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by varikin 3mo ago
For a Seiko, I'll also recommend https://www.theseikologist.com/ . As his name suggests, he specializes in Seikos and has a large stock of vintage Seiko parts which are hard to source. Though, it's still not cheap.
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by varikin 1y ago
Have you had issues with the .jhw TLD on Apple devices? I have my own DNS for my homelab with CoreDNS with house.hill as my domain. My house is on a hill. But .hill is not a TLD, and both my macbook and iphone stopped resolving it quite a w
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by varikin 1y ago
Think of uv more as like npm or other thing like that. The new Python pyproject.toml is similar package.json. It defines the project description, list of dependencies, and other hooks. Uv is a package/project tool using pyproject.toml.
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by varikin 2y ago
Equating a frustrating anti-pattern of websites with medical equipment failure is extremely disingenuous. An infusion pump failure can harm a person, and according to the article, has seriously injured at least on person. Hijacking the back
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by varikin 2y ago
Streams (FP in java) is slower than for loops for a couple reasons. A big one is java doesn't natively support real closures or lambdas. It does have syntax for them, but that is just syntactic sugar for an class with a single method u
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by varikin 2y ago
I wasn't aware Bush was not part of the government in 2006. Thank you for the correction.
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by varikin 2y ago
I believe the LLV line was only suppose to be in service for 20 years, but the government gonna government and not find a replacement till it's almost too late. So yes it was a lot of scrounging and probably a lot of USPS mechanics nee
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by varikin 2y ago
According to Wikipedia[1]: > Four variants of the NGDV are expected to be in fleet use: both gasoline-powered and battery-electric, in either front wheel drive or all wheel drive. So I expect the front hood is for the gas powered engine
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by varikin 2y ago
All the Jetbrains IDEs have their own custom linter. It's pretty good, but my complaint has always been the inability to use it in CI/CD and to generate reports. The way I read this, they pulled their custom linter out of the IDEs
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by varikin 3y ago
I spent a couple weeks planning a LFS install about 20 years ago. I then didn't have time to look at it all for about year, so I never went through with it. But I still learned a lot just documenting all steps and preparing with the wo
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by varikin 3y ago
I saw it years ago at the Printing Museum of Tokyo[1]. I think it was an original and part of their permanent collection, but I could be wrong. I know it was a woodblock print and they had a couple of with just a couple colors to show the p
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by varikin 3y ago
There's several options depending on how simple to If you want it as a reference that gets thrown around, you could do a simple saddle stitch. This is commonly used for zines. But this doesn't work well if there are over 30* or so
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by varikin 4y ago
My first job out college was at PTC first in tech support for Windchill and then as a dev for Windchill. Windchill is PTC's PLM/VCS for CAD files. I never really touched CAD. I launched PROe a handful of times, but mainly to test
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by varikin 4y ago
Because many of the people who want challengers and chargers want horsepower.
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by varikin 4y ago
I think the biggest missing piece is find a local art store. Local indie places are amazing, but even a chain like Dick Blick is great. Even a craft store can work, but make that your last option. The benefit is that the employees are usual
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by varikin 4y ago
> It's a sort of rationalist's advice in that it seeks to match a consensus bell curve. Much of it is good advice but there are lots of exceptions that ought to be tweaked through subjective practice. My wife is an artist, and
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by varikin 5y ago
> It’s sometimes said this Alpine stuff is a premature optimization, but in most cases it’s not even an optimization. Not always. If you have thousands of containers running, the network cost* for changing the base image is massive becau
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by varikin 5y ago
I use to work at a place that included parking in rfid activated ramp. I always wanted to clone my badge into something sewn into the wrist of my motorcycle jacket so I didn't have to fumble for my badge while entering and leaving the
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by varikin 5y ago
I've heard that Ghost of Tsushima does this well with the direction of the wind. But I don't have a PS4/5 to play. I've also heard about of platformers giving a couple pixels after walking off a platform to jump, like Ce
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by varikin 5y ago
> Video games are a great example of simplified, intuitive interfaces which are often the polar opposite of calm. Video games are interesting in terms of usability. I thought a lot about this the past couple years after a UX course. A lo
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by varikin 5y ago
Just for reference, here are a couple breakdowns of how impressive the iPhone headphone jack is. It is impressive how good it is and how tiny it is. https://www.ifixit.com/News/8448/apple-audio-adapter-teardow...
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by varikin 5y ago
Does that matter? Is everyone suppose to be aware of this guy?
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by varikin 5y ago
I'm an engineer at Backblaze. We do have extended version history that you can enable to have the files held for a longer time. https://www.backblaze.com/version-history.html
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by varikin 5y ago
This idea already applied in some companies in regards to limiting legal risk. I use to work for a backup company and one customer was a very large software company. This customer wanted to custom version retention that basically deleted pr
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by varikin 5y ago
Are you serious? I've seen several large legacy Java applications move to OpenJDK without a problem.
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by varikin 5y ago
I don't think it was ever free. It went from standalone licenses to SaaS, but it was always a paid product.
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by varikin 5y ago
What gimmicks, tricks, and dark patterns are you referring to? I've been using 1Password for my personal accounts for probably close to 10 years and have been happy with it. There are some things I feel are clunky, but I've never
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by varikin 5y ago
I agree. I love a great album, which is more than just a collection of songs. Also, I suck at making playlists, so I would rather just let the artist tell my how their songs should be heard.
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by varikin 5y ago
That's a pretty big statement to live down. edit: I seem to lost the ability to reply to your other statements. Is he actually trying to make himself a better person? Other people have listed where he has made several statements over t
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by varikin 6y ago
I had just started a new job and my manager handed me a project to implement the SP side of SAML into our monolith. He explicitly said, I looked at the docs and don't want to deal with that headache. Fuck, that was a pain in the ass. S

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