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by thraxil 7y ago
> I've cancelled all my other bank accounts. I have a Monzo account as well and really like them, but it doesn't have an IBAN and can't accept international transfers (at least not officially and reliably). That makes it n
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My dad doesn't own a smartphone. He has a flip phone that he takes out when he goes on trips but where he lives (rural Maine) there is no cell reception so he doesn't see a point in having anything fancier (also, having watched hi
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by thraxil 7y ago
The first point is that for many, being vegan isn't a "dietary restriction", but a lifestyle based on a moral philosophy that we shouldn't harm sentient beings more than necessary. Eg, the Vegan Society's definition
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When you have a problem and call support, they do the "please enter the 4th digit of your account password" thing to verify you (further evidence that they store it in plaintext). This is particularly fun since my password is only
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by thraxil 7y ago
This video shows the technique that's closest to how I was taught to sharpen pencils for drawing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz9x49vG9Rk It's important to note that the goal is to set it up for drawing with t
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It's also important to keep in mind that most of the projects that NASA works on/worked on like Apollo 11 aren't just software projects. They involve massive scales of cutting edge hardware that is developed by independent te
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by thraxil 7y ago
> The ideal solution, in my opinion, would be to brew tissue in a factory, sans brains, just the muscular system of animals. Seems plausible, right? It doesn't seem plausible to me at all. Why not just eat plants and cut out all the
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by thraxil 7y ago
Yeah, FBAR is about $10k. FATCA/8938 threshold is $50k last I checked. As an American living abroad, it's kind of annoying. Filing the FBAR only takes a couple minutes though. You basically enter basic account info (bank, country,
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As it's used on the first page, "utilization" is just the fraction of time that the "service center" is in use. So if it's not doing any work at all, it would be 0, fully utilized would be 1. I don't think
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This all tracks with my memory and experience (dev since the 90s). The other point that's missing to explain why it is so common is that one of the early Spolsky articles that got a lot of attention at the time (early 2000's) and
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by thraxil 8y ago
What you need to do is a bit platform-dependent, but Trammell's guide for MacOS is good: https://trmm.net/Yubikey I run Linux but adapting his guide to what I use was the clearest path I found. Do note that only some o
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First think of it not from your perspective as a user, but from the site's perspective. If they don't support any form of MFA all they have to authenticate a user with is their password. It's impractical to enforce good passw
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We use it as a quick and dirty shared secret storage at work (when you need to pass someone an API key or stash some service credentials somewhere). It works, and keeps those things from sitting around in plaintext, but I've been tryin
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by thraxil 8y ago
I use AWS WorkMail and I'm moderately happy with it. It's pretty barebones, but works and hasn't given me any problems. I went with it because I use Route53 for my domains, and host most of my stuff on AWS anyway, so it was o
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by thraxil 8y ago
FWIW, among vegans, there is a bit of controversy over certain bivalves. Oysters and Mussels both lack a sophisticated central nervous system and likely are closer to plants than even higher invertebrates in terms of anything like pain perc
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It's also a moot argument because animals that are raised for meat... eat plants. Lots of plants. Meat is incredibly inefficient in that sense. Most farmland in the US is for animal feed. So if someone really is worried that plants fee
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by thraxil 8y ago
I have a Keyboardio Model 01. I haven't tried the Ultimate Hacking Keyboard so I can't compare directly. From looking at it: * Keyboardio has vertical key columns rather than the staggered ones on regular layouts like the UHK. Tha
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by thraxil 8y ago
K8s and similar represent a current view on how systems should be designed and run from the ground up (largely based on the same observations you have made that the stateless workloads can be run with drastically less operational problems).
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Don't know much about Doctrine2, but that sounds pretty terrible. I'm sorry you are forced to work with something so inefficient. I've been building apps with Django and Django's ORM for the last 10 years and found essen
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The first, obvious thing you would notice is performance. A docker container typically starts up in a fraction of a second (whatever process is running inside it might take a few seconds more) while a vagrant VM has to go through a whole bo
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by thraxil 9y ago
I haven't really looked at Pyramid in years (I do mostly Django). Why does it need `-e .`? In the projects I've worked on, that would be a really weird thing to do. `-e` in a requirements.txt is always a bit of a hack. If you real
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by thraxil 9y ago
The other recommendations here are pretty good. I'd add "Infrastructure as Code" as well.
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Sorry, but that article's really annoying. He accuses people of misunderstanding the terms "introversion" and "extroversion" but does the same thing himself by associating them with the stereotypical behavior that w
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Same. I've even been using the same window manager (XMonad) for probably over a decade and haven't touched the config file in years. When I get a new machine, I copy some dotfiles over, apt-get a few packages and then I pretty mu
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by thraxil 9y ago
Vivo Barefoot has a kids' range: https://www.vivobarefoot.com/uk/kids Not too cheap though. I can't really speak to the quality of the kids shoes, but I own quite a few pairs of their adult shoes and am very
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by thraxil 9y ago
Wrote a blog post about one way that I use checklists: https://compiled.ctl.columbia.edu/articles/anders-daily-chec...
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Aside from the other responses you are getting, consider that the "90% less errors" doesn't actually tell you anything about the overall quality of either codebase. It could be a million lines of JS/TS with 10 errors fou
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by thraxil 9y ago
When Hugh Hewitt suggested that Trump only meant it that way, Trump objected: "No, I meant he's the founder of ISIS," Trump said. "I do. He was the most valuable player. I give him the most valuable player award. I give
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by thraxil 9y ago
> I'll tell you why. Nobody who isn't an ISIS member has ever been called an ISIS member. I do seem to recall a certain presidential candidate calling Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama founders of ISIS... Painting all Muslim o
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by thraxil 9y ago
I haven't really used SQLAlchemy in anger since about 2009. I remember it being fine but I can't really say much else about it. That said, I haven't run into any limitations of the Django ORM that have driven me to look at ot

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