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by rewmie 3y ago
So, the CEO of a tree-planting company claims that tree-planting works to fix ${RANDOM_PROBLEM}.
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by rewmie 3y ago
What an awfully ignorant and clueless blog post. From the article: > What, exactly, is the point of "optimizing" your source files to only "include what you use" if it makes compile times 50% worse on average? It&#x27
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Argentina has 100% annual inflation and going up while the US has less than 10% and going down. Also, most of the world, including western Europe, has been experiencing >8% inflation rates.
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by rewmie 3y ago
> We have a strange situation right now, in the US, in which any company with at least one major competitor is considered good for the free market; (...) Wasn't Amazon just sued by the FTC due to anticompetitive practices?
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by rewmie 3y ago
From the article: > Our services now ran on Kubernetes with individual pods collecting tens-of-thousands of metric samples per second. Engineers also evolved much stricter expectations for the amount of dropped metric samples (none). Is
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by rewmie 3y ago
Isn't "Git for infrastructure" actually using Git to track infrastructure-as-code projects and it's CICD pipeline definition?
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Aluminum is 3rd most abundant element in earth crust. Gold is 75th most abundant. I don't think so. If you want to cite wikipedia, you might want to cite the article on the history of aluminium, where it says in no uncertain terms
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Could you not say the same thing about cash? Cash is how taxes, payments for state services, public workers salaries, and public investments are specified. If the goal of cash is to serve as money then those all on themselves already s
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Ahhhh the woefully delusional thinking... this is why we can't listen to such people: they can't see the forest for the ideologically possessed trees Your comment is the textbook definition of irony. It's quite obvious t
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by rewmie 3y ago
I'd be surprised if reselling through authorized sellers isn't much simpler and problem-free than selling them directly. I also expect that using resellers ensures better odds of protecting the brand/project goodwill. Reselle
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by rewmie 3y ago
> This sounds like a pretty big negative to me It might be possible to take a page out of macbook's playbook and put together a case that doubles as a heat sink. It's a tradeoff between compactness and target temperature. By th
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by rewmie 3y ago
> You're making an interesting distinction between "JSON" and "languages based on JSON" there, which I don't. That's basically the root cause of your misconceptions. A document format encoded in JSON is
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Then some of us realised JSON is actually too dumb for many things, and instead of going back to XML we made JSON Schema, OpenAPI, etc. This take doesn't make any sense at all. JSON Schema is a validation tool for languages based
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by rewmie 3y ago
> It's actually apparently a data serialization format, which I don't get, because it's obviously designed to look nice to humans and not computers. What's hard to get? It's a data interchange format whose primar
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by rewmie 3y ago
> RaspberryPis are a physical good, those have production limitations. They are also quite cheap, sell well, and have kept prices. I'm not sure they kept prices. $60 for a 4GB board sounds like a price increase compared to the $50 R
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by rewmie 3y ago
> I think it should be "The art of buying single-board computers and never running them once". I think the "once" is needed in the case of computers. They are as machines not directly comparable to books... I have a f
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by rewmie 3y ago
> The idea that even 10-20% of users would power their Pis with PoE seems wild to me. Seems like a much smaller niche to me (even though I'm one of those people). I'd be surprised if the majority of RPi's userbase didn&#x2
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Thereafter, this secret key is used by both sender and receiver to encrypt the current time and produce a hash code. Also noteworthy: the current time is divided into coarse time periods (typically UNIX time divided by 30s?), meaning t
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by rewmie 3y ago
Would it be possible that these leaks happen on purpose?
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Now I have a custom build (6x14 keys) keyboard (much better IMHO). That sounds cool. Can you share more details about that?
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Well, if it was, the maintainer didn't communicate that well/at all: You're making the mistake of accepting at face value a one-sided account of an issue, and in the process failing to even check what the answer actually
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by rewmie 3y ago
> (...) I wish that at least some models would be a row deeper and keep the function keys. I think you might be looking for a keyboard form factor called 75% keyboard, or even a tenkeyless.
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by rewmie 3y ago
> It’s a neat hobby! The same can be said about heroin.
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by rewmie 3y ago
> eventually wound up with Kinesis ergo keyboards and stopped being much "into" keyboards; Aren't those like $500 a pop? Handing out that kind of dough for a keyboard sounds like the opposite of stopping being much into k
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Read my other comment about the "unnamed source". You just eat up the propaganda from the legacy media. You failed to present any basis for your personal assertion, and instead you only doubled-down on accusatory conspiracy t
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by rewmie 3y ago
I don't know about that. I think the FTC has a bit more insight than a random guy online who admits didn't even read the complaint, and the FCT went through the trouble of putting together a court case to sue Amazon.
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by rewmie 3y ago
> I read the entire article. I literally quoted from it. Did you bother to read my entire comment? I don't think you have. There is nothing in your comment that has any semblance of a relationship to the point made in the article yo
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Neither is Amazon in e-commerce, they hold ~39% of the US market and (...) From the link: > The complaint alleges that Amazon violates the law not because it is big, but because it engages in a course of exclusionary conduct that pr
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by rewmie 3y ago
I think this is a false dilemma. If your tests can be parallelized then adding more doesn't necessarily result in longer deployments.
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by rewmie 3y ago
> The fact that he had to go to Substack to publish the Nordstream investigation (...) Doesn't his investigation basically consists of citing a single unnamed source that failed to substantiate any of it's wild claims?

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