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by rollcat 2y ago
Meanwhile macOS: hold "opt" to shutdown/restart without confirmation: 2 clicks, instant action; vs GNOME's 4 clicks and janky animations. Meanwhile both: cramming so many controls into title bars there's nowhere lef
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by rollcat 2y ago
> [...] server logs don’t suffer from that problem. But they do suffer from extreme noise. RSS requests, bots, scrapers, you name it. There’s a lot of crap mixed with regular humans visiting my site. Looking at the raw logs is pretty poi
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by rollcat 2y ago
> I haven't taken the time to read the documents you linked [...] Then I also don't have the time to read and address your response. There's no further discussion to be had where one side is no longer willing to display ba
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by rollcat 2y ago
Perhaps it's because the ones who stay always pick up the slack, thus a single employee doesn't actually matter that much? Maybe it's because we still feel too entitled to consider collective action?
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by rollcat 2y ago
> One company holding the keys hurts personal choice for everyone. I understand why you like to hate on Microsoft (they have a long track record of playing dirty), but the actual keys that are preloaded into hardware that ships with UE
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by rollcat 2y ago
We need to first differentiation between "public compute cloud" (AWS, GCP, Azure) and "cloud services" (GMail, Dropbox, iCloud, etc). The fine article is concerned with the former exclusively, and I think mixing in the l
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by rollcat 2y ago
> I choose not to buy games that don't work on the OS I run. That's your personal choice. All I ask is that you don't advocate for narrowing down the personal choice for others. > I don't care [...] Yeah, that&#x27
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by rollcat 2y ago
> Side-rant: It's nuts how hard it is to find a good laptop that has 64G RAM [...] Like this one? Found it in ~30s https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro/16-inch-space... > terrible build q
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by rollcat 2y ago
Whether you do image resizing (or other CPU-bound tasks) ahead-of-time or just-in-time is an extremely important design decision, that needs to consider the needs of the application, available hardware resources, traffic patterns, etc - you
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by rollcat 2y ago
> The downside is that one company holds the keys to the castle for this particular security scheme. And how exactly does that take away any of your freedom? You can still disable any or all parts of the verification chain at will, or
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by rollcat 2y ago
This is basically a re-invented syslog(3), with a builtin, (supposedly) ephemeral log aggregation service thrown in. It makes some sense for an embedded device, but depending on how restricted your environment is, sending out a UDP packet m
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by rollcat 2y ago
I picked on Gentoo because there's a vocal group of people who believe that unless you can trivially swap PID 1, your operating system is holding your freedom back. (And yes, I am saying this as someone who surgically swapped PID 1 to
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by rollcat 2y ago
This mechanism makes perfect sense from the POV of every user ( especially developers, who are often high-value targets) who isn't currently working on/actively contributing to low-level OS development. This is not a concern, unl
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by rollcat 2y ago
As someone who's had numerous grand battles with both, I find that SQLAlchemy's overall design philosophy gives you more precise control over both the generated SQL, and the lifecycle of each query/transaction/connection
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by rollcat 2y ago
Not surprising at all, considering the origins.
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by rollcat 2y ago
And cities designed for humans (as opposed to cars) take a lot of care to slow down (or entirely divert) the traffic in places where there are a lot of humans, make crossings safer, provide decent public transport, keep cyclists safe, etc.
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by rollcat 2y ago
Nope, it's not an RTS, but back in the 90's - when computers were bulky, few, and preciously expensive, Internet access was charged by the minute, and friends not always within PC carrying distance - hot-seat games such as the HoM
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by rollcat 2y ago
> basic tech literacy should be taught in schools You're blaming the victim. Technology is too complex and continues changing too fast. I'm a software engineer and I couldn't tell you what half the processes on my machine
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by rollcat 2y ago
Google can already see every installation of every Go program/package in existence, unless you set GOPROXY=direct (or a custom proxy). The default is to use https://proxy.golang.org , which is operated by Google.
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by rollcat 2y ago
Staying logged out off Google at all times is slowly becoming basic web browsing hygiene. Picture a situation: - You interact with a bot in a mostly-idle, public chatroom (such as !commands on Twitch) - Bot pastes a url-shortened link that
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by rollcat 2y ago
I'm 100% convinced that all telecoms are bastards. Fortunately, regulation seems to help at least a little bit, but you kinda have to be prepared to wage some war - or eat your losses. (Just lost a phone number that has been my primary
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by rollcat 3y ago
> Try a `watch -n 2 curl <serviceipv4>` during a deploy You need blackbox HTTP monitoring right now, don't ever wait for your customer to tell you that your service is down. I use Prometheus (&Grafana), but you can also
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by rollcat 3y ago
True, but this is something that could be relatively easy for Arm Ltd to address in an endless number of possible ways, considering their already-dominant position, the perceived seriousness of the threat, etc. Just like Microsoft basically
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by rollcat 3y ago
Yes, provided it takes off like ARM does currently. On one hand the work being done on ARM right now is helping displace the x86-64 monoculture, on the other hand it might leave no niche for RISC-V to fill. Place your bets wisely.
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by rollcat 3y ago
> it's patently untrue that they're more accurate than a conventional microphone. My point of reference was a magnetic pickup, not a mic. I'm actually interested in why piezo mics would be a bad solution for a phone.
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by rollcat 3y ago
Did you read "Dune"? Basically the entire plot.
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by rollcat 3y ago
I endorse Hidden Bar, it's just such a simple and obvious solution. I use my Mac with a 43" screen at 4k/1x, so the space in the menu bar has never been a real problem... It's the sheer number of icons and the resulting
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by rollcat 3y ago
Piezoelectric pickups are often used with stringed instruments, including classic/acoustic guitars, violas, cellos, etc. and sometimes also as one of the options in electric guitars (usually in addition to a couple of single or humbuck
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by rollcat 3y ago
This right here, it's just crazy. On one project we invested in a private cache of prebuilt/binary pip wheels, as much as it complicated the build and maintenance, it saved us so much time and effort in the long run, and was ultim
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by rollcat 3y ago
Stop dreaming. Won't happen. Windows is a purely additive effort. WSL is what happened, and when it couldn't do some things they built WSL2. As another commenter pointed out regarding the integration of this new "sudo" a

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