Shish2k

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by Shish2k 13y ago
> Just the insights into how to go about building reliable systems are inspiring I found that too; I wonder if the programming community would be better off if more people were pushed towards Erlang? Similar to how every programmer shoul
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by Shish2k 13y ago
> a guy who had yet to do anything Thus making him infinitely more peaceful than every other major politician of the era :P (If by "major politician" you mean "American president", and by "era" you mean &quo
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by Shish2k 13y ago
It would be nice if everything were HTTPS, but the default behaviour for a self-signed cert was "accept it the first time, but don't show the lock icon or anything, and then warn if it changes" - ie self-signed HTTPS is the n
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by Shish2k 13y ago
I don't think Iceland is popular for screwing the UK and saving themselves, I think they're popular for punishing their bankers, which is something your analogy doesn't seem to make any mention of...
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by Shish2k 13y ago
> Frigate-sized ships, which cost a thousandth of what a titan cost 60,000,000,000 / 500,000 ~= 100,000th (and 100x more fun, IMO :P)
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by Shish2k 13y ago
How to install ansible: sudo rm -rf / Oh no! Now you can't use ansible either, because insecure installation instructions exist , and thus you are compelled to use them instead of the sensible alternatives :P
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by Shish2k 13y ago
If something is obviously not meant to be offensive, but by some coincidence it is, then we should be offended by it? One day I hope to live in a world where people judge text by what it means, not which particular squiggly patterns ended u
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by Shish2k 13y ago
I know someone who uses the search bar in the top right to google for "google.com", which they then use to search for "yahoo", then having arrived at yahoo's front page, they search for "mail" to get to ya
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by Shish2k 13y ago
Personally I find this one the most convincing https://31.media.tumblr.com/8a705761bae7a2f6b682c668cf409fb1... (With "<90% vaccination coverage" and "highly religious" having an almost 1:1 correlation
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by Shish2k 13y ago
> I would expect it to not be designed/authored by the man behind pulseaudio Having used a bunch of Lennart's software, I'm generally coming to the conclusion that he's better at ideas than code -- but once his projec
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by Shish2k 13y ago
While that's the theory, it hasn't actually worked in practice on most distros for many years -- rather than having "core stuff in root, extra stuff in /usr", we now have "core stuff in initrd, some extra stuff
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by Shish2k 13y ago
> I am a monkey As a side note, it would be really useful if there was some way of quoting context that didn't trivially lend itself to forging context... (though admittedly that's a much smaller problem).
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by Shish2k 13y ago
Finding the instructions when you know what to look for is easy; the hard part is knowing that it's possible and to look for it at all
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by Shish2k 13y ago
> Why must the answers on SO be bland as tofu? Why do we have vegetarian restaurants when the majority of the world wants meat?
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by Shish2k 13y ago
> Unless an extremely specific concrete answer can be given, a question immediately gets killed Isn't that pretty much SO's explicit goal from day one? Complaining about SO not being a site for open discussion is like complaini
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by Shish2k 13y ago
> Ubuntu LTS releases ... software doesn't get updated (except security patches) for five years > more up-to-date packages ... no need to backport modern software I get how Ubuntu gives you both of these features, but I don'
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by Shish2k 13y ago
> [simple shell scripts lead] you to build in things like monitoring, trending, alerting, quotas, resource limits, and generally design your system better to detect, withstand and prevent fault Simple shell scripts might lead people in t
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by Shish2k 13y ago
Which is why it doesn't do that for some services, for example sshd :P Each login session gets a separate cgroup, so the ssh daemon and all the users using it can be managed separately.
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by Shish2k 13y ago
Common feature sets don't necessarily mean lack of innovation -- for a parallel I'd say kernels = web browsers and group APIs = html.
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by Shish2k 13y ago
In its defence, the portability problems are largely because the linux kernel has awesome features (ie, cgroups) and other kernels don't -- I think it's better for the world if we encourage the other OSes to add cgroups-like APIs
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by Shish2k 13y ago
> simple, clear and very understandable init.d scripts At best, init scripts are 5 lines of actual functionality and 100 lines of boilerplate, and in my experience very few init scripts are at their best. With systemd, the config file co
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by Shish2k 13y ago
Currently using systemd on debian myself, with a few of my own custom .service files and a lot of falling back to sysvinit compatibility -- would love to see more upstream packages contain .service files. Things like "automatically res
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by Shish2k 13y ago
> Flawed premise: All washing machines have windows. Flawed flawed-premise-finder: "every front-loaded washing machine I've seen so far came with a window"
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by Shish2k 13y ago
Why don't you convert to Judaism and time travel back to 1930s Germany? That'll make you feel better about living in North Korea quickly. </godwin></thread>
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by Shish2k 13y ago
I'd expect the old insecure joomla install was the original source of the infection, the cron was just there to automatically re-infect it without the attacker needing to run the same remote exploit repeatedly
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by Shish2k 13y ago
Also thinking along devil's advocacy lines -- it seems that without a universal basic income, people naturally resort to theft and copyright infringement to pull themselves back up to the baseline quality of life. With the economy natu
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by Shish2k 13y ago
Straightforward C is slow; straightforward python is medium speed; expertly written C (the foundations of python) is fast
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by Shish2k 13y ago
I did that, it bailed out because it wanted dependency problems to be fixed first (and the dependency fixer bailed out because it wanted the dupe problems to be fixed first)
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by Shish2k 13y ago
Just a couple of days ago I was doing an upgrade from 6.4 to 6.5 and yum died in the middle; fixing that was quite hellish as rpm somehow decided that multiple conflicting versions of several packages were installed at once (eg glibc v131 a
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by Shish2k 13y ago
For those (like me) who clicked because algorithms are fun but don't know the max flow problem specifically: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_flow_problem TL;DR: what's the fastest way to transport a larg

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