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by throwaway823882 5y ago
I'd volunteer as an English editor! I know I would want someone to help me translate into other languages.
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by throwaway823882 5y ago
I gained the skills to become a Systems Admin when I was 17 by reading and following HOWTOs. I keep telling myself I will start writing new HOWTOs and publish them there, because the blog-spam instructions of today make it take 10x longer t
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by throwaway823882 5y ago
> doing it cold extracts all the flavours without damage Well, no, flavors fluctuate with temperature. Temperature changes flavor degradation and dissipation, and what compounds are released or not released. Heat can actually contribute
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by throwaway823882 5y ago
First, buy good beans. https://www.javapresse.com/blogs/buying-coffee/ultimate-guid... Second, buy a cheap hand grinder and grind 'em right. https://www.javapresse.com/blogs/grinding-coff
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by throwaway823882 5y ago
Gig working started with Uber as an extension of cab driving. Cab drivers do not get 401k and health insurance. So it makes no sense at all that gig working would only exist because companies didn't want to pay benefits. Your pizza del
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by throwaway823882 5y ago
Gig working only exists because our economy is rooted on income inequality. If people could get a regular job that paid a living wage, they wouldn't be working 14 hours a day for 3 different companies just to make ends meet. Gig compan
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by throwaway823882 5y ago
Yaya: "Oh what the hell has this crazy kid made now..."
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by throwaway823882 5y ago
Google Flights does this for you. It can both show you actual prices per calendar month, and predicted price rise/fall. It even highlights the lowest price dates. And you can sign up for e-mailed price alerts.
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by throwaway823882 5y ago
> And I have to ask – why not?! Apple has a stranglehold on their ecosystem just like Blackberry did. They could easily require any new vendor to integrate into their own messaging app, or require apps to use a unified messaging framewor
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by throwaway823882 5y ago
S3 is a de facto standard supported by multiple vendors and open source technology. You can pick lots of other cloud vendors and use S3 there, or you can self-host S3. It's one of many AWS technologies that is not vendor-locked.
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by throwaway823882 5y ago
Communities are overrated. They can be toxic, suffer from groupthink, operate in secret, and have high barriers to entry. But I agree with the poster that a "map of communities" that can organize and direct knowledge-sharing and c
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by throwaway823882 5y ago
> Nothing else is so important while also being so easy to address. It's actually not that easy to address if you don't have extra cash laying around. Most people in the world will not do the things on this list. Other things i
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by throwaway823882 5y ago
I don't know Redis' design, but all sorts of things can slow down a program's reading from memory, from CPU cache misses to mutexes, garbage collection, CPU utilization, or something else (I don't know Redis' design
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by throwaway823882 5y ago
Does LevelDB/RocksDB still randomly corrupt your data?
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by throwaway823882 5y ago
When was the last time you desperately needed to get off of a single AWS service and couldn't?
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by throwaway823882 5y ago
Redis is one of those things where you see a car with an after-market door on it, but the door is actually a house door, cut with a sawzall into the shape of a car door.
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by throwaway823882 5y ago
So, what would be needed to start a real, honest-to-god replacement for Android/iOS? You'd need a whole governance structure for your project so it wasn't controlled by a sole entity. There would need to be assurances that us
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by throwaway823882 5y ago
Every healthcare and finance service provider I've ever seen is single-cloud. They may talk big about multi-cloud but none of them are actually doing it for their whole stack.
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by throwaway823882 5y ago
You're right that it requires a very specific strategy and cost layout to go multi-cloud, and 99% of people don't get it. Just like most people shouldn't use K8s, most people shouldn't go multi-cloud. If it costs $500K i
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by throwaway823882 5y ago
This is a system that is basically adding missing features as a super-set on another system. Rather than deal with one complex system, you are now dealing with a complex system within a complex system. For this to actually pay off for you,
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by throwaway823882 5y ago
The reason the kids are penalized is not because it disrupts the school. It's because it destroys their authority. Schools cling desperately to authority because they are unwilling or unable to use different methods to teach.
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by throwaway823882 5y ago
You are viewing them by date: newest to oldest. Possibly as an artifact of Git's architecture. But more likely because it would be slightly annoying to implement differently, and nobody wanted to do the extra work just to make the user
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by throwaway823882 5y ago
> who runs the company at the top is critical to the success of most companies. I think it's culture and power/organizational structure that determines this. Culture is disseminated from the top down, due to the power structure
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by throwaway823882 5y ago
> A Practical Guide to Reducing Loneliness Right Now: 11 awkward, life-affirming ways to connect with others. The most practical way to reduce loneliness is not to connect with others. Become content living alone. Later you can connect
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by throwaway823882 5y ago
Clickbait title is clickbait. Not a single mention of why government fails from the past 5,000 years of history. The entire discussion is US-centric. And they don't conclude why governments fail.
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by throwaway823882 5y ago
It doesn't really matter how you version. Just pick something and be consistent. You should plan your API to be backwards-compatible, plan major version changes about 2 years apart, and put the sunset time of your version in big bold r
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by throwaway823882 5y ago
> I've never read a man page from start to finish, and I'm not sure you're meant to. When I was 16 and just starting to get into Linux, I got a tiny little paperback, "reference to Unix programs" or something. It
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by throwaway823882 5y ago
...you know you don't need an editor with support for Markdown, right? Markdown is a plain text format.
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by throwaway823882 5y ago
We have that now and it's called the market-based salary. > if we took out rent from the equation Then we only need to consider - employee's age - employee's education - employee's experience - industry -
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by throwaway823882 5y ago
Sometimes these magical sequences are really just a set of hoops you send your users through so they will actually do what you want them to do (unplug machine for 60 seconds, plug back in). Otherwise they'll half-ass it and miss the si

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