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by bashinator 5y ago
Hah! When I’m doing reps at the gym, I’ll count down the Fibonacci sequence, so a set of ten I’d count five, then three, then two. Works like a charm when each subset is “easier” than the previous one.
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by bashinator 5y ago
The degree to which social media allows both the amplification, and as you said, siloing of viewpoints to a mass audience, is IMO qualitatively different from the media available pre-Internet.
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by bashinator 5y ago
Censorship being “worse than misinformation” seems like whataboutism, given that FB has serious problems with both.
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by bashinator 5y ago
Coming from a long career in ops and systems administration, k8s was very straightforward to learn. All the complexity is in automating the things that I’ve already had to know how to do - scaling, failover, resource planning, etc etc.
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by bashinator 5y ago
You can’t duplicate hardware MFA keys. You’d have to individually set up the second device everywhere you use MFA, and many services only support a single device (looking at you, AWS).
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by bashinator 5y ago
"Hey Bot, find out from Alice when I need to have those slides finished. Kind of urgent." It immediately sends an email and a slack message. An hour later, it asks if you want to send an SMS or call to Alice.
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by bashinator 5y ago
Isn't "Caucasian" a specific ethnicity of the region between eastern Europe and western Asia?
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by bashinator 5y ago
I believe Data General AViiON mainframes used m88k CPUs. One came through a used computer shop I worked at in the early 2000s.
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by bashinator 5y ago
And thank goodness for that. I still have nightmares about their directory service.
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by bashinator 5y ago
In my experience, it's difficult-to-impossible to use AWS' certificate management and LB termination in conjunction with Envoy-based networking like Istio or Ambassador.
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by bashinator 5y ago
For what it's worth, there's an off-the-shelf terraform module for EKS that is far simpler to use than AWS' cloudformation tooling, which does allow you to pass in a custom AMI and multiple nodegroup configurations as input p
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by bashinator 5y ago
Any way to create an account with just email rather than google or twitter?
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by bashinator 5y ago
Time flies are utterly terrifying; avoid them at all costs.
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by bashinator 5y ago
Like enabling the 30-second skip forward on Comcast DVR remotes.
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by bashinator 5y ago
What do you use to display the pdf? Pandoc?
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by bashinator 5y ago
Oooh, so that’s where the allergy to skeuomorphism comes from.
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by bashinator 5y ago
Whataboutism. A) cargo ships are also a problem, and B) a private vehicle carrying a half-dozen people creating “only” one tenth the pollution of a ship carrying hundreds of thousands of cargo goods for hundreds of thousands of people is no
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by bashinator 5y ago
That’s hardly a spoiler
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by bashinator 5y ago
What's the limitation? My wild-ass guess would be that rx and tx have to be on the same radio frequency, so you can't do full duplex without packet collisions.
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by bashinator 5y ago
Using a simple infrared thermometer changed how I cook so much for the better.
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by bashinator 5y ago
So what you’re saying is, btrfs works if you can afford an ops/sre team on par with Facebook’s?
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by bashinator 5y ago
My Lenovo laptop has removable NVMe drives that are accessible with a philips-head screwdriver.
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by bashinator 5y ago
Hah, dating to when the OS being aware of the mouse pointer location was novel.
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by bashinator 5y ago
It’s not in the distribution, but some kind soul updated the source code for modern compilers. https://github.com/interkosmos/xroach
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by bashinator 5y ago
I see - that’s philosophically, but maybe not economically different from what I was thinking of - “make-work” jobs, or jobs that could easily be replaced by automation. Edit to add: one major difference might be in the level of skill or ed
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by bashinator 5y ago
Is a zero-sum job defined as one where the only person benefitting is the employee? If so, it seems like the only ethical way to eliminate those jobs from the economy would be some kind of guaranteed minimum income.
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by bashinator 5y ago
One word: xroach
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by bashinator 5y ago
It’s funny, sad, and telling that your post is not so popular on this particular forum. It certainly adds to the conversation, in my opinion.
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by bashinator 5y ago
> Nalgene bottles ...were originally lab equipment. The company pivoted to consumer goods after their products had already become popular as such.
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by bashinator 5y ago
Yet another reason why ad blocking is ethical.

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