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by trog 2y ago
Heh I read Atlas Shrugged and had the exact same response as you reading Fountainhead. I recall quite enjoying the writing style, but just found the whole thing silly and the idea that anyone could come out of reading it thinking they'
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by trog 2y ago
> it's impossible to bill at scale and exactly cut off service usage globally when a target is hit, How much does the problem change if you remove the word 'exactly' from here, though? Like, I don't mind if I end up
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by trog 2y ago
Isn't the room saying H1Bs are going to be protected from the very top regardless what a few malcontents have to say?
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by trog 2y ago
Not sure what you mean about either of those two things? Never had any issues with instance state in our primary production environments, which were several instances of load balanced web servers. No idea what you're referring to as &q
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by trog 2y ago
That makes a lot of sense to me!
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by trog 2y ago
I avoid Docker for precisely that reason! I have one system running on Docker across our whole org - Stirling-PDF providing some basic PDF services for internal use. Each time I update it I have to watch it download 700mb of Docker stuff, i
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by trog 2y ago
An old monolithic PHP application I worked on for over a decade wasn't set up with independent modules and the average deploy probably took a couple seconds, because it was an svn up which only updated changed files. I frequently think
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by trog 2y ago
Do you mean wetness as in the juices in the steak gravitate to the bottom? Or do you mean literally the bottom of the steak is wet? Either way neither of those issues seem to be a problem for me. When I first started cooking in the air frye
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by trog 2y ago
I cook steak in the air fryer alone. I don't even bother flipping. 14-16 mins depending on thickness and it comes out awesomely every time.
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by trog 2y ago
> No. You are just dealing with bad code. There are highly performant web apps written in React. cool maybe I'll see one one day > React gives you many tools to skip unnecessary work and reduce latency, such as shouldComponentUp
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by trog 2y ago
I might not be able to tell if it's using React specifically, but I can tell it's using a React-like framework trivially because it feels like the entire website is covered in glue
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by trog 2y ago
> In a distributed setting where a me may wish to join the party late and receive a non-forged copy, it’s important. The crypto is there to stand in for an authority. Yeh, but that's kinda my point: if your primary use case is not &
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by trog 2y ago
Is a Merkle tree needed or is good old basic double ledger accounting in a central database sufficient? If a key requirement is not a distributed ledger then it seems like a waste of time.
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by trog 2y ago
How is the software that decides the first thing most people see or do when they turn on their computers to go online worth a lot of money, you're asking?
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by trog 2y ago
Someone on Mastodon pointed out that not all Model Ys even have the manual release. I didn't believe this could be true - how could regulators allow this? But it's actually listed on the Model Y page ( https://www.tesla.
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by trog 2y ago
It's totally normal for countries to screen for this stuff both at border entry and as part of the immigration process. In Australia we check at the border if you're coming from a country where they have certain diseases (e.g. yel
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by trog 2y ago
You said "paid any taxes or contributed anything". I'm just pointing out that you're wrong, right out of the gate. And even if you were right, which you're not, you'd be wrong about 10 minutes after the average
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by trog 2y ago
> No immigrant who turns up at the US border has paid any taxes or contributed anything to US society. It's ridiculous to suggest otherwise. Anyway, that wasn't the point. The point is that if you enter a foreign country it&#x2
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by trog 2y ago
Oh right sorry I did forget about that aspect. I haven't done that for a while with a big codebase with, say, VS Code, and not on anything that wasn't very low latency (sub 10ms, so local LAN). I am mostly editing directly on the
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by trog 2y ago
Is there a simple small claims court approach to this that would serve as a more convoluted way to actually access support from Google and other large companies? I feel like if this happened to me I wouldn't even try getting in touch w
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by trog 2y ago
Heh this stood out to me as well for the same reason. It's wild to me that phone companies still get away with this trick.
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by trog 2y ago
What tools don't run on Linux? Modern tooling almost assumes Linux in most cases now. As a Windows user I feel like I hit this wall way more often than any other.
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by trog 2y ago
If you're doing this, there are many cases where you might as well just spin up a decent Linux server and give your developers accounts on that? With some pretty basic setup everyone can just run their own stuff within their own user a
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by trog 2y ago
In the immortal words of Homer Simpson, "This Is Everybody's Fault But Mine"
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by trog 2y ago
I agree for ssh - but I use it on a couple servers that have WordPress for the sole purpose of blocking IPs that engage in brute force attempts. It has a real and dramatic impact on a few things - I got CPU warnings from one server a couple
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by trog 2y ago
> I know who he is, what are you going on about? Why don't you give me some examples of why you think he's a bad person? at this point there has to be some assumption that the confusion on your side lies in that all the rest of
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by trog 2y ago
after reading the actual words he writes himself and publishes them for the world to see I came to the same conclusion
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by trog 2y ago
I didn't bother acknowledging your bet because a) it feels like a bad faith proposition and b) it's a goalpost shift from my first comment which was about batteries getting cheaper, not more efficient. I'd also argue we'
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by trog 2y ago
Ars debunked this weird idea that batteries aren't improving a few years back: https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/05/eternally-five-years...
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by trog 2y ago
Meanwhile, in reality, there's an article on HN right now that appears practically side by side with this one from Goldman saying batteries are going to be 50% cheaper by 2026. The most likely scenario in 10-15 years is that the batter

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