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by peterwwillis 7y ago
"To keep reading this story, create a free account." This is actually great. I won't create an account, so I've spent a lot less time reading empty posts on Medium and more time just going about my day.
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You have to weigh multiple costs, though. What's the cost of waiting to find out if the one huge gain is enough, versus the cost of doing them all right now? It seems like a lot of the small changes with small impacts could actually ca
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Keepass is very difficult to use in an automated way and the open-source clients are buggy. I had to search for hours for an ancient Perl script which amazingly works with both 1.x and 2.x Keepass databases (still the only library I've
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Funny, I never noticed..
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We could change the standards to facilitate client apps using a private network's own PKI. This would solve about a million problems that currently exist with most private orgs that need to enforce policy on content on secure networks,
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I think what you're really looking for is meaning. You can be a 'consummate professional' by 'solving challenging problems' in the very best way you can, but it seems like this just doesn't hold much personal m
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This appears to be focused on post-15th century America and England; I was talking about world history, where each of these drinks' use predates Western social interpretations. But you're right that economic status often dictated
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They do have some antimicrobial effects, but the "made it safe to drink water because nobody in the world could find clean drinking water until the 19th century" idea is a myth. Mainly people drank different things for different p
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On my desktop, approx. 1/5th of the screen is taken up by a giant top banner for American Scientist, and two paragraphs don't fit on the page. Why do people design websites like this?
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The user probably would be less pissed off if they had no way to filter by time. An interesting lesson in UX.
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There's huge waiting lists for international students to get into Hopkins. What this will probably result in is that it makes headroom for more international students to get in (because if you're sourcing "qualified and promi
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Put the cars on rails, focus on the safety and switching systems. We don't need full AI, we just need to not have an individual human be solely responsible for the operation of the vehicle at all times.
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I don't think we're talking past each other, and thank you for your responses. > Does your team want to treat other teams as a 3rd party dependency? From what I recall, 'true' microservices are supposed to operate tot
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> It is having multiple repos what creates those problems and a huge graph of versions and dependencies. Bazel, the open source version of Google's CI tool, is built specifically to handle "build dependencies in complex build
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If you can do that with 3rd party dependencies, can't you do that with all the code? This is what confuses me about monorepos. Their design requires an array of confusing processes and complex software to make the process of merging,
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As painful as it is, I think these cultural lessons are necessary, for a few reasons. The first is that people should not buy something just because someone made promises about it; that's how snake oil sales work. They promise the moon
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How are they straightforward? Like rebuilding a car's engine is straightforward? If you know how they're built, it's easy...
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> ".. two CEO changes in the past 18 months and leadership changes that created competing directions in the business .." They had several different chefs that all had different ideas about the menu, probably resulting in too
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I wish somebody'd write a book on monorepos. I've run into only a handful of their problems when trying to manage production pipelines using just a dozen services, so I'm sure there's tons more (like the purpose behind t
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GP's comment was not about whether or not the server was attacked, please re-read.
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Keep in mind that you're reading a filtered, minimalist snippet of a probably very long and complicated case, and that whatever you're presuming from the article probably isn't the whole picture.
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Rich’s sh (Posix shell) tricks(etalabs.net)
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I've been using bash for nearly two decades, and I just found out that Bash is apparently the only shell whose built-in echo uses the -e option. I thought others used this too, but it seems every other shell's echo just impl
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> “We don’t care if things go properly,” a launch officer told RAND. “We just don’t want to get in trouble.” Who would you rather have in control of the nukes: people who don't care, or people who care a whole, whole, WHOLE LOT ?
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> [ ] is a command—basically another way to call the built-in test command. Literally, '/usr/bin/[', which takes as an argument a final ']', but actually a different binary than '/usr/bin
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There are many, but capital offenses have no limitation, and there are many potential capital offenses. However, that shouldn't really be an issue here, because any business can commit a capital offense, but we don't require eve
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If you just want to talk to someone, I get it, but otherwise there's no point. Nobody's going to fight a thief to safeguard a stranger's stuff (and shouldn't because they could be sued by the thief). And it's a crim
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What I was trying to sell was that NFS is buggy, but past that, that it's just bad design to require the "equivalent functionality" of NFS at all. Really old applications and systems with really old designs needed NFS years a
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Software doesn't have to last 50 years, but if you want it to, first build hardware that'll last 50 years, and make it upgradeable. Otherwise you'll be trying to get an emulator to work to fake out the software to think it&#x
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Well to start, virtually any networked filesystem is better. Even CIFS won't hose your system from network blips, but there's also GFS2, HDFS, GPFS, OCFS, VMFS, Ceph, Lustre, Gluter, Lizard, Orange, Hammer2, MapR, Xtreem. If you d

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