TristanBall

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by TristanBall 8mo ago
I suspect Digicel's marketing dept could give you the realtime PNG population to 6 decimal places. Joking obviously, but only just.
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by TristanBall 10mo ago
So at first glance this looks pretty amazing, and you deserve kudos for your documentation quality alone! 2 comments. First, if you're going to lead with statements like "faster than x" - link to your benchmarks. They're
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by TristanBall 1y ago
Larping as a dba now, and trust me many of us do know, and its a source of ongoing suffering, but we're often not developers and don't necessarily have the choice of tooling. Right now the DB I'm paid to babysit provides cli
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by TristanBall 1y ago
I suspect part of it is licensing games, both in the sense of "avoiding per core license limits" which absolutely matters when your DB is costing a million bucks, and also in the 'enable the highest PVU score per chassis&#x27
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by TristanBall 1y ago
While this true enough, an ironic side effect of my attending a couple of rounds of sales related negotiation training ( compulsory for everyone at that company ), was to really highlight how calculatingly manipulative this is. I mean, we k
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by TristanBall 1y ago
Perhaps look to your marketing folks rather than engineering. "Purchasing silver sponsership with [org] as a way to grow our brand awareness" is intrinsically understandable to pretty much any businesses manager. "Giving away
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by TristanBall 2y ago
On of my favourite hardware investments as a teenager trying to learn c and assembly under dos was a caching hard drive controller. It made those post crash reboots so much faster! Talk about solving the wrong problem...
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by TristanBall 2y ago
You don't have to change you process, so you can still explain it rationally. Just leave off the "then I multiplied by 10" part. Which I did by accident once ( not by 10, but it was still substantial )... but it turned out th
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by TristanBall 2y ago
Only on some distro's. Debian variants tend to link dash, which self consciously limits itself to posix compatibility.
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by TristanBall 2y ago
Gosh they look interesting. But ridiculously customer unfriendly product naming, and a website that doesn't provide clear information on international shipping just raises so many red flags for me.
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by TristanBall 2y ago
Yup. And teaching yourself and your tools to use them as delimiters is damn near a superpower for semi-structured/tabular text forms ( aka csv/tsv and co ). Issues with field definition, escaping, and embedded newlines all but go
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by TristanBall 2y ago
Small team with a largely overlapping shared knowledge and attitudes. Which is not to say it isn't really nice, but I think the chances of it happening are in some way inversely proportional to the number of people involved. It's
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by TristanBall 2y ago
Any time I'm doing lego-brick engineering, aka unix style "small tools pipe together", then startup time impacts me most while I'm actively developing the new system. That process is iterative, usually on a subset of the
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by TristanBall 2y ago
Ha.. my linebreaks got removed!
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by TristanBall 2y ago
\ linebreaks are not something I love,and a while ago I started using chained blocks.. These are usually a step between "overely complicated one liner" and structured script, and often get refactored to functions etc if the script
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by TristanBall 2y ago
Curious as to what's "vastly less practical" in powershell?
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by TristanBall 2y ago
That's very, very nice. I live in a world of Confluence tables, but it's nice to know that not everyone is suffering.
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by TristanBall 2y ago
So, I guess it's only me who learned from the comments here that the was a difference between em dash and en dash? Or that they might be different from a hyphen or a minus? (In my defence, I don't work in any of the specialized ar
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by TristanBall 2y ago
Have you seen vim syntax rules?
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by TristanBall 2y ago
I don't think I have ever personally felt older than having someone describe anything docker related as "old-school"
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by TristanBall 2y ago
You can buy them in Australia, or at least the bulbs sold here by philips as their "UltraEfficient" range look the same and match the specs of their Dubai bulbs marketing page. They don't appear to be available in the US thou
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by TristanBall 2y ago
How common are RADIUS deployments that aren't EAP/PEAP based though? IDK About anyone else but for a very long time anything md5 has been in the same mental bucket as zip or office documents passwords.. a discouragement for the ca
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by TristanBall 2y ago
Having worked at an IBM shop, referring to ibm's x, p, i and z series by letter was pretty common, to the point of standard, and same with "our regular ibm customers". ( even if we only dealt with x and p, most folks were at
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by TristanBall 2y ago
Pfft. Let's talk about the rent before announcing where I live eh?
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by TristanBall 2y ago
Last I looked, powershell's startup time on linux was disappointing. Understandable to an extent given it was bootstrapping a bunch of dotNET stuff that would already be there on windows. But slow enough that I couldn't use or rec
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by TristanBall 2y ago
It's not in any of the major distress but shout out to csv-nix-tools for a valiant effort in this space https://github.com/mslusarz/csv-nix-tools
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by TristanBall 2y ago
Did they say why? It strikes me that those envs might be particularly prone to corporate inertia, ieg "the current way passed security audit, don't change it or we need to requalify" It's possibly also harder to rely on
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by TristanBall 2y ago
It's been a while since I was testing but sustained FUA ( Force Unit Access or something like that), writes, which are used by some DB's in stead of cache write + sync degrade consumer SSD'S to HDD levels of performance. Perh
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by TristanBall 2y ago
It first glance this seams really cool, but I have to wonder how much the use of timestamps increases the chances of duplicates.
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by TristanBall 2y ago
Long time unix sysadmin here, now working as a dba. It amuses me quite a lot to see how my code changes when I'm thinking more with my "dba hat" or my "unix hat". The unix hat will make much more use of embedded env

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