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People actually benefit from both low-intensity and high-intensity exercise. One is not a substitute for the other. Endurance athletes know this. Low-intensity exercise conditions …

Its not just about the code though. Somehow that code needs to keep up with the latest standards and magically be delivered to my client device. To think that a project as complex …

If you think Firefox has stagnated you clearly aren't aware of the substantial and complex improvements that have been made to the firefox core over the last couple of years: * Fas…

Just a reminder that enabling Hyper-V (needed for WSL2) will make your computer boot your current Windows install inside a VM too. This might makes a slight performance impact. Tha…

> The real reason you can't operate in ZA is Empowerment, and what Google probably ran into. They can only own 49% of the business the start. There's no evidence that Google ran in…

I'm a techie living in Cape Town and I love it. I have no plans to emigrate. We have problems down here yes, but they've been no impediment to my career. Both Amazon AWS and Oracle…

I'll add one - I immediately ignore any job ad that contains anything along the lines of "Work in an exciting/agile fast-paced, dynamic environment", which pretty much signals that…

Another use case is fungibility, privacy and anonymity. These are features which are for the most part missing in our current financial system. Monero ( https://getmonero.org/ ) is…

For me, its not just about the sound. I can easily lose focus by being visually over-stimulated too, and there's no way to fix that except for cubicles.

> Do you really want an init system that replaces a ton of functionality poorly like dns, ntp, syslog, xinetd, etc etc etc? SystemD is not just an "init" system. You have to look a…

The second major issue is it growing way out of the bounds of being just an init replacement, thereby violating the so-called Unix Philosophy of doing one-thing well. I keep on hea…

ConEmu with Bash/WSL has not worked out for me. I came across way too many incompatibilities, and weird behaviour. Some of these are documented in (1). That said, ConEMU was never …

I don't think the author missed the mark. He does elaborate on the other factors, such as social adaption: > I don’t see this mindset shifting, so my advice to youngsters has remai…

I rather like the clean aesthetic of Windows 10, and am now using it as my main OS. Sure, it's by no means perfect, and there is still work to be done. But by and large I am happie…

Ha. I've gone to AfrikaBurn a few times (largest burn after Burning Man). It started circa 2007 and the old-timers are already complaining that its ruined. Also juicy politics like…

Ex-AWS engineer here. The Amazon experience can differ wildly between teams and orgs. Best thing is to find some peers that work there and get the inside loop on which teams are sa…