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by rewmie 3y ago
> Perhaps a more contentious take: rebasing doesn’t bring any real value. I strongly disagree. I rebase feature branches on a daily basis and it's a must-have feature for anyone who works on feature branches that you want to keep up
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Most emeralds (and other precious stones, too, but especially emeralds) that come out of the ground are essentially worthless. As the legend goes, a 16 year old Elon walked into Tiffany's with two emeralds in his pocket which he s
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Lots of people are saying that having large files in a repo is wrong, bad, bad design, incorrect usage. I don't think that is true. You do see people warn that having large files in Git repositories, or any repository that wasn&#x
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by rewmie 3y ago
> It may be true for those billionaires but there are many millionaires for which this isn't true. The term "with money" is subjective and open to interpretation, but I don't think that it means "middle-class&qu
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by rewmie 3y ago
It's also hard to go through the trouble of onboarding onto a VCS other than Git given a) how ubiquitous it is even and specially in free hosting services, b) Git alternatives don't offer any compelling feature other than contrari
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by rewmie 3y ago
> A private plane is not a private jet (...) https://www.the-sun.com/news/8014711/elon-musk-dad-errol-cha... Elon Musk stans are something else. The loops they jump through to convince themselves that the teena
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by rewmie 3y ago
> So his "father with money" is a Cuban immigrant? That kind of changes the narrative. An Exxon engineer is hardly a homeless begger.
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by rewmie 3y ago
> A huge portion of US infrastructure is built on the idea that no one in their right mind would walk to it. No one in their right mind would want to walk to any business in the US due to its urban planning and transport infrastructure.
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by rewmie 3y ago
> to make money it helps to insert yourself between people and something they may want or need. this is how pretty much every business works. This might be the rentiers scheme, but that's hardly how any economy works. A bakery hardl
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by rewmie 3y ago
> No, the theory is that the PM of Canada recognises the electoral benefits of pandering to Khalistani extremists. I've read that nonsense, along with more imaginative firehose of falsehood bulshit, on Reddit posts brigaded by accou
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Let's be really precise. What you just said is absolutely something that everyone in a free democracy should be free to do as much as they want to their heart's content. I don't think that's remotely true at all. De
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by rewmie 3y ago
> An unfortunately large subset of too-comfortable tech workers have decreed the right way is to: never reinvent the wheel, always import, and avoid 'the hard stuff'. But these are obvious lessons, don't you think? If your
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by rewmie 3y ago
> By making it necessary to use automated tooling It isn't. > and even obtain certifications No, not really. > just to set up everything required for private networking. Frankly, no. I'm tempted to agree only in one aspec
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by rewmie 3y ago
> In all scenarios, the traffic goes over Azure networks and/or Microsoft's private backbone. That's the whole selling point of private links. How could you possibly missed that? That's exactly why companies onboard o
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by rewmie 3y ago
I think your comment shows a high dose of ignorance and complete lack of research on the topic. The whole point of private link is to not route traffic over the internet, and instead flow traffic between private networks through private pip
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by rewmie 3y ago
> I've lost track of all of the "Private Endpoints", "Private Links", "Service Endpoints", "Private Resolvers" and "Virtual WAN" products they've introduced... all to make IPv4
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by rewmie 3y ago
> These provide a strong lock-in effect when customers spend effort to build the complex infrastructure for them in the name of security, even though in reality they hurt security through unnecessary complexity, addressing ambiguity, etc
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by rewmie 3y ago
Ok, thanks for sharing.
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Maybe another difference is that some/many European countries people just don't not pay bills. That's the first time I ever heard of such thing, and I've lived in a few European countries. Some European countries ev
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Hard disagree, Kafka is one of the simplest lowest maintenance tools for this (..) You sound like you've been using an entirely different project named Kafka, because the Kafka everyone uses is renowned among message brokers for i
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by rewmie 3y ago
> I think OP meant event sourcing. That is really besides the point. Logging and tracing have always been fundamentally event sourcing, but that never forced anyone ever at all to onboard onto freaking Kafka of all event streaming/m
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by rewmie 3y ago
> 3) Switch out log4j for Kafka, which will handle the persistence & multiplexing for you. I don't think this is a reasonable statement. There are already a few logging agents that support structured logging without dragging in
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by rewmie 3y ago
> HTTP/2 is nightmarish. Why do you think that?
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by rewmie 3y ago
> An in-memory data model often differs from the serialized data as it exists on disk. For example, emacs uses a gap buffer for text files; but it outputs plain linear text to disk. The whole point of my remark is that the domain model a
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by rewmie 3y ago
> I would prefer to live in a kinder world. OP is being kind to everyone by allowing them to avoid the frustration of wasting time with something that adds no value. You on the other hand are being needlessly confrontational just because
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by rewmie 3y ago
I'm a long-time Hetzner customer. I have instances created years ago and still on the old pricing model. They never failed me once, and their pricing and offering is unbeatable. I had other cloud providers screw up simple things like d
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by rewmie 3y ago
> No, the migration is only done when you're exclusively running IPv6. I don't think that's an informed, thought-out take. The internet works just fine for all intents and purposes if you have some services reachable throu
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by rewmie 3y ago
> I can directly make the change in the database I don't need to have a model of the document other than its database format. I don't get your point. Are you saying that you don't need to have a model of the document other
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by rewmie 3y ago
> But Ipv6 features take a few extra bytes and are a problem. Some people pay for each extra byte they have to send through a network, and design whole systems around the goal of minimizing the amount of data they ship around. No one pay
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by rewmie 3y ago
> There was a third option: make the existing IPv4 space a hierarchically routed island of the new IPv4.1 space, with backwards compatible packet format, then upgrade just the endpoints in the first phase. Do you mean applying some kind

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