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You absolutely sure about that? https://www.biology-it.iastate.edu/solution-cannot-rename-fi...

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/renami...

https://superuser.com/questions/54193/how-can-i-rename-files...

From Mozilla: On Windows, it is not possible to remove or rename files and directories which are being used. In order to handle this, we need to add a little complexity.

The Firefox executable will launch a helper application copied to somewhere outside of the installation directory, most likely the system's temporary directory. The helper application renames the existing installation directory to a new directory with ".tmp" appended to its path name. If the rename operation fails in the middle of the operation because of a file being open by another application, it reverts the change.

Source: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Background_Updates

My information might be old. I haven’t worked on a Windows application in 5+ years. At that point you couldn’t.

On Windows it isn't possible to remove or rename files and directories that are being used. In order to handle this, you typically have to run some sort of helper application outside of the installation directory. This renames the existing installation directory to a new directory with ".tmp" (often, not always, but this is my guess). If that rename operation fails in the middle of the operation because a file being opened, either by another process or sometimes by an add-on, then the background update fails.

On Mac and Linux it's less complicated which is why they never get the "download the new version" prompt, but Chrome and Firefox have evolved systems for managing how these silent updates work. On Chrome the update button you talk talking about means you haven't closed the browser in awhile. If you see green that means an update has been available for 2 days, orange – 4 days and red – 7 or more days.

My guess is that you are encountering a situation in which the Chrome background helper can't successfully run the update process and then asks you to download the whole thing again so they don't need to rely on the updater and can just move your user files over.

I find this appeal to find something other than a “doom” view bizarre. It’s a catastrophe. Do people expect to find some version of this story that ends with “but we can solve this with a minimally impactful solution that doesn’t cost you or your community anything”?

Maybe you don’t care about trees and animals. Global economic degrowth is gonna happen anyway as ports flood and countries lack the resources to tackle the project of rebuilding the backbone of the current global economic system. Source: https://e360.yale.edu/features/how-climate-change-is-disrupt...

So look at this story as another alarm bell. You and your family are going to be directly impacted by global warming. Asking for a happier story doesn’t change anything. It’s time to grow up and accept we put off dealing with this and it blew up in our faces.

We can either willingly engage in economic degrowth with some say in how it happens or we have a global recession/depression and all the chaos and social upheaval that comes with it. It’s bad, lots of people are going to lose their jobs and communities are going to collapse. That’s gonna happen regardless. Pretending it’s not doesn’t do anything.

I’m probably going to lose my job in that scenario but that’s the price of humanity being selfish and putting the problem off. At least with some extreme action now we can tell future generations “we tried something after waiting too long”.

I mean my intention was to go pure, hence finding the Docker IPv6 registry and doing the IPv6 stuff with the bridge interface.

My hope is folks know of workarounds and I’ll do them and update the post.

Backporting packages is a time-consuming process that actually requires skill. It is insane to expect people to do that for free on a volunteer basis because it makes your situation easier, especially as backporting gets harder the longer you go. RHEL offers 10 years, it costs money, that's your option. Or you pay for the staff to monitor and backport to your particular distro and foot the bill.

It's also maddening to present the issue as "our time is expensive and your time is free". If your field is unable to commit any work at all to updates, fine. UBI Micro is as small as its gonna get and moves everything difficult to the host. That could conceivably run for 15 years if you are careful with how you build it.

Glad they laid off all those employees to get ready for the lean economic times.

Alpine’s use of musl means only the truly insane would be leaping to its defense. The inability to support DNS over TCP was a problem for years. Outside of that, so many things presuppose glibc. It’s an endless source of weird.

It doesn’t make the news cause it’s a hobby os that was made important when we decided the size of the container mattered most.

Debian at home, Debian at work.

I’ve never read an author who liked his own writing as much as this fellow. I had a couple of issues with it.

- You have to accept that the concept of “the left” is in deep trouble and the root of this trouble is that it has a strict definition of itself that doesn’t include well-meaning folks like conservative religious folks.

- That a figure like Hitchens registers on the scale of “moving political systems”. I personally don’t care if a philosopher who writes mostly about religion believes in the invasion of Iraq.

It read like a lot of words to get to “secular liberal governments are actually bad and we need to embrace conservative values because rust belt”. If I missed some crucial point let me know.

