mattjaynes

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by mattjaynes 2y ago
If you don't have access to a bidet, just use the "dab of lotion on the TP" technique. Wipe like normal. Then put a bit of lotion on new folded TP and wipe. Repeat a few times until the TP is completely clean. It's not a
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by mattjaynes 2y ago
One of my favorite films. Can't think of anyone who could have played Olive more perfectly. Underrated classic.
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by mattjaynes 2y ago
That's fair. I have limited experience with the rest of their offerings. They only came onto my radar because of regular critical CVEs that needed urgent fixing. The communication from the company had no hint of apology - just "he
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by mattjaynes 2y ago
I have a client who was using JetBrains' TeamCity CI product. Was a clown show of vulnerabilities that allowed attackers access to internals. Do not use their products. If you must for some reason, be sure you subscribe to critical CVE
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by mattjaynes 2y ago
I love Kevin Kelly, but I really wished he would have done more with his recent book "Excellent Advice For Living" which is essentially a similar list of extremely brief "advices". They are all excellent, but it's a
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by mattjaynes 2y ago
Ask yourself, how much brighter is it outside than inside (assuming a sunny day vs a brightly lit office)? Before looking into this, I would have guessed 2X or 3X, but would you believe it's actually over 100X! I bet most people's
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by mattjaynes 2y ago
For more, I'd recommend Jason Carman's recently released videos on Terraform: Overview and tour (~20min): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NngCHTImH1g Deeper Interview (~40min): https://www.youtube.com&#
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by mattjaynes 2y ago
Thanks - I was curious to check "ninja" and "rockstar". They seem to have peaked 8-10 years ago (from a quick glance). Was surprised they are still used at all after taking that pounding from job ads for so many years.
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by mattjaynes 3y ago
Backblaze's B2 is cheap - but if your'e using them in production you must include these costs: * their weekly 2 hour maintenance window 11:30-13:30 PST (which usually has no downtime, but sometimes is a full outage in the middle o
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by mattjaynes 3y ago
It's never been easier or cheaper to run systems. And yet, engineers would rather deliver a pizza by organizing an expedition team, climbing Mount Everest, taking a picture of the pizza at the summit, then fly the pizza back home, rent
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by mattjaynes 3y ago
On this question, David Heinemeier Hansson's talk at YC's Startup School 2008 still holds up great today. Was the first time I heard of the concept of the Fortune 5,000,000 Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0C
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by mattjaynes 3y ago
No, this is not simply "long-form", this is "in medias res" where the story starts at a heightened moment of tension, then abruptly stops and rewinds to go back to fill in details of how they got to this exciting moment.
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by mattjaynes 3y ago
Yes, but helping these people save face smoothes the transition. My guess is that those folks were waaay out of their depth and they naturally made naive mistakes. It doesn't benefit anyone to stomp on them. I'm sure they learned
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B2 Backblaze Maintenance Outage(backblaze.com)
2 points by mattjaynes 3y ago|1 comments
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by mattjaynes 3y ago
Reminder: B2 is great for backups, but is not good for production assets that you expect to be available 24/7. They have a weekly maintenance window on Thursday for an hour. It often doesn't involve an outage, but sometimes it doe
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by mattjaynes 3y ago
ZFS on Linux has improved a lot in the last few years. We (prematurely) moved to using it in production for our MySQL data about 5 years ago and initially it was a nightmare due to unexplained stalling which would hang MySQL for 15-30 minut
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by mattjaynes 3y ago
I'm one of the many who hadn't heard of Traefic until MRSK mentioned it. The marketing seems very (overly?) targetted at cloud microservices and container-specific tech[1]. Is that just marketing, or is it really not a good fit fo
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by mattjaynes 4y ago
For aviation noobs (like me) wondering how low the balloon would have to be in order for a helicopter to be an option for retrieval: "The maximum altitude which can be reached during forward flight typically depends on the ability of t
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by mattjaynes 4y ago
Or maybe stop worrying about theoretical macro trends and go build something valuable right now?
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by mattjaynes 4y ago
Wow. There seems to be 2 main responses to this. 1) Sadness and depression or 2) Excitement and possibility I really expected this thread to be more of #2 since historically Hacker News has been full of ambitious founders and founder-like e
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by mattjaynes 4y ago
Somewhat related... On Wireguard's homepage[1] it says "[Wireguard] is even capable of roaming between IP addresses, just like Mosh. There is no need to manage connections, be concerned about state, manage daemons, or worry about
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by mattjaynes 4y ago
'Replicated' has been doing SaaS setups locally (on-premise) for a few years and I've heard good things (though haven't used them myself): https://www.replicated.com/
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by mattjaynes 4y ago
"Only boring people get bored." This has been a life-long challenge - in a good way. Whenever I feel boredom approaching, I try to change the situation or come up with a more creative way of viewing the moment. Not always successf
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by mattjaynes 4y ago
Man, I really had to search to find which payment gateways they support. I guess it makes their docs evergreen to not mention any, but it's one of the first questions many new users will have. After searching their docs with no luck, I
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by mattjaynes 4y ago
And to continue the Grace Hopper example... Remember that she transitioned to computing from being a Mathematics professor at Yale, so she was able to leverage her previous training into the new career. Try and do the same if you can. Lever
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by mattjaynes 4y ago
I've had good results with this PPA for using later versions of ZFS on earlier Ubuntu versions (though it's only at zfs 2.1.5 at the moment, but it should be updated in not too long): https://launchpad.net/~jonatho
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by mattjaynes 4y ago
Link to the resulting essay (for those that quickly got distracted by the great content, like I did): http://www.paulgraham.com/13sentences.html
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by mattjaynes 4y ago
This reminds me of the "If it saves just one life" fallacy... Even the most ardent believer of this fallacy will often break when confronted with real costs to their own life. For example: Cruel Capitalist: If lowering the highway
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by mattjaynes 4y ago
Honest question: How do cafe owners make the best of workers using their cafe as a work place? I've heard it referred to as the "laptop hobo" problem: customers that come and buy a small coffee and take up a table for 4+ hour
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by mattjaynes 4y ago
Scientific squabbles aside, "getting jacked" is one of the most important things a man can do to increase his attractiveness to females. But if you decide to go down that path, don't make it unnecessarily difficult. Your numb

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