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by rualca 6y ago
> If you don't want to worry about the "distro drama", then don't. Just use one of the major distros (e.g. Debian or Ubuntu) and move on. +1 on Debian. It's as drama-free as it gets. I mean, the distro is critici
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by rualca 6y ago
> When you “geolocate” an IP, you’re really just looking up the registered info for that IP’s ASN in the ARIN/RIPE database. That's pretty much the whole business model of VPNs. That, and secure encrypted traffic.
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by rualca 6y ago
I was writing a long rant regarding how either clueless or misrepresented the Director of the PaaS was, but I'm going to just ask a the following question: * If not with Docker, how are you planning on building and running containers?
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by rualca 6y ago
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25378155
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by rualca 6y ago
Kind of a big deal, as I only clicked on the article because I was interested.in checking some insight on how to test CLIs instead of TUIs.
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by rualca 6y ago
> That's why I added the "text editor" suffix to the title, to be specific about what I was referring to. That was not good not clear, as there are command line text editors like ed. https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by rualca 6y ago
> Fair enough, but how common is the TUI term anyway? It's pretty common when referring to text-based user interfaces, and when there's a clear distinction between a basic command line application. https://en.wikiped
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by rualca 6y ago
> Funding criminal activity can itself be a crime. Is processing payments between two entities equivalent to funding them? For example, is the post office funding someone if he sends them a letter with cash or a check?
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by rualca 6y ago
> "Operation Choke Point" was a 2013 inititative by the DoJ to hurt legal but unpopular businesses (...) by making it harder for banks to provide services to them. Honest question: can the US goverent stop anyone from launching
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by rualca 6y ago
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25378155
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by rualca 6y ago
> You are mixing things together that don't belong together. But they do belong together, don't they? I mean, they are all under attack by facts-denying militant groups fueled by anti-intellectual propaganda. > Covid is very
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by rualca 6y ago
> University is too late for these fundamentals, which IMHO ought to be taught in primary school. There are so many fundamentals that are skipped throughout compulsory education. Stuff like basic taxes and home economics and labour law,
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by rualca 6y ago
I'm not sure you decided to use weasel words on purpose. There's a colossal difference between "being forced to watch" propaganda and being exposed to it. I'm not forced to open phishing emails but sometimes I do by
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by rualca 6y ago
> 50% is insane. 5% I'd be able to understand, but not 50%. I'm hardly anti-vaxxer, but I'm going to wait this one out until a lot of people went head-first into it. I take my vaccines like I take my software upgrades: no
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by rualca 6y ago
> Bitching about skipping the peer-review process in the face of a global pandemic is self-important nonsense. Making results available to peers is the basis of science, which is a short word that means being sure things work as we think
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by rualca 6y ago
> Most Linux users would prefer a well-designed curses application over a GUI. I've been using linux both professionally and for personal use for over a decade and, with the exception of working over ssh, the thought of using ncurse
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by rualca 6y ago
>>Desktop applications are on their last leg. You will just write a mobile app and that will be backwards compatible with desktop automatically. I don't understand your point. In your opinion what's a mobile app that's
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by rualca 6y ago
> (..). and a ncurses one for Linux. Nurses as an alternative to a QtWidgets GUI app? I'm not sure you're serious.
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by rualca 6y ago
> My guess is that people struggle more with Image placement in LaTeX by a huge margin. You should guess again. With LaTeX the biggest problem with images is seeig them reflow in a place you wasn't expecting because you did not paid
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by rualca 6y ago
No love for epub?
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by rualca 6y ago
> Latex is pretty mediocre on a lot of fronts too: almost any operation outside writing ASCII text or equations requires to search the web for a package or a specific tricky use of commands (...), which make working with it painfully slo
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by rualca 6y ago
> Even with CMake? Why would Cmake eliminate the need for Qt's moc? Cmake is a build system/makefile generator. You don't generate c++ from form files or Qt-annotated C++ files out of magic.
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by rualca 6y ago
>>This might be our disagreement -- this is IMO outdated terminology, It really isn't. The concept of integration tests, and the test pyramid, is not only the standard practice but also basic concepts that somehow some developers
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by rualca 6y ago
> A dozen lines of code is a lot. Are you really trying to argue that using 1 or 2 lines of YAML per component to define how an entire application is deployed and scaled is a lot? How many lines of CloudFormation would you need to do jus
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by rualca 6y ago
> Well, Fargate is simpler in the way that I define CPU+RAM, give it an image, tell it how many of them to run in parallel and let it run. Kubernetes allows you to do just that with about a dozen lines of a infrastructure-as-code script.
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by rualca 6y ago
> I think what we're seeing here is Conway's law in action. Most places I've worked don't define their bounded contexts based on separation of concerns, but rather on separation of reporting. You're not wrong. I
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by rualca 6y ago
> E.g. AWS Fargate or GC Run. I really can't understand this line of reasoning. How exactly is something like Fargate simpler than Kubernetes? I understand the argument in favour of using Docker Swarm over deploying your own Kuberne
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by rualca 6y ago
> You seem to equate kubernetes and containerization. Kubernetes is just too complex for most usecases, that's all. Kubernetes is just a way to run containers. You configure your application, specify how your containers are deployed
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by rualca 6y ago
> Each individual microservice becomes simpler, but the whole system becomes much more complex than an equivalent monolith with a single DB. Indeed a distributed system forces developers to think through how dependencies communicate, wh
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by rualca 6y ago
> API composition only works when the network boundary and services are performance compatible to federate queries. Isn't that the whole point? The main reason why individual reaponsibilities are peeled out of a monolithic service i

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