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by sc68cal 2y ago
kqueue was if not the, then one of the first attempts to solve the issue of being more performant than select(). So this whole post boils down to "they didn't get it right the first time" to which I say, okay sure, but we onl
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by sc68cal 2y ago
McKinsey makes something like 10 billion annually in revenue. This is a slap on the wrist. People need to be held accountable for these misdeeds.
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by sc68cal 2y ago
Ansible and the podman Ansible modules
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by sc68cal 2y ago
Absolutely, and the VC & Silicon Valley solution of firing of Kahn and gutting the FTC will just make the problems that you have identified worse, not better.
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by sc68cal 2y ago
If you don't carry a balance, then the only cost is if the card has an annual fee. The protection that Amex has given me, when it comes to chargebacks for purchases that didn't work out has easily justified the annual fee. And tha
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by sc68cal 2y ago
I also have similar AmEx stories where they took care of me on purchases that didn't go as planned. It will have paid for the annual fee, for many decades.
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by sc68cal 2y ago
> However, one downside of message queues is the fragmentation of protocols, which results in high migration costs for users. So, I have a little bit of experience with this, because of some work using Celery which abstracted out the mes
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by sc68cal 2y ago
Suppose this is true for a moment, where your system has better performance than Kafka or RabbitMQ. Why would someone be interested in using your system, and give up the ecosystem, operational knowledge, and known pain points of those syste
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by sc68cal 2y ago
So, as another commenter asked, why would someone use your solution instead of Kafka or RabbitMQ directly? It's not clear to me what usecase you are trying to fulfill. Like, at least for me, I reach for RabbitMQ when I am doing RPC or
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by sc68cal 2y ago
I honestly think both protocols have sufficient complexity that it's not really the right question. I also would say that both protocols target different use cases. It may seem on the surface that they are similar but I don't thin
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by sc68cal 2y ago
Alembic migrations or Django ORM migrations and Ansible
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by sc68cal 3y ago
Most likely management wanted more monetization and didn't listen to anyone who pushed back and said that bundling adware was a bad idea.
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by sc68cal 3y ago
Yes but it's always framed as a failure of either procedure or the people they manage that failed them. Management itself can never fail it can only be failed
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by sc68cal 3y ago
The end of slavery in the United States was achieved by killing enough people who politically supported slavery in a war, that they surrendered and accepted the _de jure_ end of slavery. However, they then spent a century in a a low intensi
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by sc68cal 3y ago
The ICJ is having hearings over the genocide in Gaza. https://www.reuters.com/world/icj-slates-hearings-gaza-genoc...
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by sc68cal 3y ago
It's classic rent seeking behavior where they want all their inputs to be free and all costs to be externalized
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by sc68cal 3y ago
Which one provided more economic value to society? It wasn't Bitcoin, that's for sure.
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by sc68cal 3y ago
My experience of OS packages of python libraries was pretty awful. They are out of date and it was impossible to deal with conflicting versions of a shared library that maybe two different applications needed. Switching to VMs and Docker co
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by sc68cal 3y ago
So, free speech unless it hurts your employer?
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by sc68cal 3y ago
This is nonsense. By that logic, a cartel or price-fixing scheme could never happen because there's an opportunity for one actor to not participate in the scheme, and yet.... https://www.reuters.com/article/us-lcd-
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by sc68cal 3y ago
I have been using Django for 10 years and it still is my tool of choice when I need to build something quickly that needs a full HTML and form handling interface. There is an excellent tool - https://djangobuilder.io/ that
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by sc68cal 3y ago
How does that work when all the employers act as a group and coordinate? This RTO push is coordinated
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by sc68cal 3y ago
Labor must be disciplined, and cannot be allowed to think that they have the upper hand in negotiations over wages and working conditions. Therefore, RTO is being pushed, even when data shows that workers are more productive and companies w
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by sc68cal 3y ago
I am super happy to see them fix the path finding issue for robots, where they'll now fly to a nearer roboport to recharge instead of flying out of range, and then turning back and getting stuck in an infinite loop. Great game
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by sc68cal 3y ago
Agreed. They are not looking at the long term, which is disappointing
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by sc68cal 3y ago
That breaking point has already arrived for many under developed countries, and for the industrial first world, the breaking point will arrive for them far after the point where something could have been done to change it. Since those effec
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by sc68cal 3y ago
ah, another Battletech aficionado on the site
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by sc68cal 3y ago
I just tried to migrate my account, and the step where I create a Microsoft account, it fails.
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by sc68cal 3y ago
My concern is that while re-implementing sudo in rust would solve bugs due to memory safety and off by one errors, it is a complex piece of software where logic errors can create serious security issues. https://cve.mitre.org&#x2
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by sc68cal 4y ago
No. Democrats run away from the accusations of being supporters of "defund the police" by Republicans, by increasing funding for the police. There is no major party in the United States advocating for police reform.

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