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I have a preempt-able workload for which I could use Spot instances or Savings Plans. Does anyone have experience running Spot in 2025? If you were to start over, would you keep us…

It didn't last 3 days -- the repo now 404s

Also https://audioread.com/ . I love that you can forward emails to audioread and they'll be transcribed into podcasts. Thank you AI-voiced Matt Levine!

I occasionally ponder on how frustrating it is that the deceased don't get to hear their eulogies. It would have been amazing for Bram to have been able to experience all the outpo…

tig is great for a read only operations. Looking at the tree, peeking at diffs, finding specific commits. It's quicker to get in and out of. I reach for it instead of `git log`. la…

If you click through to the Project Zero blogspot it says the Mar 2023 security update fixes the issue for the Pixel devices. My Pixel 7 didn't show an update was available (last c…

I've watched those videos, and they're always super upfront with "this video was sponsored by the Gates foundation." I don't see a problem here.

RDS Proxy is very specific with which versions it supports. If it says it doesn't support it, it doesn't support it. Postgres 14 is supposed to have built-in connection pooling. If…

Congrats team!

The one I use the most is `vipe`. > vipe: insert a text editor into a pipe It's useful when you want to edit some input text before passing it to a different function. For example,…

Constantly

shameless self-promotion Three ex-Pebblers went on to found Memfault(YC W19, https://memfault.com ), taking what they learned about managing a fleet of IOT devices and building a s…

Congrats on launching! How mature is this? We have a 20 person team and we're prototyping different pipelines for our next CI/CD pipeline (currently Heroku). Is this ready for prod…

There's some code examples in their docs: https://docs.dagger.io/1202/plan

I wrote a "smart" random clicker. It iterates through all the shapes and clicks their locations in a double-for loop. I added some jitter because it can't tell when it succeeds (so…

From the beginning of TFA: > An extreme example which proves the point: the cryptocurrency enthusiast community largely believes that code is law, “not your keys, not your coins”, …

I agree with this take. I've used a Freestyle 2 for years and _loved_ it. I tried the Advantage 2 and it gave me headaches -- I couldn't deal with the keys being in different spots…

The pricing was updated today: https://gitlab.com/stavros/imgz/-/commit/7bdac35c8bc397bf829...

@jpgrayson (since I see you lurking around here) Thanks for maintaining stgit! I've been a recent convert and it's a great workflow improvement. I used to be a big `git rebase -i` …

I quit Google last month specifically because I didn't want to move back to MTV in September.

I don't believe that a system reboot is a symptom of this issue, just app crashes. Also, the bug started yesterday afternoon. I doubt this has anything to do with your system reboo…

Interestingly, the Google SRE book[1] mentions scenarios where they practice exactly this: > The solution to this Chubby scenario is interesting: SRE makes sure that global Chubby …

Suggested alternate title: > Replit Dotcom: 'repl.it' moves to 'replit.com'