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by stephenr 2y ago
Room temperature take: Weddings are expensive. Marriage costs almost nothing.
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by stephenr 2y ago
SEEKING WORK - Currently Remote from Thailand (UTC+7), with potential for short on-site trips if necessary. Relocating to Australia soon(ish). 20 years experience across a mixture of Ops/Infrastructure/Dev-Tools and web applicatio
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by stephenr 2y ago
> introduced everyone to velociraptors It introduced everyone to Deinonychus and to the (incorrect) name Velociraptor.
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by stephenr 2y ago
Government agencies in the form of rescue/emergency response organisations frequently spend huge sums of money to try to rescue indidivuals . The US Coast Guard explicitly stated that they "do not associate cost with saving a l
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by stephenr 2y ago
The argument given was that VMWare became useless because of the switch to Arm. There are more Hypervisor managers available on macOS now than there have ever been before - largely because Apple provides the underlying framework to do most
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by stephenr 2y ago
... I've had a Fusion licence since v10 was current (~2017) and I don't think I've used it to run Windows even once.
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by stephenr 2y ago
How would anyone know they're being stalked that way if the device explicitly doesn't notify the person it's stalking?
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by stephenr 2y ago
Their utility is directly tied to how many Apple devices with gps and data are in close proximity to them. I get significantly better responsiveness from them at an Australian airport or Singapore airport than I do at Bangkok airport. That
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by stephenr 2y ago
I don't know where you live but that isn't at all true anywhere I've lived. I've had two reasons to need to "find" things with AirTags where I specifically didn't know where they were: - airline bungle, so
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by stephenr 2y ago
Also worth mentioning that the QoL index considers "climate index" which is almost meaningless, and apparently doesn't account for factors like "suffers from tropical cyclones".
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by stephenr 2y ago
Where's the "quality of life" or "corruption level" index on that table? Heck, what about measurable things like "average air quality".
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by stephenr 2y ago
Apple also pushes privacy and on-device processing; But as for the feature itself: why on earth would you want a video uploaded somewhere else before you've even had a chance to watch it back at least once?
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by stephenr 2y ago
Apparently not that well known - I've never heard of it either.
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by stephenr 2y ago
SEEKING WORK - Currently Remote from Thailand (UTC+7), with potential for short on-site trips if necessary. Relocating to Australia soon(ish). 20 years experience across a mixture of Ops/Infrastructure/Dev-Tools and web applicatio
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by stephenr 2y ago
I don't have any info to back it up but I feel like this is a good approach, I've considered the same approach for quite a while: the source is free, if you want access to the apt repo, it costs money.
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by stephenr 3y ago
I can't speak for PG but MySQL at least has a built in function to resolve the time ordering issue when storing v1 UUIDs (and a corresponding function to restore them to a valid UUID).
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by stephenr 3y ago
I've worked in IT (support, network mgmt and development roles) for 20 years, with colleagues, customers and clients from dozens of countries. I've never once heard anyone drop out the dots in an IP. Non technical users aren'
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by stephenr 3y ago
Tell HN: Git is distributed by nature. If a remote being temporarily down means you can’t work, something is wrong with your setup.
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by stephenr 3y ago
They work very well for "worker" processes. The default ssh package on Debian uses systemd template units for the user process; I've used them extensively for job queue workers, in combination with max execution time and a se
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by stephenr 3y ago
Running multiple "copies" of a service is very much in systemd's wheelhouse; it's called templated units.
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by stephenr 3y ago
> I don't have a false identity. That's just what someone with a false identity would say.. get him boys! The biggest /S
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by stephenr 3y ago
I assume you mean UTC+8... that covers about 20% of the earth's population, besides China it includes parts of Russia, a bunch of SEA and Western Australia.
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by stephenr 3y ago
This is interesting but isn't this somewhere between slightly and extremely misleading? > No cloud service needed. > The Find My Logger app reads a cache file generated by the official Find My app, which is periodically updated w
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by stephenr 3y ago
The article explains numerous concurrent conditions that have to be met for the backdoor to even be activated (at build time, not runtime), which combined make it extremely unlikely this will affect SSH on macOS: - linux - x86-64 - buildi
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by stephenr 3y ago
The issue is caused by patches to add integration with systemd, so no, this won't affect SSH on a Mac.
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by stephenr 3y ago
With Redis it isn't even a case of "grow a user/customer base based on the fact that your software is open source and then turn it proprietary" It's "buy the naming rights to an already popular piece of open so
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by stephenr 3y ago
It's apparently terrible because it didn't work.
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by stephenr 3y ago
> Supermarket bills cannot be paid with pull requests. Nor with increasingly unnecessary and niche features aimed at "enterprise" customers, it seems. One could probably even argue that buying the rights to the name of a popula
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by stephenr 3y ago
You keep making comments about this, as if Redis was build from scratch by the company that is now making it closed source. They bought an open source project, and now that the original founder has stepped away they're trying to squeez
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by stephenr 3y ago
The only other fork from current redis that I'm aware of is Redict, and I'd imagine drew devault's name alone brings enough baggage and bad memories that a lot of people (users and contributors) will avoid it. This fork being

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