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talent_deprived commented on US needs much more than the IRA to get to net zero by 2050   arstechnica.com/science/2... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
tssva · 2 years ago
I'm old enough that IRA isn't the only confusing thing. When I see Net zero I think of the old ad supported free dialup Internet provider.
talent_deprived · 2 years ago
Agree on both accounts, I was confused why would the IRA be interested in buying NetZero when I read the title.
talent_deprived commented on The Cloud Computer   oxide.computer/blog/the-c... · Posted by u/CathalMullan
talent_deprived · 2 years ago
I can't read the dark theme for more than a couple of minutes without a headache and eye strain starting up.
talent_deprived commented on Unified versus Split Diff   matklad.github.io/2023/10... · Posted by u/ingve
iot_devs · 2 years ago
This is an huge issue for us in a very big and complex codebase with a lot of engineers working on it.

Code review is hard because the diff always looks reasonable, the tests always pass and all the basic stuff are always checked.

However, it happens often that, even if the changes looks reasonable they are wrong.

The whole architecture may drift after one bad change that looks reasonable.

As always this is not strictly a problem with the tooling, but more of culture and knowledge sharing.

And we are not going to solve it with a better tool.

talent_deprived · 2 years ago
A somewhat minor nitpick, the word huge begins with a consonant sound, not a vowel sound. It would be correct to write "a huge issue" not "an huge issue".
talent_deprived commented on Uber migrates microservices to multi-cloud platform running Kubernetes and Mesos   uber.com/en-GB/blog/up-po... · Posted by u/belter
x86x87 · 2 years ago
Does Uber really need 4000 microservices?
talent_deprived · 2 years ago
I've seen at least one place with many more than that in recent years. If you have one microservice "listener" per queue and another for the database processing and persistence (business logic) and another providing an API for one or more frontend UI's related to it then the microservice tally goes up very fast. It's kind of surprising to read so many comments indicating HN readers weren't aware of this.
talent_deprived commented on With Firefox on X11, any page can pastejack you anytime (middle button paste)   openwall.com/lists/oss-se... · Posted by u/jackdoe
talent_deprived · 2 years ago
For disabling X11 middle click paste, I found an interesting SO post but the best answer I saw and tested myself and it works, was the one by Suraj Inamdar about one third of the way down the page:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/24330/how-can-i-tur...

What sucks is I use middle click paste all the time so now I'll have to decide if I want to leave it disabled for potentially improving security.

talent_deprived commented on Town Repeatedly Surveilled Man's Yard with Drone Without a Warrant   404media.co/town-surveill... · Posted by u/nathan_phoenix
woodruffw · 2 years ago
I don’t have a particular rural vs. urban point to make, only a general observation about law and freedom: a place where law enforcement feels empowered to ignore the law is a place where law enforcement is effectively the sole power. In effect, a dictator’s prescribed freedom.
talent_deprived · 2 years ago
> a place where law enforcement feels empowered to ignore the law is a place where law enforcement is effectively the sole power

Like New York? The above commenter said law enforcement advised them to get guns which is what I've experienced growing up rural; tyrannical power mongers who are as you said, the sole power, try to take people's guns away.

talent_deprived commented on GnuCash Tutorial and Concepts Guide   gnucash.org/viewdoc.phtml... · Posted by u/thunderbong
lionkor · 2 years ago
I continue to be confused how people use these kinds of programs. They're cool, yeah, but how do you keep track of your credit card(s), bank account(s), possibly your significant other's as well, subscriptions, fees, automated payments, cash in/out, taxes, varying income, investment returns, savings, balances on platforms you may use like wise/revolut (for travel) in different currencies, automated "fees" like interest on savings, loans, which may change every now and then, etc?

I dont see any good way to manage this stuff, maybe just by monitoring what goes in and out of a main account. I would love if there was a protocol that all these services supported, but there sure as hell isn't.

At that point, does something like GNU Cash become just another inaccurate representation of in, out and have?

Edit: Maybe you just update it once a month from statements?

talent_deprived · 2 years ago
> I continue to be confused how people use these kinds of programs.

GnuCash is made for common people, my wife uses it and loves it.

talent_deprived commented on GnuCash Tutorial and Concepts Guide   gnucash.org/viewdoc.phtml... · Posted by u/thunderbong
Loic · 2 years ago
If some people have some recommendations, my wife is asking me for an app to basically input our family expenses. It should be fast, painless and very simple. Open the app, select the date (default today), select the category, the shop, amount and payment method. Done. Both of us should be able to input the data (so web based).

At the start, nothing more in the app. She would be happy to do the data analysis using her laptop.

I was thinking about a stupid CRUD app with an SQLite database, but I do not want to reinvent the wheel.

If some of you have ideas, we do not need banking integration.

talent_deprived · 2 years ago
My wife isn't a techie, the average user, and loves GnuCash.
talent_deprived commented on GnuCash Tutorial and Concepts Guide   gnucash.org/viewdoc.phtml... · Posted by u/thunderbong
rlh2 · 2 years ago
I tried this out and switched to ledger-cli instead. All of the features listed above are possible and the the flexibility is incredible. The hardest part is data entry. For accounts that provide API access I wrote curl/jq/awk parsers and for accounts that you can only get via download, I wrote short csv parsers in awk. I have ~ 15 accounts to keep track of and various loans/securities and I use ledger-cli to keep track of cost basis, interest vs principal on loans and my mortgage, all expenses, etc.

Took some time to write the transaction parsers, but updating everything takes about 5 min/month now and I have a complete financial picture without sending any data to something like mint.

talent_deprived · 2 years ago
My wife has used GnuCash for years. Then she's the average person, not a programmer or techie. She loves GnuCash.
talent_deprived commented on Wireless is a trap (2020)   benkuhn.net/wireless/... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
Night_Thastus · 2 years ago
I felt the same way about wireless mice for a LONG time, but technology has improved significantly.

With 2.4Ghz instead of blutooth, the reliability and latency problems are gone. Wireless mice, at the high end, have no more latency than a wired mouse. No issues with reliability in my years of owning them.

The battery also lasts a week or two, with some clever software tuning so it runs at a lower polling rate when not playing games. It charges in an hour or two.

Once you've experienced a proper wireless mouse, going back is impossible. They're so freeing. You can move in any direction and amount with NO resistance. Never fight the cable again. It's the way mice were meant to be.

Wireless keyboards are a bit more dubious. In theory they can have way better battery life due to the size, but in practice most still use crappy bluetooth so they have shit polling rates. I wish I could have it though, because it's more clutter on my desk and constantly gets in the way. I move my board around a lot to put down notepads, eat, etc.

EDIT: To be clear, my battery life is a result of using an ultralight mouse with a small internal battery, for game reasons. If you want one with AAA/AA, you'll likely get months out of it no problem.

talent_deprived · 2 years ago
Been using a wireless mouse, Logitech m325, for years, including gaming and it's connected through a USB transfer switch and still works great! I agree on keyboards, I use wired.

u/talent_deprived

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