sackerhews

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by sackerhews 5y ago
Bummer. He should have used microservices. Then the problem at least would have been isolated to that part and the rest of the system in 100% good shape.
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by sackerhews 5y ago
You weren't trying to make fun of people, but it's a good one: https://xkcd.com/1053/
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by sackerhews 5y ago
I really like Bluetooth. I just wish it would "just work". My bluetooth devices (high end) don't always connect properly and I have to disconnect them and reconnect them. It's a minor inconvenience I know, but after 23 y
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by sackerhews 5y ago
In the year of a good harvest I shall take A bunch of fruits And another bunch of sugar Everything will boil Jam will be made
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by sackerhews 5y ago
> horrible dev experience That's an understatement. It was soul destroying awfulness.
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by sackerhews 5y ago
A thermostat is certainly simpler than a PID controller. But it can't solve the problem that a PID does.
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by sackerhews 5y ago
Wanna bet how long until they start using own API for DNS lookup? I say 2 years. Stakes are 1 karma point.
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by sackerhews 5y ago
Second all of that. Driven to Distraction or Delivered From Distraction. But not both, they're effectively the same book.
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by sackerhews 5y ago
In similar category but for playing music together, check out Jamulus and Ninjam. https://jamulus.io/ https://cockos.com/ninjam/
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by sackerhews 5y ago
Stuff like this can unfortunately happen. This is a reminder not to use use obscenities or jokes in your test data. Remember Mr. Rich Bastard: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/dear-rich-bastard/
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by sackerhews 5y ago
I was once working with an engineer so hell bent on splitting everything up into microservices that at one point logging became incompatible with his solution. He then argued that our banking solution didn't need logging, because it wa
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by sackerhews 5y ago
Correct!
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by sackerhews 5y ago
I remember the Sony MiniDisk audio recorder/player. You could record digital audio, but couldn't transfer it to your computer in digital format. Due to the possibility that you might not have had license to record what you recorde
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by sackerhews 5y ago
This is why I like reading the comments on HN. I'd never heard of Grobots, it's brilliant!
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by sackerhews 5y ago
Making something that only you can repair can be quite a lucrative business. This documentary is quite interesting: McDonalds Ice Cream Machines Are Always Broken: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrDEtSlqJC4
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by sackerhews 5y ago
It's not "used in some very specific circumstances", it's the very definition of bare metal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bare_machine
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by sackerhews 5y ago
No, what I'm talking about is usually referred to as bare metal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bare_machine
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by sackerhews 5y ago
"Bare metal" is running a program on the bare metal, without an operating system in between.
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by sackerhews 5y ago
I agree with what you say, but: > The maintainers would probably do some things different with the 2to3 conversion if they had to do it over again. Saying that "probably do some things different" is quite an understatement. Pyt
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by sackerhews 5y ago
I opened it in a new tab. By the time I looked at the tab it was in full epilepsy induction mode. Thankfully I don't suffer from it. Perhaps don't start the game until it receives a focus.
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by sackerhews 5y ago
Amazon used to be my #1 shopping place (save for groceries), years ago but I rarely use them anymore. Last hard drive I ordered from them came wrapped in factory issued static plastic bag, and NO padding inside the Amazon issued cardboard
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by sackerhews 5y ago
There are 1 billion iPhones in current, active use. A dollar from each of those is 1 billion dollars. That's a nice bonus, no matter how much the needle moves. https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/01/27&#
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by sackerhews 5y ago
Hey, hadn't that a look before, thanks! Yes, Terraform/HCL can sometimes feel like the instructions for the holy hand grenade.
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by sackerhews 5y ago
I'm interested in your point number 2. Do you have any links that back it up?
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by sackerhews 5y ago
I felt your pain when I read that. If it's of any help, I can promise you that creating a Terraform configuration to set this up will improve your life, happiness and general well being in the future. Yes, Terraform has a learning curv
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by sackerhews 5y ago
My boss once tried to reason his way out of a contract with me. When he couldn't, he simply said he just wasn't going to honour that clause in the contract. It's amazing how you can annihilate years of built up trust in 3 sec