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by jbotdev 4y ago
What is it about free services that brings out the worst complaints from people? I understand the paid plans aren’t cheap for small projects, but then maybe don’t rely on a free service for archiving important information.
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by jbotdev 4y ago
Cast iron is also very heavy, and hard to clean if you get anything stuck to it. You can’t really soak or wash it with soap/water without re-seasoning it or it’ll rust. It has its upsides if you put in the work. I’ve given up and opted
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by jbotdev 4y ago
I have a car with Here maps, but it never occurred to me that a side effect of it having a data connection is data collection. I’ve been used to car navigation systems being offline, but it seems newer models like to search online for resul
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by jbotdev 4y ago
What do you think people use to build systems like these? A lot of medium/large shops build their own deployment and BaaS platforms on top of Kubernetes/Terraform/AWS. You just don’t hear about them as much because they often
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by jbotdev 4y ago
You would definitely have trouble on an 8-bit micro, but I wouldn’t expect to browse a “personal website” with one of those, which is what the article seems to focus on. Maybe a “personal HTTP API” at best.
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by jbotdev 4y ago
Not sure I understand the concern about access from “modern embedded devices”. Something like a Raspberry Pi, or really anything with a decent ARM processor, can easily handle TLS.
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by jbotdev 4y ago
Why is this such a problem in San Francisco, but not so much in other major cities like New York? It’s not like homelessness is exclusive to SF.
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by jbotdev 4y ago
In the US it’s White for Neutral, Green for Ground, Black for Hot, Red also Hot (usually for the other hot/phase on 240v or three way lighting).
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by jbotdev 5y ago
One consequence of this I haven’t seen mentioned yet: price matching at competing retailers may no longer work. I often end up purchasing items at local stores, which tend to have higher prices, but happily price match to items “Shipped and
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by jbotdev 5y ago
It seems like the main value-add of this project is building/packaging pretty much standard Ruby in a consistent way across many Linux distributions, which is something that’s been hard to come by. I would lean into that more than anyt
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by jbotdev 5y ago
Maybe I’m missing something, but it seems the only changes here over upstream are jamlloc and/or malloc_trim. I’m not as familiar with malloc_trim, but jemalloc is fairly trivial to setup without recompiling Ruby (using LD_PRELOAD), an