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by throwaway984393 2y ago
This is literally designed to make the user's life easier. Regular toaster oven bottom hinges just CLUNK on the table. If you're not very careful when lowering or raising you can skim your hand or grab onto the hot part of the doo
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by throwaway984393 2y ago
Oh, great, we'll just move 5 billion people to an elevation nowhere near them, no problem The most energy efficient solution is what animals have been doing in the desert for millions of years: burrow.
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by throwaway984393 2y ago
That's low for an electric vehicle fire. An average car takes 500-1000 gallons. Teslas can take up to 30000-40000 gallons. Fwiw, most fire trucks only carry up to like 3000 gallons.
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by throwaway984393 2y ago
I'm nearing greybeard status, so I have to chime in on the "get off my lawn" aspect. There is no one general "good engineering". Everything is different. Labels suck because even if you called one thing "micros
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by throwaway984393 2y ago
CLI renaissance, or new dark age? The advent of the Web as the modern application platform of choice destroyed the advancement of graphical user interfaces. We now live in a bizarre world of CLIs when we should be using GUIs. Before the Web
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by throwaway984393 2y ago
It's pretty trivial for an embedded device to trim down the series of startup tasks to only what's required, and then just write a C program that does those steps. I certainly wouldn't pick up such a gigantic, complex and pot
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by throwaway984393 2y ago
Good tea cups would never crack from boiling water, unless they were frozen first. Tea first is probably due to the fact that everybody wants tea, but not everybody wants milk, and some people want to pour their own amount of milk. You offe
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by throwaway984393 2y ago
K8s is a fantastic development tool. You can't ask for a better self-service tool to enable developers to ramp up on a platform and develop or test their apps across teams and orgs in a standard, portable, safe way. Its biggest problem
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by throwaway984393 2y ago
You can fly into Denver and take the Zephyr west, and you'll get all the best scenery right off the bat, at the right time of day, and end in California, where you can then catch a train along the coast, to a city with a big airport an
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by throwaway984393 2y ago
Not only excess power draw, but excess heat, which then needs more power for the AC to cool the home
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by throwaway984393 2y ago
No matter how old the machine/distro, screen is packaged. Tmux is only packaged for recent distro versions.
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by throwaway984393 2y ago
The invisible hand of the market does not make shitty people with power become less shitty people with power.
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by throwaway984393 2y ago
It is a gorgeous area. Not a bad deal if you live in the region and are looking to buy a $120k home
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by throwaway984393 2y ago
Don't start your company as open source. It will attract the wrong customers (the ones who don't give you money but sure like to complain) and detract from building your product. If you can build a successful product, open source
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by throwaway984393 2y ago
It's well established that sexual assault is under-reported in the US general population
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by throwaway984393 2y ago
I live at the bottom of a valley, but luckily in a tiny house on a concrete pad, so I have no basement and I'm raised up two feet off the ground. That works pretty well for the house, but the driveway and yard still floods. So I dug a
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by throwaway984393 2y ago
I love how "secure" just translates to "memory safety" now. Apparently OpenBSD could have just been a basic Rust kernel and stopped thinking about all the other security mechanisms they have
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by throwaway984393 2y ago
I wonder if this is what the slow erosion of the Roman Republic felt like
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by throwaway984393 2y ago
Don't send an alert at all unless it is actionable. Yes, I get it, you want alerts for everything. Do you have a runbook that can explain to a complete novice what is going on and how to fix the problem? No? Then don't alert on it
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by throwaway984393 2y ago
I'm pretty sure the world doesn't use it more because it doesn't have a flashy marketing campaign and trendy developer tools/libraries don't have a plugin for it. If a whole bunch of developers aren't writing b
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by throwaway984393 2y ago
This happens so often. A developer could just read a man page or learn something deeply by example, but they don't. Instead they struggle for the rest of their lives in ignorance, even going so far as to adopt a hack to avoid having to
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by throwaway984393 2y ago
Lol wut? It causes cancer, it doesn't kill you within days.
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by throwaway984393 2y ago
It was especially fun when you used someone's entire computer lab during night hours ;)
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by throwaway984393 2y ago
Considering how slow and buggy it is to use as a rootfs, you can instead put an initrd on Google Drive and just boot that. You'll need to make it by hand to get it to a reasonably small size, so picking up a copy of Linux From Scratch,
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by throwaway984393 2y ago
The beginning of the next big trade war. China is a huge and growing economy. As we shut out their companies, our ability to do business will suffer. Simultaneously our companies will miss out on a massive amount of revenue when we're
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by throwaway984393 2y ago
A steel oval auto locking keylock 38kN carabiner. ( https://www.amazon.com/PETZL-OXAN-Carabiner-Black-Triact-Loc... ) Very strong, fails gradually, optimal loading and alignment, secure, doesn't catch on things, wide eno
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by throwaway984393 2y ago
The pendulum just swung the other way. Message queues were complicated and don't solve every problem, so rather than think about what the individual needs, the "community" took a 180 and adopted solutions that were overly sim
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by throwaway984393 2y ago
You can specify the size of the tmpfs and keep it well below the size of RAM, which will greatly reduce the likelihood of a long-lived tmpfs from causing swapping. But more importantly, don't write large files to /tmp/. Back
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by throwaway984393 2y ago
I find that, unless there's an extremely necessary reason, it's almost always bad to break backwards compatibility. If there's any concept whatsoever of continuity between major releases, backwards compatibility should be the
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by throwaway984393 2y ago
Not a fan of shoving more functionality into a tool, that doesn't officially support it, to solve a problem that the tool isn't meant to solve.

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