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by Annatar 7y ago
SSH is not disallowed, because there are still cases where it is necessary to ssh in order to service faulty hardware. However, ssh is disallowed for making any ad hoc changes to any system, unless that is done by removing, installing, or u
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by Annatar 7y ago
Not unrelated, in tandem. Once the systems are provisioned, the software deployment server is used to mass deploy components and bundles (OS packages) and is integrated into the change management process (for example, no deployment to produ
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by Annatar 7y ago
"Custom DHCP config"?!? You do realize DHCP stands for "dynamic host configuration protocol"? That's exactly what it was designed for... And if you can't get "working PXE" (PXE is implemented in firmw
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by Annatar 7y ago
Guys you are all going down some block chain tangent. The point is that a relational database is designed for storing data, and that works well. The moral of Jimmy's response was if you need to store and retrieve data a relational dat
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by Annatar 7y ago
Well I have those misgivings, and while we are on the subject, since when do I represent you? That's news to me!
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by Annatar 7y ago
No... that is not system engineering. System engineering would be thinking about how the program to enable configuration templating with shell variables will work, how you can consistently add and remove templated, variable expandable confi
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by Annatar 7y ago
It would be /var/opt/nix since it's data. Payload in /opt/nix and configuration in /etc/opt/nix. That's what the specification states.
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by Annatar 7y ago
Same here. Then I come back to the site ten years later on another assignment and the solutions I put in are still there. I ask why and am then told that they work reliably, so why rip them out? There is nothing I can say to that but be gla
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by Annatar 7y ago
Yes, and while they might be very clever, they are still not clever enough to make complex problems simple, as that requires extreme cleverness, experience and insight.
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by Annatar 7y ago
This is so wrong on so many levels. So many complications. Monstrously huge binaries. Static linking. Docker and Nix mess of complex instructions, all custom. With RPM, it is one command, rpmbuild, with a standardized spec file and no need
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by Annatar 7y ago
I've been driving manual transmission cars for several decades now, a lot in traffic jams (almost every time I'm on the road) and have had no issues with the clutches or my left knee or my left leg in general. I would rather dro
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by Annatar 7y ago
I own multiple cars, in part for exactly such a situation (N + 1 redundancy, just like I design computer systems). Luckily, taking my car to the shop is rare, as I have the requisite knowledge and wrench on my cars myself.
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by Annatar 7y ago
HN decides a lot of dumbass stupid things, which is precisely why the dumbest ones end up on n-gate.com and elsewhere (exempli gratia:"Twitter") being the butt of jokes. It's not shameful not to know something, but it's
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by Annatar 7y ago
For the record, I spent the first 19 years of my life using public transportation and walking for kilometers on end. While I still don't mind walking and do so for half an hour every day (15 minutes to the parking lot and back), I have
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by Annatar 7y ago
Clever; this should be put in everywhere. And I'd make the fines at least three times as high and equal for both drivers and bicyclists.
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by Annatar 7y ago
All my life since I was a wee lad I dreamed of owning a car and driving. Now that I drive a 589 HP supercharged V8 with a manual transmission, there's no way I'd move to anywhere where I couldn't drive to work! Every day is
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by Annatar 7y ago
I've worked with plenty of people who had no business working in IT, but some of them were smart enough to recognize that they could benefit from education, so I taught them how to correctly and properly program in shell. Others were j
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by Annatar 7y ago
NO FRAMEWORKS!!!
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by Annatar 7y ago
NO FRAMEWORKS!!!
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by Annatar 7y ago
I expect to have some time soon and I'm planning on writing a full-blown application in PHP, using nothing but functional style programming. Should be fun.
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by Annatar 7y ago
As someone who has finished Doom multiple times on the hardest level of difficulty, I really see no point to first person shooters. BOOORRRIIINNNGGG!!! Give me "Eye of the Beholder" or "Hired Guns" or "Dungeon Maste
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by Annatar 7y ago
Quit this damn nonsense with Ansible or whatever garbage fashion fad is in vogue these days and finally learn how to make OS packages so you can do configuration management with normal shell scripting inside of them, because that's wha
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by Annatar 7y ago
The results will be unpredictable at best; either set it with -F, or use 'BEGIN {FS = "...";}', but not both.
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by Annatar 7y ago
GAWK is not a real AWK!!! When will you people learn that GNU is not UNIX®️? FS is not used on the command line and doing so is asking for trouble. FS is a built-in variable and as such is treated specially.
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by Annatar 7y ago
That is not how FS is set; It's set with -F. And there is actually no need to use -v, passing variables at the end works consistently across all AWK's and always has: echo "" | awk '{print Bla;}' Bla="
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by Annatar 7y ago
There is a first time for everything, and it's true: Perl is mega bloatware, especially when compared to AWK.
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by Annatar 7y ago
Perl stole array slicing from AWK's split() function... which slices arrays.
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-F has always been supported by real UNIX®️ AWK; that's where -v and -F come from.
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Every contemporary AWK supports -v. Real AWK from UNIX®️ supported -v since at least the '80's.
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by Annatar 7y ago
\b is Perl RE, not ERE. AWK not only supports ERE's, but POSIX RE's as well.

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