theandrewbailey

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by theandrewbailey 2mo ago
Some quick research says that the ocean currents there flow north from Antarctica, so it's cold (not much evaporation), and wind mostly blows from the north and east, not from the ocean (west and south).
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by theandrewbailey 2mo ago
Yes. Sometimes PostgreSQL is overkill for a low traffic, simple application. PgBouncer would be even more overkill and add unnecessary complexity.
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by theandrewbailey 2mo ago
Betteridge's Law says no.
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by theandrewbailey 2mo ago
I've primarily been using AVIF with JPG as fallback on my blog for a few years. The efficiency gain is wild. I wonder if AV2 will be integrated into AVIF at some point (AVIF is based on AV1).
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by theandrewbailey 2mo ago
If a trillion dollar corporation is begging you for something, you should consider stop using them.
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First Binary Distribution of the OpenSSL Library: Windows Installer Test Release(github.com)
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by theandrewbailey 2mo ago
The Verge sold out to Big Tech a long time ago. Don't fall for their newspeak. Stop sideloading : install instead.
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by theandrewbailey 2mo ago
Doesn't everyone QA their QR codes? I thought it would be as obvious as making sure you got the right address and/or phone number on an ad before distributing it.
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by theandrewbailey 2mo ago
From back when IA-64 (A.K.A. Itanium) was supposed to take Intel to the promised land.
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by theandrewbailey 2mo ago
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49129008
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by theandrewbailey 2mo ago
I would expect it to be picked up by the Eclipse Foundation. They already have the Java Ent- I mean, Jakarta Enterprise Edition.
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by theandrewbailey 2mo ago
Java was never "move fast and break things".
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by theandrewbailey 2mo ago
I work at an ewaste recycling company. Most of what we get is corporate IT department decommissions. It seems like most companies run things for about 5 to 10 years, as most desktops, laptops, and servers I've seen lately have 4th to 1
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by theandrewbailey 2mo ago
Most people don't trust their government enough to run a service like this. For example, my government lets bridges collapse[0], and it can barely keep the roads paved. The fact that any government service works at all is nothing short
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by theandrewbailey 2mo ago
Nowadays, the website would be all in dark mode with some AI-generated image featuring blue and purple glowy parts. AI generated everything, really.
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Linux didn't just eat 10% of Windows market share, AI bots inflate the numbers(windowslatest.com)
5 points by theandrewbailey 2mo ago|4 comments
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by theandrewbailey 2mo ago
But product manager wants line go up!
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by theandrewbailey 2mo ago
Saigon fell, and the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan.
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by theandrewbailey 2mo ago
> TL;DR >> Autonomous agent fleets don't eliminate organizational dysfunction—they formalize it. Not a good look to have AI slop in the first sentence of an article.
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Baltram/seednaut: Inspect, verify and extract files from Seedvault backups(github.com)
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by theandrewbailey 2mo ago
We have certifications to keep which are pretty important for the business model (data security, ethical disposal and recycling)[0]. The auditors keep tabs on our retail channels. Disclaimer: I am an employee, I did not found the company. [
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by theandrewbailey 2mo ago
(insert Ron Paul It's Happening meme here) I work in the refurb department of an ewaste recycling company. Because we don't have a Windows OEM license, we officially can't install Windows on any of the PCs we sell. (I'll
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by theandrewbailey 2mo ago
PowerPC has become POWER, and you can get hardware outside of IBM. https://www.raptorcs.com/ https://openpowerfoundation.org/
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by theandrewbailey 2mo ago
> Here we reach a point that is simultaneously the platform’s greatest advantage and heaviest burden. Due to such deep integration with dedicated and expensive hardware, IBM i is an “elite” system, in the less positive sense. A mere mort
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by theandrewbailey 2mo ago
> If you think you’re going to work there and, say, “have free weekends,” you are fooling yourself. The “entire team shows up to the office 7 days a week,” Zietz wrote in a LinkedIn post two weeks ago. Sounds like LemonLime is a recipe f
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by theandrewbailey 2mo ago
> Most of our oxygen comes not from forest but from oceans (specifically from phytoplankton, algae, and photosynthetic bacteria). Between 50-80% of it in fact. That fact checks out: about 70% of the earth's surface is covered by oce
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by theandrewbailey 2mo ago
> there's no logic to solving them so you'd have to resort to clicking everything and with 5 playable characters Are multiple/simultaneous playable characters a common feature of adventure game design from LucasArts alum?
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by theandrewbailey 2mo ago
> P.P.P.S There will be a GOG version. Very good news. GOG provides offline installers so you can always backup, install, and play your games forever.
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by theandrewbailey 2mo ago
Then buy a used or open box one. There's plenty of people who try switching to Android and buy Pixels, but go back to their iPhones in a week.
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by theandrewbailey 2mo ago
I thought monitors lost those over 15 years ago, but a few years ago I got a Samsung gaming monitor that happened to come with a brick. Ugh.

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