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by spudlyo 8y ago
I didn't click with this essay. I found it difficult to relate to someone who had such a position of power and privilege complaining about their job in the manner of a moody teenager. Also the repeated book self-promotion got on my ner
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by spudlyo 8y ago
Often times MySQL is set up with auto-commit set to true, where every DML statement (like UPDATE) is wrapped in an implicit BEGIN and COMMIT. It doesn’t have to be that way though, you can manage the transaction yourself, and you don’t have
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by spudlyo 8y ago
> Would you ask a violinist to draw the chords they would play on a whiteboard, or would you hand them a violin? The violin is not generally considered chordal instrument. While you can technically pluck all the strings at once, or bow t
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by spudlyo 8y ago
Running your own server is not a hassle for "anyone". I wish people would stop stating this like it's a fact. Having maintained communal SMTP/IMAP servers for the last 20+ years I can tell you that sometimes a year goes
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by spudlyo 8y ago
You wait 'til you get home? Personally, I use 1Password, but I have a friend who swears by the notebook approach. He also caries a feature phone and uses a desktop computer, which makes it a lot more practical.
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A notebook and pencil in your desk drawer solves this problem reasonably well if you're patient. In some ways that is more secure than having all the passwords stored where an attacker can grab them from the comfort of their living roo
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by spudlyo 8y ago
Something about this article doesn't sit right with me. Perhaps it's the self congratulatory tone, or maybe it's all the talk of brand building, "culture", or using social media to show off their company's &quo
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by spudlyo 8y ago
Your instincts are correct. I happen to know that DMs at Twitter are (and most likely still) stored in a sharded MySQL store[0]. Deleted DMs and tweets are "tombstoned", and not actually deleted via a DELETE, which has pretty terr
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by spudlyo 8y ago
What I miss most about Altavista was the boolean search operators, and being able to reliably insist that words either must or must not appear in the results with the + and - characters. With Google these operators are seemingly just hints
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I've always considered myself lucky that one of first minicomputers I got to know and love was a DG Eclipse. I had the experience of reading the book in college and learning the weird, wonderful, and amazing AOS/VS operating syste
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by spudlyo 8y ago
This may be one reason why the BOFH stereotype exists. It definitely helps to have the right attitude. If you can view the bugs and problems you have to fix as an adventure game puzzle rather than cleaning up other people's messes, you
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by spudlyo 8y ago
Thank you Julia for dropping knowledge and sharing your infectious enthusiasm for systems engineering. I hope your work inspires others who have walked the path of the systems wizard to generously publicly share their experience and knowled
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by spudlyo 8y ago
I haven't played the single player campaign, but I played maybe 50 hours of multiplayer. Overall it's fun, but one can only play the stock levels that come with the game for so long. The developers are currently focused on trying
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by spudlyo 8y ago
People still play competitive multiplayer Descent I (D1) matches nearly every day. You can download the data files from GoG[0] for under $4. The binary you want is called DXX-Retro[1] which has the latest and greatest multiplayer tweaks and
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by spudlyo 8y ago
Shellcheck[0] is the Haskell program I use the most. [0]: https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck
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by spudlyo 8y ago
Agreed, highly recommended. I dreaded writing shell scripts for the longest time because of the weird syntax and many gotchas. Having emacs flycheck my shell buffers with shellcheck gives me confidence that I'm not doing anything stupi
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by spudlyo 8y ago
It may not be as hard as you think. Doing a little homework, flashing the router with the OpenWRT firmware, and getting a basic config up and running should take most folks an afternoon. If you already understand concepts like CIDR addressi
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Search the Amazon comments and you'll see at least three folks who are running OpenWRT/Lede on this device. Pretty sure it uses the same "rango" chipset. My guess is that your instincts are right, and it's cheaper a
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by spudlyo 8y ago
I think it's roughly the same. I mean PPPoE framing like adds 8 bytes per packet, but not much you can do about that. My pal has this router and CenturyLink gigabit, which uses PPPoE, and he manages to get around 930 Mbits/s acros
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by spudlyo 8y ago
This will depend on what kind of Internet connection you have, or expect to have in the future. Gigabit internet connections are becoming more common here in the US, and some lower powered devices just can't route packets faster than s
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by spudlyo 8y ago
If I were you I'd check to see if your router can run one of the several open source firmware packages like OpenWRT, dd-wrt, or Tomato. In my personal experience the OpenWRT/lede team is on top of security issues, and the router w
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by spudlyo 8y ago
Is there any reason we can't replace the link on the front page with this one? It's clearly a much better article.
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by spudlyo 8y ago
At my last gig at Stripe we had a candidate fail the lunch interview because he spent much of the time bad mouthing his current co-workers. Not a good look. Unless there is a red flag though, the lunch interviewer doesn't have to show
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by spudlyo 8y ago
For sure. There are external Thunderbolt 3 NVMe SSD enclosures out there that can read and write in excess of 2000 MB/sec, which is reasonably close to what an Apple internal soldered-on SSD can do. Given the prices of internal storage
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by spudlyo 8y ago
I'm typing this comment on my 2012 quad core i7 Mac Mini with 16G of RAM and two 2.5" 2TB SSD drives. This machine still works great for all of my Logic music production needs. One of the things I love about this machine is how I&
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Was There a Connection Between a Russian Bank and the Trump Campaign?(newyorker.com)
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by spudlyo 8y ago
I've heard great things about Ubiquiti's products, so I recently evaluated both their USG security gateway and EdgeRouter4 products using only wired gigabit ethernet. I found it weird that the UniFi line of products and the EdgeMA
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by spudlyo 8y ago
brew install bash bash-completion@2 The SSH magic lives in: /usr/local/Cellar/bash-completion@2/2.8/share/bash-completion/completions/ssh in a function called _scp_remote_files().
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by spudlyo 8y ago
If you're nervous about replacing your default login shell you can do it just for tmux in your .tmux.conf like: set -g default-shell /usr/local/bin/bash Having competitions on my Mac really makes my day, an
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by spudlyo 8y ago
SONGFIGHT![0] This is a shameless plug for the venerable bi-weekly songwriting and recording competition known as SongFight! The idea is, every couple of weeks over at the SongFight website they announce a new song title, from then you have

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