blorgle
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Comment · 4 years ago
Brave has built in adblocking and I think Firefox Focus does as well. No ads on YouTube.
Comment · 4 years ago
Jeff Snider from Alhambra Partners routinely makes this distinction: https://alhambrapartners.com/2021/10/13/perfect-time-to-revi...
They have a great podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/eurodollar-university/... and routinely appear on finance podcasts to explain this.
Comment · 4 years ago
I used to work for a startup that quickly grew to become one of the biggest Lambda users in my country (according to AWS). The entire business was serverless, not just Lambda but backend DynamoDB, APIGW, Cloudfront, etc. There was maybe 2 EC2 instances in the whole company.
Having seen what that model of development can do from an operational/security/agility/scalability/efficiency perspective, I think the comments on HN about serverless saying "it's just CGI" or that they could do something similar without vendor lockin are honestly laughably ignorant. If you haven't messed with Zappa (https://github.com/Miserlou/Zappa) or Serverless Framework (https://www.serverless.com/) at least a little you are missing out.
Comment · 4 years ago
Yeah, seems dumb "economist" thinking. The idea that "if someone gives up and walks away, everyone behind them benefits" is a absurd on two fronts.The stall owner clearly doesn't benefit from a lost sale. Mulled wine, mince pies and hot chocolate are not fungible. Maybe you are allergic to chocolate. Maybe mince pies make you gag.
Also, optimising for queue length only makes any sense in the described scenario if all stalls are owned by a single entity.
I'm not even going to touch the "only add something to your todo list if you are going to do it immediately" stupidity.
Comment · 4 years ago
You shouldn't pass unescaped/untrusted input into a subshell but your suggestion doesn't solve for every case. It protects against ";" but not path traversal with "../../../../../foo/bar".
Comment · 5 years ago
This issue with the backups happened to me as well. I managed to solve it by disabling iCloud Backup which deletes all the backups, then re-enabling it. I think essentially what happens is some stuff gets backed up, and even if you delete that stuff from your phone it's still retained in backups for some period of time.
Comment · 5 years ago
network namespaces and any reverse proxy :)
Comment · 5 years ago
It's not the inflation component which is killing real personal income (ex transfer receipts)...it's the bad modelling which is used to generate current estimates that are subject to revisions.
The revisions show the real picture, and it is not pretty.
See https://alhambrapartners.com/2021/07/30/inflation-estimates-...
Comment · 8 years ago
When I had to do some pf work, googling around rendered this project which uses pf to provide network segmentation for jails and edge firewalling. Was quite useful learning reference:
https://github.com/sinner-/ansible-freebsdvps/blob/master/ro...
Comment · 9 years ago
I grew up using Debian and later Ubuntu, longer than 10 years on those distros as a kid and into my career as a sysadmin/operations person. Ubuntu LTS was my main workhorse form about 10.04 through to ~14.04.3.
Late 2015 I decided I wanted a "Chromebook" style user experience where I could have a repeatable build of the base OS that could be thrown away plus a backup system based around duplicity to restore my homedir. I had used preseed to deploy large fleets of Ubuntu boxes at work so it was a natural option. But I decided a few things: Firstly, I was sick of LTS 3.x kernel. Secondly, if 16.04 and all other distros were adopting systemd I may as well go to the source and use a RH based distro. Finally, that preseed wasn't as good as Kickstart used in RH based distros.
So I came up with https://github.com/sinner-/kickstart-fedora-workstation to provide repeatable builds of Fedora the way that I like it. I've been happily using it since then (across 2 versions of Fedora and a hard drive failure)! The .ks file will be updated for F26 this weekend as it just went GA today.
Comment · 9 years ago
This looks SO cool! Kind of like Erlang but at a different level, so you can model both inter-node systems (like Erlang) but also intra-node systems (like USB3 drivers)!
As someone who has been thinking a lot recently about SPARK/Ada and "free" formal verification, can anyone tell me how this language compares on that front? If I write a P program, do I get the ability to "prove" its correctness?
Comment · 9 years ago
Spotify should consider implementing Consul :P
Comment · 9 years ago
Even though there were two patches submitted in 2013 and 2014 to switch to ChaCha:
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugs/2013-Octobe...
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2014-May...
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