thaniri

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by thaniri 4mo ago
I was able to reproduce this issue on kernel 6.12.57+deb13-amd64 running Debian 13 (Trixie), but unable to reproduce it on kernel 6.1.0-42-amd64 running Debian 12 (Bookworm). For anyone not on the security stream of Debian packages for Book
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by thaniri 5y ago
> They don’t leave because, at the end of the day, they can’t allow themselves to risk their acquired prestige, which is another way of saying: they can’t risk losing external validation, the driving force of the prestige industrial comp
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by thaniri 6y ago
I'm actually a customer of Tutanota, and their product has been pretty good in the last ~2 years I've used it. Short of hosting your own email, I can't think of other email providers as secure as tutanota. They tick off a lot
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by thaniri 6y ago
- Why did you get into the field? What did you focus on at first? I really liked video games. I remember some skills I learned as a very young child and teenager to do things like play Warcraft 3 online, install cracked versions of games, p
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by thaniri 6y ago
I can at least anecdotally say that I am in a privileged position of being enormously happier after COVID-19 shut my workplace down and every employee was told to work from home. I associate this entirely with my commute being reduced to no
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by thaniri 6y ago
I used to maintain some linux remote desktops at my job for specific workflows of certain employees. Wow, using xrdp was a complete gong show to manage. The most common bugs were in the assignment of displays on user logon, as well as a cra
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by thaniri 6y ago
It would be pretty much impossible to talk about CS in Polish as even the universities teach CS classes in English.
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by thaniri 6y ago
> Play video games that require intense focus for prolonged durations to perform well like Starcraft 2, CSGO, DOTA 2 helped me build mental endurance. I used to be better than average at Starcraft 2. Probably peaked around top ~1.5% in t
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by thaniri 6y ago
It's so cool to see you in the mainstream and not hidden on teamliquid! r1ch hwaiting!
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by thaniri 6y ago
I applied to a new grad production engineering job at Facebook recently. I probably did about 80 leetcode puzzles, let's just assume that is 1 hour per puzzle. So 80 hours of leetcode puzzles. In addition, 10 hours were spent reviewing
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by thaniri 7y ago
I just remind myself that this world has 7.5 billion people on it, and as a programmer I have a better income than the VAST majority of them. So, there are billions of people who would love to out-compete me and take my job. I need to make
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by thaniri 7y ago
This blog post is almost entirely a re-hash of http://highscalability.com/blog/2016/1/11/a-beginners-guide-... The primary difference is that this post tries to be more generic, whereas the original is s
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by thaniri 7y ago
Anecdotally, this is not true. Due to how many North American cities are designed with urban sprawl and separation of living areas (suburbs) and productive areas (industrial/office zoning laws) it should actually be the norm to have a
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by thaniri 7y ago
1. The consensus system you are talking about is Raft ( https://raft.github.io/ ) and it's baked into Consul. 2. There are two ways to interpret parallel infrastructure. I will post my thoughts on both. 2a. Standing up a
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by thaniri 7y ago
It seems like this problem is solved by simply setting a sensible minimum in an autoscaling group. And not "everyone on Earth was abducted by aliens and stopped using the service" levels of minimum. Say I'm an e-commerce site
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by thaniri 7y ago
The Art of Learning by Waitzkin. The book details the lessons over time that the author (an American chess prodigy) learned about how to improve at chess. It gets interesting when he applies these same lessons to become a world champion at
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by thaniri 7y ago
That's not how it works to a reasonable person, but marketers can count however best suits them.
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by thaniri 8y ago
For anyone who actually plays SC2, or any real time game where human speed is a limitation, it should not be surprising that AI would crush human opponents. This video demonstrates why: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IKVFZ28y
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by thaniri 8y ago
You can set up your apache/nginx or whatever webserver to redirect http requests to https. That way you can still link to your website with an http:// URL.