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bdittmer

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    Comment #40060298

    clickbot farm?

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    Comment #35635485

    This looks like it was written by a LLM

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    Comment #35476674

    Remote Execution is just a gRPC protocol -- bazel, buck1 and others implement it.

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    Comment #34253669

    My personal macOS "machine" is a VM running on a supermicro threadripper pro board (along with a Linux desktop VM + random LXC/VMs). The macOS VM is significantly faster than my M1…

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    Comment #33697885

    This. Every couple months I disconnect the internet and walk around the house verifying all my "smart" home automation products still work. Sometimes I'll make a second pass with h…

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    Comment #31021071

    At one point I had a gist with a bunch of links to a web server that controlled some home automation stuff. Add a link to your Home Screen and you’re good to go! Easy to share as w…

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    Comment #30041972

    Ahh the Mahomes Method. A classic!

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    Comment #29960851

    I use it to run internal services I don't want going down when I'm messing around in the homelab. Namely: internal DNS, MQTT broker and various prometheus pollers (e.g. unifi-polle…

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    Comment #28625308

    Xcode as an IDE...and at a certain scale a build system like bazel or buck.

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    Comment #21101419

    Totally unrelated to the article (which I enjoyed), but the LA Times website continuously jumped up and down on my iPad. I suspect ads reloading above or below the fold. Incredibly…

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    Comment #19985524

    Nope. There is no vast right wing conspiracy to prevent affordable housing. I don’t want to jump to conclusions but I’m guessing you don’t live in SF or California?

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    Comment #18528091

    “Try moving towards architectures like micro services. KISS.” I don’t think you have worked with micro services, or more importantly have had to manage them.

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    Comment #16285538

    Action Network | Full Stack Developer, Front-End Developer | San Francisco, Madison, Boston | Full Time | Onsite We love sports and ship products that we personally use every day. …

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    Comment #16222147

    See my previous comment. This is exactly what happens. The sale doesn’t get voted to hell because the voting shares (i.e. preferred stock) have liquidation preference and get paid …

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    Comment #16220154

    Recently happened to me. Founders raid the series c for liquidity. Take out a predatory note to keep the company afloat. Sell the company in a fire sale and reap transaction bonuse…

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    Comment #16071372

    https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/KnowledgeBase/SpectreAn... Status page for the fix.

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    Comment #13961308

    I'm not really sure what triggered you in this article. This is fraud...it has nothing to do with xenophobia.

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    Comment #13607665

    This is why mutts are the best. Genetic diversity is good. Anecdotal, but growing up my two mutts lived to the ages of 16 and 18...well past the life expectancies you see in the pu…

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    Comment #13457181

    This was probably 2012 or 2013. I'll try to find the write up I sent them, but this check definitely did not exist then edit: here's what we sent to heroku https://gist.github.com/…

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    Comment #13451339

    This is a lot like a bug I found in Heroku's system a few years ago. Basically, if someone doesn't claim the wildcard subdomain for their primary domain and has a wildcard SSL cert…

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    Comment #5475873

    iirc Heroku has several full time employees who have commit access to PG. ie they're paying for some of postgres's development.