strifey

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by strifey 2mo ago
I'd wager the amount on FB is orders of magnitude _more_ than on 4chan. 4chan's average severity is likely higher, though. They're different problems, but saying that online toxicity only exists on anonymous sites is naive at
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by strifey 3mo ago
Heck, we saw crazy performance degradation with redis when its memory usage exceeded a single NUMA block. Not much to be done about that at the k8s level when redis is single-threaded. Have to be super conscious of the underlying hardware a
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by strifey 3mo ago
It's very similar to styles of generating lairs/dungeons in many TTRPGs. A lot of them come with various tables/dice rolls to help build a layout and then subsequent tables to give a general prompt for what goes in said rooms
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by strifey 4mo ago
This has been their MO with their search for a decade+ now. "Native" results hiding actual search results below the fold killed many 2010s era websites that relied on search traffic.
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by strifey 5mo ago
They're not describing working for yourself? At least in terms of financial compensation. A job and some form of communal/familial uncompensated labor are extremely different in this context. Calling them both "work" in
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by strifey 9mo ago
Totally true, but we host other people's code (PaaS, etc). We don't get to dictate their working hours. It also doesn't mean nothing breaks when people aren't making changes. Certificate expiration is the classic example
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by strifey 9mo ago
Staring down the barrel of being primary on-call over Christmas for a dozen k8s clusters running thousands of nodes. How I wish it were true that we could trust computer programs to just keep running. PagerDuty wouldn't exist if this w
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by strifey 10mo ago
A bit more heavyweight, but we implemented a rotation program when I was managing an internal tools team at a previous company. We'd trade an engineer from our team with an engineer from a feature team for a quarter. The amount of impr
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by strifey 1y ago
You should read Ubik
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by strifey 1y ago
Maybe it's just me, but nothing sounds simple about offline mode. The changeset resolution necessary to resync after going back online sounds TOUGH to build in a way that doesn't result in user data loss ever without being more cu
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by strifey 1y ago
Sad to hear about how much the Space & Rocket center has been let to deteriorate. That place really sparked my interest in science & engineering as a child. Even went to Space Camp there way back in the day.
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by strifey 2y ago
Anecdotally, they've gotten much more proactive at taking unprotected lefts in my experience.
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by strifey 2y ago
Their wait times tend to be worse, but that's getting better too. The trip speed has also noticeably improved. I've taken about 50 over the past 2 years. Even if they're sometimes slower in pickup or trip time, on average, I
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by strifey 2y ago
That's so fascinating to me! "Howdy" definitely ranks higher on my hokey-ness scale than "y'all". Love a good "over yonder" though.
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by strifey 2y ago
Y'all forever. One of the few southern mannerisms I intentionally don't drop as a lapsed southerner in California. As an aside, I find it strange how many aspects of "the south" are labeled as "Texan" outside t
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by strifey 3y ago
I love this explanation. One unfortunately confusing extra piece that some people might occasionally run into is that there are two types of tag. Most tags are what you describe: pointers (git ref) to a commit (git object) and nothing more.
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by strifey 3y ago
Oof, remind me not to move there. I wouldn't survive an allergy season. Though to be fair, I imagine most GPs would write a prescription pretty quick.
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by strifey 3y ago
Interesting, today I learned it had a more specific term. Still, saying something "isn't OTC" implies you need a prescription to most people. At least in my experience.
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by strifey 3y ago
Real sudafed is OTC, you just need to ask for it at the counter. No prescription is required. They just don't have it on shelves, because they require you to show your ID when purchasing it. I'm assuming this is so they can track
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by strifey 4y ago
Botulism spores do not "train immune systems". Babies don't have strong enough digestive systems until they're at least six months old to kill the spores. https://www.cdc.gov/botulism/infant-botulism
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by strifey 4y ago
A car grille is a much more prominent and expected visual feature of a car, though. This small, tucked away yet realistic-looking camera doesn't seem to fit the same reasoning for me. That said, it wouldn't be entirely surprising
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by strifey 4y ago
Those are typically just simple pieces of plastic to fill a hole. There is clearly no function to them. What seems weird is they went through the effort of installing a nonfunctional yet functional-looking piece.
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by strifey 4y ago
You might have noticed already, but your reply is quoting the same person you're replying to.
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by strifey 4y ago
If you're familiar with Python and Go, you'll likely be able to quickly spot the differences in how they handle parameter passing. Python uses references and Go uses value.
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by strifey 4y ago
Is there an online store for generic "stuff" that doesn't allow 3rd party sellers at this point? Genuinely looking for recommendations.
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by strifey 4y ago
I'm not even sure what point they could reasonably be trying to make distinguishing between the two. One doesn't really exist without the other.
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by strifey 4y ago
I find it relatively easy to use YouTube without exposing myself to their recommendations (not that they're ever particularly good, in my experience). My bookmark for YouTube is directly to my subscriptions, and it's also possible
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by strifey 5y ago
Turned in my notice yesterday! It was such a weight off my shoulders once I realized it's what I wanted to do. Good luck to you.
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by strifey 5y ago
I'm curious what folks who agree with this think about setup.py then? There's been a push to move to setup.cfg to specifically avoid the fact that python libraries run arbitrary code on install.
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by strifey 5y ago
One of the recent Firefox updates fixed this for me fwiw.

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