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by speleding 8mo ago
> management ... literally just status updates and asking when things are going to be finished. True. But there are many people whose productivity slumps unless they are asked for progress updates every day. You have to offset this again
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by speleding 8mo ago
When I worked as a strategy consultant in the Netherlands (albeit decades ago), the rule of thumb was that any organization that had not seen a reorganization for five years would accumulate at least 10% of dead weight. (Mainly due to very
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by speleding 8mo ago
I would like to be opted out by default. I'm worried at least one of those new services is going to get overrun by spammers, and if I'm opted in by default they could use the gateway to whatsapp to spam everyone else.
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by speleding 8mo ago
Not sure whether you would call this technical, but the difficulty lies in allowing third party access and still prevent spam. The reason Whatsapp won out over competing services in the first place (over here at least) was that they managed
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by speleding 9mo ago
We've been storing jobs in the DB long before SolidQueue appeared. One major advantage is that we can snapshot the state of the system (or one customer account) to our dev environment and get to see it exactly as it is in production. W
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by speleding 9mo ago
The difference can be explained in large part by urban design: many US shoppers need a car to drive to the supermarket and only go there once a week or less. In Europe you live much closer to a supermarket, so you go more often and get more
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by speleding 9mo ago
Yes, it's not just homeless people with this bootstrapping problem. When I first arrived to the US in the nineties as a student I needed a social security number, for this I needed a P.O. Box (they did not accept the dorm house as addr
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by speleding 11mo ago
Well, just add "puts caller" in the function to find out. You can do this in your own code, but also you can also just briefly patch the library you're working with, if that's where the process is. By the way, the genera
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by speleding 11mo ago
I've done quite a few MySQL setups with replication. I would not call setup "extremely easy", but then, I'm not a full time DB admin. MySQL upgrades and general trouble shooting is so much more painful than AWS aurora wh
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by speleding 11mo ago
I don't like this change. There are a lot of SaaS business that allow you to create a CNAME along the lines of "saas_app_name.yourbusiness.com". For example Fastmail and Zoho do that, our business offers that feature as well.
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by speleding 11mo ago
If your database has a hardware failure then you could loose all sales and customer data since your last backup, plus cost of the down time while you restore. I struggle to think of a business where that is acceptable.
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by speleding 11mo ago
The complexity of AWS versus bare metal depends on what you are doing. Setting up an apache app server: just as easy on bare metal. Setting up high availability MySQL with hot failover: much easier on AWS. And a lot of businesses need a hig
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by speleding 1y ago
Just today I got an ad for a new theater show in town I'd like to see, I might have missed that if it wasn't for the targeted ad. Did they "manipulate" me into seeing it? I guess so. Do I mind? No, I'm capable enoug
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by speleding 1y ago
The popup never lets you choose to see fewer ads. It's a common misconception by lay people that you will see fewer ads if you block cookies, but that's not happening of course. So you may as well get relevant ones.
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by speleding 1y ago
Your girlfriend was somewhat right though: if you click "Reject all" they cannot show you targeted ads, and will show you generic ads instead. That's why I always accept the tracking cookies, for me the price of the privacy i
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by speleding 1y ago
I always consent as well. They can show much more relevant ads when you consent to cookies. If I block cookies I get generic ads about stuff I don't care about.
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by speleding 1y ago
A power supply can operate most efficiently if its power output is close to what it was designed to supply. Typically, a PoE switch has a large power budget to take into account the myriad devices that might be connected to it. If you have
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by speleding 1y ago
I agree that running servers onprem does not need to be hard in general, but I disagree when it comes to doing production databases. I've done onprem highly available MySQL for years, and getting the whole master/slave thing go ju
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by speleding 1y ago
It's the one place we still use user-agent sniffing: if the built in date picker works we show that (iPhone / iPad), otherwise we do a JS picker.
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by speleding 1y ago
My elderly parents have managed to destroy more than one iPhone / Mac (dropped a glass of wine on the keyboard on the last one). Using the "Restore from iCloud" is a god send to get all their messages and settings back. So I&
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by speleding 1y ago
I like the concept of "luck surface area". Sure, I started out with a bunch of luck. But the harder I work, the luckier I get. You have to put yourself into a position to cash in on your luck.
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by speleding 1y ago
I agree that the tone of arguments of many proponents is not helpful. That obscures the fact there are relatively easy things that can be copied from the Netherlands to make a city more walkable that are not expensive. Chiefly: start making
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by speleding 1y ago
Dutch person with a car here: Like many people, I own one because they can be very useful to transport heavy stuff, and there are several low density areas where it's a pain to get by train, like visiting family in nearby Belgium. But
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by speleding 1y ago
You can have walkable neighborhoods and still allow some cars. They can only enter a neighborhood at low speed as a destination, to park there. To get from one neighborhood to another you have normal roads and highways. The Netherlands does
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by speleding 1y ago
Pff, there has been a 50 kW osmotic plant operating in The Netherlands since 2014, how is this news? source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osmotic_power
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by speleding 1y ago
I would like to challenge the notion that you absolutely need state of the art fabs to win a war. Most military gear uses "proven technology" several generations behind SOTA. When push really comes to shove there is a lot you can
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by speleding 1y ago
Ah that explains it, thanks, I missed that.
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by speleding 1y ago
A solar water heater is just a black box with a tube running through it. Many houses here have one, because they're much cheaper than PV panels to generate similar kW heat. But a sibling comment pointed out they want to go up to 900 °K
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by speleding 1y ago
I'm surprised that they use the PV power for heating coils instead of using heat pumps. I'm sure they've run the numbers and considered it too expensive or too much maintenance hassle. However, if that's the case you wou
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by speleding 1y ago
For the Thinkbot problem mentioned in the article, it's less maintenance work to simply block on the User Agent string.

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