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by robotmay 5y ago
If you trust your partner, encourage them to be stricter with you and to further restrict access to your device. Create a new Apple ID that only they have access to and reset your phone to that ID, then lock it down again. You can also go f
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by robotmay 5y ago
Sure thing! Basically I set out to use Stripe's built-in tools as much as possible, rather than duplicating the state on our side - storing partial data in your own DB is one of the biggest pain points of subscription systems in my exp
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by robotmay 5y ago
Agreed. Elixir/BEAM gives you some really interesting new ways of solving problems. A couple of years ago I built a subscription system that interacted with Stripe that only kept the state whilst a user was interacting with the system
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by robotmay 5y ago
Ever since I heard about Fly I was really keen to try out something using Elixir. I've been severely lacking in ideas that I can complete within two weeks though (my maximum attention span)! This was well-timed for me - nice to have a
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by robotmay 6y ago
The way I learnt a lot myself was to run applications with little budget, e.g. running them on anaemic servers with few resources. When you have no option but to improve performance, because the alternative is too expensive, it gives you a
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by robotmay 6y ago
Lots of typical anti-ruby grumbling in this so I'll just say; this looks awesome and I'm excited to give it a try. I still love programming in Ruby, and there's no reason at all why a game written in Ruby couldn't be per
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by robotmay 6y ago
Yeah I thought it might be resonance between two drives moving similarly in a mirrored pair, so swapped the drive order around, but that made no difference either. I've used primarily WD drives for years but I think my next pair will b
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by robotmay 6y ago
Using ZFS myself and lots of reports of btrfs having the same issue on the WD thread. My two 8TB Gold drives are a mirrored pair alongside another mirrored 4TB pair of WD Reds from a few years back, which don't exhibit the same issue.
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Ask HN: Do you know why new high-capacity WD drives make this weird noise?
15 points by robotmay 6y ago|5 comments
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That's right, I'm a Never New'd(senryu.pub)
2 points by robotmay 6y ago|0 comments
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Chunky_cache: Multi-fetching cache calls in Ruby on Rails(senryu.pub)
2 points by robotmay 6y ago|0 comments
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by robotmay 6y ago
Yeah I have a 2' thick stone wall in the centre of my house (old exterior wall). I have an AP on either side of it as they penetrate the ceilings/floors above fine, but nothing is getting through that wall and maintaing good signa
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Replacing Unifi Video with Frigate and Home Assistant(senryu.pub)
3 points by robotmay 6y ago|0 comments
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by robotmay 6y ago
It makes a very nice jam, for what it's worth.
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by robotmay 6y ago
I've tried twice to learn Japanese and I consistently get stuck on kanji. The spoken language is actually really intuitive in a lot of ways, and hiragana/katakana fit easily into my brain, but kanji, with the multiple and inconsis
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by robotmay 6y ago
Nice article. rsync.net is one part of my personal computing setup that I never even think twice about. It's simple and it works, and that clearly applies to the infrastructure too. I use ZFS locally and it has made managing my own dat
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by robotmay 6y ago
This is basically what I did. I ended up trapped in a half-management-but-no-real-authority-but-also-we-need-you-as-an-engineer role. It's an easy place to accidentally find yourself when the managers above you aren't technical en
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by robotmay 6y ago
Any chance you could drop me some details about pushes hanging? I'm an engineer in the source code team doing a lot of performance work and I might be able to correlate it with known issues or investigate it further. I know it's a
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by robotmay 6y ago
Thank you for disagreeing in a reasonable manner. Where I feel Apple fall short is in trying to take away “excess information”, where honestly they often succeed, they end up with some very confusing interfaces. And while this might make it
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by robotmay 6y ago
It's hardly baiting when I submitted the article myself and actually respond to comments. My girlfriend isn't technical, and she trusts me more than she trusts big businesses, shockingly. Her messages are Signal backups so I could
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by robotmay 6y ago
I tend to agree. I do still use an iPad, despite its faults, as I prefer it in a tablet form. I’m a Linux user and I forget how many awkward things I do naturally now that are utterly bewildering to new users. I think Apple’s biggest proble
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by robotmay 6y ago
My biggest frustration since I wrote this article was that by swiping up from the bottom right corner of an iPad, the keyboard would move up to the middle of the screen and split itself in two. Turns out if you were slightly inside the scre
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by robotmay 6y ago
Oh good lord the assumptions here are ridiculous. First off, I am an engineer, and I've built my own two way sync services. I know what it is. What I'm complaining about, and you would understand if you read the words, is that the
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by robotmay 6y ago
Yeah this is the issue. Is it a backup or is it sync? It's not like "left for backups, right for sync", it's just on or off for "iCloud". Which isn't even consistent across apps.
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by robotmay 6y ago
You delete an entire conversation in iMessage by swiping to the left and then tapping a button on the left, FYI. Which is easily fumbleable, or possible to trigger with a wet screen, and is what happened to my girlfriend.
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by robotmay 6y ago
That's part of the sync step. Basically it stores the "current" state and will mirror that to all devices. I would class a backup differently. Say someone grabs your phone and deletes your conversations (or you accidentally s
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by robotmay 6y ago
But the headline doesn't say it's a comparative analysis of UX? It's a comparison of an example of current Apple UX with their prior reputation, if anything. Also, this isn't a forum for needlessly aggressive remarks.
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Apple’s no better than anyone else when it comes to UX(senryu.pub)
15 points by robotmay 6y ago|34 comments
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Show HN: Chunky_cache, inline cache multi-fetching for Rails views(gitlab.com)
1 points by robotmay 6y ago|0 comments
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by robotmay 6y ago
Haha I'm now quite disappointed the estate agent didn't try to advertise it as a safety feature. I did once see a house listed as having "conveniant access to the motorway for commuting". It was actually directly underne

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