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by the_duke 4y ago
The Python server is pretty trivial to deploy. Set up Postgres, tweak a hand full of settings in the config, that's pretty much it. Has been running without issues for half a year. Just a single person deployment though.
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by the_duke 4y ago
It's not as easy as that. Pictures are clearly personally identifiable data, so storing them violates the GDPR if you don't have permission to do so. Some "data analysis company" got fined a hefty sum for doing so with E
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by the_duke 4y ago
Yeah, probably my mistake was just dropping QWERTY completely, and not using it at all anymore.
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by the_duke 4y ago
As a point of warning: at some point I started learning Dvorak. I learned it well, switched to it completely, and it was great. Except that it was absolutely horrible. Not because of the layout, but: maybe it's just me, but I completel
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by the_duke 4y ago
Yes, it definitely does.
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by the_duke 4y ago
There is a simple way, that is sadly not known enough: FHS environments. https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable/#sec-fhs-environment...
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by the_duke 4y ago
I switched to NixOS two years ago , and have installed it on about 6 personal machines, both latpops and desktops. I don't bother with building a custom ISO. The way I do it: * Boot with the default ISO * Format the disk * Git clone my
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by the_duke 4y ago
Sure, but that would hopefully be made illegal very quickly. The EU already has pretty strict rules around product placement, which is quite similar to what purchased bias would be, only worse.
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by the_duke 4y ago
Are you saying that the articles claims of Google leadership seeing this as a critical risk are false? Because if Google sees this as a "red alert", it doesn't seem to be so laughable. Even if Google can easily offer the same
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by the_duke 4y ago
For the past few years there were regular rumors that Apple will launch AR glasses and/or a VR headset "really soon". AR goggles would definitely need to be light weight, so they would probably rely on an iPhone to do all the
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by the_duke 4y ago
It think you got things very mixed up here. Google Reader was shut down in 2013. At that time Facebook was THE hugely dominant social network, with Twitter solidly established, and Instagram rapidly becoming popular. Google Reader was well
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by the_duke 4y ago
No one seems to have mentioned the really interesting aspect here: Twitter must be bleeding DAUs. There are other indicators too. After the takeover they dropped the login wall, but it is back, and way more aggressive than before. You can&
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by the_duke 4y ago
You know, there is this flashy new language called Rust. Not that well known yet, I admit. It doesn't have any of the above in the standard library, apart from threads, and it seems to be doing fine... Building a language is a massive
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by the_duke 4y ago
> there isn't even any real RISC-V hardware you can get yet beyond some demo boards, etc. I assume you mean Linux-capable hardware. The Risc-V foundation claims that over 10 Billion chips have already been produced.
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by the_duke 4y ago
Many apps have lots of feature flags that can be turned on and off based on what the API says. Also used for things like A/B testing.
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by the_duke 4y ago
My biggest wish would be proper sum types. The current way of manually creating tagged unions is really awkward. But that won't be added because there is no native JavaScript equivalent.
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by the_duke 4y ago
I have believed from the start that Musk's main motivation for buying Twitter was giving a boon to the Republicans to buy favorable treatment for his companies, because he isn't getting that from the Democrats. I'll probably
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by the_duke 4y ago
Many languages have linters and formatters. That is what you should use. You can't run Intellij IDEs on CI to validate the pull request. That said, I do appreciate the powerful code analysis provided by Jetbrains IDEs.
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by the_duke 4y ago
This. I tried to switch to Emacs multiple times, but the lagginess in a non-trivial setup just kills me. I always went back to Neovim.
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by the_duke 4y ago
I think you have provided an argument against eSports: a popular sport is "timeless" and is played for generations. Games are ephemeral. It's very rare for a game to be popular for more than 10 years. There might be popular f
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by the_duke 4y ago
"Old language have it, so it must not be a problem" is not a very convincing argument. Almost every new language that has come out in the last ~10 years or so tries hard to avoid null pointers, and old languages try very hard to m
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by the_duke 4y ago
Rust isn't exactly known for it's small code size, due to bounds checks, heavy encouragement of using generics, ... Although it has to be said that you can get Rust code to be really small if you know what you are doing and work t
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by the_duke 4y ago
The code you want to use has to compile to Webassembly. This is in fact possible for C# and Python, but especially in the browser you would want to have a small binary size, and avoid bringing along the whole runtime of these managed langua
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Wasmer takes WebAssembly libraries mainstream with WAI(wasmer.io)
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by the_duke 4y ago
It doesn't change my mind, but this is a valid counter argument and you shouldn't be downvoted.
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by the_duke 4y ago
Well, they really did need a massive amount of corpo speak to rephrase: > From now on, we will force you to buy subscriptions for hardware you already bought and is already sitting in your data center, because $$$
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by the_duke 4y ago
Probably done by one of the microservices they turned off.
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by the_duke 4y ago
> hoping that Deno would be a reboot That's exactly what they tried, by settting up a Deno-only registry. But there is just way too much work and momentum happening in the NPM ecosystem. Many library maintainers wouldn't want t
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by the_duke 4y ago
Why? You can just load the laptop with four USB-C adapters and stick to USB-C for everything if you want to.
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by the_duke 4y ago
Musk built SpaceX from the ground up, a company that achieved tremendous things in one of the most difficult and entrenched business domains. He played a big role in Making Tesla what it is today, in another of the most entrenched domains.

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