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Things are where you’d expect, patterns and conventions cary on throughout the system, etc… Vs the disjoint feeling linux has.

All i humorously get is:

500 - Oh no, something did not go well.

"/blog/how-i-built-a-modern-website-in-2021" is currently not working. So sorry.

He lost a little bit of credibility saying the Macbooks have terrible build quality… compared to a thinkpad they are on par or better, compared to everything else they are head and shoulders above.

Aside: AWS only allows registering 1000 targets in a target group… i wonder if thats the limit they hit. If so, its documented.

Why not just get an M1 macbook air? Its likely more performant, also has no fan, runs bsd, whats not to like?

You could probably one day replace MacOS with openbsd if you wanted.

I dont understand why they sell the pro. The touchbar is rubbish and the air has 99% the same performance. Yeah the pro can go faster for longer without throttle but its heavier and doesnt have those physical f-keys.

Its more expensive too… not sure why anyone would buy it over the air. Two more usb-c but you can only hook in one external monitor! Also 200 more nits on screen but… is it really that important?

I cant wait for the 14/16 with the m1x. These are already barn burners.

Apple is the only laptop manufacturer that even gets close to 1000 cycles of great battery life.

I tried to package something on debian many years ago before and gave up.

Apparently there were two sets of tools and I never could find good documentation on the “modern tools” or make sense of the docs for the older tools.

I wonder if the station has gotten better.

Thats just advertising! I dont work at facebook but i also wasnt born yesterday. Give people a taste so they want to sign up. That doesn't make them evil any more than a movie trailer makes hollywood evil.

Im not sure why this person would expect to see the content while logged out. Shrug.

Its part of a social network, if everyone was lurking it would just be a bunch of creepers. The product shows who viewed a post/story/reel etc and can't do that if you arent logged in.

This should be part of the manual. Ive tried multiple times to understand systemd deeper than a service restart here and looking at logs for a unit there to no avail.

Why does building from source help? It’s not like people are reading every line of the source before building it anyway 99.99% of the time.

What do you know now that you wish you knew then?

The penguin in this one is nightmare fuel

I consider myself a novice but competent python programmer (not particularly skilled or expert) and everytime i have to use something made in python i cringe because i know it will require 30 minutes of futzing with things to even run it.

Python’s ecosystem is the worst for get-up-and-go usage.

Nvm or nodenv make managing node environments trivial compared to virtualenv, pip, and co. Same with rustup or rbenv… in fact python is the only language i have the problem with.

We get data into BigQuery from pg using a custom airflow plugin but recently started doing something similar on AWS with DMS to get data from postgres -> redshift.

DMS is awesome. No code is the best code. Big query is great but not having a “snap-your-fingers and the data is there” connector makes it a PITA for me to maintain.

As a result… we are using more redshift.

When they make the desktop pro version its going to slap. This is a 15 watt part! You may not care about efficiency so then wait and see what the desktop part looks like.

I don't think you realize how far ahead the M1 actually is... it's about processing power per watt. The desktop you used actually 1) has a fan 2) is probably consuming many more than 15 watts 3) would burn my lap if it was anywhere near it.

The implications are huge. Think about the competitive advantage a data center that operated with no cooling requirements and much lower power requirements would be if it got the same (or better!) performance than an equivalent intel based one.

It's not just faster, its faster than equivalent parts AND way more efficient.

At the bottom:

> IMPORTANT NOTE: SunBook is no longer available because the Pixel Qi transflective LCDs are no longer made.

I wrote a tool to tail CloudWatch logs called saw: http://github.com/TylerBrock/saw

I was so fed up trying to debug lambdas and the other AWS offerings that a tool like this to see program output in near realtime is indispensable. I use it all the time.

Is it bug free? No

Did i write tests for it? Also no.

Is it useful? Yes.

> ensure you're not I/O-bound

The biggest thing holding me back from using pg as a data warehouse is RDS not having support for instances with ephemeral drives / cost for PIOPS.

I need 100s of thousands of iops not thousands.

Do they publish an image thats suitable for a docker base?

I wonder why alpine became he defacto super slim base image over void?

Why is microsoft posting this / working on this rather than the rust project itself?

The name of the program was "At Ease". It had two big folders with icons that looked very much like a precursor to iOS's springboard we know today.

The two folders were labeled "Applications" and "Documents": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_Ease

You could also trigger the NMI via Apple key + power button and I remember the magic code to set the memory to zero and crash finder being: SM<space>0<space>A964<return>G<space>O<return>

The golang example where he uses scratch as the base image is essentially this.

The service itself has been down over an hour for us currently... not great. Just blew more than a years worth of downtime at four nines.

Still down for us... 12:49pm (more than 1 hour after starting)

I’ve tried to like the JetBrains stuff (especially Clion) but I just have never gotten to the point where I love it.

I know I’ll probably get banned for calling this out but I find it disgusting that silicon valley was crucifying Brian Armstrong for his “no politics at work” stance but now everyone is back to kissing the ring now that he’s made everyone and their grandma millions of dollars.

This is why running something like VSCode on your Mac with the remote ssh dev setup is the best of all worlds.

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/remote-overview

Virtualized Linux on x86 AND being able to run VSCode on your Mac for great fonts, WiFi, screen etc without having to fuss with drivers.

Of course ssh and tmux also work well for this purpose.