robert_dipaolo

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by robert_dipaolo 10mo ago
What about QT? I've used that in the past and it's really good for native apps.
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by robert_dipaolo 2y ago
Is OVH not a European cloud provider? There are also smaller players like Hetzner.
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by robert_dipaolo 2y ago
I mostly agree, but for short one liners and where there will be no reuse elsewhere, instead of a function I prefer; something_is_valid = something > 0 and something != foo and something > bar if something_is_valid: # ....
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by robert_dipaolo 2y ago
I think your first point could plausibly be made by either side, not just about this specific incident. I don't think killing people is ever a justifiable solution to any issue and almost always makes things worse. I think, no matter w
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by robert_dipaolo 3y ago
Exactly, things are only worth what people are willing to pay for them and for a lot of people music is relatively low in the pecking order. I pay for spotify but would leave it they raise the prices.
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by robert_dipaolo 3y ago
They do have to spend money to distribute them, servers, bandwidth, software dev, etc, aren't free. However I agree that they shouldn't raise prices.
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by robert_dipaolo 3y ago
Ah interesting, I didn't realise that! I often drop into the YAML to configure Automations, etc. I'm not using MQTT at the moment.
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by robert_dipaolo 3y ago
All the config can be done via YAML still. The UIs are just another option that makes it easier, as far as I can tell the UIs just build the YAML.
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by robert_dipaolo 3y ago
The problem with an annotation for that is it causes people to keep transactions open for too long. It's best practice in DB programming to keep tx's open for as short a time as possible. The longer it's open the more scope f
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by robert_dipaolo 4y ago
The Pixel 2 had a launch price of $649 vs the iPhoneX at $999, so ~35% more. That's not really a fair comparison, I imagine if you compare to a similarly priced android phone released at the same time, it'd be a closer result. Whe
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by robert_dipaolo 4y ago
Not for me unfortunately, I've yet to try a sugar free drink or sweet that doesn't taste bitter and chemically (if that's a word!). I don't get any sweet flavour at all, so can't drink any of them.
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by robert_dipaolo 4y ago
I think also a big part was Jeremy Corbyn, Labour would have done a lot better if they'd have had a more effective leader. Brexit is not done, we have many more years of it to come!
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by robert_dipaolo 4y ago
I think the problem is the 2 party political system that flip flops between the left and right with one party having full power. We need a more balanced PR based system that forces compromise and gives the smaller parties a voice. I believe
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by robert_dipaolo 5y ago
The WASM concept has been around for decades, it's effectively jvm or .net in but in the browser. I don't get the relevance when discussing k8s or containers.
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by robert_dipaolo 5y ago
There was a Black Mirror episode 15 Million Merits [1] where you either had to watch the ads (actually look at the screen) or pay to skip them! 1 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifteen_Million_Merits
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by robert_dipaolo 5y ago
For anyone else who was wondering what YAGNI is, You Ain't Gonna Need It - https://martinfowler.com/bliki/Yagni.html
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by robert_dipaolo 5y ago
They do meet in person, at school, play dates, etc. But for the same reason adults can't always meet in person it's not always possible for them to meet (esp not all at the same time) and COVID has made that worse of course. The p
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by robert_dipaolo 5y ago
Looks like a cool product, but yes not cheap and not easy to get hold of where I live (in the UK) unfortunately.
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by robert_dipaolo 5y ago
Thanks, I'd not thought of a minecraft server, most of his friends play it so it could be an option for txt chatting. I'll try spinning one up at the weekend to see how it works.
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Ask HN: Safest place for young kids to chat to friends online?
19 points by robert_dipaolo 5y ago|29 comments
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by robert_dipaolo 5y ago
Because it mostly just works. I don't want to spend time that could have been spent doing actual work debugging random hardware and software issues. I also don't like MacOS (or apple hardware in general). WSL provides an excellent
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by robert_dipaolo 5y ago
Excellent, thank you. I don't understand why a website would disable this!
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by robert_dipaolo 6y ago
AWS has a managed service CodeArtifact that supports all the common code package repos and allows caching of upstream repos. Granted it doesn't work with Docker Images, but you asked about packages.
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by robert_dipaolo 6y ago
der8auer recently did a 3 part video on YouTube where he cut up AMD and Intel chips and looked at the transistors with an electron microscope. It sheads some light on meaning (or non-meaning) of the node names. Is also really interesting;