devchix

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by devchix 3mo ago
What other reasonable choice exist for moving off VMWare for a small to medium size organization? Nutanix and Citrix is just as expensive, and another platform capture. ProxMox is not ready for Enterprise, even as it gains traction from h
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by devchix 6mo ago
This seems bad, Splunk advises you to turn off THP due its small read/write characteristics: https://help.splunk.com/en/splunk-enterprise/release-notes-a... Bad because as of Splunk 10.x, Splunk bundles postg
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by devchix 8mo ago
I've been here since 2016. I have never, not even once, downvoted any comment on HN. Today I downvoted every single of that person's comment in this thread. That discourse does not deserve to be heard, much less to occupy attent
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by devchix 10mo ago
The W in Santiago, Chile, has a full-length floor-to-ceiling glass window in the shower, with the morning sun shining right in. Your other option is a bathtub set in the middle of the bedroom itself. Mercifully the WC has a door.
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by devchix 11mo ago
The human body lacks the enzyme to digest inulin, it passes through the gut and feeds the gut bacteria, which I guess is why it's labeled a pro-biotic? Jerusalem artichoke (the root of a sunflower, Jerusalem is a corruption of girasol
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by devchix 11mo ago
Cumin is an olfactory note in perfumery. When well-paired it adds a lovely and unusual note of spice. Example: The Different Company Rose Poivrée was created by Jean-Claude Ellena, the in-house perfumer for Hermes before the current one.
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Bending Active Systems in Antiquity: The Bow of Odysseus(formfindinglab.wordpress.com)
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by devchix 11mo ago
Odysseus is shown stringing his bow in The Return (2024) . The challenge was to string the bow and shoot an arrow through 12 axes. I had no idea what this meant so I went looking. In fact, it's to shoot the arrow through the eye o
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by devchix 11mo ago
From a logging perspective, there is a time when an event happens. The timestamp for that should be absolute. Then there's the interaction with the viewer of the event, the person looking at the log, and where he is. If the timestam
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by devchix 2y ago
How do you unsubscribe or leave?
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by devchix 2y ago
SEEKING WORK / US / HYBRID, REMOTE, AVAILABLE FOR TRAVEL I'm a Splunk Certified Architect with 20 years experience with OS, platform, HPC and adjacent technologies, looking for short-term engagements. I currently run a mult
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by devchix 2y ago
Michael Lewis' (author of Moneyball , The Big Short ) podcast Against the Rules had an episode about why we question experts, this was during the tail end of COVID. He asked, I'm paraphrasing from memory here, why is it we do
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by devchix 2y ago
There's another store with a long history that I fear will not survive the ruthless dismantling of the brick and mortar stores: WAWAK Sewing Supplies, they sell buttons, button-hole maker, zippers, D-rings, and probably the largest inv
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by devchix 2y ago
Have you seen The Tinder Swindler ? A woman borrowed $250,000 USD from 9 separate banks to give money to a man within months of their meeting. I don't know how one gets to that place.
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by devchix 2y ago
This guy is proud enough of his tips that he's sharing it. God help the person who sits next to him on any of his trips. > If you hire a driver, or use a taxi, offer to pay the driver to take you to visit their mother. They will or
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by devchix 2y ago
Sun changed its stock ticker from SUNW to JAVA. It never mattered for a dying company. Solaris packages were named SUNWxxxx, and was never renamed.
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by devchix 2y ago
I listened to the accompanying podcast, it was so engrossing and the narrative was so compelling I binged the entire 8 episodes. It starts out with a bank in Kansas whose CEO had burned $47 million USD on a crypto scam. A woman, who by al
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by devchix 2y ago
SEEKING WORK / US / HYBRID, REMOTE, AVAILABLE FOR TRAVEL I'm a Splunk Certified Architect with 20 years experience with OS, platform, HPC and adjacent technologies, looking for short-term engagements. Résumé/CV: https:
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by devchix 2y ago
Lamy Safari friends, I bought one, and it went unused for years because it was no fun to write with. The nib was scratchy, not feedback, scratchy, and no small tweak ever made it smooth. I was on the verge of buying a sheet of micro-mesh
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by devchix 2y ago
SEEKING WORK / US / HYBRID, REMOTE, AVAILABLE FOR TRAVEL Have you inherited a giant Splunk cluster operating on hundreds of TBs of data, and you're not sure what's in it, or how to leverage what's in it for Business
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by devchix 2y ago
Thank you for this devastating read! What a punch to the gut!
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by devchix 2y ago
This thing looks amazing! The vibe of this place makes me think of all the disappearing delis all over the US, eg. Katz's https://ny.eater.com/2019/8/28/20829116/katzs-delicatessen-r... When the T
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by devchix 2y ago
> Suppose the same principle was applied to a home owner. At the end of each year your property is evaluated and you're taxed on the difference between last and this years price. This is exactly how state property tax is assessed in
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by devchix 2y ago
Let us go back to the beginning. Are you saying home-bake bread which molds in 7 days is comparable to store-bought bread which does not mold in 7 days. OK then, in which we have nothing to argue about. I have no scientific source to cit
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by devchix 2y ago
The question is what kind of preservatives. Formaldehyde is a preservative. Acetic acid is a component of long-ferment lean dough such as sourdough, and an insignificant component of short-ferment (~2 hours) enriched dough, such as sandwic
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by devchix 2y ago
I bake bread at home nearly weekly, it goes stale and crumbly in about 3 days at room temperature and moldy by 7. I bought some pita and didn't use it all up. It was still soft, pliant, mold-free after 2 weeks. I tossed the thing,
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by devchix 2y ago
Sun had few paths forward, with Linux + commodity hardware, what were they going to do, keep selling the OS and support contract at a price fewer and fewer were willing to pay? Sun had a suite of IDE and compilers that at one time sold for
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by devchix 2y ago
And if you travel farther west on 70, you'll eventually reach Wheeling, WVA. At one time its position on the Ohio river and near railroads made it a transportation hub, it made money in iron, textile, and logging - they used to float
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by devchix 2y ago
CTRL-F Gibson, the tech and root parent comment eerily reminded me of Fragments of A Hologram Rose . We're closing the gap between fiction and reality. The short story was written in 1977! Gibson was prescient about so many things.
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by devchix 2y ago
Her books were unexpectedly popular, drawing rabid fans and equally virulent critics. J-F-Christ ten thousand words to set the scene, soft focus, travelogue, have tea, visit the home, and more, to say only that. J.D. Salinger, Thomas Pynch

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