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We are a small data consultancy, so we use other/more diverse things for customers, but our internal stack is fairly simple: Hubspot/Jira/G Suite → (Python) → PostgreSQL → (SQL) → …

> It also doesn't look like a comfortable place for bikes. In fact, where are bikes even supposed to go on this street? Another issue for cyclists is the permanent danger of gettin…

I'm not a big fan of putting my password (encrypted or not) somewhere where I don't have control. Therefore, I am using Passbolt[0] at work, since that gets me a browser addon plus…

"This guy" was Niklas Luhmann, by the way, an influential (and regularly misunderstood) German sociologist and social theorist, heavily inspired by Parsons and cybernetics.

I think Tableau Server works better on Linux, where upgrades etc. are also somewhat less painful and require less downtime. That said, it baffles me why I have to restart Tableau S…

Oh hey, maybe this will mean somebody at Tableau has to start to give a damn about enterprise features, such as a way to do product activation and registration that doesn't fail co…

Note that a data lake does not necessarily replace the data warehouse, but rather often complements it. As such, you store your raw data from various sources in a centralised data …

Kyle Rankin gave a (very good) keynote at FOSDEM 2019 about this topic, harkening back to the Unix wars, Sun etc. He has some really nice one-liners. Video is available here: https…

There is a "suggestion" somewhere that asked them to implement service accounts for API access. They essentially replied with "this is a good idea and we should do this". That post…

openSUSE still "uses" YaST, as in, if you choose to change something via YaST, it will happily do so. You can also simply install/uninstall various components. It also happily inte…

Correct. I'd say openSUSE is more akin to Fedora in that context as both base and development distribution for SLES, much like Fedora is for RHEL (which in turn then "becomes" Cent…

Richard Brown gave two talks at FOSDEM 2019 about Kubic, as well: https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/speaker/richard_brown/

It is, or rather it would be, if more cloud providers etc. bothered to provide images. Indeed, I think that RedHat & SuSe are very similar in their ideas and in their usage pattern…

Ugh, just saw your comment now. I wrote a bit more in a sibling comment about openSUSE. For some reason, people seem to either sneer at openSUSE (probably people who go way back?) …

openSUSE uses the Open Build Service[0] to build, well, openSUSE. OBS also supports other distributions etc., but it makes it fairly easy to put up a package.[1] For RPM-based dist…

Podman doesn't have a daemon like Docker does. It also more tightly integrates with buildah, which the article doesn't expand on. Have a look at this (very brief) overview to get a…

> They should allow anyone on the continent to own a .eu domain. Since when is the UK "on the continent"?

There is a video from th 35C3 on that website which gives a primer to what it is they mean, and where he also explains that "operating system" is to be understood as a metaphor for…

~/Downloads/source/ / for checked out sources of tools etc. ~/Downloads/programs for OS images, large binary blobs etc. ~/Development/ / for development projects ~/Documents/ for d…

The first mentions of Hitler in the Simplicissimus , a fairly widely read and well-regarded contemporary Munich-based journal, appear in 1922, and this picks up the following year.…

This probably depends on your implementation of choice and what counts as "everyday" programming. Racket has a minor language for shell mix-ins[1] and Racket itself has some nice w…

There definitely seems to be a language barrier, even if they all are easily available in translation. I think one of the more interesting distinctions there is Marcuse, who I see …

The review makes it sound as if nobody else pointed out the interwovenness of "the" Enlightenment, capitalism and increasingly isolated, individualist modern societies. Yet, while …

I would be very surprised if they drafted anybody without a Swedish passport.