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by rjst01 2y ago
I've had the opposite experience - copilot will pop up a suggestion that's wildly wrong and I'll expend energy processing and discarding it.
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by rjst01 2y ago
Measured by LOC, a lot of code in systems i've worked on is just copying data from one type of object to another. One frustrating bug I've dealt with was due to someone copying the wrong value between two similarly-named fields, b
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by rjst01 2y ago
Indeed, Google and Amazon have already shown an interest in designing their own silicon (TPU and Graviton). Probably Microsoft too, but I'm not aware of an example off the top of my head. Upstarts are not easily going to be able to pur
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by rjst01 2y ago
> Respecting platform conventions is the sensible default That's fair, but I'd argue an equally sensible default would be to respect the conventions of the language ecosystems you're working within, and for Java, Python, R
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by rjst01 2y ago
Some tools - even cross-platform ones - will create CRLF files on Windows by default (looking at you JetBrains) so when working on Windows I usually like to have autocrlf set to 'input' to avoid accidentally committing CRLF files
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by rjst01 2y ago
Huge Alpine fanboy myself. I love that a clean install has less than ten processes and I know what they all do. The community is also very good at building packages that "just work" - the article points out ZFS, but also docker, p
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by rjst01 2y ago
The IRS decided in 2002 that taxing air miles was too difficult: https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/a-02-18.pdf , but I wonder if this might change in the future if airlines continue to shift towards programs that r
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by rjst01 3y ago
We deploy our services on every merge (multiple times a day) from CI assuming the tests pass. But we don’t re-create our Kubernetes infra when we do that. I set up 3 Kubernetes clusters (staging, prod, internal apps) when I went full-time a
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by rjst01 3y ago
> Out of curiosity, why just the "readmeware" for those components? Because there are so few of them. Our setup has an ingress controller and a certificate manager, and then some bookkeeping like copying the container registry
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by rjst01 3y ago
A year ago I left my job at a 500-employee SaaS business working on the team that maintains the devops infrastructure, to found a startup. For me the biggest pain point is going from nothing to a sufficiently flexible devops setup. There a
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by rjst01 3y ago
Intel's SATA SSDs helpfully print on the label what voltages they use and the respective max current draw. Most only use 5V but I have a couple that use 5V and 12V.
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by rjst01 3y ago
We noticed this yesterday trying to release a minor bug fix. As of this morning it appears to still be broken. It's hard to see how it could be anything other than an issue on Docker's side - we are seeing a 500 after all. I need
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by rjst01 3y ago
A big advantage that Javalin and some of the other micro-frameworks have over Spring Boot have is that by picking Spring boot, you are also implicitly picking Spring's custom Java classloader and packaging, and Maven or Gradle as a bui
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by rjst01 3y ago
SUVs are more profitable than "regular" cars. Therefore they are marketed more heavily. Consumer choice is obviously not entirely driven by marketing, but if it didn't have an impact, car companies wouldn't do it. Americ
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by rjst01 3y ago
Another factor is that car companies market SUVs heavily.
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by rjst01 3y ago
Most eligible voters are probably not personally affected and so didn't see a need vote. A quorum would make it effectively impossible to change anything.
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by rjst01 3y ago
Oh that's useful, thanks!
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by rjst01 3y ago
I would be tempted to switch to edge for the sake of "super duper secure mode" [1] but they have violated my trust in so many ways that I can't bring myself to do it. 1: https://microsoftedge.github.io/edgevr&
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by rjst01 3y ago
I've found myself setting up a new Windows install - sometimes VM, sometimes bare metal - every 4-8 weeks for the past 6 months and it's sooooo painful. My computer is a vehicle for getting work done - just let me use the damn thi
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by rjst01 3y ago
Every couple of weeks I will be added to a spam Telegram group, maybe once a month I'll get a spam or scam whatsapp. I have had the occasional iMessage spam too but haven't seen that in years.
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by rjst01 3y ago
Apple has on occasion done out-of-band patches for older devices to fix serious security issues, so it doesn't seem too unrealistic.
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by rjst01 3y ago
I've used dropbear-initramfs on both Debian and Ubuntu to remote-unlock hosts with encrypted root filesystems successfully. It'd be nice if it were better supported though. https://www.cyberciti.biz/security/h
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by rjst01 3y ago
100% agree with this. Personally I've been using SourceTree since before it was acquired by Atlassian. It's such a powerful tool because it instantly gives you a level of situational awareness that would take several commands to g
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by rjst01 3y ago
I used to work on a code search tool. I have not had access to a dedicated code search tool in any of my ~5 roles since then and have not missed it.
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by rjst01 3y ago
I love Fastmail for my personal email but the spam filtering leaves a lot to be desired. For my startup we tried to use it but had to move because of deliverability issues.
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by rjst01 3y ago
Dealbreaker? No, but strong negative signal. I have my own preferences and ways-of-working, and having to adjust these on top of all the other new things that come with a new company or team is a significant downside. I've recently swi
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by rjst01 3y ago
At my last gig we built a bespoke version of this on top of our CI provider. Now i'm a technical co-founder in a startup and this is something I haven't quite solved yet, and this looks like exactly what we're after. Thanks!
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by rjst01 3y ago
It's definitely a much bigger challenge than it appears on the surface. But I think the space is due for a shake-up - the current crop of tools has been around for years now, and they all suffer from a broadly similar set of scalabilit
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by rjst01 3y ago
Which I purchased in 2020, at a time when it was the newest model available.
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by rjst01 3y ago
Eye of the beholder, sure, but I would argue that when my computer prompts me more than once not to do something that is my clearly expressed intent, that counts as aggressive. Hell, it's less aggressive about prompting you not to run

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