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by remar 6y ago
> I'm still not entirely sure what was going on, but in Azure FWIW, from someone who used to work on exactly this; neither did most of us :) The org had fired^Wtold most of the network engineers to either interview for dev positions
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by remar 6y ago
Right, but I'd prefer not to have to do that if a comment cites multiple links that I want to queue for later.
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Ask HN: In HN threads is it possible to prevent long URLs from being truncated?
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by remar 6y ago
This is one of my biggest pet-peeves. Whenever I have to help people debug performance issues with their machines it's almost always due to a bottleneck on their disk. For my family members that have laptops with those shitty 5400rpm H
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by remar 6y ago
I've been meaning to get around to basically plagiarizing this UI for a personal linux system monitoring tool. I've tried a bunch of the popular linux disk/resource usage monitors but I find none are as flexible/nice to
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by remar 6y ago
Very interesting, thanks for sharing!
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by remar 6y ago
I suffer from this too (only formally diagnosed with sleep apnea though) and found that 0.5mg of melatonin about 20-40mins before I want to go to sleep has helped me align my sleep cycle to a 24hr schedule. I also get a consistent 8hrs regi
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by remar 6y ago
Well, did you train at commercial gyms or powerlifting/weightlifting gyms? What if the lifters just happened to be on high volume blocks, or tapering for a meet whenever you visited?
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by remar 6y ago
Do you have a quick explanation or resource that explains why [1] is true? Just curious as I've wanted to get better at being able to understanding assembly output by gcc/clang but don't think I've come across this advic
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by remar 6y ago
I switched to KeePassXC because KeePassX had a bug where you could silently lose data if you made changes to the notes section of an entry and hit `Esc` without remembering to save. KeePassX won't prompt you at all and silently drops a
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by remar 8y ago
Can you provide more context re: "The recent reaction from Valve is telling, I think Gabe is fearful about the current state of affairs" ?
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by remar 8y ago
From what I understood of OP's description of the process, it sounds a lot like the sort of awareness that's cultivated through long-term and consistent practice of meditation (implicitly or explicitly depending on the school of p
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by remar 8y ago
Could you maybe elaborate on some examples you have in mind? I'm strongly considering accepting a job offer for a company in NY since I'm starting to get bored of living in Seattle. I figure moving to NY would mean being surrounde
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by remar 8y ago
Does Pivotal have a list of resources/references to help new hires ramp up on TDD practices and principles that you can share? My current plan is to finish reading and working through the examples in 'Growing Object Oriented Softw
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by remar 8y ago
He's referring to the vi command sequence he would type to amend his command, i.e. OP has 'set -o vi' in his shellrc or 'set editing-mode vi' in his inputrc # x| = cursor is in insert mode, after char 'x&
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by remar 8y ago
Most of the people I've talked to who gave up on trying to learn vim didn't even know vimtutor existed.
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by remar 8y ago
I agree, I've been dealing with the same issues myself for the past 3 years and have just now started to emerge from it and actually have the energy to reach out to others. I've started the conversation with the peers that I know
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by remar 8y ago
I always wonder what the life experiences and world view of someone like the person you're replying to, consists of. The older I get, the more apparent it becomes that most of my peers and friends have lived extremely "privileged&
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by remar 8y ago
I can't speak for whether or not this behavior can be trained "out" but I can share what I have noticed and my own personal experiences. On the part of people being trained, as I mentioned in another comment, I've seemed
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by remar 8y ago
I'm sure you're aware of this, but a lot of people just don't have the financial freedom to even begin thinking about a decision like this, or it ends up requiring a lot of energy to make that plan viable. And as you've
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by remar 8y ago
I've had the chance to see the toll that a stressful environment (big tech company) can have on physical and mental health - I've experienced it personally and noticed it in others that I work with. The part about a big tech compa
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by remar 9y ago
I've never really understood how people seem to socialize between work sets. I've tried and it just completely kills my focus and momentum between sets. I've noticed the people at my gym who seem to talk the most are the ones
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by remar 9y ago
Just want to piggy back off this and throw this out as a PSA: if you find you're constantly feeling tired even after making changes like improving sleep hygiene, exercising, etc, try getting a sleep study done. I ended up being diagnos
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by remar 9y ago
How exactly would an entity that makes such a claim, as in this case of "we don't log access", be able to allow external parties to verify this without handing over access to their infrastructure for manual inspection? I&#x27
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by remar 9y ago
Would also suggest this route if you're the type of person who prefers a "bottom-up" style of learning, as in, starting from the absolute primitives and incrementally increasing your toolbox of knowledge with a combination of
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by remar 9y ago
This is actually one case I've been thinking of using docker for, that is, having a development image for your project's build environment to provide a consistent base that has all the development libraries installed and doesn&#x2
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by remar 9y ago
I had a similar conundrum when I was trying to learn modern C++ by writing a network stack. On one hand just wrapping my packet objects with a {shared,unique}_ptr meant that I could freely pass these objects through a pipeline and not worry
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by remar 9y ago
This sounds exactly like the sort of behavior that should be specified/committed in the form of a unit test. That would've caused this code change to fail, unless I'm missing something.
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by remar 9y ago
Been years since I went through Beej's socket programming tutorial but I still recognize his code ;)
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by remar 10y ago
My next side project will hopefully address this problem. The issue I run into is that I have multiple data sources for articles I want to read, but no single feed that I can push those data sources into to later consume and mark as process

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