solraph

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by solraph 4y ago
Had a play with it, and it has great promise. I love that the keyboard interface is given priority. I have a a couple of thoughts around the interface that might (?) be useful. I absolutely realise this is a work in progress, and you may al
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by solraph 4y ago
I strongly suspect that problem is that Google Maps (and various other Google products) were effectively "done"[0] a few years ago, but the team needs to justify it's existence somehow, so product managers and engineers are l
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by solraph 4y ago
Unless you want super lower power consumption, you're better off with an second hand ex-office micro computer like an Intel NUC or the various Dell/HP/Lenovo VESA mountable PCs. Almost all of them have replaceable RAM and hap
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by solraph 5y ago
I use syncthing to keep notes from Boostnote (as well as other things) in sync across multiple computers. I imagine the same would work well with emacs org mode.
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by solraph 5y ago
Replying to this twelve days later, but anyway... $199 was a bit steep. If it was a one off, may be I just would have paid it, but since it's an annual fee, it's totally worth it. Honestly, most of the solar / power tracking,
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by solraph 5y ago
My post was written from direct experience of having run and being on multiple interviews over the last decade. It's not a one-off thing. It's a depressing majority of applicants. In the spirit of constructive discussion, I have s
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by solraph 5y ago
The problem is that the majority of so called programmers in the market cannot actually write code, and there's currently no other way to weed them out. When I say they cannot write code, I mean that when presented with a simple proble
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by solraph 5y ago
Absolutely. I really want to love FP style programming, but I just can't get it to gel in my head. I'm totally on board with the concepts of side effect free programming, minimising state, passing around functions as parameters, e
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by solraph 5y ago
The starter for me was that my solar inverter (Fronious) wanted $199 per year for more than three days history, but exposed a very readable JSON over http interface. I had low watt PC handy (HP Microserver G7) doing nothing, so installed Ho
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by solraph 5y ago
This is an under-rated comment. The industry as a whole lacks discipline. Nobody wants to do things that are "boring". I've seen some movement in some aspects - I no longer have to fight for introducing automated testing - ho
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by solraph 5y ago
My personal theory is that the the demand for IT workers in general (devs, QA, "architects", program managers, ops, sysadmins... Etc) is so damn high relative to supply that our industry attracts and retains large quantities of pe
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by solraph 5y ago
From the linked article. > Use CAA records[0] to restrict which CAs can issue certificates for your site. Disclaimer, I didn't know about them either. TIL. [0] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6844
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by solraph 5y ago
My observation is that 1. & 3. in your list are very closely related. > 3. As engineers become expensive, people who have little interest in the subject become sufficiently motivated to hit the minimum bar, bringing down the average
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by solraph 5y ago
You'd be amazed how insular some people in the developed world can be. I had a house mate who moved from a major UK city to the other side of the world, but in her late twenties had never in her life eaten rice. Rice!
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by solraph 5y ago
> Yeah, reliable equipment probably is a bit of a nerdy preoccupation; Maybe it's a cultural thing? My extended family (both biological and in-laws) across my two countries (AU/NZ) frequently discuss what items lasted and what
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by solraph 5y ago
From brutal experience I can tell you that's also been true for PHP programmers for a long time.
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by solraph 5y ago
It depends on what you want to do. The problem is that PHP is hyper-optimised for serving up HTTP. That was great in the 2000s when the web was eating the world and the other options were Java, Python, and Perl, but is less useful in the cu
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by solraph 5y ago
I don't think anyone who actually bothers to run the numbers suggests that solar will meet 100% of a buildings energy needs. However, even at 100 residents per acre[0], it's utterly possible to put about 4-6kw of panels and a sola
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by solraph 5y ago
I keep seeing this, but every power bill I've ever seen has a monthly connection fee. With solar panels, that connection fee is frequently higher than the consumed power charges. Isn't that paying for the grid?
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by solraph 5y ago
The GP is talking about how developing using docker on a Mac involves a separate VM running Linux, not the production deployment. If your application involves lots of files, then docker has to spend a bunch of time syncing files between the
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by solraph 5y ago
> > The single most important job humanity has is to get our eggs into more than one basket. > The single most important job for humanity right now is to save this one planet we have from destruction. Aren't these two sides of
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by solraph 5y ago
> Code review discussions which would take 5 minutes take 3 days. You have to write multiple paragraphs instead of walking over and saying "dude, look at this right there, like _seriously_." Honestly, I've found screen sha
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by solraph 5y ago
I'm somewhere between two and three decades in the field. > when I'm going to either stop cutting myself on things Never. You (should) get better at recognising some of the themes and danger signs, but the field evolves so fast
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by solraph 5y ago
> and uploads were just not being used enough for ISPs to justify paying for the upload capacity that was going unused I think it was pretty clear at the time that the "nobody uses it rhetoric" was to get around the lack of upl
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by solraph 5y ago
I can't speak for the Canadian government - but to me this isn't about the better technology, it's about not cooking the planet. Given that 82% of electricity [0] is from Hydro, Nuclear, and other renewables, it's a pret
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by solraph 5y ago
It's better, but it's still rubbish. The FPTP system virtually guarantees a two party system, which means that whatever one party thinks is a good idea, the other is effectively forced into taking the opposing view, and the lake o
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by solraph 5y ago
That's my point though, the alternative is glueing all those tools together, and Atlassian promises (and frankly often falls woefully short on delivering) to give you an integrated out of box experience.
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by solraph 5y ago
I wasn't aware of this, I'll have to check it out. Looks like it would especially good for companies that can't or won't the atlassian tax.
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by solraph 5y ago
The useful ones I've seen are where Confluence automatically indicates jira tickets that mention the page and confluence pages that link tickets that will have their status embedded. It's just those two though, it's also the
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by solraph 5y ago
That integration piece is key. The people who want to replace Atlassian tools usually focus one part of the suite (usually Jira or Confluence), but to replace them you all you need a set of tools that work together. It's not just issue

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