davegauer

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by davegauer 3y ago
Alpine is wonderful for old hardware.
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by davegauer 3y ago
"Retrofitting performance into existing applications is very difficult technically, and almost impossible to prioritize organizationally." While this may not be the only explanation for why this trend continues, I think it'
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by davegauer 4y ago
Yeah, Vundle's (presumably temporary) removal caught me off guard today on a fresh install. This, in turn, has caused me to take a hard look at the Vim plugins I was using. Turns out I only needed one...which I wrote. So I'm now j
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by davegauer 4y ago
Exactly, thank you. :-)
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by davegauer 4y ago
Please note that these are slides for a talk. Regular web page in the works!
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by davegauer 4y ago
Please note that these are slides for a talk. Regular web page in the works!
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by davegauer 4y ago
Please note that these are slides for a talk. Regular web page in the works!
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Modern Health, frameworks, performance, and harm(ericwbailey.website)
2 points by davegauer 4y ago|0 comments
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Bumps Are the Road(letter.salman.io)
3 points by davegauer 4y ago|0 comments
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Henry Baker to the ACM on “Relational Databases” (1962)(web.archive.org)
8 points by davegauer 4y ago|3 comments
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by davegauer 4y ago
I visited the article only to make sure it mentioned the novel "The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop." by Robert Coover. I was thinking about that book just yesterday. I find something about the way it go
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Integrating Living Organisms in Devices [pdf](lab.plopes.org)
2 points by davegauer 4y ago|0 comments
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by davegauer 4y ago
There might be something to that!
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When Should You Use Hypermedia?(htmx.org)
4 points by davegauer 4y ago|1 comments
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by davegauer 4y ago
I'm a huge fan of running web servers in the house - but they don't have to be connected to the Internet to be useful and fun! An Apache instance on my always-on box in the basement [0] serves an incredible number of uses and can
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Aerc – a pretty good (terminal) email client(aerc-mail.org)
205 points by davegauer 4y ago|50 comments
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by davegauer 4y ago
School shooting drills.
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by davegauer 4y ago
This is correct.
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Remarkable Colors(curiousnotions.com)
2 points by davegauer 4y ago|0 comments
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The Bifocal Display (1982)(youtube.com)
3 points by davegauer 4y ago|0 comments
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Writing my first Security blogpost(swyx.io)
1 points by davegauer 4y ago|0 comments
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by davegauer 4y ago
This is an excellent and entertaining intro to the world of TTYs and I think the first question is a particularly clever way to introduce it: > The answer is Ctrl+W. Because Ctrl+W is provided by something called TTY, and the other three
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by davegauer 4y ago
To expand on this, people needlessly cargo-cult arcane dd commands, but on many (most?) systems, "cp foo.iso /dev/sdb" will do the same thing, but with possibly even better performance!
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by davegauer 4y ago
Ha ha, this falls firmly into the "I wish I needed to reference this more" category for me as well.
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by davegauer 4y ago
This may not work since I don't know anything about you, but: imagine you discovered this was your own mother (or grandmother or...) in the video.
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by davegauer 4y ago
Haven't had any issues with name.com since switching to them in 2018. Their interface leans form-over-function for my taste (massive waste of screen real estate), but I can always muddle through to the DNS record editing interface in l
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by davegauer 4y ago
Exactly. I assumed this would be a link to the glorious document https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html I love reading C2, but anything in reference to ed(1) besides "Ed, man! !man ed" is wasting my V
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Today's date in 850 languages and dialects(curiousnotions.com)
1 points by davegauer 4y ago|0 comments
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by davegauer 4y ago
There's this great quote at the beginning of the chapter I'm currently reading in the book _Designing Data-Intensive Applications_: > "A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system th
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by davegauer 4y ago
Yeah, mixed environments are really tough. Though (most) of my machines are Linux, they often have _some_ stuff that should be the same and _some_ stuff that should not. My solution has been to use the fine-grained GNU Stow approach, which

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