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    Comment #48834075

    Go ahead and let them try consumer SSD's. It seems to be a lesson everyone has to learn with ZFS once.

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    Comment #48576127

    I've had the misfortune of scripting an UE build with perfoce as the VCS, it truly is abysmal.

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    Comment #48196192

    >so much saner than Linux firewalls it's not even close. This is a big one for me. I've run openBSD and Linux custom boxes as SoHo routers and I just cannot stand Linux firewalls, …

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    Comment #48097887

    Feel the same way about COVID. It damaged the social fabric in ways that have not recovered. I think a lot of people realized that maybe they never really liked socializing as much…

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    Comment #48041983

    If I paste something from an AI into chat, I always identify it as such by saying something like "my claude instance says this:". I also don't blindly copy paste from it, I always …

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    Comment #48027408

    I do use compose for some things, smaller one off type setups, and I’ve done the compose up --build CI/CD approach before. I’m generally not a fan of building on the production nod…

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    Comment #48025090

    Extremely debatable. They still have never fully implemented health checks and auto healing. I have had compose itself behave in unexpected ways, weird things like not realizing th…

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    Comment #47978167

    I'm a fan of the monorepo in general, even before LLMs. If using git it leverages git's best feature IMO, the commit as a snapshot of the entire repo. I've worked on so many projec…

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    Comment #47966903

    Ubuntu has patches out, tested before and after patching.

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    Comment #47938185

    >CalDAV, CardDAV, and SMB are baked into iOS, whereas these are onerous to set up on Android I can only speak to SMB but it is not hard on Android. I use a longtime third party app…

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    Comment #47891775

    Are you implying only one country does these things?

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    Comment #47891700

    No, we don't. This is big tech shifting liability off themselves with the added bonus of full de-anonymization. Take a look at who is lobbying for this.

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    Comment #47891680

    The liability shifting and real identity linking to all online usage that big tech wants is proceeding nicely for them I see.

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    Comment #47880091

    https://www.thefp.com/p/why-do-americans-feel-poor-because The gist: the statistics used to define poverty are old and inaccurate.

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    Comment #47880080

    Housing being expensive because of laws and zoning that constrain it's supply is often touted, but there is good academic research that that isn't the case. https://www.dropbox.com…

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    Comment #47840000

    Yes, they are good at being coding "interns". They work together in slack which allows management visibility and tasking directly to them. i.e. people who aren't going to be managi…

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    Comment #47785075

    low code / no code, and it's been around in one form or fashion since the 1990's, at least.

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    Comment #47766224

    >the centralized service was the most important part of decentralized version control. I've often thought this about github

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    Comment #47765912

    Should really qualify this headline with which backblaze product.

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    Comment #47757420

    I think college's value proposition and entire model has been eroded. Major school's CS grads are finding jobs upon graduation at an 11% rate (I don't have the primary source on th…

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    Comment #47709096

    Don't know why people think Texas doesn't have natural beauty. It's a huge state.

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    Comment #47706306

    Having to work around a massive C++ software project daily, I wish you luck. We use conan2, and while it can be very challenging to use, I've yet to find something better that can …

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    Comment #47590212

    this submission is basically an ad

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    Comment #47588930

    That is really wild