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by perlgeek 6y ago
Also not good for the business. It means you attract people who pretend to care about it. So, people who can tell a good story, not those who will talk honestly to you.
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by perlgeek 6y ago
My real hope is that eventually, you can use some higher-level language to write device drivers for things like crappy IoT gadgets using eBPF, without any chance of crashing the machine due to a pointer fu or so. Knowing that with eBPF I si
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by perlgeek 6y ago
Aye. Glad for the Reader Mode in Firefox.
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by perlgeek 6y ago
If you pay for maintenance from the general budget, you are allowing shipping companies (for example) to externalize cost that they incur on society. This is generally a bad thing, but very concretely it led to road traffic growing much fas
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by perlgeek 6y ago
> That said - I think the only real answer here is a more thorough overhaul of how you tax road usage. Perhaps it's time to ditch the fuel excise tax entirely, and tax all drivers based on (vehicle weight * kms driven * some constan
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by perlgeek 6y ago
Podman is amazing for CI and dev environments: * It doesn't require special privileges to run * It runs containers as the same UID as the calling user, so directories mounted into the container can't be polluted with files belongi
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by perlgeek 6y ago
I don't know if it's everywhere, but here in Germany the profit margins on the food tend to pretty low, and the restaurants try to make up for that by selling drinks pretty expensively. So for takeout, I just order food, and often
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by perlgeek 6y ago
A related question I've asked myself a few times already, with no good answer yet: is it good for the long-term health of an OSS project if it has sponsored developer(s) from a single company? If Cairo didn't have that support, it
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by perlgeek 6y ago
Did powershell get faster as well? I remember trying it out (on Linux, that is), and really liked the concept, but it was painfully slow, so it was no fun for me. Like, waiting 3-5 seconds in the REPL for a single line to compile and execut
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by perlgeek 6y ago
As a job seeker, even if ethics didn't prevent it, I'd never show private code from previous work. It would demonstrate that I don't respect the company's ownership of the code, and everybody will assume I cannot be tr
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by perlgeek 6y ago
I work at a company that markets itself as a "premium IT service provider", and I think our cheapest VM is maybe 3x to 5x what the equivalent OVH or Digital Ocean VM costs. What you get, is: * actual humans to talk to, when things
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by perlgeek 6y ago
... or if you do, make sure they are deleted pretty quickly afterwards (with logrotate or something comparable). Having some logs in invaluable for debugging, but for example keeping them only for 14 days could be an acceptable compromise
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by perlgeek 6y ago
> That said, that approach may piss off people as well. Imagine paying $50k for a Tesla, and only being able to get $30k when you sell it because you paid $20k for features that won't transfer over to the new owner. Even worse if yo
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by perlgeek 6y ago
> Once you have a codebase in place, things are a whole lot easier. There are far fewer decisions to be made. Really you have little choice in how to do things as the current structure dictates your options. You still have the choice to
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by perlgeek 6y ago
If somebody discovers a security bug, what are the chances that somebody can cut a high-quality release with the fix in it, if it hasn't been done for two years?
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The Dapr Distributed Runtime Nears Production Readiness(thenewstack.io)
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by perlgeek 6y ago
I've talked to our resident backbone engineer about that about a year ago, and he said that larger blocks transfer for a lower value per IP, on average. I was surprised by that, but he showed me data that supported that. Update: I just
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by perlgeek 6y ago
This would be a lot more reassuring if the same (better storage in a bound form) hadn't been promised for at least 20 years, back then being solved in principle, but not being ready for prime time...
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by perlgeek 6y ago
Unbounded lookahead is a feature of the problem, not the parsing approach. Just ask yourself: if you wouldn't see what comes after it, could you decide unambiguously what kind of construct is being parsed? There are several possible so
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by perlgeek 6y ago
OK, let me try. Most software has "reference types", like a customer. A customer is mutable; for example their name can change for a variety of reasons, their shipping address can change etc. And then there are "value types&q
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by perlgeek 6y ago
The public market also has some trouble with valuations. Consider a company that has several big shareholders that are in it for the long run (several years to tens of years); they are just holding onto their shares as long as nothing catas
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by perlgeek 6y ago
There are other reasons to do such splits though; a popular is tax evasion (the parent company holds the intellectual property, and charges the child company enough fees that the child company doesn't make any profits), and of course p
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by perlgeek 6y ago
Being an ISP and being a launch company are very different business models, different regulations apply, different operational expertise is required and so on. If you're focused on getting to humans to Mars, running an ISP is a distrac
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by perlgeek 6y ago
Stock trading is complicated because those companies aren't public yet, but they aren't public (yet). I think I recall Elon Musk saying that SpaceX isn't going to go public, possibly because it's a very long-term endeavo
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by perlgeek 6y ago
Btw French "ami" is "friend" in English.
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by perlgeek 6y ago
So could a game developer offer the items for 30% more with in-app purchases, and provide a link to the browser where they can be purchased for regular price?
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by perlgeek 6y ago
This is reminiscent of gmail staying in "beta" for 5 years and having acquired 10 million users. > And before anyone claims one shouldn't use stuff on versions below 1.0, consider that very popular projects like React were
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by perlgeek 6y ago
Security is not just about preventing attacks, but also about detection and response. In detection, honeypots are very useful, like a machine named gitlab.yourcompany.com in your internal network, but which just alerts SOC about login attem
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by perlgeek 6y ago
How does that make anything better for the user? They know they cannot rely on a stable API, which means they have to carefully read the diff for every single upgrade, so saving no work over explicitly picking a major version.
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by perlgeek 6y ago
I've been using let's encrypt nearly since it started issuing certificates, and I had to intervene only once so far. I think one thing that's missing from the discussion is scalability. Sure you can pay a CA for a cert that i

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