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by wgerard 6y ago
FWIW I'm not familiar with CA specifically, but that sounds like the same kind of lockdown we have here in NY. Offices are voluntarily closed, as far as I can tell, not by fiat. While you're only supposed to be working at an offic
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by wgerard 6y ago
I think the problem at this point is two-fold: 1) Schools are about to be done for the academic year, so they're effectively shut down until August anyway. It wouldn't make sense to re-open schools for less than a month. 2) For be
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by wgerard 6y ago
> I mean, they kinda are concerned about the risk of mortality, aren't they? Not their own mortality, which is a pretty major distinction. They're social distancing largely so they don't spread it to other, more susceptibl
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by wgerard 6y ago
Yeah, quite a few people with small children I know have left to be close to parents/in-laws (somewhat I assume to get some help with the additional childcare burden), and I'm curious to see if they come back.
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by wgerard 6y ago
Eh, not really. A lot of the discussion revolves around mortality rates, and in particular about NYC as the US epicenter. Most people I talk to who are thinking about leaving the city aren't concerned about their own risk as a result o
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by wgerard 6y ago
Long-term NYC resident here (I haven't hit my decade yet, so I'll avoid calling myself a New Yorker to dodge any ire). I've heard rumblings from a lot of people about moving out, mostly from people who haven't really set
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by wgerard 7y ago
I don't mean to be flippant or unnecessarily mean, but my anecdotal experience is that many EHR systems are pretty widely derided by healthcare providers (i.e. end-users). Maybe it's not a good thing that only 50 engineers were wo
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by wgerard 7y ago
And concjumping maps from TFC! Those were a ton of fun.
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by wgerard 7y ago
The medic in TFC was really an offensive assault class, MUCH more analogous to TF2s scout than TF2s medic. The scout class itself was actually rarely used because the medic was significantly more dangerous!
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by wgerard 7y ago
There's also Fortress Forever, for anyone who misses TFC: https://store.steampowered.com/app/253530/Fortress_Forever/
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by wgerard 7y ago
My personal trick fwiw is to treat it just like exercise. If you're just starting out running, you shouldn't say "ok I'm gonna run a marathon". That might be your end goal, but the actual achievable goal in the mean
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by wgerard 7y ago
Caveat: I'm, of course, being a bit flippant here and there are of course people who've genuinely found a lot of this helpful. I'm actually a huge fan of Cal Newport as an author in general, but the deep work idea always didn
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by wgerard 7y ago
But that's kinda my point: CS servers weren't really independent. If Valve/Steam/VAC/etc. stopped working, CS servers were all down effectively.
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by wgerard 7y ago
> Name 5. WoW, Runescape, CS 1.6/Source, Slack, uh... Tribes? I guess?
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by wgerard 7y ago
Wait until you see what Discord calls servers internally :) [0] Jokes aside, I don't think there's anything about the term "server" that implies independence. I can think of many centralized access points that are called
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by wgerard 7y ago
Seems like a developer-oriented version of Confluence, if I'm reading it correctly, but I'm also a bit unsure.
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by wgerard 7y ago
I'll go out on a limb here and defend TV: I think this is a somewhat-outdated view of television. Modern television isn't just The Big Bang Theory anymore. The line between cinema and television is quickly blurring, with televisio
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by wgerard 7y ago
Cool article, enjoy the summary of relevant knowledge that's been passed around various circles. I do disagree with: > Environments like staging or pre-prod are a fucking lie. You need an environment that runs on production settings
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by wgerard 7y ago
Completely unaffiliated with any of the parties involved but recently familiar with both Heap and Segment: Segment (and presumably this solution) is more like an event mux/demux. All your disparate event sources connect in, and you sen
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by wgerard 7y ago
FWIW, I don't think it is necessarily. But, a lot of people are forced to use office for various reasons - trying to edit a docx in Docs/Pages/LibreOffice, for example, can be really frustrating for any number of reasons (fon
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by wgerard 7y ago
> I just don't understand why people run windows. There are many, many products that either run significantly better on windows (Office) or are completely unavailable on other OSs (many video games). That's changing, for sure.
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by wgerard 7y ago
For what it's worth, I personally thoroughly enjoy reading your articles. I wouldn't consider myself adept at operations by any means, but your articles are extremely approachable and I always enjoy reading them. I always click o
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by wgerard 7y ago
Huh, I was wondering if this was legal (seems like an unregistered securities offering, which has semi-strict requirements even after 2012) and then read this at the bottom: > The securities offered by the issuers on the Site (the "
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by wgerard 7y ago
Yeah, the real problem with scraping is that it's often done very haphazardly and bluntly. Sometimes it's very difficult to tell the difference between a scraper and someone trying to DOS your site.
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by wgerard 7y ago
Counterpoint: I used to work at a place where every quarter you were supposed to do a support rotation answering customer support requests for a day or so. Doing something for a very limited amount of time, that you know has no bearing on y
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by wgerard 7y ago
Fair enough. My apologies.
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by wgerard 7y ago
Hey! Totally. I meant that Heroku is incredible for bootstrapping projects, but as time moves forward I usually find myself migrating services from Heroku to just run on AWS directly. There's some friction with AWS (e.g. SSL terminatio
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by wgerard 7y ago
totally. I mentioned this in another comment but it feels like a skill floor/ceiling thing to me. AWS/etc heavily reward you for investing time/money/etc but can be a bit more difficult to get started with without invest
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by wgerard 7y ago
totally, and people who know the ecosystem well are extremely productive at getting things up and running. Definitely a skill floor/ceiling thing going on.
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by wgerard 7y ago
This sucks. I really want DO to succeed because I love their offerings - whereas I occasionally feel like I really do need to RTFM in depth for many AWS offerings (even EC2), DO seemed to just work. That being said, and I can’t put my finge

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