Octabrain

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by Octabrain 2y ago
Thanks for creating this. However, I was a bit puzzled when I found a packages.json and then saw that all the heavy lifting is done from bash. I don't understand the need for having to install Yarn for just running a bunch of bash scri
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by Octabrain 2y ago
Yes, at least conceptually. However, CDK is more opinionated, uses Cloudformation and depends on its own CLI.
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by Octabrain 2y ago
I'm working on a side project which is a Python library that provides of an abstraction layer to manage infrastructure in cloud providers by interacting with their APIs. This is something I've been developing every now and then fo
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by Octabrain 2y ago
I can relate to this. I used to be on call for many years and honestly, it destroyed my mental health. In the last company I did it, it felt like falling in a meat grinder for a week. I remember once spending a whole weekend giving support
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by Octabrain 2y ago
I hate flying with passion and get extremely scared when flying through turbulences but, there was a journalist in my country, that also had experience as a pilot and said once on TV that during turbulences, is one of the safest moments in
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The Firm Infinity Power Unveils Highest Efficiency Atomic Battery(newswire.com)
2 points by Octabrain 2y ago|2 comments
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by Octabrain 2y ago
Same thing happened to me when I moved to the UK: I went to the supermarket, bought one jar or Marmite, went back home, had a toast with it expecting to have some sweet-close-to-chocolate flavour and then I was shocked. I have to admit that
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by Octabrain 3y ago
I don't get your point. I just use two ways: 1. With mouse -> Up left corner (a.k.a hot corner) -> Click on the window I want. 2. With keyboard -> Alt + Tab -> Select the window I want. I find that quite straight forward. A
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by Octabrain 3y ago
It's just a personal thing. I try to stick to using tools that provide me the best defaults + being open source. I don't want to spend time customizing my desktop or getting overwhelmed by the amount of different choices I have av
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by Octabrain 3y ago
I like its simplicity and the straight forward workflow it provides. Years ago, I used to use KDE and enjoyed it but these days, I want something that is functional while being vanilla and standard as possible and personally, that's wh
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Mark Zuckerberg explains why so many tech companies are doing layoffs(businessinsider.com)
54 points by Octabrain 3y ago|50 comments
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by Octabrain 3y ago
My conclusion is that this "chaotic scenario" happens when humans work in big groups. It's extremely hard/pretty much impossible to coordinate big group of humans and made them to work efficiently. In fact, this is one o
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by Octabrain 3y ago
Where I work, we use Confluence and Backstage. Confluence sucks and Backstage, although I conceptually consider it appealing, sucks too.
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by Octabrain 3y ago
Would be this something that can be avoided by setting up BitLocker with the encryption password to be provided at boot time by the user? Because that's the way I've always configured it when I've used Windows in the past, du
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by Octabrain 3y ago
I've never used it although I've been aware of its existence for a long time. It's great to see a tool actively developed that uses a boring-yet-great-and-well-known framework (Django + Templates). Ironically, it's refre
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by Octabrain 3y ago
I've been using Firefox on the PC and phone for years now. I had the temptation a couple of years ago to use Chrome due to some issues I had on Linux (I don't remember what exactly) but then I concluded the obvious: using a browse
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by Octabrain 3y ago
> Devs have no business doing it. Agree but, I have to say that, as a DevOps, it was infuriating to me to have to deal with developers without any care for the quality of what they were delivering. Sometimes for pressure from someone hig
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by Octabrain 3y ago
On call sucks so badly. At this point of my life, I firmly believe that there's not enough amount of money that can compensate the mental suffering it implies. Even more if the company you work for has this mentality of "deal with
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by Octabrain 3y ago
Yes. I've been a long time Linux PC user (Thinkpads and Dell mostly) so without any shame, I have to admit that the quality of Apple devices is miles ahead anything else I've tried. Also yes, I simply cannot stand MacOS. I can rec
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by Octabrain 3y ago
I don't have an M[1-3]{1} right now but as soon as hear that Linux is usable on it I'm gonna purchase one right away.
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by Octabrain 3y ago
IMHO and I might be entirely wrong but placing and coupling all that logic into the database seems like a bad idea and it's not a question of speed, it's a question of separating responsibilities. Also, for the case shown in the a
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by Octabrain 3y ago
"To fight terrorism" usually is the second.
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by Octabrain 3y ago
IMHO, I haven't tried Windows 11 yet but having to disable system updates for being able to preserve user configuration says all I need to know about the quality and moral behind that OS. Also, with the due respect, unless you have oth
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by Octabrain 3y ago
I have to admit that I would chose Kustomize any day of the week. I personally find it easier to debug, version, grasp what is going on behind the scenes and simpler to maintain and operate. Also, to be fair, I have to admit that I've
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Google Removes App That Helps People Boycott Pro-Israel Companies(newsweek.com)
6 points by Octabrain 3y ago|1 comments
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by Octabrain 3y ago
I usually take it with just water on a empty stomach and never had any issue.
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by Octabrain 3y ago
Thanks for this recommendation. I'll search for information about this.
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by Octabrain 3y ago
I really appreciate the time you took for writing this and I'll definitely have a look to this Podcast you mentioned!
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by Octabrain 3y ago
I totally relate to this and it's one of the reasons I try to force myself to go out every day (e.g the office). I don't want to let the anxiety tyrant to grow. Also, being in my mid thirties, I've realised that I've bee
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by Octabrain 3y ago
Your story reminded me of a case I personally know of a guy who was a very disciplined poker player for a period of time and one day won a sweet €90000 prize in an online tournament after a lot of effort. Apart from poker, his life was a me

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