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by throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
They did use metal fasteners, just sparingly, because iron was expensive and often of poor quality. Later on even when quality and availability improved, laws were introduced to limit the use of metal fasteners, largely for political and ec
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by throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
Adding more layers can add context, which can improve communication, which solves (or at least improves) the problem of conflict arising from poor communication.
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by throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
If everyone could agree on behavior in a common space, we wouldn't have politics, or even government. We would just all agree on something and then go about our lives. Internet moderation is just governance for the private sector.
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by throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
That's the fallacy. That keeping it all in one place with one tool is somehow better, because you can , or because it's all tightly coupled , or because it's one less piece of software . But in practice it just creates mor
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by throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
The idea that "performance" is the big problem, is the same as saying "performance" is why you don't use an IMAP server as a queue. Hey, you've already got an email server somewhere , and that means it's
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by throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
It's not an either/or. Many business both own and rent things. If price is the only factor, your business model (or executives' decision-making) is questionable. Buy only the cheapest shit, spend your time building your own o
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by throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
This guy gets it, I agree with it all. The exception being, use Fargate without K8s and lean on Terraform and AWS services rather than the K8s alternatives. When you have no choice left and you have to use K8s, then I would pick it up. No s
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by throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
Daily stand-ups are wonderful and need to be encouraged.
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by throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
I'm gonna need a decaf option
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by throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
Not worth 3rd party vendors with basic SSO. They have no idea when the user leaves the company because there's nothing updating the vendor's sessions.
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by throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
I'm still flabbergasted when a company lets me index their entire AD tree as a random (or, holy crap, anonymous) user. Very nice of them, but still. It's also often the only way to get information that doesn't exist in an Int
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by throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
There's a very common problem with systems that use SSO, where the 3rd parties that accept SSO logins cache the login information, sometimes indefinitely. A user can leave the company but their login placeholder account stays in the 3r
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by throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
This is like making lock pick sets illegal to carry unless you're a licensed locksmith. Didn't really stop criminals from getting or using them.
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by throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
I'm not stepping back from anything. Plenty of critics have hated films that end up being cult classics. A critic is no substitute for individual sensibilities. You can defer to them all you want, doesn't mean it's a great wa
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by throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
So how come I've seen so many great movies at film festivals that no critic writes about?
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by throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
Actually sounds like a good thing to me. Any organization that styles itself an industry taste maker is simultaneously repressing the organic creation of culture by the disorganized masses. Culture is best discovered by accident, and consid
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by throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
Good advice doesn't stop being good just because people stop following it. Ultimately success is a matter of effort.
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by throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
If you twist yourself into a pretzel enough you can make Bash do all these things. Doesn't make it a good idea. The biggest problem with depending on Postgres is it's a large complex monolith. Any problem you have only has two pos
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by throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
If your machines are all hypervisors you could migrate important VMs to a couple hosts and turn off the rest. You could also possibly throttle the vcpus, which would slow down the VMs but allow you to run the machines cooler, or more VMs pe
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by throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
I have always hated the secret parties. As soon as I found out about them, I set about infiltrating them just to fuck with them. One of the reasons I left the hacker community was the toxic elitism and posturing.
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by throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
The same reason any other gaggle of degenerates are allowed in Las Vegas: Money.
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by throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
The only food worth the trek is the Toxic BBQ
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by throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
Getting old rocks, I highly recommend it.
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by throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
"Early stage" anything doesn't sound very good either
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by throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
Christ I'm old. I still remember when it was at the AP. Although I've left that part of my life behind, I'm glad DEF CON is still around.
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by throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
¿Porqué no los dos?
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by throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
It is insane how reliable landlines are, though. When the power goes out, you can make "candles" by connecting a 0.47 uF capacitor to a LED leg and connect both ends to the red and green phone wires; there's enough voltage to
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by throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
Man. I really wish we didn't have language discrimination. Perl is just so fast to write and has such a sizeable ecosystem of modules, and such great docs, that I can produce any program in Perl faster than I can write it in Python, pu
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by throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
Yep. The HN users see is highly curated. Mostly by algorithms, sometimes by humans.
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by throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
No company can survive bad management. One shitty exec that says to do X. Everyone has to follow and the results speak for themselves. I wonder though, for public companies, do employees not have the obligation to refuse certain demands in

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