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by jsperson 10mo ago
I was wondering about MS quality control as my son hung over my shoulder waiting to join a Minecraft session with his buddies. I was fighting yet another bad update that made the game unplayable. There’s no rollback option. The broken funct
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by jsperson 1y ago
For the orgs where I've worked the important thing isn't availability of compute it's security. Using what we have on our local network is much easier from a governance and approval standpoint than whatever is available on th
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by jsperson 1y ago
I’m still sore about reader. Gap has never been filled for me.
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by jsperson 1y ago
I tried it. First kit was speced with cheap parts that didn’t really work. Got a replacement kit - same thing. Overall a really disappointing experience. I cancelled and bought a 3D printer, which has been great fun. Edit - fixed autocorrec
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by jsperson 2y ago
This is why I originally learned vi. Working on DoD machines as well as this of other consulting customers. I had a notebook of short scripts and commands that would make my life easier. I couldn't use any media or even reference the i
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by jsperson 3y ago
If applied correctly this is good advice. Let your employer know that you want to learn. I'd much rather have the folks on my team learn OJT than try to hire that skill.
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by jsperson 3y ago
I just had to go through the firing process for a contractor like this guy. It was miserable for everyone. Don't be like this guy.
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by jsperson 4y ago
I’ve had good success using lambda and functions for analytics data pipelines. It allows a team of python developers to focus on the business logic instead of the infrastructure. On my current project we’ve been struggling with K8 for month
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by jsperson 4y ago
Oh the pains of Minecraft administration! I could write a book about cross platform incompatibility, Microsoft account dysfunction, billing issues, and upgrade blocking execution. We’ve spent $100s and it does nothing but get worse.
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by jsperson 4y ago
> However if you are not in a tech city, and don't want to move to one, then online is great. Here is what you can do. I live 40 miles north of Wichita Kansas USA. There's no tech - there's no city even. Here's what I
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by jsperson 4y ago
Could be worse. They used to ship you an individual physical decoder card.
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by jsperson 4y ago
Takes a day - it will update.
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by jsperson 5y ago
My previous company posted several openings for our team. All specifically excluded Colorado.
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by jsperson 5y ago
Central KS USA here. Moved here five years ago after 20 years in DC. Paid off my house in four years. Day to day it’s not all that different. With kids you cook, clean, watch movies, read books, and exercise. COVID lockdown didn’t really ha
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by jsperson 5y ago
I’m a consultant data engineer and am on my third engagement in a row where devops has been the hardest part of my job. Every org has their pet stack with their own poorly documented process. Having devops as developer support is critical t
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by jsperson 5y ago
I guess the question is why can't you (AWS) fix the problem of the status page not reflecting an outage? Maybe acceptable if the console has a hiccup, but when www.amazon.com isn't working right, there should be some yellow and re
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by jsperson 5y ago
I’ve got a T460 with 16GB. Didn’t even know about potential ram incompatibility. Just ordered some from crucial and put it in.
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by jsperson 5y ago
Years ago I used Linux as my daily driver. That was before kids and a real house and all the other things that go with being a father and husband. Now, I ain't got time for that. I need something that works and doesn't require a l
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by jsperson 5y ago
And once again HN becomes the escalation end point for Google support. I wish they’d throw the internet a bone and put 1% of revenue into support. Edit: I do t actually know how much they invest in support. It may be a lot higher than 1%. R
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The Complete Technical Guide for Adhesive Tape(echotape.com)
21 points by jsperson 5y ago|5 comments
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by jsperson 5y ago
Maybe this will lead to more standardization in clothing sizes. If I could accurately size myself in a particular company's goods then I'd probably not return anything. Note, in practice I'm already there, but my wife and dau
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by jsperson 5y ago
Citing several small countries with many significant differences from the U.S. isn’t solid logic. All of those countries are much smaller, much less diverse, and enjoy the geopolitical shelter of the U.S.
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by jsperson 5y ago
They’ll have to be able to figure out where it will run first. Amazing to me that this is still in question.
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by jsperson 5y ago
I’m surprised no one has mentioned Snowflake. The biggest feature here is no worries. It scales in every dimension, is quite stable, and has few knobs to turn. I’m on a Redshift project now, and the differences are significant. It’s not har
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by jsperson 5y ago
For anyone looking for a weight machine recommendation...this one: https://www.costco.com/inspire-fitness-ftx-functional-traine... Gym quality delivered to your house. Weighs A LOT so only buy if you're pretty committe
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by jsperson 5y ago
This is spot on - and the pedals. OMG the f-ing pedals. I've never used the Peloton ones (went straight to SPDs as are on our MTBs), but the Facebook groups are full of pedal complaints. It's the butterfly keyboard of Peloton. Edi
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by jsperson 5y ago
I've had the bike for four years. Cost both one time and recurring is pretty high, but the product is of high quality. I've taken thousands of spin classes IRL and several hundred on the Peloton. Peloton is superior both in the ha
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by jsperson 6y ago
>Do you think that you spending 0% of your time managing iOS devices has something to do with apps not being able to use their own payment system? Indirectly sure - it pays for the app store and all of the curation that goes on there. Ad
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by jsperson 6y ago
On the other hand, I spend 0% of my time managing iOS devices for my parents and am constantly bombarded with issues from my in-laws with Android phones. I agree that some of Apple's behavior is monopolistic and has some unfortunate, p
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by jsperson 6y ago
Only if you're selfish. I'd say Bill Gates has made an art out of enjoying too much money.

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