synicalx

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by synicalx 4y ago
Any interest in moving to something different, but related so you can transfer some/all of your skillset? I was in the same boat a couple years back, and moved into an SRE role (no pay cut, fortunately) and I'm actually really enj
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by synicalx 4y ago
I try and make my workstation... I guess you'd say "stateless"? - Nothing important stored "on" the machine itself, I put it in one or more cloud storage options, git, password manager etc. Important documents like
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by synicalx 4y ago
Hopefully this means more reliable conversions between epub and AZW. Using various 3rd party tools for this up until now, I've nearly always ran into weird formatting issues - some very minor and some that made books almost unreadable.
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by synicalx 4y ago
> would you start a major project today using Cobol? No. You might not start a project in it, but goddamn I bet you could make a boatload of cash doing consulting work to keep ancient COBOL systems running. Even today that's pretty
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by synicalx 4y ago
Yep same here, Omni was my next stop after Things and I came to much the same conclusion. Personally I'm pretty happy with Reminders, being able to shout reminders at Siri, and getting location-based reminders has actually been pretty
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by synicalx 4y ago
I love Things, and for a long time used it every day. I just can't get behind their pricing model though, the desktop version in Australia is $80 which is outrageously expensive for a TODO app that can largely be replaced with the slig
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by synicalx 4y ago
Factorio really is a bit of a modern marvel, even HUGE factories don't seem to run poorly at all and I genuinely have no idea how. Other similar games made since (Satisfactory comes to mind) seem to struggle with things like keeping tr
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by synicalx 4y ago
Interesting problem to come across, sounds like this is a scenario where RDS and the lack of host access/visibility was a bit of a handicap. Glad you found the issue though, hopefully things go smooth next time!
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by synicalx 4y ago
Yeah I feel like something was definitely up with RDS, or at least this event is suspicious enough to warrant further investigation. Step one is definitely get all your "evidence" together - CloudWatch screenshots, logs, maybe clo
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by synicalx 4y ago
> If you stopped taking caffeine (or adderall or whatever other drug that enhances focus). I'd just like to point out that it's QUITE a large step up from an innocent cup of coffee to pharmaceutical grade amphetamines. Also the
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by synicalx 4y ago
I've worked with lawyers who all shared that same "it's probably fine" attitude, which genuinely surprised me until I went out drinking with them one night...
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by synicalx 4y ago
Something definitely seems off here, from the fact that RDS chose to scale to the response you got from support (who've always been... mostly ok in my experience). First of all I think I'd like to find out a little more context be
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by synicalx 4y ago
I had a VPN app distributed as a snap - one day it auto-updated and came with a huge memory leak. Apparently all the update did was adjust some functionality in the apps UI, so it was totally non-essential but it still installed itself and
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by synicalx 4y ago
I will happily pay my local equivalent of £30 each year to not have to wait for every device I use to start from a cold boot every time I want to use it. My TV takes ~2 minutes to be usable after booting, I use that every single day more or
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by synicalx 4y ago
So long as the meaning is clear, it really doesn't matter IMO. Just write it so that when viewed in isolation the meaning of the message is clear and matches the changes held within the commit. Anyone who gets up in arms over "fix
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by synicalx 4y ago
Most people don't have the luxury of picking and choosing exactly what they work on. I don't WANT to work on keeping some legacy tooling from falling apart, and I would consider maintaining it a chore. That doesn't mean that
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by synicalx 4y ago
I feel like the most human way for us to die out would be one of two things; apathy or aggression. Either way we'll make the planet uninhabitable, through nukes or warming, and slowly starve to death while also dying in freak weather e
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by synicalx 4y ago
I have a bunch of stuff, HN included, in my RSS feed that I peruse most mornings. A mix of real news, tech news, gaming news, whatever HN is, and a little bit of business/startup news as well. I'm partial to the occasional doom-sc
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by synicalx 4y ago
Did they actually SPEND the capital, or just set it aside? Even if they were going around filling DC's with transcoders I feel like they'd have a hard time spending $300M that fast, unless they grossly overestimated the size of th
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by synicalx 4y ago
Gotta love personalised search results! For a laugh I tried searching it in a few different engines and came up with mixed results - some similar to my definition and some similar to yours. I'm starting to get the feeling it has a &quo
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by synicalx 4y ago
It's all fun and games with the giant boxen until a faulty PSU blows up a backplane, you have to patch it, the DC catches on fire, support runs out of parts for it, network dies, someone misconfigures something etc etc. Not saying a si
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by synicalx 4y ago
I don't entirely understand where these are meant to be used? PCIe switching as a change to the storage/networking paradigm, I can understand especially for cloudy/gaming/bigdata kind of stuff, but I don't see where
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by synicalx 4y ago
> Business Internet is not usage based You'd think that's the case but really, it depends. It depends on what connection type you have, what country you're in, and how remote you are or aren't. Business grade fibre i
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by synicalx 4y ago
I'm just talking about a normal bathroom fan you turn on when you want to have a shower or something. I've honestly never seen one at a hardware store that costs more than about $40. An electrician would take about 15 minutes to i
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by synicalx 4y ago
I cannot find a single source that agrees with you on that. The first 3 pages of Google when I search "general purpose computer definition" all show results that largely equate to; "A general-purpose computer is one that, giv
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by synicalx 4y ago
I assume, steam causing moisture build up and associated mould and rot. That's a problem easily solved with a $20 exhaust fan though.
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by synicalx 4y ago
I quite like the idea of this, but it would be a very hard sell to most infra and security teams IMO. Installing a 3rd party agent that in some way permits shell access to a server and (I assume) needs to run constantly is definitely going
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by synicalx 4y ago
Right but that doesn't make them any less useful as a general purpose computing device - they still serve that function perfectly well with or without them slowly eroding our mental capacity and stealing all our data.
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by synicalx 4y ago
I honestly find America's tax system to be one of the most bizarre things about the country, TurboTax shenanigans being part of that. Every year around this time I'm reminded how lucky I am to have at least a somewhat sane and pai
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by synicalx 4y ago
I beg to differ. They might not be suitable for "power users" or Stallman but for most people they're fine. I've got at least a few non-technical friends that haven't owned a laptop or PC in years and do all their &

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