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by wvh 1y ago
Richard Stallman was onto something.
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by wvh 1y ago
My common model IKEA stove – rebranded Siemens or Electrolux – runs at ~400v (Northern Europe). I know because it broke and I almost poked at it, until I got spooked by the warning labels. It's on its own circuit. Not an expert but as
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by wvh 1y ago
A thousand badly written shell scripts might disagree.
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by wvh 1y ago
The whole concept of buying something because it is cheap is weird. I have a small list of items I think I will need in the near future; if it's not on that list, I'm not buying it, from anywhere, at any price. Maybe I'm a bi
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by wvh 1y ago
Rip Jane. We need more gentle souls like her, using soft power to get stuff done instead of bullying the world and everybody in it.
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by wvh 1y ago
I'm fully remote and finding places to get away resonates. I tried the library, but the artificial lighting, lack of infrastructure (especially large monitors) and maybe also the lack of a more social space where you are actually allow
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by wvh 1y ago
I've done some benchmarks over the years and 6-7k/s for getting simple data out of a basic Postgres installation seems pretty spot on. The question is when using Postgres as a cache, are you taking away performance for actual, mor
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by wvh 1y ago
Excellent point. As somebody with experience of major depression, even when you don't get taken up on your offer, always make sure people have an alternative to suicide. Put something in their calendar, even if you're sure they wo
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by wvh 1y ago
Never underestimate people's capacity for feeling left out, especially those that don't know how to show it. Loneliness and emotional disconnect are main drivers of depression and suicide. I agree with Alexei: always make an effor
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by wvh 1y ago
I think their point is that you might not have much of a choice, taking laws and modern aesthetic and economic concerns into consideration. We "in the know" might agree, but we're not going to get it sold.
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by wvh 1y ago
As a security guy, for years, you get laughed out of the room suggesting devs limit their dependencies and don't download half of the internet while building. You are an obstruction for making profit. And obviously reading the code doe
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by wvh 1y ago
What I like about your comment is that it points out that all technical work-arounds are moot if people as a whole are not willing to stand up with pitchforks and torches to defend their freedoms. It will always come down to that. A handful
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by wvh 1y ago
Maybe, but we can't blame people for what they are/are not attracted to on either side of the fence, just their rational responses to "the other". And I'm not sure lesbians are "far more accepted", perhaps
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by wvh 1y ago
I reckon grizzly bears have negative health side effects too... It's all a fine balancing act.
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by wvh 1y ago
I agree, and can imagine using a different font depending on the (programming) language or purpose, yet each font being quite objectively better at that purpose. Some languages are a lot more similar to natural language, and some are more m
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by wvh 1y ago
I suppose, beyond making fun of which is unacceptable, that some behaviour is considered "bad behaviour" if it would come from a "non-particular" person. People are highly sensitive to eye contact, voice tone and other s
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by wvh 1y ago
Not unlike what happened to Finland when Nokia went down. That took a long time to recover from, and some would say we're still trying to overcome, though it's hard to say what could have been post-Coved with the current state of
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by wvh 1y ago
I admire your dedication. I also like the spartan look of your site. I'm a trail runner and I've been running over 18 years or so, not every day, but two or three times a week. Sickness or health, injury, birthdays, holidays, rain
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by wvh 1y ago
You're right, pure REST is very academic. I've worked with open/big data, and there's always a struggle to get realistic performance and app architecture design; for anything non-obvious, I'd say there are shades of
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by wvh 1y ago
It doesn't stop at Apple's ecosystem. It also allows Apple to regulate the choices and privacy of the people and companies using their products. There's hardware, software, and there is data. Trying to control other people&#x
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by wvh 1y ago
My take is that Kubernetes is too simple. It leaves too much open and tries to keep everything pluggable, in an attempt to be all things to all people and, more importantly, to all companies so it can be the de facto standard. So typically
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by wvh 1y ago
I got divorced last year, had a rough period, watched some self-help videos, Youtube found out and started increasingly serving unwanted content. I did not appreciate the attempt at pushing my proverbial buttons. I do not need gender war co
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by wvh 1y ago
Isn't that the whole point though – nobody wants to or has to live in a void. Maybe children would prefer different parents, and maybe parents would want different children. That's not how that works. You keep them alive, love the
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by wvh 1y ago
I think this story sounds familiar to a lot of us, especially as men who likely spend less time on social media comparing and FOMOing. Let's hope you get your kids back too and somebody new will get enchanted by your "boring"
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by wvh 1y ago
That's one way to stimulate memory... I was so into this in the mid-90s. I tried some assembly but I wish I would have been better at the maths part back then.
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by wvh 1y ago
I am conflicted because to some extent, paying for some of these services feels like paying a blackmailer, spying on you, holding a whole ecosystem hostage and even jeopardising mental health and the public discourse. I pay for email and so
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by wvh 1y ago
Exactly. As somebody with a past in security, I've often thought about the ethics of my actions. Where is the ethics of government? If you think that sounds naive, I think you get my point. Those in power can not show worse ethics and
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by wvh 1y ago
Thanks, it's good to hear opinions from those in the trenches at the frontline, as it were.
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by wvh 1y ago
The problem is you only need one woman yelling at you or causing drama, or one man getting overly friendly to get a very strong sense of having to be careful. Most people, male or female, are perfectly good people with some flexibility to t
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by wvh 1y ago
I have no experience with Datadog, but I'm not sure "cheaper" is an easy adjective to quantify. The whole metrics/logs/traces thing in Kubernetes is still painful, a lot of work and there's no end to the confus

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