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gnrl··on Why are UK electricity bills so expensive?
What's the reason to avoid smart meters?
gnrl··on Backend of Meta Threads is built with Python 3.10
The decision is often inspired by two things A) how near impossible it is to migrate the sheer amount of services and code without breaking something. B) that often the needed performance is not needed is not having big jumps. So small but constant improvements are the way to go.
gnrl··on Blind: Meta's layoff rumor March 14-16, cut ~1200 D1-D2-M1, M2 and most M0
(D)irector and (M)anager. Director are Manager who manage Manager.
gnrl··on Productivity Blocker
And then you feel it's not a waste of time to write a comment on an article you took 3sec to understand and skip?
gnrl··on AWS adds an extra 5.5M IPv4 addresses
You only get a public IP if you host in a public subnet. Should you deploy to a private subnet you wouldn't get a public ip
gnrl··on Coinbase to Suspend Trading in XRP
I disagree with your statement that bcash is manipulative language. I now understand where you are coming from after reading your posts but there is a community out there referring to bitcoin cash as bcash since its short and succinct and easy to speak.

Also might I suggest to reflect on your posts? The tone sounds quite angry and seems to stem from frustration which can lead to reading bad intent where is none.

gnrl··on Coinbase to Suspend Trading in XRP
I don't see any additional value of bcash over bitcoin. Eth and Monero I agree though, each of them bring fundamental values additionally to btc.
gnrl··on Show HN: Flurly – sell any digital file online
Does stripe not charge more than 1% itself? How does the math work out?
gnrl··on Big Prometheus: Thanos, Cortex, M3DB and VictoriaMetrics at Scale
Do you have by any chance recorded this?
gnrl··on An 84-year-old Japanese app developer
Well job ads are already the wrong approach. Go meet your local business in meetups, social gatherings, etc.
gnrl··on It took 12 weeks to ship an MVP I thought would take 3
Try to add autoscaling. You shouldn't be doing it manual :-)
gnrl··on One liner NPM package “is-windows” has 2.5M dependants, why on earth?
The line of code in that moment is read and "vetted". Same can be done for the dependency yes, but what happens if malicious code is injected later and you update your packages? Or like the leftpad disaster where the package was deleted?

There is many reasons why the copied one liner is better and many why the package manager is better.

gnrl··on FastMail loses customers, faces calls to move over anti-encryption laws
Look into migadu. :-)