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by pcnix 3y ago
The problem is that we place a responsibility on competition in the market to favor consumers by reducing prices and preventing companies from having excessive margins. Allowing a single marketplace means there's no competition, and we
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by pcnix 3y ago
This is similar to calculating probability from an odds ratio - if x = 1 and if n = your odds ratio, p = n/(n+1) A neat explainer for how this helps with Bayesian updates (which is the update in trust that you're describing) is he
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by pcnix 3y ago
That was a bad way to make the point, because you could serve five orders of magnitude higher with PHP, or node or go or python or pretty much any language right now. On top of that, You don't need massive k8s infra for any other frame
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by pcnix 5y ago
I second the channel recommendation, it is a perfect watch for people interested in hands on building.
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by pcnix 5y ago
Syncthing now supports untrusted encrypted nodes, and it's fairly reliable.
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BrowserStack Closes $200M in Series B Funding at a $4B Valuation(browserstack.com)
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by pcnix 5y ago
How I do this: * Create a unidirectional push only sync between the phone and a remote * Remote has a cron that syncs to backblaze regularly, and deletes from the server (this does not affect the phone) * Delete from the phone whenever I wa
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by pcnix 5y ago
Have you checked out the new EBS gp3 disks? Throughout vs cost is much better on those than gp2, and also cheaper than Provisioned IOPS
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by pcnix 6y ago
Thank you for being our Yev!
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by pcnix 6y ago
Intel MBP at two years ``` === START OF SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02) Critical Warning: 0x00 Temperature:
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by pcnix 6y ago
> Nothing in GP's comment suggests that women should spend their twenties finding a husband, nor that they shouldn't do the things you just mentioned. That is in fact exactly what the comment seems to suggest, in these lines. &
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by pcnix 6y ago
The author is Raymond Chen, and the blog is probably the single most influential blog on windows internals. He has decades of amazing posts that are well worth a read.
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by pcnix 6y ago
Disclaimer: I work at BrowserStack We've built a tool to help measure speed with these sort of issues in mind - https://www.browserstack.com/blog/announcing-speedlab-test-w...
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by pcnix 6y ago
Another subission today seems to point to exactly what you're looking for - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-for-aws-lambda-function...
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by pcnix 6y ago
I think there's two real issues here: * Apple does not allow other App Stores on their platform * Apple does not allow other payment processing or even instructions on where you can purchase things outside of their platform. This reduc
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by pcnix 6y ago
Might I suggest checking out org-journal? It's a natural extension of the org-mode way of things, and integrates quite well with the agenda too.
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by pcnix 6y ago
In my experience, ALB scaling is opaque, and constantly lags behind herds of traffic. This is very noticeable if you're running services that experience sudden spikes, there's a noticeable lag of ALB scaling. That said though, it
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by pcnix 6y ago
Dan Luu has some interesting metrics on this [1]. This strikes at a slightly different problem, the latency of actually showing things on screen, but points out that not all is going well. https://danluu.com/input-lag/
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by pcnix 6y ago
Looking at the code, this looks neat and minimal. I love the style. I was struck by how simple and effective an idea this was, and the clean implementation. Great work!
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by pcnix 6y ago
You can also check out Zetteldeft, a deft based org mode extension that adds a bunch of useful shortcuts.
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by pcnix 6y ago
Interestingly enough, people really good at understanding the complexity in systems are also people that seem to fall prey to, as you said, cultivating a false impression of understanding. Taleb is one that I think deserves criticism in tha
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by pcnix 6y ago
This is a useful library for plists, in case you're interested - https://docs.python.org/3/library/plistlib.html
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by pcnix 7y ago
This is a database that satisfies at least the first three normal forms, and that might be why it felt comfortable. I admit that I have seen some dirty usage of this from a few WordPress plugin authors on a consultation, and it has since th
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by pcnix 7y ago
Firefox for Android has had addon support for ages, this is addon support for the Firefox for Android redesign - Firefox Preview.
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by pcnix 7y ago
GCP has Cloud Functions as the serverless Google Cloud equivalent of Lambda, this is more like a Google version of Heroku.
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by pcnix 7y ago
For people intrigued by this comment, check out the Galactic Lensman series. Solid science fiction.
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by pcnix 7y ago
There's no need to be that aggressive, OP didn't say anything about getting fired or losing his job. What's optimal is subjective, and they seem to find comfort in what they do. Let's not get too used to tooting our own
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by pcnix 7y ago
I agree. I've found DDG results to be sub-par in a variety of situations as well, and Google Search is sometimes almost oracular in it's prediciton of my search queries and surfaces the right solutions. I really understand making
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by pcnix 7y ago
Absolutely agree, I tried it out for a short personal project and was disappointed with the bad documentation and even worse libraries that I found. I'm assuming large companies have their own internal libraries/ORMs for this, and
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by pcnix 7y ago
Please don't be vulgar, you can make your point with simpler language too. As for the protest, the employee's right to protest is an important thing, and taking that away reduces you to an automaton. You'd be giving up the ch

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