mekster

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by mekster 5y ago
Somehow back around 2000, all the design changes felt things improved well. Sometime around since 2010, most of the design changes seem to be going backwards and I'm starting to hate people change anything as nothing is improved practi
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by mekster 5y ago
Does deno (try to) solve any of this?
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by mekster 5y ago
What's the reason the law no longer holds? Physical limitations or Intel just busted with their research?
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by mekster 5y ago
Umm, ARM has the share in the phone market where Intel/ AMD couldn't make a dent... It's a matter of time other shares will be eaten when x86 is having hard time innovating over its decades old design. More battery time for c
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by mekster 5y ago
I don't like the single project limitation too but why does everyone have to provide a free version that you satisfy?
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by mekster 5y ago
To he honest, watching shit scroll actually makes you comprehend what is an error and what is not. It does help figure out informational crap from errors in other situations than being overwhelmed by wall of texts.
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by mekster 5y ago
I still believed compiling everything with proper arch and cflags would make the system run a bit better than using distributed binaries for hardware's from 20 years ago. Had fun doing distributed compiling with distcc.
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by mekster 5y ago
I've tried LFS about 15 years ago. It actually teaches you better to learn the inner workings of Linux if you follow Gentoo (or the likes) that makes you actually type in each of the steps to get the OS running like setting up swap and
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by mekster 5y ago
Do yourself a favor and use borg. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29210222 If you have extra space, you could rclone the result of locally run borg to a cloud storage or find a service that accepts borg directly.
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by mekster 5y ago
There are several targets for borg that don't charge for traffic. Get off of AWS...
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by mekster 5y ago
Sorry to say none of these modern backup tools work reliably when backup volumes get large except borg. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29210222 Using zfs snapshot is the best way to go but having a cloud destination w
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by mekster 5y ago
There are more than Linux in the real world.
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by mekster 5y ago
You call 2007 ancient when bash has been around for over 30 years? What exactly has changed in the last 15 years?
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by mekster 5y ago
> There are cases where you don't want -e enabled, such as when you want to make sure your script makes the best attempt to continue operating even through unknown failures. You don't let go of -e for that. dont_mind_failur
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by mekster 5y ago
> - In the case that there are no failures, there is no e-mail sent, meaning the user only gets actionable e-mails. I've always thought this isn't the right approach. How do you know if the email server is borked or you comment
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by mekster 5y ago
Just responded on alternatives on another post. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30440028 I'm starting to think Apache isn't bad once again after pulling several hairs out of nginx config complications over th
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by mekster 5y ago
It's good we have many options to choose from. Apache, nginx, caddy, Traefik, HAProxy, lighttpd, Varnish, Envoy are likely to be the major ones?
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by mekster 5y ago
Perhaps some benchmark would convince one.
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by mekster 5y ago
It seems you like some ancient language which can't even concatenate a string without writing this dull statement with bunch of symbols. NSString *string1 = @"Some"; NSString *string2 = @" string"; NSString
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by mekster 5y ago
I got that too far. I had the impression it was borked but it just didn't have wi-fi support. Other parts work. But it does limit its usage like making a wireless router out of it. (Can attach an external antenna via USB maybe.) https
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by mekster 5y ago
Frankly, the tools themselves are quite similar for the web dev that I do, so I can have the same set of tools running on either OS but it's the little utilities that counts. There may be alternatives in Windows with same quality but h
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by mekster 5y ago
Never liked Finder but you can have alternatives like ForkLift and Transmit. I even enabled "Quit Finder" to get it out of my alt-tabbing.
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by mekster 5y ago
I always wondered how FreeBSD foundation is run. https://freebsdfoundation.org/about-us/about-the-foundation/... They have so little income with those sponsors and multiple times that expense and who is covering t
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by mekster 5y ago
I used to use BSD on my hobby server just to keep up with the BSD world but nowadays on Linux, I use various packages from Docker hub and little tools from Homebrew but they don't work on BSD and I've lost the reason to use BSD es
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by mekster 5y ago
I suppose you're not saving attachments.
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by mekster 5y ago
Doesn't sound critical at all.
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by mekster 5y ago
It's easy to use zfs on Ubuntu.
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by mekster 5y ago
What do you mean by hostile?
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by mekster 5y ago
People like to spend less time fighting the OS? That's the norm, not peculiar.
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by mekster 5y ago
Always wondered why anyone would use desktop on BSD. Use stuff where it fits well for its purpose. I use Windows only for gaming, Mac for development and Linux for servers where they excel at what they do. Also I really don't get why B

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