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by pvorb 6y ago
Why do you think they are hacks? Could you please elaborate? In my opinion, they nicely abstract over server hardware and services running on them, so one is able to have simple infrastructure-as-code management of otherwise complicated set
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by pvorb 6y ago
Yep. Nowadays a kubectl port-forward makes something like this all too easy. They accidentally had the kubecontext point at the production cluster instead of dev, set up the port-forward to the database, and whoops! At least that's how
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by pvorb 6y ago
> Why are we talking about on Flash? That's the weakest part of the argument. I guess you found the reason.
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by pvorb 6y ago
> On the flipside, good citizen vendors frequently contribute upstream even when they don't have to. I once discussed that with my employer and they agreed: it's almost never a good idea to fork a product in order to fix bugs,
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by pvorb 6y ago
Buy a dumb TV and plug a set-top box or HDMI stick in (I still prefer Chromecast the most). Whenever you don't need it, remove its power plug.
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by pvorb 6y ago
> That giant button taking up so much space on most keyboards The spacebar!? ;-)
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by pvorb 6y ago
Anyone else thought that the list of failed startups starts with NerdPilots? That ad is a little misplaced.
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by pvorb 6y ago
This tool would -- sort of -- implement an API.
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by pvorb 6y ago
That would have been an expensive realization, but it sounds like a reasonable explanation.
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by pvorb 6y ago
I think this would be a bad direction. I bet that most people create an account on GitHub to report an issue or create a pull request directly. I think this should be encouraged.
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by pvorb 6y ago
I think the only difference in being professional vs amateur is that a professional takes money for the job. It doesn't matter much how good the end result is. Of course making money means that somebody has to pay for it and everything
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by pvorb 6y ago
But if you want to do the traditional thing (design a separate glyph for every code point), isn't that still a similar amount of work? I'm not that deep into designing typefaces, but I'd expect that many designer already work
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by pvorb 6y ago
I see this a lot lately, where a product is "improved" by adding more complexity, but the additional maintenance cost is hidden from the user. It's the same with cars getting more and more software, home automation etc.
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by pvorb 6y ago
So now you're wasting toilet paper instead of water, which might be better, but still is wasteful and wouldn't have been needed if the toilet were to be flushed manually.
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by pvorb 6y ago
Okay, maybe. But usually this is not part of the description of "choosing the right tool for the job".
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by pvorb 6y ago
I don't buy this "choose the right tool for the job" thing. I'd always advise you to choose the tool that your company has the most knowledge in. If there's a problem that cannot be solved in that programming langua
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by pvorb 6y ago
Linux is also far from stable. There is the mess that is Linux desktops like Gnome 2, Gnome 3, Unity (okay, this was only an Ubuntu escapade). The init system changed and the result is that you have to think about things you usually don&#x2
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by pvorb 6y ago
In the recent LTS version of Ubuntu, if I right-click something the context menu immediately disappears after popping up, soI have to right-click again until, for some unknown reason, it stays. I bet it's solvable, but I haven't b
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by pvorb 6y ago
The line length has been annoying me for years now. Recently I started to switch to the mobile version on desktops, which is much more readable in my opinion. Maybe I should write a browser extension that automatically adds the "m.&quo
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by pvorb 6y ago
VW has to charge an extra fee in case anybody will find out about their new control software.
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by pvorb 6y ago
Thank you for the patient explanation.
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by pvorb 6y ago
Do developers get a pre-release of iOS to test on or how can you release a new version of your app before the targeted OS is released? Also, why do you need to release a new version at all? I'd expect the platform to stay largely compa
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by pvorb 6y ago
It was rated a 7 (major accident) by the IAEA. The only other incident with that rating was Chernobyl.
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by pvorb 6y ago
That's a valid point. Power from fossil fuels is not better. Accidents happen far more often (tankers sinking and spilling millions of liters of oil into the sea), but somehow people seem to fear fossil fuel energy a lot less.
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by pvorb 6y ago
> The issue is that the majority of fear against nuclear comes from nuclear weapons and improper management. But aren't these valid sources of fear? War is still a thing and Uranium enrichment can be used for both nuclear power plan
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by pvorb 6y ago
Chernobyl, Fukushima, and a long list of smaller accidents: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_and_radiation_accide...
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by pvorb 6y ago
Btw, the latter problem led to some interesting research since the eighties, e.g. "Communication Measures to Bridge Ten Millennia" https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6705990
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Communication Measures to Bridge Ten Millennia (1984)(osti.gov)
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by pvorb 6y ago
But there's more to it than the death toll. If something goes bad this would turn a large area into a wasteland, that will be uninhabitable for thousands of years. And how would you prevent future civilizations from opening nuclear was
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by pvorb 6y ago
The JVM chose to compress object pointers instead, which I think is a quite elegant optimization: https://stackoverflow.com/a/25120926/432354

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