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by jherskovic 4y ago
The antigravity part is probably a reference to https://xkcd.com/353/
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by jherskovic 4y ago
You're correct. I forgot about that. I did try relaying for a while, that's what made the usage REALLY explode.
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by jherskovic 4y ago
To add to this, you can also set it up so entire federated servers are followed, and it may be that way by default. So follow ONE person on mastodon.social, and suddenly your toy instance is trying to copy a significant chunk of the Fediver
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by jherskovic 4y ago
Federated content is copied to every instance, so yes, follow a few people and you can see your instance's disk usage explode. I run an instance for some friends. The usage can be contained with a few cron jobs to purge old cached cont
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by jherskovic 4y ago
Well, duh.
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by jherskovic 4y ago
They could be paid for their work. It is labor, after all. And they don't get a choice. The removal of their liberty is supposed to be punishment for their crime, and that's plenty of punishment. Ideally, they'd be reformed w
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by jherskovic 4y ago
I run a self-hosted instance for a bunch of friends. It's on a VM on a 10-year old homebuilt TrueNAS server. For added entertainment, I installed it manually on FreeBSD, because I like playing old-school 'I do things by hand'
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by jherskovic 4y ago
The 'caregivers' in this case are professional veterinarians who think the cure can be worse than the disease. The caregivers allege that the chimps are being cared for at a standard that is as high as the one they'd get at t
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by jherskovic 4y ago
The Stripe people did it right, or at least as right as you can under these circumstances. https://stripe.com/en-au/newsroom/news/ceo-patrick-collisons... Relevant discussion: https://news.ycombina
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Palmer Luckey builds VR headset that kills people who die in-game(vice.com)
2 points by jherskovic 4y ago|2 comments
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by jherskovic 4y ago
On a quick skim of the website, I had no idea that it was mostly for syntax highlighting. I thought it was for web design. The website is gorgeously made, so kudos for that.
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by jherskovic 4y ago
It's basically the old doctor joke: Patient: "Doctor, it hurts when I touch my shoulder. And it hurts when I touch my knee. And when I touch my head. And when I touch my other arm." Doctor: "Your finger's broken.&qu
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by jherskovic 4y ago
I'm a hiring manager (not at a tech company, FWIW) for college-degreed, relatively senior professionals. If your resume shows a short job, say, less than a year, I won't care. If the last five jobs you held down have been for less
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by jherskovic 4y ago
Pop_OS!, hands down. Ubuntu without the crud, with sensible UI choices. The Mac of Linuxii.
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by jherskovic 4y ago
So very much this. The reason we're using OAuth in the first place is that we're leaving authentication to the big companies that know how to do it well. The sheer amount of support work that resetting passwords and fixing access
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by jherskovic 4y ago
We removed "Sign in with Facebook" from our public learning management system (we provide content to the public) instead of continuing to jump through their insane requests and demands.
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by jherskovic 4y ago
I bought a VueScan[1] license because of this. Awesome piece of software. There's a 5-month-old thread on it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30760850 [1] https://www.hamrick.com/
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by jherskovic 4y ago
The out-of-the-box settings yield dark, flat images, and no amount of twiddling on my part even approximates something pleasant, much less Fuji's defaults. If I could find a set of defaults for raw processing I liked, I might have stuc
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by jherskovic 4y ago
The other thing I like is that Fuji will deliver new features via software updates if the hardware can handle them. With Canon, at least, the feature set is set (sorry) in stone the moment you buy the camera.
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by jherskovic 4y ago
I love Fujifilm cameras. I moved from Canon full frame to Fuji, because of the physical controls on the X-T line. The ergonomics are superb. The X-H handles nice, but as a still (amateur) photographer, the X-Ts are where it's at. Havin
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by jherskovic 4y ago
Haven't written C in a long time. What a nightmare this is. Got most of them predictably wrong.
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by jherskovic 4y ago
This rumor made the rounds years ago, and it turned out to be a big pile of hot air. It's the same pundit (Mark Gurman)[0]. It's possible he jumped the gun in 2019 and it's finally coming to fruition. It is cool, and Starlink
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by jherskovic 4y ago
If there was a supply of cheaper housing, I'd agree with this wholeheartedly. Part of the problem is that, in a lot of places (SF, NYC, Seattle, etc) you can price folks into homelessness. Sure, no one is entitled to live in a specific
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by jherskovic 4y ago
Awesome, clear answer. Thanks!
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by jherskovic 4y ago
We use QuillJS https://quilljs.com/ for our projects, as a drop-in component to allow our users to edit rich-text fields. Works great for our CRUD apps; I am not a front-end person, but it's simple, does what we need,
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by jherskovic 4y ago
There's several cities within Harris County (Houston, Texas), and the Houston area -which some people will refer to as "Houston", "Greater Houston", or "the Greater Houston Area", overlaps several counties
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by jherskovic 4y ago
I use ResilioSync (formerly Bittorrent Sync) for my personal Dropbox-like stuff. The iOS client is sparse but functional, and it has clients for pretty much every OS I need, including arm Debian... so I have my 'not-quite-Dropbox'
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by jherskovic 4y ago
I remember playing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChipWits on an original 128kb Mac at school very, very fondly. One of the best programming games I ever had the pleasure of playing with.
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by jherskovic 4y ago
We use a TON of RHEL, mostly for their support, but also to have a product that is supported. Helps with audits and compliance. I imagine most big places have similar rationales.