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This works on the same principle as the video backup system (VBS) which we used in the 1980's and the early 1990's on our Commodore Amigas: if I remember correctly, one three hour PAL/SECAM VHS tape had a capacity of 130 MB.
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With over 15,000 packages at CRAN, R has evolved from a wonderful language for statistics to a wonderful general-purpose language. I came in contact with R by accident because a colleague of mine took a day off and the client approached me
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PostgreSQL still doesn't have nowhere near the features of Oracle: for example, it still cannot do synchronous multimaster replication, unless one buys Vertica.
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2. is what pushed most people over to PostgreSQL. That was the main impetus. Fortunate that, as MySQL is utter garbage, having silently corrupted data for a very long time, not being ANSI SQL compliant for a very long time, and the develope
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Thomas Dickey is also the maintainer of the ncurses library.
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Good system administration is not having a zoo of different software management subsystems on any given system, so system administration is consistent and simple. Everything must always be delivered in the native format of the OS software m
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GNU stands for "GNU is Not UNIX", which means that I both hate and despise it. The command line is all I use. I work with Git every day and use it heavily.
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I refuse to hack. I'm an IT professional, not an amateur, and am actually capable of building my own OS packages. Why would I use Docker when I know how to make nice, clean OS packages?
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It's like every fashion fad in IT: stuff hits, everybody goes gaga over the toy examples until it's time to put it in production. Then they finally find out what kind of a dumpster trash fire the newfangled fashion fad is, and sta
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Here is also a nice article on operations research using the graphical method in R: https://medium.com/swlh/operations-research-with-r-graphical...
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Of course they are MC68000 family assembler instructions, but the principle is exactly the same.
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Yes, Apple doesn't count because they are in the consumer space.
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I could anything I wanted by putting together “turds.” You could, but it wouldn't be very good. Perhaps you noticed, but many others share your opinion and have in fact done that exact thing, and the results are not very good, which
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With a few very notable exceptions, most of these people are not my peers, and it is highly unlikely that they will ever manage to become my peers. People here who are my peers are not idiots, so my original statement did not and does not a
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Linux and good-enough commodity x86 are not better, nor will they ever be better, because one cannot build quality by polishing turds. Sun Microsystems failed because their hardware pricing wasn't competitive with the x86-based PC buck
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Because thinking of Google in those terms shows genuine ignorance: Google is an advertising company where the privacy of the users is the product to sell. Google could not be more anathema to Sun Microsystems or Silicon Graphics. No company
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...Or move.l (a0)+, (a1)+
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Yep, if there is no #$00 ('\0') at the end of the string, an exploit will ensue, especially if the attacker manages to modify the string first.
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It's very common, like ABC of pointer arithmetic. Especially if one has coded in assembler first, then took up C, it's the most natural thing to do.
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For you and anyone else to expand their foreign language vocabulary.
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Smoking is very common in Japan and especially during after hours with coworkers.
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Only the American economy depends on the constant consumption, and we can clearly see how that ended: with riots and looting in the streets, a true beacon, pinnacle of success. Other economies are much more content to pay for reuse and repa
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These two are takumi in every traditional sense of that word.
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This is the first intelligent comment I've read here.
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How SmartOS avoids sadness http://dtrace.org/blogs/wesolows/2014/04/10/libsunw_ssl-or-h...
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grep -r is GNU bullshit which implements a filesystem find inside of grep. That's completely retarded. Don't you have that Kubernetes-Docker trash fire to babysit, instead of trolling around here?
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That's only a problem in real life if you're running SmartOS's pkgsrc build farm. And even then, there are techniques: Johnatan Perkin described them in length on his blog. Search for it.
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I am not assuming, I do this daily so I know what I'm writing about. And as if that were not enough, I have formal education in shell programming as part of my degree.
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Python "peed in my teacup" many, many times: every time I run Mercurial, Python shits on me from Earth's orbit because the piece of crap language is so slow. And that is just one example among many. "Bash"? Is that
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shell is ultra fast, and it's very easy to squeeze performance out of shell programs. Like I wrote, shell is a well understood programming language - it's been around for almost 50 years and generations and generations have grown

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