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- Comment on [HN] Unpacking Elixir: Observability 8 months ago:
Observability is a capability my last employer really fucked up. I would have loved this power.
Trying to figure out wtf is going on with database locks, or celery tasks you can’t find in the dashboard, was like blindfold surgery.
Fat chance that team would use elixir, though. Nothing more esoteric than python.
- Comment on Is there something better than SQL? 8 months ago:
the translation step from binary (program) -> text (SQL) -> binary (server)
Your concern about this is misguided. Inter-process communication always has to cross a barrier, by definition.
I take it http also feels wrong to you?
Binary protocols do exist, e.g. gRPC, but they incur costs of their own.
- Comment on Is there something better than SQL? 8 months ago:
Shame I had to scroll this far to find PRQL
- Comment on I just developed and deployed the first real-time protection for lemmy against CSAM! 9 months ago:
My friend, you haven’t heard about Oracle.
Microsoft at least gave the world Powershell, to balance out their sins. I can also name other good things they have done. Oracle is pure and deliberate evil.
I believe that the human race will end in one of three ways:
- asteroid strike
- disease
- Oracle
- Comment on I just developed and deployed the first real-time protection for lemmy against CSAM! 9 months ago:
I think you were merely being pedantic, but there are some interesting points in there.
Is it a crime to generate fake “csam”?
Should it be a crime?
How can prosecutors get convictions against a defense of “no, your honour, that video is AI-generated”?
What we have now is still miles off general AI, but it’s going to take years for society to catch up. Interesting times.
- Comment on Part of why internet search sucks is that many gave up trying in the face of Google. 9 months ago:
Another Kagi fan here. I pay $10 a month.
I’m a reasonably heavy search user, but have never hit the quota.
It’s wonderful to have relevant results again.
The one thing it doesn’t work for is shopping. From time to time I use Google. I should probably switch that to Bing, as the lesser of two evils.
- Comment on What does cigarette smoking do for people? 9 months ago:
Looks like yellow fingers and grey complexion.
- Comment on What does cigarette smoking do for people? 9 months ago:
I did not find that at all.
I’m sorry you have that - I didn’t. I was quit with no cravings for five years, what got me back in was spliffs with tobacco. (Now I vape, because I do intend to occasionally smoke weed with tobacco.)
The reason you still have cravings is because you never deprogrammed yourself. You still associate gaspers with relief, relaxation, pleasure.
If you can reframe the sensation of smoking as the tense tickly feeling of “god I could use a fag”, which no-one would claim to enjoy, the rest is plain sailing, and within a few weeks you’ll be past any cravings. The bulk of the cravings are done within a few days.
I don’t mean to suggest that it’s easy to quit - most people fail. But the trick is not too withstand cravings for the rest of your life, it’s too break the paradoxical association of fags with pleasure, which is a one-time thing.
- Comment on [HN] The Case for Nushell 9 months ago:
Long-time pwsh user here. I’d be all-in on nushell if I weren’t already getting all those benefits.
TFA says about pwsh: “not all features work on Linux” - be fair, those are system administration features, not shell or language features. They are things you need external utilities for in all shells on Linux. Like, no shit the AppX module doesn’t work…!
I still keep nushell on my radar because pwsh is not the quickest.
- Comment on Old PC as Server 10 months ago:
Hmm. I run mine off a usb3 ssd and it’s faster, but still slow.
- Comment on Old PC as Server 10 months ago:
It’s OK, but I’d suggest:
Atom > arm64 > arm32
Look for a NUC - they’re designed for desktop use, so they have more poke than a Pi. The N6005 CPU is a good choice, the N5105 is ok. These are x64, so you’ll have the widest range of packages. 4GB will do, if its upgradeable later. NUCs usually take SODIMMs, which you can pick up on ebay for peanuts.
- Comment on Old PC as Server 10 months ago:
Pi is not the only SoC, merely the best-known.
I’d earn anyone thinking of buying a Pi for a home server: ARM is widely supported, but you might regret investing in arm32. Atom is a safer choice.
- Comment on Best secure router for home use? 10 months ago:
They don’t supply Poe, mind. I’m planning an ubiquiti deployment:
5-6x AP 6 Pro 1x TL-SG1016PE PoE switch (yuck, but cheap) 1x R86S running opnsense and docker VMs, with unifi controller and pihole in docker
The R86S is the same price as the dream machine, but good luck running pihole on the DM
- Comment on Best secure router for home use? 10 months ago:
There are many similar. The best is GoWin R86S
- Comment on Best secure router for home use? 10 months ago:
…or MIPS…
- Comment on Best secure router for home use? 10 months ago:
Big fan of Mikrotik, but it helps to have some experience.
Haven’t tried hex, but RB2011 would be my default recommendation, and I’ve seen RB4009 for ~£120 (bargain of the century!)
- Comment on Quake II gets a remaster for PC and consoles—and it’s exactly what it needs to be 10 months ago:
Yeah and it’s cheap, also Quake 1 remastered is on sale rn!
- Comment on GM confirms $130,000 Cadillac Escalade IQ won’t have Apple CarPlay or Android Auto | GM said it was going to drop Apple CarPlay and Android Auto in all vehicles, and now, that includes Cadillac’s l... 10 months ago:
Or, better yet, an alu plate and some soldered switches and knobs
- Comment on The 26-year-old Quake 2 just got the remaster of my dreams, plus a big expansion 10 months ago:
Check out Asahi Linux on mac. Your mac is likely a better gaming machine.
- Comment on [WIRED] Glowforge Aura Review: An Easy to Use Laser Cutter 10 months ago:
I’ve held off on buying a printer because most of the applications I’d want to make parts for require metal of decent strength.
A laser cutter would be more useful to me. Looking forward to developments in this market.
- Comment on [TECHCRUNCH] Europe confirms in-depth probe for Adobe’s $20B Figma acquisition 10 months ago:
No way they want out.
Adobe has no other rivals (gimp is miles away).
This isn’t the value of Figma - it’s the value of maintaining a monopoly.
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