sgarland

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by sgarland 5d ago
> The editors that live in the terminal either have steep learning curves built around modal paradigms, or they are too limited to be genuinely useful. > txt is not trying to replace your main IDE. It is the editor you reach for when
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by sgarland 7d ago
You’re in luck, the Duo has Touch ID and a big screen.
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by sgarland 8d ago
Houses are also often poorly laid out. I’m not sure if it’s a side effect of open concept, or cheap builders, but it’s definitely a thing. I toured a new build community north of Austin once that mostly had < 2000 sf homes, and they felt
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by sgarland 8d ago
I agree. I grew up poor, was accepted to every college I applied to, but couldn’t afford any of them so I joined the Navy instead. 10 years later, after a brief stint as an Electrical Distribution Engineer, Samsung hired me because one of t
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by sgarland 9d ago
Most non-techie people I know have a smart TV without an external streaming box like an Apple TV, Nvidia Shield, Roku, etc.
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by sgarland 9d ago
You can skip `tr` as well - works on BSD awk and GNU awk. { $0 = tolower($0) gsub(/[^[:alpha:]]/, "\n") for (i = 1; i <= NF; i++) { if (!($i in freq)) order[++n] = $i
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by sgarland 12d ago
> CERN has clarified that their focus with the migration is on their industrial accelerator-control computers while data centers and experimental computing remain on RHEL/AlmaLinux. For control systems, it’s perfectly reasonable to
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by sgarland 13d ago
DHH compared Romani people to wolves [0]. I am so very, very tired of having to even consider, let alone make decisions about, the technical vs. political merits of products. It’d be so great if CEOs would keep their views to themselves. 0:
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by sgarland 14d ago
> 20 million videos are uploaded to YouTube every day. Tangentially, assuming a median length of 4:03 [0], and a bitrate of 8192 Kbps (8 Mbps for video, 192 Kbps for audio), that’s almost 5 PB per day. That is insane. 0: https:/&#x
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by sgarland 16d ago
I assumed this would be a rant against cloud services, but alas, no. I do find it doubtful that OP couldn’t skip most of their setup, though; if you have HomeAssistant (which they do), and there’s a direct path from Blink -> Alexa, I’m f
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by sgarland 16d ago
Matter is a communications standard, not a protocol. You can have Matter over Thread, Matter over WiFi, etc. WRT IKEA, if they’re the Thread-only device, I found one page [0] claiming that some of them can be forced into Zigbee mode. 0: ht
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by sgarland 18d ago
Immutable records which are retained for legal purposes should be in object storage, not a database.
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by sgarland 19d ago
> Our Kafka setup started the way most things do in a fast-moving engineering team: pragmatically. > Every change required SSH and port-forwarding. Our Kafka instances had no URL. You accessed them via localhost. That isn’t pragmatism
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by sgarland 21d ago
There’s no need to reverse engineer it, just build a Voron 2.4.
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by sgarland 21d ago
Oh shit, I didn’t realize that had been cracked. Nice, I’m gonna switch ASAP. I bought a P2S, and then literally a few days later, the X2D came out. Thanks Microcenter, and your excellent customer service and return policy. The X2D is every
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by sgarland 22d ago
Agreed. I have an M1 Air base model (also an M4 Pro), and hated the squared-off change for the M2. The wedge was the entire point.
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by sgarland 23d ago
> How many engineers really understand isolation levels? I feel like there’s no excuse for this one. You need to know how your data store will interact with your query and others. The problem, I think, is what the tail end of that is, an
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by sgarland 24d ago
> Rawdogging SQL when you're not a seasoned DB administrator basically makes an arcane art look occult. Isn't that true of most languages? SQL has pretty simple syntax; I think the only reason it's sometimes seen as arcane
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by sgarland 25d ago
Agreed. Plus, if you can get an entire team to tell the PM “this is fucking stupid, we aren’t doing it,” what are they gonna do - axe an entire team? I doubt it. Maybe at big companies, but small ones? Nah.
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by sgarland 25d ago
The older speakers are stuck on an older version of the app (it’s a wholly different app, called S1) which doesn’t have that behavior AFAIK.
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by sgarland 25d ago
The majority of companies are building their stuff entirely in the cloud, where network speed scales with the instance size. I have had to explain this to multiple engineers at multiple companies, who are surprised to learn that network ban
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by sgarland 25d ago
Sonos’ app is another example of this. As a very brief tl;dr if anyone isn’t aware of it, Sonos is a wireless speaker company that can group speakers in different rooms into zones, so you can have different music playing in different rooms,
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by sgarland 27d ago
They have what amounts to an unlimited budget for AI spend. If it’s so fantastic, why can’t they let it crawl over every piece of their codebase, every metric, every log, and spot these problems before they occur? “We misconfigured a sideca
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by sgarland 27d ago
Serious question: do you think your 6 year old is learning coding from prompting an AI? I have had excellent results from using AI, but it’s only because I understand what it is I’m asking it to look at, and know when it’s wrong. This is pr
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by sgarland 27d ago
I guess I just don’t see the point for most applications. If you’re using a DBaaS, as most are, object storage from the same provider is almost certainly going to be cheaper, and it’s a trivial amount of code to handle the separate push &#x
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by sgarland 28d ago
> case-insensitive Tbf you can also achieve this in Postgres, it's just not present by default. From the docs [0]: CREATE COLLATION ignore_accent_case (provider = icu, deterministic = false, locale = 'und-u-ks-level1'); 0:
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by sgarland 28d ago
They're also massive.
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by sgarland 28d ago
"Work with" != "work well." GIN indices aren't the same as B+tree, and even then, you'll have to decide / know about jsonb_path_ops vs. the default operator class. Or you just accept sub-optimal performanc
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by sgarland 28d ago
MySQL will generally run fairly well with default tuning, assuming you've sized the buffer pool well relative to the amount of RAM you have (cloud providers do this automatically, but it's also not that hard to calculate). There a
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by sgarland 28d ago
The primary reason to avoid doing so is avoiding thrashing your buffers, along with increased size of backups, WAL bloat, etc. Can you? Yes. Should you? Not at anything beyond a toy scale, unless you want to pay for more RAM to ensure that

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