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by throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
GCP IAM is the worst. AWS IAM is not nearly as bad. GCP sucks so bad as a product, that the only way to tell what IAM policies apply to your service account, is to run some kind of analysis query thing exported to a BigTable (which will cos
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by throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
It's not a best practice, it's a fad. 99% of people who recommend or use Postgres barely know how to use it. Another trendy database will come along and you'll stop seeing all these posts about it. Happens every decade. I&#x2
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by throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
Built my own sofa. Fabric from JOANN, foam from a shitty IKEA thing thrown on the street, some plywood and pine from Home Depot, hardware, staples. Cost me $75. It's comfy and I can lay on it or sit on it. What the fuck about this is s
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by throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
Immediate managers must have some experience with the report's work, absolutely. But farther up the chain, they still need to check work. There's certain details of progress you just can't fake. If you have 10 pieces of work,
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by throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
All of this is very true! Thanks to the author for being open about their mistakes. If you want to avoid this scenario, your company needs good leadership. If you're at a company where the managers don't do any due diligence in
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by throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
I don't know what I'd do if I had kids in the US. The education system here is so toxic. It's like a factory designed to churn out little automatons. Like everyone's purpose in life is to become a cog in a business wheel
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by throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
The intelligence level of the average HN comment is lower than your average chat bot
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by throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
OK doomer.
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by throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
If your transport method for rsync was ssh, that is often a bottleneck, as openssh has historically had some weird performance limits that needed obscure patches to get around. Enabling compression helps too if your CPU doesn't become
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by throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
This is actually much better because nbdcopy can handle sparse files, you can set the number of connections and threads to number of cores, you can force a flush before exit, and enable a progress bar. For unencrypted drives it also support
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by throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
You're missing out on the most critical detail of Japanese culture that is lost by most westerners: Speed isn't more important than having respect for your craft. If you have to go slower to produce a better result, you go slower.
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by throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
I'm sorry, but you don't understand swap. It's useful to retain all kinds of memory in different scenarios, like cache, or windows that haven't been accessed in a while. It can free up fast memory, reducing contention an
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by throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
I've worked on medical devices. As a techie, what surprised me more is not the lack of trials for new devices. It's that for software (and other kinds of components), it's often acceptable to have black box testing to certify
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by throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
Driving cross country in a car is actually the worst when you're in stop and go traffic, or cars keep slowing down and then speeding up. I can't wait to get my hands on adaptive cruise control because I get so aggravated and tired
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by throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
Or alert air traffic control, and maybe they can send an alert into the cockpit. But there must be a way to raise an alarm. My guess is basically nobody cares that much about this rare condition. It's much more likely the pilots are in
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by throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
I just assume that there is always a 0day lurking in my kernel. If you can execute any code on my system I assume it's game over
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by throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
Not really bro, but you stay angry
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by throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
All of these people are so bizarre. It's like Howard Hughes versus some potential acquisition turned competitor and the yellow journalism that followed. Time is a flat circle.
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by throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
Poor kid, learning how an enterprise works the hard way. If he stays in software eng long enough he'll be back here eventually, with a little less gumption, but a little more tactics and grit to fight the battles he wants to fight.
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by throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
> an opensource alternative to AWS Just putting out there that OpenStack is open source, already exists, very feature complete, and there are even hosting providers that will give you your own OpenStack control plane and only bill you fo
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by throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
Most companies in the world don't need to develop software. Software development itself is hype. But there's lots of money in it, despite no actual value being created most of the time.
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by throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
Yes... And? We don't have to be happy with our lot if it sucks.
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by throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
Just like you probably shouldn't be using K8s, you probably shouldn't be using a service mesh. Only add it when you actually need it. You'll know when that happens.
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by throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
Right, and not only that, but Yellowstone has a long history of being fucked with by humans and the ecology basically falling apart, because humans just wanted it the way they wanted it. And because it's so accessible, people continue
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by throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
There's a balance to be struck. If wilderness areas end up like Yellowstone, then the experience is destroyed and the whole point of it remaining wild dies. Some things are more important than some human's desire to turn the plane
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by throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
It does look like there's no preservatives added to heinz. It appears the lack of mold growth in ketchup comes down to a combination of lower pH from the vinegar, and low water content by cooking it out of the tomatoes. According to so
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by throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
Wrong! Both bacteria and fungi can thrive in a variety of pH. Acidophiles are a group specialized to highly acidic environments, and there are alkaliphiles as well. Fungi and bacteria also have methods to both change the pH of their environ
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by throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
It's probably from added stabilizers and not acidity. Molds do well with acidic food, as well as sugary and salty
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by throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
Reduce, reuse, recycle. If they really want to make an impact, they should sell ketchup in bulk at grocery stores, with us bringing in our own reusable ketchup bottle to refill. Disposable packaging creates unnecessary waste.
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by throwawaaarrgh 3y ago
This is a fantastic article, bravo. Required reading for all SW developers

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