Typically chatbots that I interact with are just attempting to steer me back towards FAQs. I don’t need a different interface to search your documentation in an attempt to keep me on the cheap customer service path and away from the expensive customer service path.

Which isn’t to say they can’t be helpful. I’d much rather chat with a bot than call a person, if the bot is capable of doing the things I need. The thing is nobody seems willing to let the system actually do anything except escalate to a person, so why bother?

https://matduggan.com/

I love to write this stuff. Sometimes people like it, sometimes they don’t. It’s still a lot of fun to do.

Love mine. Works great, just swapped the joysticks out for Hall effect ones with zero drift (but higher power usage). It’s the Nintendo switch if it was designed by people who understood how accounts worked in 2023.

It’s a solvable problem if you optimize for multiple regions from day 1 of the app but migrating an existing stack to multi-region after the fact is often a large enough undertaking that you pick the region of the majority of users and go with it.

The process of setting up an active passive region with the db is becoming more common but an active/active design is still relatively rare outside of apps designed for massive scale.

Google owns Waze because Waze was the hot driving app for a long time. It provided information like up to minute data on crashes, speed traps, would suggest more aggressive alternative routes than Google Maps. It was a superior product for quickly taking driver data and pushing it to your phone.

So Google purchased them because, frankly, Google Maps in the US if it wasn’t in heavy use by drivers is pointless. This move makes sense to consolidate the ad buy but I suspect it’s going to end with the decommission of Waze since most of those features have since moved to Google Maps (with the exception of speed trap reporting).

Why would I thank Zeus for that? I’m supposed to be happy that being insanely rich and powerful isn’t enough for these people? They’re in the Arena of Capitalism fighting.

Of course that’s kinda the lie right? They can’t lose. It’s a fixed match. Elon was forced to massively overpay for Twitter because he’s incapable of shutting up for two weeks and ultimately it’s success or failure doesn’t matter at all to him. Zuck cannot be removed as CEO even though he should be for the massive VR failure.

So in some respects I agree with the author. It is an arena and for some people it’s life or death. For these people it’s a fun game. Absolute worst case, everything goes wrong, they can live a life of unspeakable luxury forever. I mess up and my life is destroyed.

I mean this is why the phrase “regulations are written in blood” exists. People are not able to remain moral when faced with the debate between revenue and doing what’s best for human beings. You have to force them to do it (and they’ll complain about them forever).

If we didn’t have regulations on who can build a plane and to what specifications, those things would be falling out of the sky on a weekly basis.

I’m not doing them wrong. They’re a user hostile design. The point of TOTP was just to say “here is an actually good password and a time element to it”. But expecting every user on the planet to carry their TOTP app around was wrong so immediately everyone put it in their password manager and it stopped being a check of whether I had the device.

Then the most common TOTP app, Google Auth, didn’t backup your codes so that was pointless and user hostile. They fixed it but I mean damage done I guess.

I’m not gonna buy a hardware security key and carry it around for casual usage. I absolutely will never ever do that. For work I will because I need to get paid, but for every login? Give me a break. Once again security cannot destroy the user experience.

Here’s the actual right answer. Switch to passkeys and give up on all this poorly thought out junk.

Yeah sorry I should have been more clear. Currently the ARM instances in GCP when you use them as spot basically never get interrupted. We’re big into GKE so use them as a preferred node group for interruptible pods. I assume due to the pricing you mentioned usage is very low.

So basically any background jobs or big batch processing jobs that required a lot of CPU time. We have multi-arch container builds so if we can’t scale out the ARM node group not a problem, go back to x86. But it was worth the optimizing to get effectively always available spot instances.

Yeah always open to meet up with folks. I’m on mastodon at matdevdug@c.im.

I’ve been migrating workloads away from x86 and towards ARM on AWS and GCP since they’ve been available. This review does a great job of kinda giving you an idea of what you are gonna get as a platform, but if you are interested I strongly recommend the experience on any cloud provider.

While there was some work to benchmark and validate, the cost savings have been non-trivial. Plus this change happened as we were all switching to the M series Macs so ironically now our entire chain end to end is off x86.

I mean the data suggests a fair number of people left Twitter or at least check in a lot less: https://datareportal.com/reports/digital-2023-deep-dive-the-...

My home feed on Apollo is hilarious. It's the smallest subs I subscribe to that never make it to my front page. It's basically "small hobby subs". Even if I were interested in continuing to use Reddit it's basically broken as of right now. I can see what's happening with Warhammer and Kubernetes patch notes.

