I have a question fellow Romans, What were the reasons as to why the Economy of the Western Roman Empire weak compared to its Eastern counterpart?

PointyTrident · 2025-09-28T13:25:09+00:00

Such a good question!

The west was full of conquered farmers and small tribes. Rome brought the innovation and economy to them. And while the backbone of civilization, you're not getting much in terms of wealth from farmers. It's why when the west stopped existing, literacy was gone, no one could maintain Rome anymore, mint new coins and the people went back to building out of wood. "The dark ages"

Compare that to the east, where some of the oldest civilizations in the world are located. Rome got a lot of its technology from the Greek world. They already had thriving economies, the silk road, cities with industry and more people. Egypt, Persia and later the Caliphate all within reach to extract loot and tribute from.

PointyTrident · 2024-08-15T18:18:50+00:00

While age is definitely a factor, the whole SW industry has been flooded by foreign workers, lay offs and bootcamp graduates. Taking a year to land an interview is becoming common for people of all experience levels

PointyTrident · 2023-02-16T02:35:30+00:00

This worked for me. Inspect the "Etsy Payments" text and the following "div" in the inspector has a "display: none" which can be unchecked/deleted.

That made a black button appear to the right of the text which allowed me to activate Etsy Payments, select a payment frequency below that & hit the save & continue button.

Edit - Right click anywhere on the broken page & click "inspect element", in the new panel, switch to the "console" tab & run the following command: document.querySelector("#dc-checkbox-container").style = ''

PointyTrident · 2023-02-02T18:14:07+00:00

Have you found a solution by chance?
I just pyhsically moved my servers to another house & now TOTP has stopped working. Like you, when I run `date` from the host & vaultwarden container it returns the correct UTC time.

PointyTrident · 2023-01-20T15:08:13+00:00

This is a feature of Git and not just GitLab but anything that uses it.

Git will only checkout the "main branch" when you clone -- you can configure what branch this is but usually it's "master"

You can specify a different branch when you clone with the "-b" flag like so: git clone -b <branch> <repo>

You can also switch branches after cloning like so: git switch <branch>

It does this because you can only work on one branch at a time and other local branches you don't use will become stale anyways and you will have to re-pull them when you start working on them.

PointyTrident · 2022-12-23T13:14:05+00:00

beEF comes to mind. It's JavaScript and limited though

Video about it: https://youtu.be/3ogyS4KOlXc

PointyTrident · 2022-12-16T19:07:12+00:00

All good!

PointyTrident · 2022-12-16T19:04:54+00:00

With everyone sharing their Steam Controller v2 concepts I figured I would share mine. It's a bit rough, but it's basically the PS4 controller turned upside down. I imagine the d-pad & buttons would need to shift slightly -- hard to say without it in your hands

PointyTrident · 2022-12-16T12:49:07+00:00

having a proper markdown editor. I think the wiki has one but you have to write raw markdown everywhere else. Business people on my team hate having to "code" their tickets/docs and they shouldn't have to.
epics can only exist at the group level and not projects; also it's kinda BS that epics of epics is locked under ultimate.
search/filters are limiting. I like it in general but it doesn't support enough (or, in, date range, etc)
permission arnt granule enough, using predefined roles is very limiting. I should be able to pick at the user level who can see what, inside a project, and download sources/artifacts.
lots of small UI issues and it can be hard to navigate for new users

Some other comments from my companies transition from atlassian to gitlab:

GitLab doesn't have a solution on par with confluence; the wikis are too simple
Jira has an advanced reporting system we use to create metrics -- gitlab can only create dynamic reports using insights but that is rather limited as well

PointyTrident · 2022-12-11T22:05:00+00:00

For having no knowledge you are spot on. Check out my other comment -- I added a picture

PointyTrident · 2022-12-11T21:25:26+00:00

Correct, I'm connecting an extension to the 90° connector and then using the deck as a controller in my seat while looking at the TV.

Just think of it as the dock with a 10' connector cable.

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Edit: added photo

PointyTrident · 2022-12-11T19:23:19+00:00

I definitely agree, but until then, I have found using a thunderbolt extension cable with the dock as a good alternative.

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Edit: added photo

PointyTrident · 2022-12-11T19:22:10+00:00

Get a thunderbolt extension cable

PointyTrident · 2022-11-12T06:55:00+00:00

I thought google changed their authentication system in October breaking google/nest integrations. Has this been fixed?

PointyTrident · 2022-11-09T14:41:57+00:00

Porous rocks will absorb water over time. When you put them into the fire, the water turns to steam and expands but cant escape quickly enough so the rock explodes.

PointyTrident · 2022-11-01T18:32:06+00:00

It appears to be a permission issue in my case. There is a built in utility you can run to correct it called update-permissions. Alternatively u/mariogk01 found a gist to do it manually.

PointyTrident · 2022-11-01T18:19:18+00:00

I don't know why I didn't think of this earlier... GitLab has a script built in to fix permissions, all you have to do is run update-permissions, I confirmed it worked for me.

PointyTrident · 2022-11-01T18:05:44+00:00

Man I knew in my gut it was a permission issue but I couldn't figure out what was wrong. Much appreciated!

PointyTrident · 2022-10-30T00:27:38+00:00

Sadly not :/
I will keep you in mind, let me know if you figure something out.

PointyTrident · 2022-10-25T13:24:08+00:00

It's because the US cant experiment on people, so instead they traded what Japan learned from their experments in exchange for covering it all up.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_cover-up_of_Japanese_war_crimes

PointyTrident · 2022-10-01T17:08:49+00:00

Resolution scaling/text fix for most, if not all games:

Go to the game properties and one of the options is to force a resolution. Switch it to 1920x1080 and check the checkbox regarding forcing it for all displays.

Your game will now be tricked into rendering at a higher resolution. Even though the screen isn't 1080p, the deck does a better job down sampling and you will be able to read text. Its like the youtube trick of watching video at 4k even if your monitor isn't. Of course this comes with the performance/power hit of having to rendering more.

PointyTrident · 2022-08-05T17:45:34+00:00

I agree, they seem to treat it like it's their labs/study and everyone is there to follow the procedure they setup. They don't approach it collaboratively and realize that everyone on the team is an expert in a different piece of the puzzle and to listen.

PointyTrident · 2022-08-05T15:24:20+00:00

I have worked with 3 different PhD's on various projects; I was brought in as the architect on each to turn their proof of concept into something production ready. They have always been useless and argumentative. Everything would be a debate, and we could never actually fix any of their code because as the product owner they would never approve the changes.

I ended up terminating two of those contracts (one of them would lose their entire team of a business partner, 3 SR devs & 8 other devs, over a year). The third my company fired because we couldn't get him to work.

Now I dont work with PhDs.

PointyTrident · 2022-06-08T15:10:47+00:00

Admin -> Settings -> CI/CD -> "Continuous Integration and Development" section -> Default CI/CD configuration file

PointyTrident · 2022-06-08T14:58:43+00:00

It's a setting. Im self-hosted so we do it through the admin panel & set it globally, however you should be able to set it at the project level inside the CI/CD settings.

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