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4 votes
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Against Me! - Bamboo Bones (2011)
7 votes -
TEKKEN 7 | Season Pass 3 reveal trailer - PS4, XB1, PC
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Smash Bros Ultimate has set the record for the highest peak viewership in EVO history for any game, at over 279,000 viewers
@slasher: Smash Bros Ultimate has set the record for the highest peak viewership in EVO history for any game at over 279,000 Smash 4 lyfe #EVO19
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HANA - Clay
4 votes -
Studio Khara Produces Shin Ultraman Film for 2021
2 votes -
In the last eight years, at least sixteen high-profile attacks have been motivated by white nationalist conspiracy theories, killing 175 people worldwide
15 votes -
Rant: Docker is a labyrinth maze of brick walls and show-stopping issues that has done nothing but slow my development
Firstly, I apologise for the rant. I guess this is a meek follow-up to my submission earlier in ~comp, questioning how to deploy Docker into production. Since then, I haven't been able to dedicate...
Firstly, I apologise for the rant. I guess this is a meek follow-up to my submission earlier in ~comp, questioning how to deploy Docker into production. Since then, I haven't been able to dedicate much time to solving any of the issues I've outlined in that thread, but what I will say is that docker has caused me nothing but pain, and I have realised zero benefits from attempting to utilise it. Right from the start, the syntax for docker, docker-compose, and Dockerfiles is confusing and full of edge cases which no one explains to you in the hype of actually discussing it:
- These 'images' you build grow to insane sizes unless you carefully construct and regiment your
RUN
,COPY
, and other commands. - Docker complains to you about leaving empty lines in multi-line RUN commands (which is itself, as I see it, basically a hack to get around something called a "layer limit"), even if it contains a comment (which is not an empty line) and does not provide a friendly explanation on how to solve this issue.
- There's basically no good distinction between bind mounts and volumes, and the syntax is even more confusing: declaring a
volumes
entry in a docker-compose.yml? You have no good idea if you're creating a volume or a bindmount. - Tutorials & documentation tends to either assume you're a power user who knows this sort of thing, or are so trivial they don't accurately represent a real-world solution, and are therefore basically useless.
I've suffered endless permissions issues trying to run portions of my application, such as being unable to write to log files, or do trivial things like clearing a cache—that I have tried a dozen different ways of fixing with zero success.
Then, when I run some things from within the docker container, such as tests, they can take an excruciatingly long time to run—only then did I discover that this is yet another docker issue. The whole point of docker is to abstract away the host OS and containerise things and it can't even do that.
So now I'm regenerating and rebuilding images and containers every 5 minutes trying to find a configuration that appears to work with the slow and complicated syntax of
docker rm $(docker ps -aq) -f
followed bydocker rmi $(docker images -q)
followed bydocker-compose -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose.dev.yml up -d
, followed bydocker container exec -it php sh
.Docker-sync, kubernetes, docker-compose, images, containers. It's legitimately too much. I'm not a dev-ops or infrastructure guy. I just want to write code and have my app work. I don't have the money to employ anyone to solve this for me (I'm not even employing myself yet).
I guess you can say I've learnt my lesson. I'm sticking to git and a simple VPS for future endeavours. I don't know how you folks who manage to hype docker do it, and I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but Docker doesn't like me, and I don't like it.
21 votes - These 'images' you build grow to insane sizes unless you carefully construct and regiment your
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'Outcasts within the outcast community': Seattle's LGBTQ gun club upends stereotypes
11 votes -
As millennial parents demand sustainable toys, Lego is perfecting plant-based bricks
16 votes -
Are today’s young readers turning on The Catcher in the Rye?
9 votes -
Dolphin Emulator dev diary: fixing the most curious Wii game
16 votes -
Facebook hit with new questions over Cambridge Analytica
13 votes -
New Zealand Abortion law to change in sweeping reform: "Abortion should be treated as a health issue"
6 votes -
Onivim 2 pre-alpha is out!
9 votes -
NASA research reveals Saturn is losing its rings at "worst-case-scenario" rate
21 votes -
The human cost of amber - Fossils preserved in sap offer an astonishingly clear view of the distant past, but they come at a high price
6 votes -
Alarm over North Atlantic right whale's survival after recent deaths
5 votes -
Should the voting age be lowered to sixteen?
19 votes -
Dissecting a Dweet: Strange Attractor (a tiny 3D Lorenz system in javascript)
9 votes -
Northlane - Alien (2019)
Listen: Youtube Playlist Song.Link Extra links: Genius MusicBrainz Rate Your Music
5 votes -
Rural hospitals get a boost with the help of a partnership with Banner Health
2 votes -
The philosophy of low-tech: A conversation with Kris De Decker
4 votes -
A warped, aluminium cuboid, The Twist art museum doubles as a gravity-defying bridge which spans a river in Norway
7 votes -
Bendigo mother becomes the first Victorian to use Voluntary Assisted Dying law
7 votes -
Uganda starts largest trial of experimental Ebola vaccine
4 votes -
Shaped By What We Love - Threads Radio - June 2019 by Olaf Stephenson (2019)
3 votes -
The candidates’ policies on inequality: A no-bullshit guide
5 votes -
The Baz Luhrmann Elvis film will hit theaters Oct. 1, 2021, while 'Dune' has been pushed back one month to Dec. 18, 2020
4 votes -
Twenty pilot whales have died stranded in mysterious circumstances on the south-western coast of Iceland
4 votes -
Dominic Cummings tells MPs: You've missed your chance to stop no-deal Brexit
Here's the source article in the Daily Telegraph: Dominic Cummings tells MPs: you've missed your chance to stop no-deal Brexit However, that's locked behind a hard paywall. So, here's the Reuters...
