happypants23

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by happypants23 4y ago
People actually benefit from both low-intensity and high-intensity exercise. One is not a substitute for the other. Endurance athletes know this. Low-intensity exercise conditions aerobic energy pathways (mitochondrial respiration) in ways
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by happypants23 6y ago
Its not just about the code though. Somehow that code needs to keep up with the latest standards and magically be delivered to my client device. To think that a project as complex as the Firefox ecosystem can be maintained with less than 50
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by happypants23 6y ago
If you think Firefox has stagnated you clearly aren't aware of the substantial and complex improvements that have been made to the firefox core over the last couple of years: * Faster Quantum Engine (multi-process architecture, etc) *
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by happypants23 6y ago
Just a reminder that enabling Hyper-V (needed for WSL2) will make your computer boot your current Windows install inside a VM too. This might makes a slight performance impact. That doesn't sound right. Hyper-V is a Type-1 hypervisor
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by happypants23 7y ago
> The real reason you can't operate in ZA is Empowerment, and what Google probably ran into. They can only own 49% of the business the start. There's no evidence that Google ran into empowerment (BBBEE) roadblocks here. And tha
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by happypants23 7y ago
I'm a techie living in Cape Town and I love it. I have no plans to emigrate. We have problems down here yes, but they've been no impediment to my career. Both Amazon AWS and Oracle OCI have satellite development offices in Cape To
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by happypants23 9y ago
I'll add one - I immediately ignore any job ad that contains anything along the lines of "Work in an exciting/agile fast-paced, dynamic environment", which pretty much signals that only youngsters need apply. Of course,
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by happypants23 9y ago
Another use case is fungibility, privacy and anonymity. These are features which are for the most part missing in our current financial system. Monero ( https://getmonero.org/ ) is a good example of a cryptocurrency which fo
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by happypants23 9y ago
For me, its not just about the sound. I can easily lose focus by being visually over-stimulated too, and there's no way to fix that except for cubicles.
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by happypants23 9y ago
> Do you really want an init system that replaces a ton of functionality poorly like dns, ntp, syslog, xinetd, etc etc etc? SystemD is not just an "init" system. You have to look at the larger vision for it being a set of bui
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by happypants23 9y ago
The second major issue is it growing way out of the bounds of being just an init replacement, thereby violating the so-called Unix Philosophy of doing one-thing well. I keep on hearing this overly worn "Unix Philosophy" argument
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by happypants23 9y ago
ConEmu with Bash/WSL has not worked out for me. I came across way too many incompatibilities, and weird behaviour. Some of these are documented in (1). That said, ConEMU was never really designed to support UNIX/VT100 terminal env
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by happypants23 9y ago
I don't think the author missed the mark. He does elaborate on the other factors, such as social adaption: > I don’t see this mindset shifting, so my advice to youngsters has remained: you need to adapt yourself. You need to find th
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by happypants23 10y ago
I rather like the clean aesthetic of Windows 10, and am now using it as my main OS. Sure, it's by no means perfect, and there is still work to be done. But by and large I am happier with Windows 10 than with MacOS, Ubuntu, GNOME, and s
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by happypants23 10y ago
Ha. I've gone to AfrikaBurn a few times (largest burn after Burning Man). It started circa 2007 and the old-timers are already complaining that its ruined. Also juicy politics like this: https://medium.com/@kurtsiegfrie
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by happypants23 10y ago
Ex-AWS engineer here. The Amazon experience can differ wildly between teams and orgs. Best thing is to find some peers that work there and get the inside loop on which teams are sane. I worked on some really cool stuff there, and learned a