Reddit cannot go public. Its product is volunteer work by moderators and users to produce value. There’s no way to take that work and guarantee its delivery on a quarterly cycle.

This is all a ridiculous self-delusion that Reddit management has engaged in that the platform is really the “value add”. It’s not. Reddit has become the shorthand for cut through ML spam and that’s based on users constantly posting up to the minute accurate data. There’s almost no historical value to that data.

After trying both for years I don't really know what we're talking about here.

I can go to an office where we can schedule room to have a video call to sit around and discuss what tickets we're going to create and who will work on them. Those tickets will get worked on and tracked then we end up creating a product or feature.

I can stay at home to join the video call to sit around and discuss what tickets we're going to create and who will work on them. Those tickets will get worked on and tracked then we end up creating a product or feature.

I don't know what this mysterious in-office inspiration cycle is. It was never polite to just wander up to people working on something and bother them with random junk.

Offices exist for companies where management has sufficiently removed the ability of the people they pay to make decisions. Now you need to come to them and ask to be allowed to do things, so your manager can ponder whether that thing makes sense in whatever weird inter-department power struggle they are working in.

I support this movement. I don't think I need to sign a pledge as a parent to do it, but if this makes you feel like you aren't alone making this decision go for it. Reading through these comments, a lot of them miss the forest for the trees. "Kids should have access to all the earths information except for the stuff I don't like which then I have parental controls on (which we all know don't actually work but we'll pretend they work for this sake of this argument)"

Boredom is a powerful force in your life. It forces you to go out and find things to do, people to interact with and activities to enrich yourself. If you can craft a perfect entertainment box with a constant feeling of socialization that exists only for you, you are never bored. You are never going to go out and do those things that I think are critical for children. Being bored and learning what do you like to do to fill that boredom are a big part of being a kid. You invent games, find hobbies, discover how to live with being bored.

We hosted a foreign exchange student from Europe and it was a waste of time. He didn't make friends because he didn't have to make friends, his friends were on his phone. He didn't go out because why bother, he can sit online with his original friends. The entire concept of immersion was lost on him. He got to choose exactly what elements of place A he interacted with and exactly what elements of place B and didn't really grow or change as a result.

Forcing children to adapt to their situation and not giving them an endless dopamine drip of "things they like" is a net positive for the kind of person who you are helping to raise.

It was a super weird piece. I find it bizarre that defrauding investors is constantly mentioned as the crime we’re supposed to care about. While I understand that was the conviction, the real crime that people should be angry about is how far this got without anyone intervening.

This was a device that never worked, seemingly could never work, being used to test people and deliver medical findings that would impact their entire lives. At no point in the process did any investor or anyone in a leadership position say “let’s get this independently tested”. A person had invented a titanic shift in medical testing after two semesters of education on the topic.

She committed fraud and it’s weird to have a piece where we’re asked to feel bad for her right before she goes to jail. But the part I think that is missed is she never should have been able to get as far as she did. It’s a demonstration of a problem in tech that has plagued us for years which is we buy the hype and don’t fact check.

I guess Uber gave up on their own autonomous vehicles. Interesting that it seems like Waymo who took the most cautious approach seems to be the last real contender standing.

Crazy how cutting over 10% of the workforce didn’t increase uptime. I guess as long as investors are happy in the short term who cares about the reputation of GitHub as a business critical tool generating reliable monthly income.

It's seen as a gift because employees have come to treat it as a perk. There's isn't a good negotiation reason for an employer to treat it as a default because they can use it as leverage to get less salary from you in return for remote.

As long as candidates see it as a possible alternative to additional compensation, it'll be treated as a perk that can be revoked. Execs would do the same thing with bathroom access or access to drinking water if it was practical.

Salesforce buying Slack made absolutely no sense, but I find the comparison to Teams strange. IME orgs use Teams when they're already in the Microsoft ecosystem since there isn't a great argument for purchasing Slack when you already have Teams included in the package you are paying for. If I'm in the market for a Slack-like product I don't look at Teams unless I'm already paying Microsoft.

The real threat to Slack is less from Microsoft and more from Google if they ever launch a Slack-competitor inside of Google Workspaces. I know for my organization even if there wasn't feature parity, we would probably switch just for ease of billing and access control.