mekster

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1531.
by mekster 7y ago
Funny the other day on another HN thread, someone was saying btrfs is good even though I said RedHat has abandoned the btrfs ship but then he said Facebook had been using it heavily. But seeing how so many people had lost data using it, I w
1532.
by mekster 7y ago
While the code needs maintenance to adapt to edge cases, it's build once and maintain feature. It's not user registering site that needs support for customers and no need to introduce new features to keep going. Data storage is al
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by mekster 7y ago
Why do they need 150 people to run a non interactive site? I'm not against anything about them but if they want donations, their way of expense should be clearer.
1534.
by mekster 7y ago
It would work well if a browser's share button can send a link directly there. I use NextCloud's bookmark on Android and it kind of does that but it's pretty basic and there are many rooms for improvements.
1535.
by mekster 7y ago
Sounds like you just don't know how to cast a type for your specific case rather than a TS bug, which is fair to say as sometimes you need decent time to learn how to do it.
1536.
by mekster 7y ago
Suppose you're using an editor that actually gives you clever warning if types don't match? Using plain vim with typescript makes no sense. It gives me plenty of useful checks using TS. Lack of members, wrong types returned, missi
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by mekster 7y ago
Isn't garbage collection the problem for being in the system programming?
1538.
by mekster 7y ago
Have used DO, Linode and Vultr (and some others) for 5+ years but Vultr is the only one that keeps having network problems every now and then. I run "monit" on all instances that checks for connectivity every minute but maybe ever
1539.
by mekster 7y ago
Only if it can get rid of semi colons.
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by mekster 7y ago
Duplicacy compresses. https://github.com/gilbertchen/duplicacy