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by actionowl 5y ago
This is true for iTunes and Google Play too, I've had albums disappear from my Library with no explanation (I suspect some licensing change or label shuffle behind the scenes). I've totally abandoned streaming services since I&#x2
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by actionowl 6y ago
I recall someone (I think on HN) state that they created landing pages like you describe _before_ creating a product to see if the idea has enough interest to start on the project and they reported good results. So by that account, it doesn
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by actionowl 6y ago
> I tend to listen to music with no lyrics or with lyrics in languages I don't understand because it lets me program without becoming distracted. This! When I started programming full time my music interests started shifting into wh
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by actionowl 6y ago
I can't help but be reminded about this open source software license comic: https://burntsushi.net/stuff/wtfpl-strip.jpg
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by actionowl 6y ago
Last.fm is from the UK, and while it doesn't seem that groundbreaking of thing, they've been around quite a while and most streaming services almost certainty took ideas from what they did w/ music suggestions and such.
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by actionowl 6y ago
If you fancy posix shell (and C/C++ support) https://github.com/jmmv/atf/
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by actionowl 6y ago
Where you were born, or at least the strength of your country's passport has a huge impact[0] Depending on your passport's strength you may get visa on entry, have to apply for a visa, or can't go to a specific country at all
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by actionowl 6y ago
I've been a long-time in-browser slack user and yesterday Firefox refused to open any slack link, bookmark, or history entry I had. Closing all my tabs and relaunching FF did not help either. In a pinch I installed the desktop app, and
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by actionowl 6y ago
Using a contact form that sends you an email server-side is a good one, that way they never have your email (unless you respond). I also had a static website at one point where I didn't want to add server-side processing for a contact
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by actionowl 6y ago
yes, with caveats It's a private company. If they were unable to host their own servers, and no ISP would give them an IP address then that is a problem as long as they're following the law. Maybe if this happened a little more of
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by actionowl 6y ago
Can suggest this as well, also I might suggest using Terraform. The Console hides/obfuscates some things, w/ Terraform how resources are linked and work together become much more clear.
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by actionowl 6y ago
If you have customers with servers, then surely (hopefully) someone remotely technical manages them but I've found that technical expertise varies greatly and in my experience not many customers have interest in taking on the install&#
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Do you use Rackspace? Have you had to call to delete a VM?
3 points by actionowl 6y ago|1 comments
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by actionowl 6y ago
You might have just convinced me to buy a bread machine... To add a similar answer, only in the past couple of years have I had a nice rice cooker (we have a Zojirushi) that keeps the rice fresh for ~12 hours. It is irreplaceable at this po
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by actionowl 6y ago
Came here to say the same thing.
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by actionowl 6y ago
No, but in our case, moving the sensitive data to a table queried less frequently than one used as a queue shrinks our logs considerably.
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by actionowl 6y ago
Just one data point, that might be of use to know: We're currently running into an issue where we've used a table as a message queue in a database. We gained a compliance requirement that we must log all access (including direct D
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by actionowl 6y ago
I'll be honest, I thought this was really silly at first from scrolling through the linked blog post but when working in a significantly different timezones as I have in the past (12 hours), this could be pretty convincing. It might b
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by actionowl 6y ago
Got married, submitted adjustment of status forms, received notice of action 1, waiting for biometric appointment.
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by actionowl 6y ago
Do you think the new administration will have an impact on immigration and if so, what do you think will change? My wife and I have been waiting since July on an update to her K1 adjustment of status. Some of that is COVID related issues, b
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by actionowl 6y ago
Multi-AZ doesn't help when a whole region is down, unless you're referring to multi-region AZs (e.g us-east-1a and us-west-1a)
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by actionowl 6y ago
I'm surprised that no one has mentioned awsm.css yet: https://igoradamenko.github.io/awsm.css/
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by actionowl 6y ago
Create a domain on gandi.net (or possibly some other provider, been a gandi customer over a decade so that's what I know) create an email on your new domain. Then whenever you need an email for a service create an email alias and point
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by actionowl 6y ago
That is terrible. As a "boss" of an SRE team, we only use the GUI for groking, testing (in a sandbox account), and for a handful of _documented_ things that have to be done in the GUI (usually account wide settings). Everything el
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by actionowl 6y ago
I was always a fan of wall mounted PCs (As someone who doesn't have kids, pets, or other forces of nature in my house). Do any manufacturers make wall mount PC "cases"?
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by actionowl 6y ago
> IMO it might be a good idea to store binary assets in Git from a "history management" point of view. You can't diff them, just see that they changed. If you have versions in the filename of the object that helps but isn
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by actionowl 6y ago
Git-lfs isn't built into git, it's a separate thing you need to go find and download, or pull in from your package manager. It's a hack on top of git.
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by actionowl 6y ago
> Can you suggest where those artifacts should be stored? It depends on where you get them. If you're using a compiled object that you get from a 3rd party and you don't have the source or don't build them then I'm n
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by actionowl 6y ago
I've personally only seen git lfs used as a bad-habit enabler (e.g. storing .dll, .so, and .exe files within a repo). IMHO those artifacts should be stored elsewhere. Anyone have some better examples of how it's used?
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by actionowl 6y ago
I've probably seen worst than this but this one comes to mind. A sysadmin had (I can only assume accidentally) removed the SUID bit from the crontab binary causing an application we used that invoked the binary to not work. To even all

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