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I'm always flabbergasted when I see what people pay and how much effort they need to invest to keep their cloud websites from eating them alive. My allegedly more complicated VPS s…

I'm sceptical, where are all these essays he was supposed to have learned this very distinct style from? I certainly don't remember seeing them.

Don't confuse urgency for FOMO. > There is definitely a point where you are going too fast, but the customer will almost certainly let you know when this happens. Usually by stoppi…

The post-release XP service packs, to be precise. XP's release was a perfect storm of events: Suddenly, millions of home users receiced an OS that had dozens of networked RPC servi…

Model quality is only one aspect, the bigger problem is making it work in a fully integrated enterprise platform, and Google has always been lacking when it came to the latter. At …

The primary advantage of dedicated hardware accelerators for the past ~15 years been power efficiency, rather than performance. Not much of a problem on a desktop, but very noticea…

kubevirt is a cute joke, but hardly a replacement for ovirt or vmware. It's a real shame redhat keeps sabotaging itself to chase hypes with half-assed non-solutions.

"around" is the best way to describe it; the libvirt/virt-manager ecosystem isn't dead, but redhat killing off ovirt/rhev support drained a lot of resources out of it. And for some…

> as long as the people doing the work are recognized and compensated. Are the 15% getting 80% of the compensation, though?

I'm baffled by just how much Google continues to screw up their AI overview. Even duckduckgo manages to provide significantly better results.

Step one: Decision makers who can change these processes need to be aware of this problem. Many companies fail this simple task. Step two: These decision makers must be held accoun…

Yeah, Elon's whole shtick is make things scale up that everyone else thinks can't scale up. Sometimes it works (batteries), sometimes it works spectacularly well (Falcon 9), someti…

Jokes aside, I don't really see the appeal of a demake of helix; it only really makes sense to me as "vim but far more concepts integrated as first-class features rather than addon…

~90% of the failure modes grub can fix don't exist without grub. I can't remember any time when its needless complexity was actually a net benefit compared to literally any of its …

Grub is really impressive in how it consistently spent the last 30 years focused on improving everything except the UX of the one workflow 99.99% of its involuntary users need it f…

Or use UKI and throw the current kernel to /efi/boot/bootx64.efi; there's plenty of solutions to sane bootloader/kernel management if you're willing to invest 15 minutes into the t…

If your definition of refinement is "looks like a Macbook", sure. Personally, if I wanted a laptop that looks like a Macbook, I'd buy a Macbook.

Oh look, another generic Macbook clone.

> The point was usually not usability. It was identity. And we're not even getting usability out of it! Each of those bland react-angles is subtly inconsistent with the OS, with ea…

Don't be silly, this is the JS ecosystem. Why use your brain for a minute and come up with a 50 byte helper function, if you can instead import a library with 3912726 dependencies …

Scammers have no problem waiting 24 hours, so this doesn't protect incompetent people at all.

To be blunt: I don't care. Don't make their incompetence my problem.

> But putting my design hat on here: couldn't this be the whole approach? No, because protecting users is just an excuse. The overreach is the goal.

That includes school-issued Macs, so I don't see how that's an argument against Chromebooks.

Yeah, you'd find out about it all in the newspapers a few hours later, and none if it was "clap to yourself in an empty room" impressive anyway. I was around back then and I didn't…