frupert52's comments

For a long time archeology was simply known as “digging” and following that “digging for things”

> “and here we are now”

No of course, that’s a completely logical story arc. Good thing it makes so much sense otherwise I’d be skeptical you were leaving some information out.

I only started using Keybase as a useful tool for working with Hashicorp Vault in testing but have found some other features like encrypted Git and synchronisation of identity/PGP to be useful.

Does anyone know if there any other tools providing similar or partly similar functionality? Even something self hosted or a combination of complimentary open source apps would suffice.

I’m less concerned about the chat functionality.

Set to funk funk

$4 is $4 more than $0

It’s a short sighted and poor long term strategy. Eventually no one wants to work with you regardless of whether you can get things done.

Much better to build relationships which enable you to get things done by virtue of others wanting to look after you.

That's because they don't want to encourage the use of on-prem

Interesting to see some familiar topics here, I thought I was the only one.

You may be interested to know that some time in the last decade the Russians clearly signalled they would be prepared to use nuclear weapons in Europe. Brilliant play since they know the US sentiment around preparedness to enter another conflict that isn’t theirs.

By simply signalling they forced the US to consider other options hence the decisions to deploy tactical nuclear capabilities not subject to the same rules as strategic nuclear weapons. And last I heard they were deploying these tactical capabilities to a sub class also responsible for SSG.

I’m very curious to understand whether Russian simply signalling in the way that they did has caused the US to strategically compromise their second strike guarantee. That would mean that by simply introducing the idea they have let the US take the mutually assured destruction elements off the table that made it so risky to begin with.

Do you mean in that it fails by failing to be the thing that it purports to be? Making it no longer that thing? At what point does bread become toast?

I needed to do some development in Swift mid last year. I liked it and would continue to use if it weren’t for the fact that it seems like the only current and useful learning resources are Apples WWDC videos and similar content.

The rules around chargebacks et al are dictated by the card scheme and remain the same regardless of country the merchant is operating in or car holder is transacting in. How this translates on the ground would be the primary point of difference to other countries.

It’s more like $30 a day for every level 1 complaint open with TIO and cost goes up from there. I seem to remember level 3 is around $250 a day though memory is becoming increasingly unreliable.

Point is, even if TIO sides with the telco (unlikely, they encourage both parties to find a middle ground as they are consumer first oriented) on a case where it takes for example 10 days (again, unlikely) to resolve; the margin[1] on a residential NBN service with a budget provider like TPG has already evaporated and that’s without considering costs of having TIO liaison staff, etc.

It’s a good model because it encourages the telco to resolve the complaint properly and in the customers favour before the problem can make it to TIO as once it gets to them, it always costs the telco money. Provider is better off wearing $100 cost to resolve than have the complaint spend 3 days with TIO level 1, taking up time and resources whilst also becoming a publicised negative statistic (TIO regularly publish report outlining telco performance from a number of complaints perspective).

I think your suggestion is a good one. Just adding this detail because I think it’s important to note that the model is actually about encouraging better complaint handling and customer service than just being about fines and punishment.

[1] assuming 12 month term on approx $65/m service but I am speaking in broad terms

Only if you can find their remains

I have been seeing all of the above problems on my 16GB M1 MacBook Air for probably at least 6 months now.

WindowServer has consistently been the main culprit but occasionally other apps like to chip in where they can too. Often that means there isn’t one single process which I can kill to reclaim enough memory to continue working without being promoted again or having MacOS forcibly close all my applications on me. As a result, reboots appear to be the only real solution for me.

Interestingly though, in the past few weeks I have been working with similar numbers of open Sublime Text windows as yourself and I can confirm that since then, ST4 has been a regular and serious offender when it comes to memory usage in Activity Monitor.

> I'm not technically savvy

I’m genuinely curious how you ended up here?

I have them happen too (for no particularly discernible reason)

Ever tried to setup an IPSec VPN between a checkpoint gateway and a device from another vendor? Even their interoperability guide doesn’t cover half the things that can and will go wrong.

This comment started out quite well and I really wanted to understand everything written after mentioning a lost laptop

I’ve been reading articles like this proclaiming the imminent death/irrelevance of the MBA for decades now. Tech audiences seem to receive them well.

Never come across less than positive content about MBAs from anyone who holds one though.

Then the next day she finally gets around to setting up her GitHub actions and this happens.

Now gran really thinks something is up