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by nickjj 4y ago
> I think the fact that smoking forces others around you to smoke, whereas drinking doesn't is a big part of it. I'd be curious if cooking with wine falls into this category of affecting others. For example, at a restaurant if
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I will admit, env files can be pretty "interesting" at times. I've run into so many issues over the years around incompatibilities with how Docker Compose v1, Docker Compose v2 and Kubernetes tools process an .env file. Often
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I think in a lot of cases manual labor is extremely ironed out because the workflow is defined before the work is done. - Pick up shovel - Move dirt from pile A to pile B There's not much else to think about, you do it and
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Wow this is disruptive given it's less than 1 week's notice. I've been using a Jekyll plugin for like 4 years to embed tweets on my site. Nothing crazy, just using: https://github.com/rob-murray/jekyll-tw
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I've never encountered a bug in any of the web apps that I developed where a kernel update solved it. I know there's other reasons to update such as addressing security vulnerabilities, but I've also never encountered or pers
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I auto-updated everything regularly except for kernel updates. I replied to another comment that has more details.
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> You didn't patch in almost 5 years? For that machine I configured https://wiki.debian.org/UnattendedUpgrades to auto-patch packages with auto-reboots disabled. That specific server wasn't running Docker so th
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I've been running Debian stable on servers for like 8 years now. Up until recently I had a server running Debian Jessie with 1,802 days of uptime. It served a decent amount of traffic. Services on there ran unattended for literally yea
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On a related note, think about something like S3. As an end user you just hit a "simple" API to store files. In a 2022 AWS conference they announced that S3 is currently powered by 235 microservices[0]. It started with 8. I think
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Yep this is sound advice. I have dozens of screenshots of old websites I built from 1997-2002 and it's fun revisiting them once in a while. It's all sitting in a "_legacy" folder with 104 projects that I've copied f
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If your goal is to "learn Docker", I have around 100+ free blog posts and ad-free YouTube videos at: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/tag/docker-tips-tricks-and-tu... https://github.com/nic
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What was their sample size to report that number? They mentioned it's based on a survey but don't list how many people they surveyed in the article. 97% is a high number to claim. They definitely didn't survey every single ad
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If anyone is looking for a complete guide I put together this last month: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/a-guide-for-running-rails-in-... It includes running Rails and also Sidekiq, Postgres, Redis, Action Cable and ti
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That's a good question to ask the podcast host (the source of those numbers). On the reference page I linked it mentions: > Having 40 bits of entropy is approximately 1,000 times weaker than 50 bits since bit strength scales exponen
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I used https://www.omnicalculator.com/other/password-entropy to calculate it by the way. I threw out a few examples but you're right, it does come down to individuals knowing what to do or not. Those aren't m
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In the comments on Reddit someone linked to a podcast where they broke down what this really means in terms of how "secure" your leaked encrypted vault is. The TL;DR is even with 100k+ iterations of PBKDF2 an attacker can crack a
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> But what if the person who started the container didn't use docker-compose? There's your shell history, combined with fzf this helps recall previously run commands. You can search for something like "docker redis" a
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> The big issue is most people in a work relationship are not even capable of changing work patterns If only watching the entire Star Trek: The Next Generation series was part of the onboarding process. If you watch this show through a l
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It was supported immediately for Alpine based images because rustc 1.60+ was available in that distro. Initially when 3.2 was released Debian based images didn't support it because Bullseye ships with a version of rustc that's too
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> then you'd compare any potential purchase against it, and it would fall short. So you'd end up never buying anything (except tickets for one week trips) I think there's a number of folks out there who do this all the tim
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A Guide for Running Rails in Docker(nickjanetakis.com)
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Yep, this still works at least on Windows 10. I did it about 3-4 months ago when setting up a laptop for someone. You do need to fail a few times in a row before it lets you create a local account.
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> Hmmm the checkered background actually seems distinct enough that it wouldn’t be too difficult to automate its removal and just create a png with a transparent background. You can do this with some image editors and a "magic wand&
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If someone is looking for ideas, I'd love an extension that shows if a png image is really transparent instead of being a png or jpg with literal checker box patterns on the image. I tweeted about this once a while back[0], it gained s
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> Controls like aggressive screen lockouts are one of the few options available to allow some categories of workers to work outside of a company controlled premises. What does the policy really protect against? If it's being locked
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That's really clever. This is a company issued Macbook (macOS is a requirement not a choice btw) but I'm guessing there will be something similar that you could do. This puts you into a grey area though no? You could make a case t
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What bugs me is when this is applied to remote workers in a way that seems optimized for in-office environments. For example IT enforces that your screen becomes locked after 15 minutes of inactivity and also ties in your local computer &#x
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> Since Ubiquity started fown the cloud-first path I’ve switched to Mikrotik I was thinking about getting a Ubiquity router because it has good support for setting up wired VLANs without needing to go down the path of finding a solid Ope
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What type of situations did you run into while using it? I've been using Celery for a long time in production now. Nothing crazy and it's a fairly basic set up of "execute job, thanks!" along with a beat server. Over the
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A long time ago I wrote a blog post about Celery use cases at https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/4-use-cases-for-when-to-use-c... . It applies to Django, Flask or any Python system using it. All of it still applies today. I

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