bruce_one

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The cost of caring about software(alexriosme.substack.com)
3 points by bruce_one 27d ago|1 comments
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by bruce_one 6mo ago
eBPF is a great tool to use for debugging this kind of thing too, e.g. [bpftrace]( https://bpftrace.org ) has an [execsnoop]( https://github.com/bpftrace/bpftrace/blob/master/tools/execs...
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by bruce_one 11mo ago
https://explore.openelectricity.org.au and https://www.nem-watch.info/widgets/reneweconomy/ are a bit fun to look at to see where Australian power is coming from :-)
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by bruce_one 3y ago
We've had success using Flowbite :-) We're using it with React and occasionally find the docs lacking (and go looking in the component source for the answers), but otherwise have been happy with it, fwiw :-)
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by bruce_one 3y ago
One common suggestion is to not set Bash/shell options in the shebang because if someone runs the script with the interpreter explicitly (e.g. `bash my_script.sh`, rather than `./my_script.sh` (which, ime, is quite common as many
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by bruce_one 3y ago
You're looking for [strict tables]( https://www.sqlite.org/stricttables.html ) and they do already exist :-) Added in 3.37.0 (2021-11-27), apparently :-)
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by bruce_one 3y ago
There are alternative C libraries that are worth considering, e.g. Zig (which is what Bun itself is written in, afaiu) supports using [musl]( https://musl.libc.org ) as an alternative to glibc, and musl can be statically linked as
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by bruce_one 4y ago
We do - and have found it very reliable and I really like it :-) One of the members of our team finds it more complex when it comes to diagnosing why things aren't running/starting as expected, but that's also down to the com
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by bruce_one 4y ago
OpenSSH also supports using a script to get the password if using the `SSH_ASKPASS` environment variable, and being invoked under a non-tty input e.g. { echo '#!/bin/sh' ; echo 'echo my_password' ; } > p
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by bruce_one 5y ago
In Australia you can buy pasteurised egg whites in the refrigerated section at the supermarket, could possibly be useful as an alternative :-) (Not sure if it would be available where you are or not)
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by bruce_one 5y ago
> they get declined if your account is empty too AFAIK but haven't tested it ;P Not always, at least some banks will allow you to go into overdraft and then charge a fee (e.g. $15 for Commbank) - so it's worth being cautious ab
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by bruce_one 5y ago
When we first got it, I used one Easiyo sachet to make one container of yogurt. From then on, I've used 1 heaped tablespoon of the last batch of yogurt and then just milk powder. My steps: - Mix ~500ml tap water with 150g of milk powde
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by bruce_one 5y ago
We have an [Easiyo]( https://easiyo.com/collections/frontpage/products/black-yogu... ) that cost ~$20AUD, and we use one tablespoon of existing yogurt and ~150grams of milk powder (slightly more than suggested
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by bruce_one 5y ago
I believe probonopd is maintaining that fork as part of their work on AppImage - so it does have an active user group, which is great. (The AppImage docs suggest using zsync as a mechanism for making images updateable: https://do
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by bruce_one 6y ago
(iirc) It was originally slid.es and the slides.com domain was added later, I know it's not an answer to your exact question, but slid.es was a pretty good start point too :-) (It became a defacto go-to tool for slide decks for me beca
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by bruce_one 6y ago
LXCFS can be used with Docker as well (although the integration is manual) which can be quite helpful (eg we're using it with docker-compose and find it very helpful)
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by bruce_one 6y ago
Yes it does, but it's very transparent - until you run into a few things that make it obvious, eg if you disk-image size limits, or memory limits. I work with a few people who believed it was native, and used it for quite a while, unti
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by bruce_one 6y ago
`readlink -e /proc/$$/exe` would be a simple solution on linux -> /proc is such a fun treasure trove of process info :-) (Not sure it macOS has as much info in /proc?)
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by bruce_one 6y ago
The useful thing I've found from this is that "AEG" in Australia is the same as "RIDGID" (orange) in the US and the batteries are compatible. So I've been able to buy tools that are not available as AEG tools i
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by bruce_one 6y ago
I didn't know the `CTRL-x * ` expansion; it appears to work in zsh for brace expansion: $ touch asdf-{gh,jk}-l # CTRL-x * $ touch asdf-gh-l asdf-jk-l
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by bruce_one 6y ago
A related article and associated discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22220342
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by bruce_one 7y ago
What is the reasoning for implying that Japan are handling the problem more effectively than others? A friend of mine living in Japan thinks there's a "burying their head in the sand" type mentality going on. They've onl
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by bruce_one 7y ago
It would be an acceptable reason for cancellation coverage with a lot of travel insurance (ymmv, but I know of less-logical reasons for cancellation that were covered).
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by bruce_one 7y ago
My favourite technique for remembering this is to say "it is an apostrophe" (because it's is "it is", and has the apostrophe (in case that isn't clear :-) )).
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by bruce_one 7y ago
I would also be genuinely curious whether the water usage numbers have reduced as the east cost (the majority of the population) has been impacted by long droughts since that research.
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by bruce_one 7y ago
This doesn't feel like a fair response because the article isn't saying "cull the camels because there isn't enough water for humans and camels to be able to drink, it's us or them". Also that statistic will be
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by bruce_one 7y ago
Feral animals do a lot of damage; and the article alludes to more than just water being the reason for the cull. > A recent feral-camel-population boom is exacerbating the need for water, threatening damage to infrastructure and putting
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by bruce_one 7y ago
Something that is often missed is that the number of lives saved numbers are often low - eg NSW apparently had "only" 354 deaths in 2018; but the under-reported number (imo, as an Australia) is the number of injuries (whether seri
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by bruce_one 7y ago
The extension is included in the standard sqlite [amalgamation]( https://www.sqlite.org/amalgamation.html ), hence it's basically always available (ie you'd have to manually disable it) (ime). It's worth noting
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by bruce_one 7y ago
Coffescript uses this technique: https://coffeescript.org/#switch

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