Here's the source article in the Daily Telegraph: Dominic Cummings tells MPs: you've missed your chance to stop no-deal Brexit
However, that's locked behind a hard paywall. So, here's the Reuters article reporting what the Telegraph said: Johnson's top aide says lawmakers can't stop no-deal Brexit - Sunday Telegraph
12 votes -
Previously-unknown "easter egg" discovered in the Fairchild Channel F game "Spitfire" from 1977, could be the earliest one ever added
15 votes -
Anti-vaxxers live in an online bubble this scientist wants to burst
6 votes -
Tenet official motion picture poster
3 votes -
Poetry: “The Places We Are Not” by Sarah Kay
3 votes -
Accidentally Solving Access Point Roaming Issues.
I'm sharing in case some of you are having a similar issue at work or at home, and to hear your opinion and/or similar stories! I've been using Ubiquiti access points in my home for a few years...
I'm sharing in case some of you are having a similar issue at work or at home, and to hear your opinion and/or similar stories!
I've been using Ubiquiti access points in my home for a few years now, and overall, they've worked very well. 3 APs giving near perfect 5GHz VHT80 coverage on DFS channels. LAN transfers are about 600-650mbit on laptops, which has proven to be plenty for wireless clients in my home. Keep in mind that this is a pretty basic setup... besides the APs, there's just the ISP provided GPON ONT which is also a typical all-in-one ISP solution (router, switch, AP, firewall, DHCP server...) with it's Wi-Fi turned off.
As I said, I was pretty happy with the results, however there was one feature that I could never get to work just right; roaming. You could be walking around the house watching a live stream and the stream would pause for 5-8 seconds until the roaming transition was over. Strangely, with VoIP calls, roaming would be about 3-5 seconds. Even enabling fast roaming features (which I believe is simply 802.11r) on the AP's controller would not give the results I was looking for. After days of tweaking TX power settings, channel selection and trying to implement Minimum RSSI (which I ended up not using), I finally gave up and resigned myself to the 4-6 seconds (oh, the humanity) of roaming time.
Fast forward to about two months ago and I added a new router to the setup (UBNT ER-4) and a switch (UBNT USW-24). Setup went smooth, already had some cat.6 cabling around the house, now it was time to actually use it. Had some fun setting up a guest Wi-Fi network on it's own VLAN, which was always a concern of mine; having "untrusted" devices connect to my network. The access points do client isolation on guest networks by default, but in my mind it wasn't enough as I have some file servers and time machines on the network.
Anyways, a few days after doing the setup I'm walking around the house with a livestream on my mobile and suddenly realize that it's not losing the connection. I try with a VoIP call and it worked flawlessly. I start walking around faster and still, the phone is roaming without an issue. I was very excited!
I'm thinking it must be the router that somehow solved the roaming issue. My first theory was that the DHCP server on the ER-4 was doing it's thing much faster than the ISP's device, allowing the wireless clients to actually roam faster. So I do a web search and I find some very relevant info. It was a thread on a forum and reddit thread with a sysadmin that was about to give up on the APs because of roaming issues. In both threads, there were replies about what switch were they using.
Apparently, some switches (Cisco and HP were mentioned), have a "MAC aging" interval setting which is way too high by default, or they simply have bugged firmware that doesn't allow the switch to "re-learn" the MAC address of a device on a different switch port. I assume that ISP provided "el-cheapo" gear has similar issues.
So, if you're having roaming issues with your wireless clients, check your switches!!!
Anyways, just wanted to share this story. Thank you for reading. :-)
10 votes -
For nonbinary people, struggle for recognition extends to romantic relationships
6 votes -
You can now play the original Diablo in a web browser
15 votes -
How long does it take to make a classic album?
8 votes -
An Introduction to Mobile Networks, SIM Cards, and GSM.
9 votes -
Eight crime writers who wrote other forms of literature, including literary novels, memoirs, and even works of history
7 votes -
Norway's consumer watchdog has criticised fast-fashion chain H&M for misleading marketing of its sustainable collection
7 votes -
Fifteen years after building a dynasty and leaving unlimited hydroplane racing, the Miss Budweiser team is still keeping the sport afloat
5 votes -
A Texas police officer trying to shoot a loose dog killed a woman instead
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Meet the Macaronis: During the 1770s there emerged a new type of fashionable fellow, whose style was frequently and easily lampooned by cartoonists and the media
7 votes -
This US heartland has been flooded for five months. Does anyone care?
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A small city with big delusions: Pine Island, MN (population 3,000) has huge dreams, yet they can’t take care of their basic systems. Who pays the price?
8 votes -
‘Hobbs & Shaw’ doesn’t understand why ‘Fast & Furious’ movies are great
4 votes -
US formally withdraws from 1987 nuclear pact with Russia that banned short and medium-range land-based missiles
15 votes -
Watergate Salad: A fluffy green bite of Washington, DC's past
4 votes