adambatkin

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by adambatkin 3mo ago
People who don't enjoy sunburns on their hands put sunscreen on their hands.
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by adambatkin 1y ago
My electricity and water is much more reliable than my Internet service. Then again, I've never called my ISP about an issue that wasn't 100% on them, but the HN crowd is more exceptional in that sense than most people.
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by adambatkin 1y ago
My car beeps occasionally, but it certainly doesn't rise to the level you describe. Some of them represent real safety issues, even if you don't think they do in that moment. For example, my TPMS has saved alerted me to low tire p
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by adambatkin 1y ago
Put another way: Worse is Better
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by adambatkin 1y ago
Prusa. Made in Europe, from quality components (or buy it as a kit from them and build it yourself, which is a really fantastic experience). Hardware is repairable and upgradable and the firmware is open source. But they cost more than Bamb
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by adambatkin 1y ago
I think as a technical term, pausless (as used here) has a specific meaning, just like real-time has a specific technical meaning (not literally 0 latency since that's generally physically impossible).
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by adambatkin 2y ago
That's a great idea. Let's do that. And until that happens, helping people file their taxes for free is a benefit to everyone (except tax prep companies).
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by adambatkin 2y ago
I would be surprised if much of that funding went to constructing those fancy buildings - donors who want their name over the door like to do that. Keeping the lights on, air heated/conditioned, stockrooms stocked, etc don't come
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by adambatkin 2y ago
Programming languages are complicated. Their standard libraries are extensive. Real world application are usually not trivial, because they often model real world processes, and the real world is messy. Anything we can do to make writing so
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by adambatkin 2y ago
Something that Rust got _really_ right: Editions. And not just that they exist, but that they are specified per module, and you can mix and match modules with different Editions within a bigger project. This lets a language make backwards
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by adambatkin 2y ago
I self-host Tiny Tiny RSS ( https://tt-rss.org/ ). I think it will do everything you want (and more). The web UI is fine, and the Android app is great. It's actively developed, has been around for over a decade (I have b
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by adambatkin 3y ago
It's great that it works for you. It doesn't work great for a lot of other people. The hate is because the "Gnome developers" (and that's an unfair generalization on my part, but let's run with it anyway) have
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by adambatkin 3y ago
Can confirm. Had 3 or 4 batteries replaced (under warranty) before the local dealership informed me that "some DCMs cause parasitic battery drain". I brought it in, they ran some sort of test, and ordered me a new DCM (also under
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by adambatkin 3y ago
I don't believe that S3 Bucket Policies are deprecated. They are powerful, effective, and consistent with almost everything else at AWS (Resource Policy). Perhaps you are thinking of ACLs?
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by adambatkin 3y ago
I believe that the concern is that it will infringe on some people's ability to use their computers to interact with some websites (something which is vital to living in our modern society). My computers all run Linux and I use Firefox
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by adambatkin 3y ago
Debugging and troubleshooting a networking problem is approximately the same on Windows vs Linux (except that there are additional powerful tools available built-in to most Linux distributions). Which is to say that anything non-trivial lik
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by adambatkin 3y ago
Absolutely. As a paying Google Workspace customer (or whatever it's called this week) I have called support on a number of occasions. Zero times have they been able to help in any way (despite technical issues that they admitted were G
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by adambatkin 4y ago
Enforced rotation of passwords on a schedule is no longer recommend, and is advised against. Mandatory immediate expiration/rotation of all credentials that have been (or are suspected to have been) somehow exposed is a requirement of
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by adambatkin 4y ago
Exactly. In fact almost everything in the article is icing on-top. The entire experience of the McMaster Carr website is the taxonomy and the fact that the search and navigation _within that taxonomy_ are all built to work seamlessly and ge
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by adambatkin 4y ago
But I think that's the problem. For some things, the "form" is important, things like marketing sites, maybe prose. But for sites that are supposed to be highly functional, information density (function) should always win out
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by adambatkin 4y ago
Take a step back and ask "why do I need to know the length of this thing?" If it's so you know how much storage to allocate, then the process/time is the same for both (the answer is: however many bytes you happen to hav
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by adambatkin 4y ago
And just to make sure your brain always has to concentrate when switching (beyond the fact that you now need two sets of shortcuts instead of one): Cmd+Tab cycles from most-recently-used (what you would expect) but Cmd+~ blindly switches to
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by adambatkin 4y ago
It is notable that you said "Writing Ruby feels..." but made no mention of _reading_ Ruby. I think I agree with you that I enjoy writing Ruby more, but I definitely enjoy reading Python. It's definitely easy to write unreadab
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by adambatkin 4y ago
They have been moving toward a model where there are no more toll booths, no one slows down. If you have EZ Pass, you are scammed and your account billed. If you don't, they take a picture of your license plate and mail you a bill. Muc
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by adambatkin 4y ago
Can you clarify what you mean by this? The platform formerly known as Safari Books is now O'Reilly Learning, and I have every reason to believe that it is all above-board, with proper licensing from all of the included publishers.
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by adambatkin 4y ago
AWS has just posted the following to their health dashboard: > 7:21 PM PDT We are aware of intermediate DNS resolution issues for certain specific AWS names. This is due to an issue with third-party DNS provider outside AWS. DNS queries
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by adambatkin 4y ago
I'm not sure how this is relevant. Either the autopilot is safe to use (regardless of "iteration") or the feature shouldn't exist and should be illegal to use. If some "iteration" of autopilot is incapable of _
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by adambatkin 5y ago
The parent asserted that Nazis are evil. While I'm sure there is a range of behaviors that constitute "evil" I don't think a drone assassination campaign in any way compares to the deliberate and systematic attempt to re
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by adambatkin 5y ago
And if it is May 29 and you notice an attacker has been lurking in your network for at least 2 weeks (but you don't yet know exactly when it started or how they got in) you will be very happy that you have netflow and access logs going
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by adambatkin 5y ago
I don't think the argumentative tone was warranted. No one is suggesting that anyone be forced to use a mouse or that accessibility solely using the keyboard be limited in any way. But there is definitely the appearance of an aversion

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