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by rubenbe 8y ago
I was recently amazed to find out that Windows 95 is still used in an industrial automation setting. The company uses the NetBEUI[0] protocol and Windows 95 is apparently the only version to support it. [0] https://en.wikipedia.o
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by rubenbe 8y ago
I keep everything in the following folder structure. ~/projects/<year>/<mmdd>-<projectname>. e.g. ~/project/2019/0307-hnpost/ It's simple and has been working very well over the year
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by rubenbe 8y ago
On the "don't collect data", I can recommend "exodus privacy" which shows permissions and trackers that are present in your installed apps. You can search them online [0] or show the analysis of the apps you already
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by rubenbe 8y ago
I generate dot files (graphviz) based on code. It's an amazing tool, both for understanding how the code behaves and as a communication tool others. The clear advantage is that the documentation is always up to date. Spend time once to
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by rubenbe 8y ago
I agree, this line is probably added by someone in HR/Recruiting (no disrespect) who adds it to every job list he/she posts.
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by rubenbe 8y ago
I started learning neural networks, only to realize that there's plenty more to study in 2019.
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by rubenbe 8y ago
Bit flips are real. I used to see them on my (admittedly low end) webserver. Eg. There were occasional errors like "myOfunction not found". A quick glance on a ASCII table shows that the original function name "my_function&qu
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Sony using open source emulator for PlayStation Classic plug-and-play(arstechnica.com)
9 points by rubenbe 8y ago|0 comments
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PlayStation Classic Uses the Open-Source PlayStation Emulator PCSX ReARMed(kotaku.com)
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by rubenbe 8y ago
I often use QR codes to quickly transfer long URLs etc from my PC to my phone. In the commandline you can run "qrencode --type UTF8 -o - <text>" and get a pure text-only QR code.
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UBlock Origin blocked Union websites(theregister.co.uk)
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by rubenbe 8y ago
I always op for "next business day on site warranty." Unfortunately my laptops have the tendency to break on a late Friday evening. I call the helpdesk on Monday morning to have the device repaired on Tuesday, four days after it b
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Tesla Model S Can Be Stolen in Seconds by Cloning Its Key Fob(esat.kuleuven.be)
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by rubenbe 8y ago
I recommend Lektor [0], because it ships with a administration UI. This means you can give/sell it to people that would otherwise want a wordpress site. Unfortunately that feature doesn't pop out on the staticgen list. [0] https:&
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Nextcloud 14 RC1 announced(nextcloud.com)
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Italy bridge: Genoa motorway collapse kills at least 22(bbc.com)
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by rubenbe 8y ago
Why would you throw away Vagrant together with VirtualBox?! You can also use vagrant with a libvirt/KVM backend (on linux). Sometimes the box is not available in libvirt format. But that issue can be worked around converting them
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Neural network implemented with light instead of electrons(arstechnica.com)
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by rubenbe 8y ago
I've seen multiple companies struggling with maintaining interdependencies between multiple repos. It often results in an expensive custom solution. As a general guideline I'd say "when in doubt, put the code in a single repo
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by rubenbe 8y ago
Having worked with both, it is also interesting to know that Job DSL is aware of jobs that have to be removed, while Job builder is not. That was one of the reasons we chose Job DSL as our configuration method.
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by rubenbe 8y ago
Interestingly the discovery was "abused" for political purposes: In 1951, Pope Pius XII claimed that Lemaître's theory provided a scientific validation for Catholicism – a claim that Lemaître resented, as he stated his theory
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Home Assistant SSL verification was disabled for outgoing requests(home-assistant.io)
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by rubenbe 8y ago
This method is used to determine the "coke capital". In 2016 the city of Antwerp in Belgium took the first place from London. http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/38328107/london-is-no-...
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by rubenbe 8y ago
If I click the link, I get the following message: "This page is unavailable when linked to fromn ews.ycombinator.com. Please find a less toxic place to spend your time." Pressing F5 obviously works around this referrer trick, but
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by rubenbe 8y ago
It's unfortunate that teletext is dying/dead. You could really quickly access the info you needed. Often overview pages on a certain topic were on the same number, so you could just blindly type a three digit number and have the (
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by rubenbe 8y ago
1) If you're willing to do some custom setup, it's quite easy to spin up Kubernetes on bare metal or an OVH VPS using kubespray or kubeadm. 3)IMHO even for small setups because you buy into a <pseudo standard> ecosystem. Bac
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by rubenbe 8y ago
I did take a look at Nomad in an attempt convince someone who was "scared" of the complexity of Kubernetes would bring to our setup. Unfortunately nice features like "Resource quotas per node" are not available in the op
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by rubenbe 8y ago
Indeed, and I personally replaced it with the EFF privacy badger plugin.
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by rubenbe 8y ago
I've used Active Admin a few times [1]. I can't really comment on Wallaby, but AA does the job, although documentation is a bit a problem. I had to dig into the code more than a handful times to figure out the correct way to custo
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by rubenbe 8y ago
I absolutely agree, plus asking "How much of task X could you already do?" is perceived as less aggressive than "Did you finish task X already?".

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