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by zimbatm 5y ago
That's a better explanation. There is a clear Smalltalk influence in Ruby, especially around the object-oriented aspects of the language. The best example is how the language doesn't call function, but sends a message to a method.
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by zimbatm 5y ago
The next evolution is something that also sandboxes the project. A random npm library that gets installed shouldn't be allowed to access anything other than your project root. But it also has to be fast and convenient. Docker is still
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by zimbatm 5y ago
I'm not sure if it's obvious but direnv also works with zsh. It's loading the .envrc with bash, then capturing the env diff, and reflecting that back to the host shell. direnv is still back-compat with macOS's bash 3.x,
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by zimbatm 5y ago
Hi, direnv author here. direnv is pretty old by computer standard and it's still weird for me to see it pop-up from time to time. I wrote this tool for myself and it's amazing to see it being useful to others. Feel free to ask me
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by zimbatm 5y ago
If you can, provide on-demand environments for PRs. It's mostly helpful to test frontend changes, but also database migrations and just demoing changes to colleagues. If you have that, you will see people's behaviour change. We ha
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by zimbatm 5y ago
The pre-order queue might not be a thing anymore. At least for me, I ordered the antenna in January 2022 and got it the same month.
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by zimbatm 5y ago
Yet another explanation: we have imperative languages, functional languages, and declarative languages. Ordered by level of abstraction. Prolog fits in the latter category, together with SQL and LINQ.
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by zimbatm 5y ago
"Kubernetes is a cluster operating system" makes sense. Some of the complexity of Kubernetes also feels like the early days of Linux where you had to basically build your own Linux distribution. Even with managed solutions like EK
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by zimbatm 5y ago
"The cloud" also includes massive time sinks like Kubernetes or lambdas with a million of AWS services that can also become a huge distraction to building the product. It's perfectly possible to build a MVP using a single VM
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by zimbatm 5y ago
NO WHERE TO HIDE: Bathrooms are used for illegal activities. Let's put cameras in each of them.
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by zimbatm 5y ago
For containers you need a load-balancer in front to handle failover and rolling deploys.
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by zimbatm 5y ago
Technically, it should be possible to pass a file descriptor to a docker process, but I haven't seen that before. I don't like all parts of systemd but I think the socket activation is pretty elegant. The decoupling also allows to
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by zimbatm 5y ago
It's the same but a bit different. Inetd is listening to a port and then for each new connection, spawning a new process, binding stdin/stout to the socket pair. The main issue was that it could lead to system resource exhaustion
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by zimbatm 5y ago
If Caddy were to support systemd socket activation, this self-restart dance is not necessary as the parent process (systemd) is holding the socket for you. And for other systems, they can use https://github.com/zimbatm/
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by zimbatm 5y ago
HTTP Basic Auth could be so much better with a little help from browsers. If it was a bit better, most websites wouldn't need to implement login pages over and over again. Plus it would be more secure since the popup is in its own secu
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by zimbatm 5y ago
According to eSIM.net, eSIMs cannot be moved between phones. This is a pretty big step back IMO. If you want to keep the same phone number, the only way is to buy another eSIM for the new phone, and then use the PUK to transfer the old numb
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by zimbatm 5y ago
I wish browsers would render text/markdown. It's easy to write, theme, and host. I know it's not the best text format out there but it's reasonable to write and read for most cases.
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by zimbatm 5y ago
Postgres operators are mature now. This is something you install on top of Kubernetes and allows to declare a fully replicated HA cluster with backup and restore in a few lines of YAML. It's actually quite cool how easy it is to create
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by zimbatm 5y ago
And with 2.0 banks like Monzo, the account holder gets notified of the Direct Debit setup, how much is likely to be debited, and can easily cancel it from the app. That reduces the risk of fraud quite a lot. In exchange, it saves a lot of t
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by zimbatm 5y ago
Imagine if a policeman was saying the same thing about a crime; why investigate, finding the culprit is only conspiracy fodder, let's only take care of the victims. Not investigating, and hiding the truth is what gives room for conspir
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by zimbatm 5y ago
That's right, it makes the problem worse. The first time I noticed that trend was on macOS, where applications bundle most of their libraries, and binaries compiled for multiple architectures. Then we had Electron apps that ship with t
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by zimbatm 5y ago
My bad, Singapore is at 91% vaccination rate [1]. Unfortunately, they are seeing a surge of cases right now[2]. I wish herd immunity was true but it doesn't seem to be working. [1]: https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vacc
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by zimbatm 5y ago
There is a deep trend happening in software development. As the number of dependencies for building an application grows, it becomes exponentially harder to shake the tree. This used to be the role of Linux distributions, they were acting a
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by zimbatm 5y ago
Err. What country has reached herd immunity? Even 99% vaccination doesn't seem to make much difference.
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by zimbatm 5y ago
I can't believe godaddy is still doing this. It should be illegal. In the future, use gandi.net or namecheap.com. They don't engage in such despicable practices.
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by zimbatm 5y ago
Check out https://github.com/ycd/dstp . It's still pretty young but it tries to solve that problem. The author needs more feedback.
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by zimbatm 5y ago
Did they finally realize that the 45min time limit on the free plan was a feature? :)
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by zimbatm 5y ago
Siri is already competing with Google search. Tackling it like that is much better than just re-inventing the same thing.
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by zimbatm 5y ago
> 100 million dancing grannies The article doesn't give a good sense of what proportion of that public is causing issues. Of course it's going to be easy to cherry-pick problematic behavior on that kind of sample size.
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by zimbatm 5y ago
I'm sure you can find other OpenStack professionals that are willing to manage your Ubuntu OpenStack deployment. Of course every solution costs something. Lock-in means that there is no other choice, or that the cost to switch is so st

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