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1,160 karma · joined December 31, 2015

Provakil

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/madeti; my proof: https://keybase.io/madeti/sigs/zBcADTjjKFHek4AIrWu_aM2QsniGk_DPs-2XVtmzTrI ]

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rgun··on Russian Bear Steps on Ukrainian Lego Illustration
Is it like the bear is using the lego block to scratch its itch?
rgun··on I am the healthiest person I know, and I got cancer
First explanation seems to be easy to verify.

RCT with two groups of (similar demographic) people. Everyone is given a full body checkup for finding cancer. Half of them are treated for any cancer found and the other half are left as is.

Check the longevity and status of cancer in both groups.

rgun··on What are your company's anti-values?
I believe what author means by 'anti-value' is the other side of trade-off, which you are willing to compromise.

Like in 'move fast and break things', you are willing to compromise reliability/stability in favour of speed.

rgun··on Best Practices for Securing SSH
Can you please elaborate on why preventing ssh agent is good?
rgun··on AWS price reduction for data transfers out to the internet
The 1TB allowance is only for Cloudfront. For general data egress (from ec2, directly from S3), it is just 100GB.
rgun··on Tasking developers with creating detailed estimates is a waste of time (2020)
I have heard these terms (stories, epics, milestones) a lot. Is there any standard definition for these terms or do they differ from project to project? Any good literature on how to think about them?
rgun··on OVH is down along with its status page
Down for me too. Although, seems like this time only the status page is down.
rgun··on OVH is down along with its status page
It is up here at 08:27 am UTC
rgun··on OVH is down along with its status page
Well, even if you don't use OVH you should be ready for this kind of stuff.
rgun··on OVH is down along with its status page
Still down from here
rgun··on Peter Thiel, Scourge of Silicon Valley
What is the difference?
rgun··on “Nihilism is OK” is not OK
This is the exact same conclusion I came to from we-cannot-escape-the-heat-death argument. I will just make myself and my loved ones happy (latter because it indirectly makes me happy).

On an unrelated note, is your grandfather a preacher or your grandson?

rgun··on “Nihilism is OK” is not OK
It would not be "morally bad". It has just hastened the timeline for everything losing meaning (thousands/millions/billions of years from now -> now).
rgun··on KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices
Can you please elaborate as to how it can be done? Will putting all your devices in a VPN suffice?
rgun··on Flirting for Morons
A little background: Many women in the Dota 2 community are coming forward with allegations of sexual harassment. Mostly against a caster named Grant "GranDGranT" Harris.
rgun··on Ending Support for macOS and Linux
Dota 2

* Plethora of mechanics and combinations possible, make it impossible for two games to ever be the same.

* Steep learning curve but very rewarding

I am fairly sure it will stay around at least for 3-4 more years (given the current popularity and player base).

rgun··on Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the cloud
Assuming you are not providing any updates (not even security critical ones for argument's sake), you only need to package and add documentation for an on-prem installation. Why is it so costly?
rgun··on Nebula, Slack's Open Source Global Overlay Network
Why do you think it is "weird" to use WireGuard for connecting application server with a DB instance?

(Backdrop: I have recently moved our various prod servers into a WireGuard based VPN to encrypt the traffic between them. I found it was easier/pragmatic to do this than:

* to setup SSL for my DB

* to figure out how to encrypt traffic between my application server and Redis or my application server and Nginx )

rgun··on Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the cloud
Agreed. But if a user agrees to be left "out in the cold", you should allow him to. Given that it is not very costly for you to prepare your software for on-prem, it maybe a win-win for all the parties involved.
rgun··on Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the cloud
> The best part is that many people think that an on-premises version should be less expensive than the online version, and come without a subscription.

Which makes sense IMHO, provided they are not expecting any updates to their on-prem installation. It can just be a fork of your current codebase with no new features or warranty. Maybe you can include some terms for critical security updates but that is about it.

rgun··on Redesigning GitHub Repository Page
> Commits often touch files for completely arbitrary reasons, so the last commit tells you almost nothing

That is mostly true if you are casually browsing a repository you are interested in. It is definitely not true if you are a contributor/owner of the repository.

rgun··on Ask HN: Why are cheaper hosting services like OVH not very popular?
True. I failed to mention that I was talking about dedicated servers. In which case, the servers with vRack enabled are costlier.

I did not check for their VPS offering.

rgun··on Ask HN: Why are cheaper hosting services like OVH not very popular?
In the tune of $10k.

We also came to the same conclusion. Moreover, being an Indian startup, these dollar bills are burning a huge hole in our pocket :D

rgun··on Ask HN: Why are cheaper hosting services like OVH not very popular?
Can you please elaborate? (Apart from the points I have already mentioned)
rgun··on Ask HN: Why are cheaper hosting services like OVH not very popular?
We did receive large amounts of AWS and Google cloud credits.

I did not mention in the question for brevity, but we moved to Google Cloud (GCP) after exhausting AWS credits to utilise GCP credits. We came to know of OVH a couple of months back and having burnt through our GCP credits, we are again making a switch.

rgun··on Lobotomizing Gnome
I am on KDE 5 and TIL! Thanks.

Alt+right click resizes window and Alt+left click drags the window.

rgun··on Fedora KDE
If you ever try KDE again, when searching through the default plasmoids, you will see a Get new widgets button through which you can download new plasmoids.

You can take a look at all the plamoids available for download here: https://store.kde.org/browse/cat/418/

rgun··on Fedora KDE
I have mapped it to meta + R (more mnemonic) from the default Alt + F2.

I use it a lot for quick calculations.

rgun··on Fedora KDE
Then you will be glad to know that recent versions of KDE (I can vouch for Kubuntu 16.04) have mapped the meta key to applications menu.

Although, I have never felt the need for it. I like using the krunner (it is similar to spotlight on Mac) instead of the application menu.

rgun··on Keep your Identity Small (2009)
The book The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt explores similar concepts.

It is an extremely interesting book on moral psychology. (YC 2017 Summer Reading List)

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