mikedelago

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by mikedelago 4y ago
Members of a society don't directly benefit from most uses of tax dollars in the first place. If you're gunning for a society where your tax dollars only go to things that directly benefit you, your quality of life will likely suf
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Posting in the monthly Hacker News "Who wants to be hired?" is the best interviewing/hiring experience that I've had, and you can say pretty up front that you want a remote job.
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> I would love for all electricity use to be non-renewable This is supposed to say "renewable" rather than "non-renewable"
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I can't say I like that idea for licensing the source code only to use in systems that run off of clean energy. It's great in practice, and I would love for all electricity use to be non-renewable, but it's saying that many p
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I agree, he's pretty great. Really intelligent guy. It's a damn shame that he's unable to get paid from Twitch and Youtube due to the war.
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Is there a source on this? My understanding is that current trends were lower now than what they were in the past as far as promiscuity goes
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She's not going to be happy using Linux unless she doesn't want to use Windows. It's probably not worth trying to introduce her to Linux if she isn't interested in it.
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I've been using the Hy REPL[0] whenever I've wanted to drop into a python REPL. The lack of whitespace formatting with Hy is great, and it still has access to all of python's libraries. [0] - https://docs.hylang.or
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by mikedelago 4y ago
I had an opportunity to work at a company that developed one of the more prominent software suites for railways in America. Unfortunately, the pay was too low and the company was having people come into the office in June of 2020.
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I'm not looking forward to the future of this. Is an affordable vehicle with competitive features and no subscription model too much to ask for?
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Why wouldn't it be bad for his teeth? It's my understanding that soda is typically acidic, and after you drink it the soda coats your enamel, in turn wearing it down.
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Every algorithm I write ends up being O(2^n)
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reminds me of the common advice for people with depression (that often comes from people without depression): "Well, have you tried not being sad :)?"
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I posted a comment in "Who wants to be hired?" and now I have a job.
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This was my take as well; bold claims with minimal details or demos on their website.
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If I wanted a window manager similar to Linux's options, I'd probably just use Linux. It's a shame that some programs that people need only support Windows
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That's pretty slick. Thanks, I'll take a look into that!
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> Though, using asdf from Nix/Guix sounds a bit like trying to use a scythe while riding on a lawn mower. I don't disagree - I turned back to asdf (which I use on most cases) after fumbling too much with defining Guix packages,
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by mikedelago 4y ago
I had tried to use Guix on one of my personal computers (instead of my usual, Arch Linux), but unfortunately since my knowledge of Guile Scheme was lacking, I had difficulties. My pain points were essentially: - The documentation was great
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I think having a blog is fun. I don't really consider myself to have a brand, though - I could not care less if people read my website. I think the most I get out of it is that it's a project where you can just make a website&#x2F
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There's an accompanying video as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hc52_PWeU8
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I use Firefox on Android, it works great. Desktop-based extensions integrate pretty seamlessly, which I love
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From the link in the original comment: > The Drive first spotted the patent, submitted in April 2018 and published on September 15, 2020. Its illustrations show a removable range extender that sits in the bed of a truck and looks like a
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I'm more interested in the range extender[0] that was patented by ford recently. Body-on-frame vehices seem like a no-brainer case for EV's, since they're typically larger and have more space on the frame for batteries, and h
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it looks like `tree`[0] can do this functionality natively, with `tree -dh --du` [0] https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/tree#default
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I haven't used it, but in a recent Thinking Elixir episode, they talked about Elixir-Desktop, which supports Android and iOS, as well as the standard Windows/Mac/Linux https://github.com/elixir-desktop/de
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by mikedelago 4y ago
Proxmox supports virtual machines and is a web-based frontend to KVM/QEMU. Kubernetes is a scheduler for containerized workloads.
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Homelab - Ryzen 5700G, 64GB memory, 32TB of storage, Proxmox - Building this was such a great upgrade to my old Dell R510 Personal Desktop - Ryzen 3700X, 32GB memory, Arch Linux Personal Laptop - Thinkpad T480, i5, 32GB memory, Arch
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> I'd really like to avoid getting into Elixir/Erlang world or any kind of interpreted language that will complicate the deployment process For what it's worth, the deployment story for Elixir is great. Erlang has a built-
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This looks super cool. Is anyone using this anywhere?

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