moorow

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by moorow 20d ago
It's now rolled out in Perth too, I think.
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by moorow 27d ago
Can't imagine anyone I'd want reshaping society less than OpenAI.
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by moorow 6mo ago
As a West Australian this is so interesting to me, because gambling culture is extremely niche here - but WA law is that pokies are only allowed at the casino, nowhere else. And thank fuck for that.
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by moorow 6mo ago
"staff engineer"
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by moorow 7mo ago
We saw this coming (like most people) a while ago when Heroku started flaking without status updates, and moved part of our workload to Fly. We ended up moving off Fly as well (significant unreliability and just some very strange network lo
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by moorow 8mo ago
Nearly every transaction account in Australia now uses a debit card as the access card, usually Visa debit. Some people will have a credit card in addition to that.
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by moorow 9mo ago
As someone in this exact position, I swapped to CachyOS this week and have been extremely impressed. I've yet to come across a game that didn't function extremely well (I have not tested bf6 yet, which I suspect the anti cheat may
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by moorow 9mo ago
Watson was a marketing exercise designed to sell a bunch of disconnected text and image processing libraries pulled together by consulting services. It did not function as advertised. At one point we worked with a large energy company that
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by moorow 1y ago
I mean I understand that's the goal, but in this specific CVE it looks like the issue was introduced in Bitnami's own scripts sitting on top of everything, so a ideally-zero-CVE underlying OS isn't going to solve that problem
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by moorow 1y ago
Bitnami images have been problematic for a little while, especially given their core focus on security but still resulting in a CVE 9.4 in PgPool recently that ended up being used in the underlying infrastructure for a bunch of cloud hosts:
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by moorow 1y ago
As someone who's currently experiencing significant and crippling gastroparesis due to GLP-1's, being reductive about the side effects is not particularly helpful.
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by moorow 2y ago
On the other hand, if 20 hours of leetcode practice is all that stands between you and half a million dollars a year, isn't that a pretty good indicator that the interview process isn't hiring based on your skills, talent and educ
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by moorow 2y ago
We're about to do this as well, but from resque. Got any tips to share?
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by moorow 2y ago
We use Ubicloud for our GHA runners, because we have a very extensive test suite and need the extra parallelisation. Extremely easy to roll out from GHA, reduced our CI costs from CircleCI by 80% and we've been very pleased. Thanks for
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by moorow 2y ago
Dunno about you guys, but we're not charging doing payroll, management or regulatory compliance to our clients unless it's specifically requested/required by the client. You could say "oh but that cost is bundled into yo
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by moorow 2y ago
I own a tech consulting company in Australia. What rules are you talking about? The only change that's come in recently that's affected us is the changes to fixed-term contracts, and that's an entirely fair change to stop emp
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by moorow 2y ago
Probably the most entertaining thing about the article (aside from the article itself) is seeing a comment section full of Americans who have precisely zero understanding of Australian humour or writing style. As a former-PhD-Data-Scientist
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by moorow 2y ago
Not sure if you think training LLMs is carbon neutral, but if so I have some news about the barrier reef that you're not going to be that pleased to hear
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by moorow 2y ago
> Australians celebrate Christmas by going to the beach, and July 4th with sledding and patriotic snowball fights. It may surprise you to learn that Australians don't celebrate the American day of independence lol
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by moorow 3y ago
Yeah, doing it in secrecy is a recipe for Bad Things. I worked at a startup that completely died because of it.
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by moorow 3y ago
As someone that lives in Perth, our experience as a while through COVID was actually a net positive. Not to take away from anyone who lost loved ones, but Perth basically gained the benefits of COVID (WFH shift, better health funding, bette
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by moorow 3y ago
This is true, yes.
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by moorow 3y ago
Not OP, but as someone that's now rebuilt 4 serverless systems into monoliths (across 4 orgs) and achieved some pretty stunning results, serverless would be useful if all of these things are true: 1) Your workload is fairly simple 2) Y
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by moorow 4y ago
> You can define container cleanup policies within the registry, matching on age, tags, etc. https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/packages/container_registry/ ... Yeah, I gotta say - this is not great. Part
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by moorow 4y ago
I remember a project when I was consulting that was floated, a few years ago. It was a blockchain-backed ledger for tracking fuel charges across a truck fleet - effectively, when the truckies filled up with fuel, they'd record it in th