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by thraxil 6y ago
Same. I have a tiny script with: #!/bin/bash FILENAME="screenshot-`date +%F-%H%M%S`" grim -g "$(slurp)" ~/screenshots/$FILENAME.png Hit one key, select the region to screenshot and I
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by thraxil 6y ago
I find it a bit amusing that we are now at the point where we can say "has everyone forgotten about" about Snowden revelations. When those came out, my reaction at the time was "has everyone forgotten about ECHELON?" ht
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by thraxil 6y ago
Strongly seconding Robertson and Bertling's "How to Draw". Continue on to their "How to Render" after that. They break it down into a very mechanical process that doesn't feel very "creative" but make
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by thraxil 6y ago
I think what they may mean is more that there is an established platform within the organization. One that you have expertise and experience with, monitoring/backup/security tools that work with it, etc. K8s might not have as long
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by thraxil 6y ago
I've worked remotely for five years before the lockdown started. That was mostly fine and I personally do feel that I was/am more productive working from home than I had been working in an office, but the lockdown has made things
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by thraxil 6y ago
Reminds me a lot of the paint app we used to use with the KoalaPad back in the 80's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JXi1WSSfHw
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by thraxil 6y ago
> There's nothing in Terraform that couldn't just be YAML with some semantics (like Ansible which I find much more approachable) One secret of Terraform is that you can define resources with JSON instead of HCL ( https:/&#
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by thraxil 6y ago
Our total monthly GCP bill is in the five figures range, so it's included there if we need it. Ultimately, a very simple function running on Cloud Function is just way, way more reliable and "safe" for us than spinning up a V
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by thraxil 6y ago
Yes, it requires a reasonably large amount of memory and runs for 40-50s per invocation. $0.12/month seems pretty reasonable to me. In our case, it also interacts with other GCP APIs, so the security model where we can just grant the C
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by thraxil 6y ago
Like CGI scripts, it scales down really well though. I have an endpoint that is very important but only needs to handle a couple requests per hour. I wrote it as a Cloud Function and it's costing about $0.12 per month. Spinning up a su
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by thraxil 6y ago
Congratulations. I'm in my 40's. When I was in my late 20's I noticed that I'd started to put on some pudge. I'm 186cm tall and had been used to being very skinny and able to eat as much junk as I wanted. I'd b
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by thraxil 6y ago
Just piggybacking on this a bit with some tips in case anyone reads this comment and wants to try it: Do this laying down. You are essentially hyperventilating. By the 35th cycle, you should be feeling very lightheaded, possibly seeing star
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by thraxil 6y ago
What do you mean? Instagram was bought by Facebook in 2012 for $1 Billion. So they literally looked the billion dollars in the eye and said "OK!"
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by thraxil 6y ago
We try to keep meetings to a minimum (the entire company's remote, so async has always been more central to our communication). If I do have to have one that's late for me, I'll usually make a point of taking some hours earli
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by thraxil 6y ago
Remote and WFH for six years. Switching off at the end of the day has always been one of the hardest parts, especially since I am in the UK but have worked for companies based in the US. So my day is ending just as my US coworkers are start
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by thraxil 6y ago
I know I'm late to comment, so this will probably get buried, but I think a key to understanding Terraform and why it is different is to understand that it's an implementation of the Reconciler Pattern. This is a more useful disti
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by thraxil 7y ago
That sounds lovely but doesn't match everyone's experiences. I spent two years commuting from Park Slope to the Upper West Side in NYC for a 9-5 job (so rush hour commutes). Standing room only, two transfers, loud, smelly, and str
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by thraxil 7y ago
25 meters is pretty reasonable for a NYC apartment. I think it has more to do with the additional plumbing and ventilation setup that's missing. The old pre-war buildings are too expensive to renovate to add that kind of thing and a lo
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by thraxil 7y ago
Yeah, I had to use a service for a few years (no laundramats within walking distance) and while it was definitely more expensive than doing it myself, it was pretty great. I was always amused by getting my clothes back in this perfectly rec
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by thraxil 7y ago
Definitely the default in NYC. Lived there 15 years and only had a washer/dryer in one apartment (which was a condo that I was subletting. Any friends I had over were amazed and jealous when they saw it). If you're lucky, your bui
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by thraxil 7y ago
I don't think they're usually a scam. Typically, small startup (which may have quickly grown into a larger one) with idealistic founders who fancy themselves as being forward thinking and pro work/life balance and think that
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by thraxil 7y ago
Allen B. Downey's "The Little Book of Semaphores" is a great resource if you want to go a bit further on understanding how to use these things and design solutions to synchronization problems. It's available for free: h
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by thraxil 7y ago
We run on GCP and I have to say that Stackdriver Logging with the google fluentd agent is actually pretty good and relatively cheap. I don't like Stackdriver's metrics at all, but Logging feels more like part of GCP. Fluentd has g
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by thraxil 7y ago
It seems like you were reading the article with a mindset like "how do I save half a million dollars in my code with a one character change?" and were annoyed to find a bunch of other stuff that didn't directly answer your qu
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by thraxil 7y ago
Probably most working class people in the US if they even have savings. In 2015, in the US, only 40% of the population spent less than they earned in a year and only 39% said that they could come up with $2k in an emergency: https:/&#
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by thraxil 7y ago
Yep. I have my own web-based feed reader that I wrote when they shut down Google Reader and have used daily ever since.
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by thraxil 7y ago
Elixir is pretty great if you're not super hung up on type systems.
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by thraxil 7y ago
The article briefly mentions Roerich as a painter, but it's worth noting that he really was an amazing and important painter. It's worth an image search to see some of his work. Also, there's a small museum dedicated to his w
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by thraxil 7y ago
As someone who did (US citizen now resident in the UK), it's a very difficult and expensive process. Most countries require you to have a visa sponsorship which basically means you are highly skilled enough that a company there is will
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by thraxil 7y ago
> You expect regular people to ride 1-2 hours to work each day? I did pretty close to that for quite a while when I lived in NYC and I'm very, very far from being a fitness nut. I biked from Brooklyn up to Morningside Heights and ba

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