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mcspiff

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    I can only speak for myself, but I'm just glad you're still a member of these communities. Take care of yourself, and I look forward to many more years of learning from your code!

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    Comment #48388282

    > Third is I feel a responsibility to my projects and users. I feel like this should be a bit of a two way street. Is there anything we can be doing for you? I see there's an optio…

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    Comment #45057963

    Couldn’t agree more — Much like running my own DNS or email server, I don’t think I’ll ever go back to running my own website directly on the internet. It’s just not worth the hass…

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    Comment #43263449

    It’s not perfect, but I’ve found wezterms multiplexer quite good for this: https://wezterm.org/multiplexing.html

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    Comment #39964585

    I’m not sure you can really categorize rust as a high level language, unless you’re stating crypto primitives should only be written in assembly. EDIT: Given this attack was also a…

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    Comment #35883566

    Is there a tl;dr on why I’d want to boost? Vs say normal browser behaviour

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    Comment #35869818

    Doesn’t seem like a particularly notable release, anything I’m missing?

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    Comment #35779544

    I will given Berlin credit here — after checking in to our accommodations (took a taxi from the airport), I poked a ticket machine, quickly saw the Union Jack flag and got the mach…

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    Comment #35583841

    Yes. They own much of the infrastructure used by the project, and fund some of the people managing said infrastructure. In addition to the trademark.

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    Comment #35469951

    I mean yes — that’s the point. If untrusted parties have access to your keys, it’s already game over. You’ve lost. Disabling them is the nicest thing an attacker can do for you.

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    Comment #35138555

    Canadian but also lived in the US. Have not lived in the EU. For Canada, while geographically large population wise it’s very small compared to the US. The big Canadian banks are t…

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    Comment #34785326

    That’s common enough there’s a term for it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleshort

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    Comment #34742042

    Very much depends on location within Canada. BC has an open policy of allowing suites not to code for example

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    Comment #34471092

    Care to share more? Is this a daily driver or just a proof of concept thing? Genuinely interested

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    Comment #34214818

    Canada as well

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    Comment #34042838

    In Canada, electric block heaters for the engine are fairly common as well: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_heater . Similar concept to fire under the engine, but a bit more …

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    Comment #33837781

    This isn’t entirely true fwiw. That assumes a constant load on the systems. If you start running into a capacity crunch on a given system, your best case is scale horizontally or v…

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    Comment #33292845

    https://xeiaso.net/ is equally great content in a similar style in my opinion. Different area of topics a bit, but I enjoy both very much

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    Comment #33258041

    The major cloud providers are designing their own servers, so we’re back at “growing your own food”.

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    Comment #33241692

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleshort Might interest you!

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    Comment #32684455

    Right, it really should say anchor cities and not capital IMO. Those may coincide sometimes, but not always.

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    Comment #32681791

    Honestly PCI pass through would probably make it perfect for me. Pass through a usb controller or whatever other weird device you need