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by peterwwillis 6y ago
This may sound stupid, but you can try looking up the stories of people who had really hard luck and struggled, and finally were able to make a life for themselves. Their stories can remind you that even after enduring incredible hardships,
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
Important to note that "feeling depressed" and "having depression" are two different things. Everyone feels depressed sometimes. Maybe your mom died, maybe you're getting divorced, maybe you lost your job. Feeling d
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
The exception is open source software. Free Software's biggest risk to the org is patent and license encumbrance. If we can develop an easy way to detect such things in Free Software, and we develop communities where enterprises can fr
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
Another fun trick: curl https://github.com/USER.keys to list a user's public ssh keys. Iterate over every GitHub user, then correlate. Now you know what accounts are actually the same user (or share ssh keys).
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
* > There were no open-source projects or buy-not-build solutions that worked well for our use case and scale* B2B/SaaS providers, take note: If a company gets really big, they may be less likely to afford your enterprise offering
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
> Please don't misunderstand If there's one thing people will always do regardless of age, it's that.
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
WebTransport is the kind of stuff that makes me lose faith in the capacity for humanity to consciously evolve. It's like your great-great-great-grandparents built a house out of brick. Each new generation there's more people. Ever
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
This is like suing Hillshire Farms because their bacon wasn't as maple-honey-bourbon-flavored as they claimed. Nobody is buying bacon just for flavoring. People use Zoom because it's a free digital telephone with screen sharing. N
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
Holy crap dude. It looks like a sea of white faces. (it's partly the glare, but still) Are you facing any challenges in finding more diverse candidates?
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
Athenian slaves had a lot more rights than modern slaves. Sort of close to the lowest rungs of other caste systems. Modern Capitalist workers actually have a very large spectrum they encompass, from very rich to very poor. Which is not tota
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
And yet, the officials selected for office were more likely to be land owners or merchants, or their friends were. And the more intelligent you were, the more likely you had a privileged upbringing and a particular set of values.
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
People hate Capitalism in the same way they hate Country Music. They say, "I like all music except Country. I hate Country." And you say, "So you hate Johnny Cash?" And they say, "Oh. No, I like Johnny Cash. But I h
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
I believe the only way we can push the state of the art at this point is to replace Linux entirely with some new experimental kernels. Linus will never accept a radical departure from his own design. We definitely also need new ways to tal
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
Yes. Mosix was the kind of black magic that makes you think software today is still several generations behind the times (like Plan9 before it). Even its distributed network filesystem is superior in ease of use to all others. But the devil
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
Systemd is basically another Kubernetes. The Unix way does not require a patriarchal set of daemons and a proprietary framework to manage the interoperability of everything else in a way that's incompatible with anything else. That sai
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
This would make a good blog post. Maybe they should consider making one so we can have the article [in an easily readable/shareable/updateable form] after it's deleted from Twitter
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
So, Cisco never slapped an FPGA in their Snort boxes?
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
The simplest thing is make friends with your neighbors. Once you have a bond with your neighborhood, you can become educated about local issues, and spread this knowledge among your community. Then the community can work collectively toward
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
This is the question that needed to be asked. What are the people building production with your PaaS going to use? First and foremost, infra engineers use generally one tool to build their Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible,
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
Dumb question, but, does WordPress support a dynamic credential manager like Vault or Secrets Manager? Afaik you have to hard code plaintext secrets (such as for the DB) in a .php file?
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
I highly appreciate these inventive, non-commercial uses of the internet. Feels like the late 90s/early 2000s are coming back.
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
I really enjoyed my Epson multifunction inkjet, up until it just stopped printing, even with new ink cartridges. It died after only a couple years of extremely seldom use. My favorite part? The software. It was very Japanese . Very ugly an
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
First of all, Obama had already been putting immigrants in concentration camps, so I don't think that example works towards an argument of "this time it's beyond the pale". And "but think of the children!" is a
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
Microservices are popular because managing large teams is a pain in the ass and creating a small team to spin off some new business case is really easy to manage. You get budget, you create the new team, if it sucks, reorganize or fire the
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
I don't see how. They only lose money on public anonymous pulls. Docker's eventually going away and distros will replace it with a home grown alternative (or systemd). I predict that in 10 years distros will finally move toward a
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
TIL that the slogan and sound bite came from a riff on a Wesley Willis track. https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2013/11/a-brief-history-of-the-wi...
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
If you can't forgive people for their mistakes, that says more about you than about them.
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
Slashdot has a basic solution to this: moderation votes with a category. You can vote up or down, in a specific category: Insightful, Interesting, Informative, Irrelevant, Flamebait, Funny, etc. If your comment has a -2, you usually know wh
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
Also, since some people missed it: I wasn't talking about the effect of reintroducing wolves of Yellowstone (although they were mismanaged too). I was talking about the effect of messing with the ecosystem the first time . Yellowstone
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
"Solutions" like this are how we destroyed Yellowstone the first time, and why deer now run rampant all over the US, literally eroding forests from excessive grazing. A naive assumption about a complex system has knock-on effects

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