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I loved playing Outer Wilds but boy did it make me car sick, had to give it up because I could only play 20 minutes then feel sick.

That idiom is so dumb.

There are 1000s of jobs that are incredibly easy with the tool for exactly that job but painful without, the auto industry alone has tonnes.

Software with footguns can be improved by removing the footguns.

The retailers love it though.

I even Amazon is getting in on it.

Apple is not going to enter the commodity server business, that is just a race to the bottom and probably the reason they got out of it in the first place.

The only reason XCode Cloud (or XCode at all) exists is because people need it to develop for ios, if developers could choose anything else they would.

At this point they are a luxury consumer product company, that is where the margins are that have made them successful for the last 10 years.

My only real ORM experience is with SQLAlchemy (and a tiny bit of trying to learn ecto) and based on this thread I have to ask are all the other ORMs just terrible?

I've been learning some rust lately and writing out boilerplate code to handle simple CRUD is painstaking and it feels like a waste of my time.

SQLAlechemy's ORM can get in the way a bit for more complex queries (or ones you are trying to optimize) but you can always just drop down and write the SQL for those specifically.

I have found it infuriating.

The TrueNAS portion of TrueNAS Scale seems fine but the Apps side of it I have found half baked.

I have multiple apps (both true charts and the base catalog) that just hang on init, with no logs, just the spinner and then it stops. Debugging k8s when you are abstracted like that is frustrating.

I also have had a difficult time getting traefik going with either Cert Manager or the TrueNAS certs, one seems to be deprecated the other seems to be undocumented.

If people gravitate towards to the apps feature of Scale I would recommend holding off till its had more time in the oven.

What problems can I solve with a columnar database?

What type of data benefits from that type of Database?

Site owners adding browser fingerprinting explicitly is vanishingly rare however site owners who sit behind cloud flare who very likely fingerprint browsers is very common.

Futzing with pythons terrible multiprocessing is one of least favorite parts of the language.

I like the markup language and the app looks nice but I just can't comfortably dump database schemas into random web apps.

Have we moved so far past the desktop that this knowledge is starting to be lost?

I had to swap real quick to my desktop and see if I still had to double click an icon just to be sure.

I mostly access things with the super key / search now and I guess people with phones would just tap an icon.

To be fair to PHP there have been quite a few improvements to the language in recent years.

I even hear Laravel is pretty nice to use.

I'll never know that stuff though because the PHP I generally encounter is 15 years old spaghetti.

I don't even properly know what IBM is now that they spun a bunch of things off.

I guess they tossed all the services/consulting into Kyndryl and everything else got to stay blue.

If that is the case I suppose we have drastically different ideas about what "the Internet" is.

In the grand scheme and from the outside looking in being `good at execution` might be the most important thing.

There were plenty of touch screen phones before the iphone.

Cool, I did not know about this one.

Sketchier providers often use dubious methods to acquire their exit nodes.

Often they pay someone to include their code in a "free" software or browser extension (or malware) that allows them to route traffic through the host.

Oxylabs is one of the larger examples whose record is somewhat dubious.

PGP exists, it is just no one uses it

If you are signed it the cost appears in the comparison chart.

For reference it is 10$ CAD per month or the Family option which is 12.50 CAD per month.

I assume they do regional price adjustments though.

They are already pretty good.

Like 1 to 2 kwh, probably substantially less if you dont use heated dry.

Most people using poetry do not care about python versions outside the one they are currently using.

It is a concern for library producers but they are definitely the minority.

It was some time ago and a limited sample but at one point there a was google recruiting presentation at my school.

When asked a reasonably simple question regarding expectations during interviews the google employees that were present each gave a drastically different answer(even after hearing their colleague).

The entire group covered the who spectrum of possible responses which lead me to believe that there was definitely a luck of the draw factor in who you get.

Perhaps they are more adherent to a rubric in 2023 which leads to these study guide type posts. Large company bullshit has never been my jam though so I never applied to find out myself.

It is such a bad implementation.

Whenever I am in a car with a touch screen the two things that get me

- The car bounces and I miss the thing on the screen I was aiming for

- I am low vision I have to lean in so close to read those stupid screens with the tiny UI widgets

I hope they figure something better out, I honestly preferred when they were doing the screens with the buttons around the edge.

Yeah, I use an arch derivative so its a rolling distro and even with the problems that entails I update packages about once a week and have not had issues since a bug got me 2 years ago.

How often are things changing for these people that configs need to constantly reviewed?

They keep adding them until they need an internal library to manage their collection of feature flags.

Then after a while they graduate to feature flags as a service (of which there are a bunch of cloud services trying to have a go at)

Only if your company is "Cloud Native" and thus real concerned about paying for over provisioned compute.

Gitlab makes it pretty easy to just toss a ci runner process on a vm or a physical box. You can get real far with a couple rack servers and some xeons for < $1000. You do have to over provision if your work load is not very consistent ( and of course pay for the power and rack space, and someone to mind them from time to time).

That was 22 years ago.

Plenty of time to establish a bland corporate brand, Google seems to be doing it just fine.

This is the thing I find when people post "ElasticSearch Alternative".

80% of ElasticSearch's value add (wrt search anyway) is all the clustering and frame work that allows you to span the search over tens or hundreds of machines "easily".

I think the same is true here. Probably the comparison should be with the underlying search libraries that ES sits on.

I suppose this comparison makes sense in a world where most people don't run their own servers much any more since the clustering etc would be a problem for the cloud offering and not the consumer.

That is the one thing I think about when people say "I used it to learn X and it was very good" but when people are learning they are not in a position to to judge if what they learned is correct.

A lot of other stuff is just regurgitation of a wiki article.

Still it is very interesting and definitely a step forward.

I have no idea either but it has a whiff of Oracle to it.