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bluGill

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A programmer with an interest in transit, making music, and building things of all types.

I have dysgraphia which makes writing difficult for me. I hope you can figure out what I mean despite my issues.

  • EU mulls sending warships to protect Red Sea vessels from Houthis

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  • Why does everyone support Hamas in this? If Hama hadn't kidnapped civilians we would not be here. But no everyone only blames Isreal.

    sure Isreal should have done things differently, their response should have been better. However the options here are to support Isreal, or Support Hamas. There is no neutral as neural serves one side.

  • VMware customers face uncertain future as Broadcom ends VMware partner programs

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  • Who are the customers they want? I know of companies in the fortune 100 moving away. They don't want me to name then so I won't.

  • Why docker

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  • Docker gives you a few different things which might or might not matter. Note that all of the following can be gotten in ways other than docker as well. Sometimes those ways are better, but often what is better is just opinion. There are downsides to some of the following as well that may not be obvious.

    With docker you can take a container and roll it out to 100s of different machines quickly. this is great for scaling if your application can scale that way.

    With docker you can run two services on the same machine that use incompatible versions of some library. It isn't unheard of to try to upgrade your system and discover something you need isn't compatible with the new library, while something else you need to upgrade needs the new library. Docker means each service gets separate copies of what is needs and when you upgrade one you can leave the other behind.

    With docker you can test an upgrade and then when you roll it out know you are rolling out the same thing everywhere.

    With docker you can move a service from one machine to a different one somewhat easily if needed. Either to save money on servers, or to use more as more power is needed. Since the service itself is in a docker you can just start the container elsewhere and change pointers.

    With docker if someone does manage to break into a container they probably cannot break into other containers running on the same system. (if this is a worry you need to do more risk assessment, they can still do plenty of damage)

  • Honda debuts new global EV series, Honda Zero, coming in 2026

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  • No you don't. They look cool and get you thinking you want them. However if you ever had to live with them instead of just looking you would quickly discover some of those cool looking things make for very annoying compromises and so you wouldn't want them.

  • A new work bench I'm building for my wife out of pine

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  • I recommend boiled linseed oil instead of tung oil - I can find real boiled linseed oil. Most tung oil isn't really tung oil is just sortof looks like tung oil if you are not too picky.

  • China’s Tesla-beating EV maker BYD has carmakers around the world ‘in a state of shock’ over its prices

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  • Strange how that reputation persists even when they tak, a car made by someone else and put their name on it.

  • Russia announced it had deployed, to Ukraine, its best new artillery-detecting radar. Hours later, the Ukrainians blew it up—with artillery.

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  • Drones are cheap and thus everywhere in the battlefield. It costs more $$$ to show a drone down then the drone is worth (in general). Modern military is still trying to figure out how to handle all the cheap enemy drones overhead, there is - so far and to my knowledge - no good answer (of course if there was a good answer it would be classified at least until the enemy figures out what you are doing and so I wouldn't know).

  • KDE's Nate Graham On X11 Being A Bad Platform & The Wayland Future

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  • Mostly they are the same people.

  • Woodworkers, will you please share some of your favorite tips and tricks with us?

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  • Kids end up being my hobby

  • Woodworkers, will you please share some of your favorite tips and tricks with us?

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  • Don't have kids. One might be okay, but with two or more they will fight anytime you think you might go to the shop and thus you can't get to your tools. Even if the shop is in the house, sharp tools and fighting kids should not be near each other.

    Seriously, nothing is better than time in the shop. Tricks can be helpful, but most are things you could think of yourself.

  • Indian Food is praised worldwide and celebrated in countries like the UK and Germany. Americans, why do all your comedy shows rag on Indian food?

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  • Side one thinks Ketchup is spicy enough. The other side laughs at them, but they don't understand how much spices hurt side one. This is genetic as far as I can tell - it isn't just you get used to spices if fed them as a kid which side two seems to think.

  • “Do Your Job.” How the Railroad Industry Intimidates Employees Into Putting Speed Before Safety

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  • Many industries have discovered the costs of not doing safety first are higher in the long run. You have to pay more workers comp insurance, you have to train replacement workers for those who are injured, you have to scrap/replace parts destroyed, and when someone is injured it affects moral and so your people don't work well.

    Railroads are throwing money away by not putting safety first - they just don't realize it.

  • More than one-third of millennials believe they won’t get a dime of Social Security when they retire, so they’re taking matters into their own hands

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  • A lot of things are much better. It is easy to focus on the negative without realizing how bad the past really was, or for that matter how hard things were for those in the past. sure some things are worse today - work on fixing them - bit overall things are still very good.

  • San Francisco Fire Dept.: Person Dies After Robotaxi Blocked Ambulance

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  • Such videos will be suppeaned by court and deleting them is a serious offense .

  • Open source Duolingo alternative?

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  • Duolingo is useful for wasting time while feeling like you are learning however it isn't a great tool for learning if that is your goal.