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by stevejb 2y ago
Why this comment? This was a really interesting anecdote about how complicated situations in life can be.
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by stevejb 2y ago
I definitely agree with a lot of the comments here especially the ones in the vein of “don’t do dangerous things with json. “ if you have control of the sender and the receiver, it makes sense to have fields that add a bit of extra type inf
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by stevejb 3y ago
I don't understand. Are you saying it is good that people are teetotalers and that is an example of doing your best?
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by stevejb 3y ago
I was visiting a relative in their $3M+ house in Bronte and saw plenty of it. Not in the front facades of the homes, but drive through the back alleys, and you can spot some in < 1 min. I remember an uncle there who's neighbor had a
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by stevejb 3y ago
Probably not. They’ll understand it was the best we could do at the time, just like we understand that about our ancestors.
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by stevejb 3y ago
Australia also probably has some of the worst deployments of asbestos in the developed world. Drive around even nice neighborhoods in Sydney and you’ll see plenty of cracking and breaking “fibro”, a cement asbestos sheet. Canberra is full o
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by stevejb 3y ago
I work for a company called CloudFix, and we are solely focused on AWS costs. We do automated AWS cost optimization. We find one of two reactions when we deliver savings to customers: (A) "Hey wow, this is great! We are so excited to b
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by stevejb 4y ago
I think it's like saying if you learn how to maintain a submarine, have you become a good swimmer? Or, if you know how to maintain a submarine do you understand fluid mechanics?
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by stevejb 4y ago
I just watched this video on a plane, going nearly 600mph at 33K ft above northern Canada. The pace of technological evolution I have experienced in my lifetime is absolutely miraculous.
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by stevejb 4y ago
What 43" monitor are you using? Do you happen to have a picture of your setup?
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by stevejb 4y ago
I've had many pourovers and I appreciate them if I have the time. If I like pour overs at value P, then I would rate an instant coffee at 0.9 P. The 0.1 P of value I miss out on isn't worth the hassle of filters, dealing with coff
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by stevejb 4y ago
It may be worth looking at org-mode syntax. Yes, org-mode is part of Emacs, but the syntax of the file seems to meet some of your requirements, namely parseable by human and machine alike.
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by stevejb 4y ago
I used to live next to a popular bike trail, that had 0 sharing with cars. Not a road within 50 meters. There were plenty of injuries. Bike vs bike, bike vs pedestrian, bike vs stationary object, distracted cyclist injures themselves. Etc.
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by stevejb 4y ago
Preface: I work for DevGraph, which contains EngineYard. I would definitely have a strong look at EngineYard [1]. Our tagline: "A NoOps PaaS for deploying and managing applications on AWS backed with a world-class support offering.&quo
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by stevejb 5y ago
I live in rural Australia. Corrugated iron is everywhere, and I love it. It is durable, lasts a really long time, is easy to repurpose. I know an older gentleman here who built a really nice barn out of some repurposed corrugated iron roofi
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by stevejb 5y ago
There is also less alumnium in a can now than from the 70's, so it may not be as bad as is apparent.
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by stevejb 5y ago
Same as when horse and buggies will come back in response to a disruption of the gasoline supply chain.
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by stevejb 5y ago
Not sure why you're downvoted on this. I used to live near a very popular mixed-use bike trail, and walking with my kids there was really unpleasant. There were some cyclists who would go really fast and not slow down at all, and I had
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by stevejb 5y ago
Something you can take from Judaism is the concept of Shabbat where you can take 1 day a week to devote to family, study (that isn't related to your job), personal things, host a dinner with some friend (COVID permitting, of course). C
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by stevejb 5y ago
The good lesson it can teach is that there are hypocrites in the world, and that at the present time there is enough excess productivity in the system that people who contribute nothing can basically ride for free, and the value they contri
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by stevejb 5y ago
Uh yeah this is totally wrong. Life has never been better for the vast majority of the world's population.
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by stevejb 5y ago
> simply rotation so everyone does the unwanted jobs. It's a fair system and people will do it. I think that what would end up happening is that in even in a small group of people, it would naturally emerge that there are variations
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by stevejb 5y ago
I have been thinking about how to do a deployment on a farm, using a private 5G network for some sensors and security cameras. I looked at LoraWann but it didn't have the bandwidth for cameras. Would something like this work?
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by stevejb 5y ago
Guilt trip? I have never felt this ever. I pay a tip proportional to the service. 10% bad, 15% average, 20-25% for very good. As an American living in Australia, I really do miss tipping. I think that on average the restaurant service here
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by stevejb 5y ago
I just bought a 12v 200ah battery for $2300 AUD. It could be done for less, but this was a premium model. Hopefully when I purchase a second one in a year or two, it will be a bit cheaper.
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by stevejb 6y ago
I thought "Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives"
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by stevejb 7y ago
Not OP, but I think that the idea is that if a notification makes it through the system, it has been filtered to be worthy of distraction. So, there isn't a cognitive cost to the user of "is the notification worth reading" si
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by stevejb 7y ago
Nobody but yourself has to give you permission for this. It's an honest living. Lots of people who would give you shit about this are in the VC-funded "Uber eats for dog treats" world and may have an over-inflated sense of th
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by stevejb 7y ago
I'm in Australia, can you suggest a few brands?
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by stevejb 7y ago
This is an interesting perspective. I write Haskell for fun, and sometimes for profit. My first language that I wrote in professionally was Perl 5, so I definitely understand what you are saying about the dynamic types. However, in practice

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