mverwijs

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by mverwijs 7y ago
All true. Life is so simple all of a sudden. Thanks!
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by mverwijs 7y ago
Because I want to limit the impact of maxing out a creditcard to one environment. And I want engineers to be able to futz about with all cloud services available, without having to worry about any negative impact on production. And finally:
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by mverwijs 7y ago
Yup - that works pretty well. And gives developers some insight into what is required to get stuff working. It does assume no hardware or complex networking needs to be handled. And there is the point of observability. When there is a prope
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by mverwijs 7y ago
Nice piece. Looking forward to Part II. What I am missing (often, in these type of articles as well as in actual production environments) is the fact that if you develop (infrastructure) code, you also need to test your (infrastructure) co
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by mverwijs 7y ago
> The Product Owner prioritises the backlog Note: This would require a _really_ good product owner that does not merely focusses on features, but also on feasibility and 'fitness functions'. The rest of that article had me che
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by mverwijs 7y ago
Which is exactly what the author writes. "Was it ever the right sollution? It depends."
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by mverwijs 7y ago
From 2012.
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by mverwijs 7y ago
Known problem. Here's the workarounds I use: https://ubuntu-mate.community/t/xps-13-9370-wakes-from-sleep... and https://askubuntu.com/questions/1029474/ubuntu-18-04-dell-xp... In additi
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by mverwijs 7y ago
Being in a simular situation what do you consider "reasonably large"?
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Gogh: Terminal Emulator Color Schemes(github.com)
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by mverwijs 8y ago
> at least in the good times Exactly.
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Heptio is now VMWare(blogs.vmware.com)
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by mverwijs 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox_vaccine
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by mverwijs 8y ago
Could it be possible that sometimes laws are immoral? And that companies, while following the letter of the law are in fact acting immoral too? Why defend those companies?
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Magnetic North Pole Moves 34 Miles per Year Towards Russia(theguardian.com)
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by mverwijs 8y ago
> Is it like making smallpox virus available, so it can be studied? You do realize that small pox was eradicated by introducing a malign version of small pox as a vaccine? Kinda like 'black hat medicine'.
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by mverwijs 8y ago
Cynefin helps answer these 'why' questions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynefin_framework
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by mverwijs 8y ago
sav·aged, sav·ag·ing, sav·ag·es 1. To assault ferociously. 2. To attack without restraint or pity: The critics savaged the new play. That is exactly what Rutger Bregman did with his speech (which is wel
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by mverwijs 8y ago
This gave me words for that uncomfortable feeling: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/20/shoshana-...
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by mverwijs 8y ago
I've started to migrate 18 years of email history to Fastmail, after running my own mail infra for almost 2 decades. I am not impressed. Folders moved in the webinterface show up unmoved in Thunderbird. And vice versa. Sometimes it wor
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by mverwijs 8y ago
OT: I wish Youtube / technology in general had an option to filter out noisy background music.
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by mverwijs 8y ago
Well, he is the God of Mischief (in the Marvelverse anyway).
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by mverwijs 8y ago
My focus constantly shifts back to the blinking, missing that bike that has no lights on or less-obvious lights on.
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by mverwijs 8y ago
Because he's an technically and politically informed citizen is my guess. Do you think they can give privacy?
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by mverwijs 8y ago
Completely unrelated, but: thanks Steve, for debian-administration.org all those years ago!
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by mverwijs 8y ago
> Liquidity reduces the cost of trading for everyone, Yes. And I do not see this as a boon. It reduces the cost of trading for traders at the expense of _everything_else_. Eg: search for 'whack bully oil prices'.
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by mverwijs 8y ago
The thing that always blew me away with BeOS was the time it took to cold boot. From powering on a machine to being ready to work. It was seconds. Still faster than a chromebook. That sure is something that most OS'es today can't
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The Correspondent: Unbreaking the News(thecorrespondent.com)
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by mverwijs 8y ago
Well - ok - I may have overstated in that: Yes, market making provides more liquidity. Yes, it makes it more efficient. Yes, for everyone, not just the marketmakers and exchanges. But no, this is not the reason marketmakers make markets. Th
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by mverwijs 8y ago
As I've always understood (but I'm no RTOS expert) is that RTOS does not guarantee LOWER latency. It guarantees A latency. But again: not an RTOS expert. We had a lab that would constantly test configurations of hardware and soft

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