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by zdc1 10mo ago
Opportunity cost and perspective. We've probably played enough games to know how the cycle goes; there's a little voice in our heads now telling us that it's all just a big pixel hunt and the next few hours will be more of th
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by zdc1 10mo ago
Or use everything via the web browser; but yes, I think apps are the main reason we can't just have a generic Linux phone OS on an open hardware platform
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by zdc1 10mo ago
That's heartening to know. I find running Kafka less pleasant.
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by zdc1 10mo ago
It's okay. Give it a few years and every writing style will be being used by AI. We'll then be able to use whatever style we like as no one will be able to tell our writing from AI anyway.
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by zdc1 10mo ago
Great observation! Not only does ChatGPT produce seemingly human-authored output—humans can also produce ChatGPT-style output. If you really want to fly below the radar you can even include instructions to adopt a certain writing style, e.g
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by zdc1 11mo ago
Personally, I've never been able to make async work properly with Python. In Node.js I can schedule enough S3 ListBucket network requests in parallel to use 100% of my CPU core, by just mapping an array of prefixes into an array of Lis
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by zdc1 11mo ago
The Atlas Shrugged comments were particularly painful. 10/10.
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by zdc1 11mo ago
Yeah, I don't see the point of this article: Markdown has already won. I have some clients where I will send docs in MS Word/PDF format, but that kind of proves the point: the recipient sets the format. They may not explicitly say
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by zdc1 11mo ago
I don't know the age of the author, but interestingly, Gen-Z doesn't seem to use that key
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by zdc1 11mo ago
Yeah, the JavaScript/Node.js ecosystem is pain. Lots of tooling (ORMs, queue/workflow frameworks, templating) is new-ish or quickly changing. I've also had minor updates cause breakages; semver is best-effort at best. I don&#
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by zdc1 11mo ago
A year ago I did a back of the napkin calculation and was surprised when I realised Aurora would cost the same or more as my current RDS for Postgres setup. Any discussion with costs inevitably has someone chiming in with a "have you c
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by zdc1 11mo ago
I would also add that people generally try too hard with small talk. It's SMALL talk. Tell them about the new brand of jam you put on your toast this breakfast. Ask them what they had for breakfast. Or recount your last trip to the g
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by zdc1 11mo ago
And then there's medical tourism, for the people who prefer to shop at one of the other 'cartels'
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by zdc1 11mo ago
I wonder if you can have a chain of "invisible" links on your site that a normal person wouldn't see or click. The links can go page A -> page B -> page C, where a request for C = instant IP ban.
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by zdc1 11mo ago
Government insanity aside, the most insane part to me is that card networks allow partial refunds, but UPS wants to... mail a cheque?
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by zdc1 11mo ago
The comparison school lunch from Finland looks lovely. It's a shame that many school lunches are meals that we wouldn't pick for ourselves. It's a simple test: would I want that for my lunch? For most of the photos, it&#x27
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by zdc1 11mo ago
Their "AWS ELB" seems to be a Classic Load Balancer; probably not the best term to use. The "AWS ALB" is an Application Load Balancer, of course.
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by zdc1 11mo ago
This would make for a cute screensaver
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by zdc1 11mo ago
You blame YAML but I blame helm. I can build a dict in Python and dump it as YAML. I've painlessly templated many k8s resources like this. Why can't we build helm charts in a DSL or more sensible syntax and then dump k8s manifests
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by zdc1 11mo ago
We need to make it easier to work with client-side encryption. Keys on the devices, ciphertext in cloud storage. I was using CloudMounter to do this, but the software was unfortunately a bit rough around the edges and didn't feel as re
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by zdc1 11mo ago
If anyone is looking at options in this space, I used to use Media Monkey for organising and curating my large offline music collection. It did things like metadata and album art management, album-level volume levelling, and would even reor
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by zdc1 11mo ago
I don't understand this space very well, but I wonder if an iFixit-esque solution would work there: publish DIY guides on identifying and fixing common faults, and have a network of sellers for replacement parts and tools.
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by zdc1 11mo ago
I've been using an eSim on my iPhone and it's been wonderful because: 1. migrating between iPhones also transfers the eSim 2. if I get a tourist sim card at an airport, I don't have to worry about taking out or losing my main
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by zdc1 1y ago
It's only a matter of time before the incorrect translations become standard english, and the correct translations become "formal" or even "archaisms". We're truly seeded our language to a bunch of crappy algor
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by zdc1 1y ago
Given the call to action is to wishlist the game or subscribe to their mailing list, I guess they could use the interest to validate their idea or even to try and get funding.
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by zdc1 1y ago
I haven't played in years but the core game doesn't seem to have changed much. They tweaked lots: textures, hit-boxes, spray patterns, rankings, game modes, grenade types, guns, etc., but if you play a ranked match it will still b
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by zdc1 1y ago
I see a similar problem in infra-land where people expose too many config variables for too many things, creating more cruft. Knowing what to hardcode and what to expose as a var is something a lot of devs don't seem to understand; and
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by zdc1 1y ago
CS is wild. I used to play and have like 40+ cases from free post-match drops. Because those cases are no longer supplied, the prices have been creeping up and to the right for years now; from $0.40 to $20+. I don't even know why peopl
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by zdc1 1y ago
> PSYC 4410: Obsessions of the Programmer Mind I was definitely guilty of this in my last role. Some of my refactorings were good and needed, but also a distraction from saying the codebase was "good enough" and focusing on the
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by zdc1 1y ago
Point to a file? E.g. `CONFIG_PATH=/etc/myapp/config.ini /opt/myapp` That being said, I still use env vars and don't plan on stopping. I just haven't (yet?) seen any exploits or threat models relating to i

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