Osiris

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by Osiris 6y ago
If you usual from scratch you can use ZFS as the root filesystem and until will automatically create snapshots before software updates. The feature is still experimental but has been working well for me during the beta period.
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by Osiris 7y ago
I'm using storage spaces on a home machine. It's very flexible, my machine is using 5 disks arranged in 2 separate logical volumes (one parity, one mirror). The write speeds are terrible, around 25MB/s. Read speeds are >10
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by Osiris 7y ago
Why are they using SMR on small capacity drives? I thought the driving force behind SMR was for higher capacity? I know cheaper 8TB+ drives use SMR. Is it so they can use fewer platters to get the same capacity, thus reducing the manufactur
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by Osiris 7y ago
I agree. Back in the day I often installed custom ROMs on my Android phones and there was a distinction between needing to use recovery mode or losing your data vs "bricking", literally meaning that you turned your phone into a br
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by Osiris 7y ago
In my case, "the business" (executive team) has broad overarching ideas. The PM then works out the specifics, works with UX to design the screens, put together the copy, talks to engineering to understand what technical challenges
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by Osiris 7y ago
I work at a software company and we had a culture of not working from home very often. The last few weeks, JIRA has shown that we're more productive than ever in terms of closing tickets. Hopefully what we'll see if that employers
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by Osiris 7y ago
Can you recommend any resources for learning OBS? My daughter wanted to record some videos of her playing a web-based game. I found the interface to OBS unintuitive. I managed to figure out how to capture a specific area on the desktop, b
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by Osiris 7y ago
I commute daily on a bike and I don't have any of these features. All I have is google assistant through my Bluetooth headset in the helmet. As a rider, I love the lack of distraction and can focus on everything going on around me, an
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by Osiris 7y ago
I think they are talking a about styled quotes, the kinds that point inward, which a REPL won't interpret as an ASCII quote and will throw some type of Syntax error.
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by Osiris 7y ago
My definition of static website has always been the it doesn't communicate with a back-end.
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by Osiris 7y ago
> try to look over your financials If this happens it's against church policy. At the end of each year your Bishop asks if you are a full tithe payer or not. They record your answer and that's it.
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by Osiris 7y ago
Some people might be able to claim coercion because tithing is required to participate in certain ceremonies, but I don't see how that's stealing (forced, against one's will).
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by Osiris 7y ago
Why would having a large savings account be a sin?
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by Osiris 7y ago
> they’re barely getting by, tithing their 10%, but the Mormon church is amassing such wealth yet my friend’s family of five is on food stamps. Something feels off there. The church has welfare programs to help members and non-members th
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by Osiris 7y ago
> My summary: if you are doing some financial math that does not need to be accurate to the penny, just use floating point numbers. So... Don't use floats where accuracy is important? I agree.
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by Osiris 7y ago
I use Firefox Focus. It's great for things like reading news articles because there no tabs. Just one page at a time. It has built-in tracker blocking but doesn't support extensions like ublock.
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by Osiris 7y ago
ECMAScript does this (ECAMScript 2015, 2017, 2018, etc) and I also really like it.
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by Osiris 7y ago
For me the hesitation is that it's a lot of money for something I don't know if I'm going to like it or if it's going to make me more productive. It's an expensive experiment, especially considering the vast variety
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by Osiris 7y ago
> Yes blocking the event loop is easy. No it's not THAT easy. I've never done it because you think about it while writing code. To be pedantic, all JavaScript functions block the event loop. It's just that the vast majori
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Power Your Dreams with Xbox Series X(news.xbox.com)
27 points by Osiris 7y ago|6 comments
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Actor René Auberjonois Dies at 79(cnet.com)
4 points by Osiris 7y ago|0 comments
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New CRISPR tool could fix almost all disease-causing DNA glitches(statnews.com)
26 points by Osiris 7y ago|3 comments
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Google is blatantly lying about the quality of Stadia’s games(9to5google.com)
89 points by Osiris 7y ago|30 comments
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by Osiris 7y ago
Some cryptocurrency communities push the idea of "Be your own bank", especially with hardware wallets specifically because of this problem of having to trust / rely on custodians. My sister-in-law had her accounts frozen for
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by Osiris 7y ago
> The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints actively discourages any sort of rational individual thought As an active member, I can say that this comment is untrue. The Church actively encourages education. A simple example is the
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by Osiris 7y ago
My wife did Mary Kay and they had a clause regarding buy back: They would pay 90% of what you paid to buy it and you'd be blacklisted - you could never by a MK consultant again. So even if an MLM has that type of program they probably
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The All New T-Mobile – Creating a 5G Future for All(newtmobile.com)
3 points by Osiris 7y ago|0 comments
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by Osiris 7y ago
My understanding of the current law is benefits are mandatory for employees working more than 32 hours a week. I don't know what the rules are for exempt employees.
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by Osiris 7y ago
KVM VPSs are generally significantly more expensive than OpenVZ, so for side projects where I want a cheap (<$5/mn) plan I've always used the OpenVZ VPSs.
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by Osiris 7y ago
I use Vivaldi on Linux, macOS, and Windows. It's the most customizable browser I've used since Opera 12 (which makes sense, since one of the Opera founders started Vivaldi).

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