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by peterwwillis 6y ago
Which is like pissed off that an alligator ate your dog when you took your dog to swim in alligator-infested waters. How dare nature be.... natural! Let's kill all the alligators!
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
You don't have to go quite that far to get better tasting coffee. You start with a good quality roast, pre-ground is fine, because average grind size is medium to coarse, which is a good general size (esp. if you don't wanna over-
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
Do you have Docker? Then you can use an open source web UI rather than run the command-line tool. cat > youtube-dl-webui.Dockerfile <<EOF FROM d0u9/youtube-dl-webui RUN pip3 install --upgrade youtube_dl EOF cat
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
If, hypothetically, you worked for one of these vendors, then, hypothetically, you might find that while waiting for a shipment of new product test gear to your lab, a shipment from California to Maryland may get waylayed - by U.S. Customs,
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
Some designs don't require your own code to pass around state between functions, because each function can handle state in its own way without dependence on other functions. I've written a lot of such simple scripts where I just n
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
I don't really fully understand how the kernel scheduler works, but I know in general how it works, and so I can write software using it. In this sense, a simple implicit abstraction is easier for me to understand than one where I&#x27
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
It always struck me as very weird that Buddhists want to escape suffering. That's just saying you want to escape life. Suffering is beautiful and one of the best parts of life (the only thing better is momentarily overcoming it). But h
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
Also, man is a laughing stock to the ape. "What are you doing without hair? Why so weak? Ugh, what is that you're eating?!" I can scarcely imagine what kind of unsustainable sacrifices the Übermensch will make in service to &
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
The browser becomes the OS and then that OS will get a browser. Turtles.
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
The former example was much easier for me to understand than the latter, even if it wasn't factored well. But I'm assuming that the functions aren't mucking about with global state or something equally distasteful.
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
I haven't implemented this extensively, but there are sometimes problems with setting this up in a corporate environment where there's a need to do things in a uniform way. - Often if you use a central database such as Active Dire
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
He is crazy. Crazy is a subjective cultural term applied to people who exist on some margin of polite society. Crazy people aren't bad, even if the term is intended to denigrate. To me, all radical libertarians are crazy. But the fact
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
My negativity comes from this specific solution. My two main problems with it: 1. It's the exception, not the rule. Most of the time there aren't collaborative solutions. Most of the time people work in their silos and make someth
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
This is why we need standard protocols and data formats for these common systems. If there were just a "secrets protocol" or "secrets data format", any program could just implement it for input and output, along with a s
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
I don't think anyone argues that SRE is wrong, but I think most people will be wrong if they assume most places can or will implement it. It's just like DevOps in the sense that it's a corporate efficiency strategy, but it&#x
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
> the only viable option Let's not lie to ourselves. It's the option you prefer , not the only viable one. It's also a lie to pretend that Google is any more evil than DDG. Both are capitalist corporations marketing a sto
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
No, to exploit this, you just need to either 1) work inside a CA, 2) be a spy and infiltrate the CA, 3) use your nation-state powers to force a CA in your borders to do what you want, or 4) be a clever hacker hack a CA. There are "only
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
> Isn't there a better way? There's always a better way. But when you're going up against gigantic incumbents with way more power than everyone else, you don't get the better way. You get the way the powerful decide i
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
Yes, it's called SaaS, and their "ad-blogs" make up about 20% of all the top stories on HN. Startups that charge you to use their proprietary software but write good clickbait or Show HNs. (I'm not hating, I'm just
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
I used to buy a lot of Ikea furniture (and take a lot of free Ikea furniture that ends up on curbs in big cities around moving season). Then I learned how much cheaper, modular, and more robust your furniture can be if you invest in some
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
I've gotten massive amounts of food out of small raised beds with nothing more than compost tea and "plant food". Is it really not possible to consistently produce good yields from tightly packed beds with crop rotation on a
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
It can receive input and create output. The browser is the interpreter for scripted HTML programs.
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
Sounds like you need 1,000 nodes to do 1Bpps without edge computing. With some compression at the edge, it'd be closer to 150-250. The limits of a conventionally architected network make it more annoying than it needs to be.
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
Communication problems usually come down to people not understanding each other, which has many causes of course. Most of these have to do with people being all different. When people are all the same, less communication problems. But havin
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
> I’ve never seen a production Kube system with HA etcd go down due to non-human error I have, with OpenShift, several times. The worst one took hours to get it partially back online, days to fully recover. At least I got to have one fre
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
Twitter clap threads clap make clap bad clap articles In a month / year / etc when this thread gets deleted, there'll just be a HN comments section speculating about a missing twitter thread. The least we could do her
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
You don't need distributed consensus to have a cluster of reliable services. We've had large-scale clusters of applications for what, 30 years? And distributed consensus being generally used by a few players for about 10 of those.
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
mostly it's Conway's Law
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
This is (imho) a huge flaw in the concept of a "container". I don't think most people comprehend how much crap is going on in the background. For most container purposes, host networking and the default process namespace is
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by peterwwillis 6y ago
One of the things it eventually became was the world's largest, fastest and most reliable media-pirating service, paid for and hosted by your ISP. Eventually the binary groups got dropped by ISPs, but you could pay to use someone else&

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