lbruder

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by lbruder 10mo ago
CTRL+F protactinium Once again, nothing.
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by lbruder 11mo ago
Well, the server was up, it was just returning HTTP 503...
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by lbruder 1y ago
have you tried mcedit? It's the editor mc (Midnight Commander, a Norton Commander clone) brings along, looks and feels like the old DOS editor, but has more features
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by lbruder 2y ago
Hi fellow yelling old man, would it be OK for me to steal your analogy? It's great! In the team I'm currently leading, we have made the same observation, with stuff getting more complicated without anything substantial to show for
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by lbruder 2y ago
What Andy giveth, Bill taketh away.
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by lbruder 3y ago
the idea sounds great, but there would have to be something in place to prevent it from degrading into a Wikipedia-style turf war, with people trying to protect "their" code against changes...
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by lbruder 3y ago
we're storing 120M records a day in influx 1.8, offloading cold data to S3, all on a single m5.xlarge instance that runs other backend services on the side. Less than 400 bucks per month overall aws cost, with lots of other VMs in ther
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by lbruder 4y ago
If this is "just" sending keystrokes to notepad.exe, as in "ctrl-a, del, lots of keystrokes until one frame is done", then I'm actually more impressed by the speed keystrokes and redrawing are handled in the good ol
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by lbruder 4y ago
Worse is better. C and Unix were faster to implement new stuff as they were only 'good enough'. Lisp machines wanted to do everything 'right', right from the start, and were slower to implement new features. Unix was alr
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by lbruder 5y ago
Seconding "Starting Forth" and "Thinking Forth". After that, Jonesforth ( https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/08/07/jonesforth-git-reposit... ) is an excellent example of Literal Programming tha
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by lbruder 5y ago
Another big open source DB I'd like to hear about more often is Firebird ( https://firebirdsql.org/ ) which was forked from the Interbase code released by Borland (don't remember how they were called at the time). F
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by lbruder 5y ago
Looks like they misconfigured a web interface that they can't reach anymore now that they're off the net. "anyone have a Cisco console cable lying around?"
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by lbruder 5y ago
Simple dynos can be replicated with Dokku and Ledokku as a GUI. Just get an Ubuntu VM on Digitalocean, Vultr or whatever, install and configure UFW, fail2ban and automatic security updates, install dokku and you're set. For managed dat
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by lbruder 5y ago
That's basically how C# came into being in the first place. Microsoft "bought" Anders Hejlsberg of Borland Delphi fame, and had him create a "better Java". And IMHO Visual J++ was a much superior Java, with a visual
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by lbruder 5y ago
It is. Software doesn't rust. My old copy of Office 2000 still works perfectly fine -- with Wine. Windows 2000 and Office 2000 were the last versions I bought. When M$ switched to activation-based "copy protection", I moved o
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by lbruder 5y ago
As a concrete example, German programmer here. 16% of my income go to taxes, another 12% go to mandatory insurances (excluding healthcare), and about 6% go to health insurance. So about a third of my income goes to mandatory stuff and taxes
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by lbruder 5y ago
that's one of the reasons I love Fossil so much. Way better backend than Git.
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by lbruder 6y ago
I've made the switch back to Redmine for my personal projects. By now it has full Markdown support for issues and wiki. Faster than Jira, and easier to use.
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by lbruder 6y ago
It's the PHP of business software. Powers half the market, but boy do mistakes cost you.
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by lbruder 6y ago
Not sure about other countries, but in Germany at least an AVAS (acoustic vehicle alerting system) must be installed in new electric cars and hybrids. My Zoe sounds like a spaceship while under 30 kph, the sound becoming quieter the faster
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by lbruder 6y ago
Have you tried soft line wrapping in GNU nano (M-S)? As long as you're running nano in an 80 column wide window, that should work fine.
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by lbruder 6y ago
Try Manjaro. It's based on Arch, but with a little more stable software, think Debian Testing instead of Sid. Simpler to install and works like a charm.
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by lbruder 6y ago
It just works, until PUSHing the member back fails. At least use RPOPLPUSH and a separate worker queue to make sure you don't accidentally drop packets. Don't get me wrong, I'm using Redis queues myself and trying to get rid
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by lbruder 6y ago
Go to /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ and have a look at 50unattended-upgrades and 10periodic. My 10periodic looks like this: APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists "1"; APT::Periodic::Download-Upgradeable-Packages
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by lbruder 7y ago
Infrastructure architect: Five 20 minute "standups" per day, plus a seven hour meeting once a month. Add about 20 hour-long ad hoc meetings a month. Just let me do actual work dammit.
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by lbruder 7y ago
There's an Emacs macro for that.
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by lbruder 7y ago
Die meisten Online-Shops bieten Black-Friday-Rabatte an. Diejenigen, die das nicht tun, sind unter Zugzwang, sich ihnen anzuschließen.
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by lbruder 7y ago
I think I still have an old copy of Office 95 at home. Gotta try that with Win10 just for shits and giggles...
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by lbruder 7y ago
Where Tk beats everything else. "pack" and "grid" are still way ahead of the established layout stuff. And Tcl is the perfect language for Tk. Sadly people are put off by its seemingly strange syntax and semantics...
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by lbruder 7y ago
Have a look at Lazarus ( https://www.lazarus-ide.org/ ), an open source clone of what Delphi used to be. Active development, can compile to single executables for Windows, Linux and Mac OS. And the language is way more powerf

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