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asteriske··on Firefox nightly is running an experiment featuring a Fakespot feed on newtab
Is there a straightforward way to move an about:config to a new install? The number of things I require to be disabled or changed is mounting and I'm not looking forward to putting Firefox on a new machine.
asteriske··on Is Target selling its excess inventory on eBay and Poshmark?
The problem is they degrade the value preposition of the shop. If it's understood that the shop doesn't have enough things people want then people will go elsewhere and the charity raises less. The volunteers reallocate the producer surplus meant for the hospital into their own pockets.
asteriske··on Show HN: Open-source alternative to HashiCorp/IBM Vault
Is there an open source alternative to Hashicorp Nomad? It's such a nice alternative to k8s/k3s.
asteriske··on Happy 20th Anniversary, Gmail. I'm Sorry I'm Leaving You
I agree with you - comma - and there's also a perception that email is less important to the workings of daily life than it is because it's free. Much like car insurance or education or good nutrition a reliable email service not subject to the whims of a tech giant is worth paying for and should also be available to those unable to pay full price.
asteriske··on A newcomer’s (angry) guide to R
ggplot2 has plotnine (http://plotnine.readthedocs.io) which has a nearly identical API. I've found though it's not perfect, you can get closer to dplyr with JS-style method chaining on Pandas.
asteriske··on Ask HN: What 'product' have you done for your own use?
I made a python module / cli utility to collect all the log events that would usually be emailed to me throughout the day, aggregate them, and send digests on schedules based on their importance: https://github.com/asteriske/translogrify