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by mastazi 3y ago
Wait a second, do you pick up any call you receive? IME Australia is one of the worst places with regards to spam calls (by far the worst out of all countries I lived in), if I allow calls from numbers not already in my contacts, I get an a
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by mastazi 3y ago
Sure but this is not easier than putting a camel in an industrial sized juicer and then pass the camel, in liquid form, through the needle's eye.
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by mastazi 3y ago
EDIT: I misunderstood your comment originally. My response was based on that misunderstanding. I removed it. Also, I should not have suggested that the author might be in bad faith.
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by mastazi 3y ago
This aricle does a good job in presenting sources in support of its first argument (it was a camel, not a rope) but then it presents exactly zero evidence to support the conclusion (the error was intentional, the goal was to appease rich pe
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by mastazi 3y ago
> I imagine it would be difficult for anyone under the age of about 42-45 to imagine just how mind-blowing this kind of thing was at the time. Based on your username, I think we were born in the same year :-)
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by mastazi 3y ago
The early Internet was magical. The fact that you could see a place through a camera, in real time and whenever you wanted, on the other side of the world, was magical. Before webcams, only large television networks had the technical abilit
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by mastazi 3y ago
Parent is probably referring to the saga of extension support in FF for Android (it used to support all extensions until around 2019, then it didn't [0], then it did again but only a small number of extensions [1], they only recently g
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by mastazi 3y ago
At this time, this is not for me unfortunately as I use 4 different OSes (Mac/Linux/iOS/Windows) but looking forward to checking it out again down the line.
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by mastazi 3y ago
Wow his life story is quite interesting... Among the many highlights, there are Peruvian shamans and backyard alligators! Rest in peace
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by mastazi 3y ago
Where I live (Australia) a music store is offering a decent discount on the Akai MPC Key 61. I'm trying to resist the urge though.
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by mastazi 3y ago
Their point is that whether or not the platform is "dying" would depend on whether or not Twitter is still the best way to "get news". But the most common metrics for whether or not a social media platform is dying, are
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by mastazi 3y ago
FWIW I've just read the tweet on Nitter, haven't had a Twitter account in more than 2 years.
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by mastazi 3y ago
I was expecting that most of the "unique" trees would be in parks, e.g. the Botanic Gardens, but then looking at the distribution graph, wow, I can see so much diversity in the street trees "long tail"; almost as much as
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Kubota bringing fruit harvest drones to North America [video](youtube.com)
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by mastazi 3y ago
I live in an apartment, I'm unable to install a charger in the garage for various reasons. But I can take the battery off my e-bike, bring it home and charge it.
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by mastazi 3y ago
So you are saying that vegetable oil is not a vegetable? How come that rice, which comes from a plant, is not a vegetable? I'm struggling to understand where you are drawing the line. Reminds me of those debates on whether tomatoes are
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by mastazi 3y ago
If you want to become an architect, you don't need previous experience as a bricklayer. Many other fields besides construction are similar: most positions don't require previous experience as "manual labour". Software de
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by mastazi 3y ago
the very article you are linking provides information about how deadly it is[1] and how crossing with a car is essentially not an option unless you have months or even years to spare[2] [1] "The hike, which involves crossing rivers whi
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by mastazi 3y ago
> The RPi really does suck from a professional use-case: no volume, [...] Korg makes a line of popular synthesizers that are based on RPi, so I believe the volume issue has been solved? https://www.raspberrypi.com/success
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by mastazi 3y ago
So you agree that it would raise a syntax error?
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by mastazi 3y ago
from the proposal: > Any literal composed entirely of M, D, C, L, X, V and I characters that does not follow this format will raise a syntax error, because explicit is better than implicit.
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by mastazi 3y ago
> Programs that use variable names that are all upper case and contain only the characters M, D, C, L, X, V and I will be affected by the new literals. MIDI, MIC, MIX... I guess musicians didn't like this proposal :)
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by mastazi 3y ago
This video is geoblocked when accessed directly on Youtube; Piped link for the rest of the world: https://piped.seitan-ayoub.lol/watch?v=6Nt7xLAfEPs
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by mastazi 3y ago
In my case at least, I can solve this by changing instance in the settings, as explained in my previous comment. Based on my experience, it seems that the less popular instances tend to have less frequent errors. Your mileage may vary thoug
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by mastazi 3y ago
> that no other piped/invidious client has, If I understand what you are saying, Piped has this. For example I can stream from instance-1.com but at the same time I'm logged into instance-2.com so that I can keep my favourites
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by mastazi 3y ago
mmm sure but I never said that the Lambda runtime handles those things... By the way, routes with ids are handled no problem by API Gateway, you can even set more complex ones like {proxy+} etc.
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by mastazi 3y ago
I stopped paying attention to the alert sounds because they can be triggered for so many reasons and finding out why the sound is playing every time, would mean that I would be constantly distracted while driving. So, ignoring the warnings
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by mastazi 3y ago
Here's an example: I have one workload that needs more RAM because it will parse some big CSV. So this is in its own lambda with different memory settings. Another example could be permissions granularity (each lambda can have its own
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by mastazi 3y ago
with lambdalith you miss out on some things like granular IAM roles and granular Memory/Cores config. Also with lambdalith you probably end up needing an application framework as opposed to just using mostly vanilla features of your la
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by mastazi 3y ago
> ECS doesn't [...] b) scale up to infinity near-instantly. yes we have some very spiky workloads and we got bitten by that, subsequently we moved away from ECS for this exact reason

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