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It will not make you unhappy. It will just not make you happy. Big difference. The saying "money can't buy happiness" is in fact true no matter how much people want to rationalize …

No, it was Top Gun on NES.

Pixel 9a is the closest to a no bump phone out of the major brands.

It's pretty fundamental to the personality of people in sales to be driven by getting the sale and getting compensated based on the deal size. If you remove that carrot, it just do…

"He was informed the flagging was for two reasons: first, he was told he had an incorrect visa, but he was also told that there was another reason that the agents would not disclos…

"With 4 out of 5 people keeping their flats, “Housing First” is effective in the long run. In 20 percent of the cases, people move out because they prefer to stay with friends or r…

Stop trying to make fetch happen.

Seems very similar to https://dist.sh/ but distillery seems a bit more robust.

The transition to Wayland also seems to correlate with the adoption of client side decorations (CSD). This "modern" approach destroys the traditional UX of XFCE as seen by recent c…

A tax refund means you paid too much taxes and the government refunds the excess. The size of the refund means nothing except how good you are in predicting taxes.

Next they can fix nil checks on interfaces.

I’m not sure why this is a top post. The definitions of controller and operator are completely wrong. The example code is for creating a custom api server which is only done in the…

In some ways. The same team that created Rio created Acorn.

This exact use case is built into acorn. In the getting starting guide redis/postgres are included in the acorn, but in production those services can easily be overwritten with any…

The most important thing to learn from this article is the reference to "27 eight-by-ten color glossy photographs and circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one"

Without knowing it, they reinvented the Kubernetes informer which I've proven can scale way past their current scale.

GoDaddys founder does not sit on the board and has no active role in the company. https://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/news/2018/10/03/bob-pars...

I grew up (in the 80s) by a bank that was routinely robbed. It was conveniently located by a freeway on ramp and had a drive thru. Over time they closed the drive thru and eventual…

k3s still defaults to sqlite. For HA dqlite was dropped in favor of embedded etcd in k3s 1.19.

It's everywhere, and it's not going anywhere soon. Hopefully soon enough it will fade into a layer most don't see or care about, like the hypervisor.

I'm all for this for the shipping industry and completely unmanned, but I'm not about to fly on this myself.

I find it a bit surprising that classful networks is not common knowledge. I guess it's just a sign that times have changed. This was a basic thing I learn when I first learned abo…

I can't recommend Linux From Scratch enough. If you want to understand the composition of the Linux user space, this is one of the best exercises to follow.