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by minimaul 7y ago
And that design (the Amazon one) will be unusably slow for any actual uncached access! WordPress on EFS (and they explicitly mention PHP files on their EFS description) is unbearably slow!
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by minimaul 7y ago
Honestly at a team level - code reviews. At least one other developer reviewing every line of code that is written is transformative in the quality of code that is produced. A lot fewer problems, a lot more maintainable.
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by minimaul 7y ago
It’s been an option since basically forever (I think you could use HFS+ case sensitive on Tiger, even). But it breaks a large number of apps, so do it with caution.
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by minimaul 7y ago
As much as I can, currently: On colo’d hardware: - off-site backup server (Borg backup on top of zfs) - this is a dedicated box - a mix of VMs and docker containers - mostly custom web apps - email (it’s easier than you think) At home: - fi
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by minimaul 7y ago
Except Apple have a lovely ‘Skip’ button at every step of the process. If you don’t want to use iCloud you’re not forced to by virtue of being internet connected, and there’s a clear option to not allow your iCloud account to be involved in
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by minimaul 7y ago
CircleCI has been very frustrating for us recently. We have a lot of problems with waiting for builds to start - it seems CircleCI don’t have even remotely enough capacity at peak times. We regularly get 10min plus delays to builds starting
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by minimaul 7y ago
>The few times I’ve had a look at Windows 10 I’ve been seriously put off by all of the ‘junk’ that is automatically installed, e.g. candy crush etc. Not a diehard win10 user, but as far as I know you can only disable this legitimately if
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by minimaul 7y ago
Then I shall live in hope that it will be fixed :) And I didn't even have a JetBrains product in the loop, it was a mix of virtualbox and VS code, along with browser, mail client, etc.
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by minimaul 7y ago
Yeah, this is exactly my experience too. I try to move over every six months to a year or so, and it's the same gripes every time at this point. Driver support's reasonable now, and the desktop environments are generally solid eno
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by minimaul 7y ago
The sheer improvement in clarity of text is massive - makes it well worth it on it’s own, imo
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by minimaul 7y ago
No, you paid for a TV with an App Store, where there were apps (pretty much all provided by third parties). It’s not Samsung’s fault if a third party pulls their app.
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by minimaul 7y ago
No, you’re definitely reading it wrong ;) This is just connecting up a serial console, nothing more.
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by minimaul 7y ago
Google Ventures funded company in thinly veiled Google Cloud Platform advertising? Shocking.
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by minimaul 8y ago
No, you're not. It might be a pain to move, but it is certainly possible, and it's certainly worth the effort.
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by minimaul 8y ago
All excellent additions. Others: - a major way of embedding web fonts (Google Fonts) - a hugely successful cloud document suite (Google Docs) - a safe browsing service, making them effective gatekeepers of what can load in Chrome (Google Sa
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by minimaul 8y ago
Most definitely yes. Truly independent governance of separate projects within Google at the very least, but ideally totally separate legal entities that are carefully regulated and monitored to ensure they're not giving each other pref
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by minimaul 8y ago
Further to this... at this point, Google controls: - the largest browser people use to view pages (Chrome) - the largest platform people use to run that browser (Android) - the largest way people discover content online (Google Search) - th
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by minimaul 8y ago
At this point, I’m convinced google are actively harmful to the internet. Trying to centralise as much of the internet and how people interact with it under their control is dangerous and open to widespread abuse - and this is already happe
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by minimaul 8y ago
I agree - lots of game soundtracks are superb coding music for me. I tend to find if the music has vocals that I understand (eg in English) then I listen too hard and get distracted. My favourites st the moment for coding to are the Sonic A
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by minimaul 8y ago
Metal's supported on that card. Works on a GT650M too, from a 2012 rMBP.
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by minimaul 8y ago
One of the ways Chrome gained marketshare was bundling with heavily used apps. Install Acrobat Reader? If you didn’t notice the checkbox, Chrome’s now your default browser.
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by minimaul 8y ago
Nice! As someone who also wrote a GB emulator as a learning exercise, I found the sound code to be the worst part by far to write - getting sound timing right etc is very difficult (as the GB sound output changes instantly - it has no buffe
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by minimaul 8y ago
The argument for this I come up with is rather that they want to maintain the security of their platform - protecting things like their App Store DRM as much as possible. By disallowing downgrades you can't get back to a version with o
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by minimaul 8y ago
This isn't as bad as it sounds - it only works if the attacker has access to the management interface. If you're exposing that unfettered to the web at large, imo you deserve what you get.
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by minimaul 8y ago
Google push Chrome crazy hard whenever you touch a Google service, and they have a crazy bundling game in play - they bundle with flash, acrobat reader, some free A/V products - wherever they can get marketshare. Plus some pre-built PC
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by minimaul 8y ago
Kimsufi gets de-prioritised compared to other services on OVH’s network and there are capacity issues. This is probably due to the fact that a lot of people use them for cheap 24x7 torrent boxes rather than the cheap personal VPS alternativ
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by minimaul 8y ago
Except AD lets you do an awful lot more than this with Group Policy - you can configure and enforce endless amounts of settings on client machines from the simple - wallpaper for example - to software installs to executable restrictions...
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by minimaul 8y ago
As a long time Mac user, I still feel like many in this thread that the pinnacle of the MBP was the 2012->2015 rMBP models. MagSafe for charging isn't without it's issues (cable fraying in particular) but it's incredibly c
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by minimaul 8y ago
And yet, my experience with namecheap support was terrible. Screwed up the glue on the main domain in use for email, and after a week they still hadn’t resolved it. I fixed it by moving elsewhere. Edit: the lesson I learned from this was -