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by xiaomai 7y ago
This is really cool. I never got to play with a proper NeXT machine, but WindowMaker was my window manager of choice for several years in the late 90s/early 2000s. I always wished that GNUStep could have gotten more traction on the d
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by xiaomai 7y ago
As someone who has been using Linux full time on servers/desktops/laptops/embedded devices and any other computing device I've had since 1998: Systemd is such an awesome improvement over everything that came before it.
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by xiaomai 7y ago
I also have no issues like this (I do SPF/DMARC but not DKIM)
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by xiaomai 7y ago
It's uploaded to your device (router / raspberry pi / etc.), it doesn't go to mozilla or other 3rd parties.
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by xiaomai 7y ago
This is very cool and I use it from time to time, but it's not actually keeping anything synced afaik (it's equivalent to the web ui, but very nicely integrated in gnome).
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by xiaomai 7y ago
I remember getting the e-mail about their backups not having been working for months. I was shocked at how negligent that was. I run my own backups now. (Also their backup offering is so much more cumbersome to use than borg backup that i
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by xiaomai 7y ago
It's fantastic at scale for web applications (far better than the REST apis it has replaced since over-fetching isn't a concern). I don't work on content sites or anything where edge caching applies though, so YMMV. (All our
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by xiaomai 7y ago
GraphQL is amazing. Building an API and then playing around with it in GraphiQl is really a exciting experience. I've played with Relay (relay-modern looks great, but when I needed to pick a graphql client it hadn't been released
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by xiaomai 7y ago
I've been using Things gateway for probably a year or so now (I'm just using z-wave devices, but Things supports lots of other types as well). The main thing I see missing that most home automators will want is support for locks
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by xiaomai 8y ago
I can read a few thousand characters (I pick up new characters by adding flashcards (using Anki) when reading novels written in Chinese). At this point I rarely encounter characters I can't read (but there are frequently words I don&#
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by xiaomai 8y ago
Excited to hear about an official declarative config. When we were looking at deploying Kong, this was our biggest pain point (looked at lots of 3rd party solutions but none were ideal).
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by xiaomai 8y ago
Point 1 wasn't a problem for adopting GraphQL for us because our end-points are very dynamic so we set no-cache headers on everything anyway. That said, clients like Apollo will let you issue GET requests instead of POSTs for queries
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by xiaomai 8y ago
I run a fleet of thousands of business devices running ssh. I used to have ssh configured to just ignore HostKey warnings but that always made me a little uneasy. Setting up an ssh CA and signing host keys was just a one-night project and
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by xiaomai 9y ago
this is the story of my life (I run a signage business). The rpi2 seemed to be the worst for fs corruption, I've never had a pi1 fail on me. Jury is still out on the pi3.
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by xiaomai 9y ago
GraphQL is awesome. As a consumer of a graphql api, it's a no-brainer, it's so much easier/faster/flexible than REST (obv. a well designed rest server/client can be fast and flexible and get caching right, but th
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by xiaomai 9y ago
I think this is the perl-style "private" convention. Those functions are helpers that aren't intended to be used on their own so he prefixes them with _.
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by xiaomai 9y ago
High DPI displays are common on PC laptops now, they generally work well in Linux (not so much for legacy apps but you're unlikely to use those). I like the touchpad on my X1 Carbon, but I never used a mac long enough to really adapt m
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by xiaomai 9y ago
In my experience, you can switch lenders if you are having a difficult time negotiating fees (the escrow is a different party).
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by xiaomai 9y ago
In most cases I prefer the standard gnome stuff (browser is the big exception). Web Browser: Chromium / Firefox / Epiphany Email Client: Evolution / Mutt / Thunderbird Terminal: gnome-terminal File manager: nautilus Text
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by xiaomai 9y ago
If you're not using XMonad, 'passmenu' is a really handy way to get your passwords. I bind it to ctrl-alt-p and rarely run pass manually now.
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by xiaomai 9y ago
I don't think the git integration can be broken. You can go into the ~/.password-store directory yourself and see what is going on next time you have issues (it's just a regular git repo).
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by xiaomai 9y ago
Actually another service I would recommend if you want to work on your listening comprehension is http://www.fluentu.com/ . They take various clips (music videos / dramas / youtube shows) and subtitle them in a sli
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by xiaomai 9y ago
I also use and enjoy Decipher Chinese. Another thing I would recommend is reading the books posted at https://www.reddit.com/r/chinesebookclub/ . It's really difficult at first but I find that reading actual
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by xiaomai 9y ago
I've had that all-day battery for years on various Thinkpad X1 Carbon's that I've owned. Linux doesn't do as well as advertised but I can still go 6-8 hours of active use (it will last all day and all night if the scree
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by xiaomai 9y ago
I have tried Evolution off and on ever since Ximian released it back in the day. It always seemed buggy and bloated (even a year or two ago when I was just using it for Calendar integration I would find freak out and eat up 100% cpu random
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by xiaomai 10y ago
I've done this and the results product tastes great in dips/soups but for me (and it seems many commentors) the onions turn to complete mush (almost like a jam texture). Were you able to get your onions to maintain some texture?
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by xiaomai 10y ago
That's nice, I'm using azure for a windows vm and it's been super frustrating trying to get reasonable performance. (RAM/CPU/etc. is all great but the standard IO is so slow it's basically unusable (i'm
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by xiaomai 10y ago
The WAL ( https://www.sqlite.org/wal.html ) facilitates concurrency.
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by xiaomai 10y ago
I run the backend/website of my side business on sqlite. It is one of the best technology decisions I have made. It performs reasonably, is super straightforward (at my day job we have a team of postgres people to keep our dbs runnin
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by xiaomai 10y ago
I mostly agree with you, but I think the out-of-the-box immutable data structures and sugar around around maps are very nice compared to the out-of-the-box scheme/racket experience.

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