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by ragall 8mo ago
Those who choose to use DNS-PERSIST-01 should fully commit to automation and create one LetsEncrypt account per FQDN (or at least per loadbalancer), using a UUID as username.
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by ragall 8mo ago
That doesn't solve the problem of the registry being slow or unavailable, of packages being pulled or subverted, or that sometimes you simply need a local patch.
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by ragall 8mo ago
> I’m confused what kind of software engineer jobs there are that don’t involve meeting with people, “aligning expectations”, getting consensus, making slides/decks to communicate that, thinking about market positioning, etc? The va
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by ragall 8mo ago
No people were named. There was no personal attack.
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by ragall 8mo ago
What politics ? We're talking on an irrelevant site here.
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by ragall 8mo ago
> My point is that I assume the people running those businesses know what they’re doing. I agree, but their profit-seeking is myopic and there's no reason why it should be allowed.
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by ragall 8mo ago
> Instead, the legislators are making currently lawful behavior unlawful. That's how progress happens. Welcome to the real world.
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by ragall 8mo ago
Who did I call stupid (except for you personally ?). The current owners are not stupid, they're self-interested, hypocritical and parassitical.
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by ragall 8mo ago
It's a natural law to pay based on what you consume. Whenever that isn't required, you're typically being subsidized in a form or another, but don't be surprised when it goes away.
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by ragall 8mo ago
The main usefulness of plastic conduits is not protection, but being able to pass new wires without opening the walls.
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by ragall 8mo ago
> The JS engines are all relatively fast now. That's only if you're limiting yourself to laptops. In the smartphone space, the median device (even in the US) is an Android running 2-4 Mediatek cores with a 10-year-old design. O
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AI optimism is a class privilege(joshcollinsworth.com)
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by ragall 8mo ago
> These are political disagreements with decades (sometimes centuries) of history, and unless you're fifteen years old, there's a better explanation for the fact that others disagree with you The better explanation is that they
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by ragall 8mo ago
> My claim is that if they could have sold that inventory at a profit, they would have. That's utterly incorrect. They don't just want profits - that would be easy to obtain by sending the merchandise to an outlet - they want h
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by ragall 8mo ago
That's a fair criticism, but a far cry from the blanket anti-regulation reaction that we get from some people here.
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by ragall 8mo ago
Irrelevant. If you want to put it that way, USians don't vote for their president either.
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by ragall 8mo ago
That's correct: typically Christmas, Easter and Summer. That's more than enough to get rid of excess if they were serious about it.
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by ragall 8mo ago
You can start if you wish.
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by ragall 8mo ago
> Compared to the USA, is a contributing factor because things can't be put on discount sale in the EU? Nonsense. They can. > In american many things are always on a discount, and there are so many channels through which this dis
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by ragall 8mo ago
Whether or not is a net loss for the planet as a whole is irrelevant. Africa countries need jobs to sustain a middle class so they no longer accept donations of clothes.
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by ragall 8mo ago
You might not think that, but EU citizens think otherwise.
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by ragall 8mo ago
They quite clearly are. Burberry was caught a while ago https://www.bbc.com/news/business-44885983 , but it's well known that every major upmarket brand was doing it to avoid the loss of prestige of sending the ite
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by ragall 8mo ago
> What if a batch of products is determined to have some QA problems? If you had bothered to read TFA, you'd have understood that the rules only apply to products that have fully passed QA, were being kept as stock but ended up not
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by ragall 8mo ago
Almost all current software engineering practices and projects rely on humans doing ongoing "informal" verification. The engineers' knowledge is integral part of it and using LLMs exposes this "vulnerability" (if yo
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by ragall 8mo ago
Most of the time what you call "the real stuff" is unnecessary.
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by ragall 8mo ago
In a properly designed house there's almost never any need for a contractor to walk on the roof. Attics are fully insulated and are habitable, etc...
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by ragall 8mo ago
The problem is different. Protobuf's unknown field support is useful if you want to forward a message in its entirety, and it allows you to copy an input message even though it has fields unknown to the middleware. The problem arises b
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by ragall 8mo ago
It's funny that people born here don't know about it and I, an European buying a house and asking the workers that came for some initial renovations, found out. The wall guy said he often finds small amounts of mold when he's
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by ragall 8mo ago
My plan is threefold: 1) move to a very quiet neighbourhood that's far from downtown (DONE). My wife doesn't like the commute but we'll live with it for the moment. 2) get my startup going so that I can afford to buy a house
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by ragall 8mo ago
I suggest trying the "Enhancer for YouTube" extension.

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