I was allowed to refactor and rewrite stuff, but only if bug-for-bug compatibility was retained. In retrospect, I think thi
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by majewsky 5y ago
A+B correspond to the city limits of Berlin, and BER is outside of the city limits. I'm not saying that this is set in stone. They could probably include BER in B if they wanted, but the most benign explanation is that it just started
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by majewsky 5y ago
Given m = 60 kg and v = 40 km/h, the kinetic energy is K = 1/2 * m * v^2 = 3.703 kJ Acceleration is not going to be 100% efficient, so let's round that up to 10 kJ. We also need to decelerate, so let's assume the
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by majewsky 5y ago
<ESC><ESC>:q! There you go.
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by majewsky 5y ago
$100/yr does not seem to be stopping people from putting malicious apps on the iOS app store.
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by majewsky 5y ago
If you cannot adequately explain the appeal of a new technology to your peers after having worked on it for a week, that's nothing to worry about. After 20 years though? That's very worrying.
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by majewsky 5y ago
> sexy characters who used to be contentious have been commonplace for a while now They have always been both.
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by majewsky 5y ago
> What is the S in USSR then? False advertising. By the same logic, East Germany was more democratic than West Germany because it had "Democratic" in the name.
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by majewsky 5y ago
> An honest reader would not interpret my pro-free-market comment as being 100% absolute in any and all circumstances. FWIW, based on my experience, whenever I see Americans arguing pro-free-market, I am going to assume that they genuine
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by majewsky 5y ago
How does the saying go? "If you never upset anyone, it means that you haven't done anything noteworthy" or something like that?
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by majewsky 5y ago
> $0.05 per gb transfer That's including AWS's insane profit margin, though. I have my cloud deployments with Hetzner, where extra traffic costs € 1.19 per TiB, so that 100 MiB app download would not be half cent, it would be 1
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by majewsky 5y ago
You're making the exact same point as the author, though in a different phrasing: that classifying offensiveness is not something that can be easily achieved with $TECHNICAL_SOLUTION.
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by majewsky 5y ago
> More than 50% of tweets I'm linked to fail to load on the first attempt, and many times I have to reload the page two or three times before the tweet actually loads. I observe the same thing. My pet theory is that this is supposed
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by majewsky 5y ago
There was a contract between the US and EU that was supposed to address this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU%E2%80%93US_Privacy_Shield As described in the Wikipedia article, the contract has been thrown out by the Eu

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