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by abotsis 5y ago
I did this in WordPerfect in dos, even though I could program in pascal. Getting a compiler on the same computer as a printer back then was the biggest chore :)
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by abotsis 5y ago
This seems to be less about how a baby saved the day, and more about how an employee exfiltrated data from her employer. As a cybersecurity guy at a large financial institution, I wonder what Pixar’s policy was about the matter then, and wh
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by abotsis 5y ago
I’ve used tableau and such, but lately Apache superset is filling my needs. Check it out!
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by abotsis 5y ago
What happened to “Make each program do one thing well. To do a new job, build afresh rather than complicate old programs by adding new "features".”? If it’s too tough to integrate with other tools like jq, maybe that could provide
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by abotsis 5y ago
I didn’t think Linux ran on an SX. Thought it required the mmu in the DX for 32-bit protected mode. Might be misremembering though.
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by abotsis 5y ago
#9 took me years to realize. Even more when you have an idea, share it, someone who’s not in the corner takes it and runs with it. That experience is even more isolating because the immediate reaction is to just not share any more ideas. It
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by abotsis 5y ago
Recent Linux patches allow the scheduler to only schedule processes with the same seed on the same core. The “seed” would be something tied to the user, or something else… I don’t think they’re merged yet… but that might be a solution.
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by abotsis 5y ago
Really? No “life will find a way?” memes or quotes?
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by abotsis 5y ago
Yea but there was that guy who built an arduino based contraption to read a Cray Supercomputer hard drive.
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by abotsis 5y ago
I installed SLS. It took me all night to get the modelines right for 1024x768@8 bits. On one side, my how far things have come. On the other, why’s it so hard to get hotplug thunderbolt working. :)
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by abotsis 5y ago
Years ago I had the vibrator in my phone go out as a result of being on my handlebars. Was really surprised to not see something about this come out earlier tbh.
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by abotsis 5y ago
My experience: Apple has been amazing. I bought a previous gen mbp from bhphoto that was heavily discounted. It arrived and was DoA. I brought it into an Apple store and they gave me the latest gen and discounted the money I paid bhphoto an
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by abotsis 5y ago
PSA: Careful when adjusting your volume while your wearing headphones (without a mic), while your phone is in your pocket by squeezing the sizes of your phone. There’s nothing more stressful than trying to pull over on the shoulder, get you
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by abotsis 5y ago
“Upgrade these systems for a customer”, they said. “They have backups”, they said. I encourage the reader to guess what they said next :)
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by abotsis 5y ago
Someone needs to officiate a marriage between this and duckdb.
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by abotsis 5y ago
We used a similar app for baby names- it’s a great idea for all sorts of consensus. I actually think there’s a large opportunity to apply this in all sorts of ways: baby names and movies are both great ideas, but anytime multiple people wan
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by abotsis 6y ago
I’m going to port this to Python for use as a progress bar ala tqdm.
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by abotsis 6y ago
So when they reopened limited trading and prevented people who already had positions from acquiring more, how did that help their case that it was done because of their obligations to their clearing house? If they said “ok, everyone can pur
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by abotsis 6y ago
Why? Surely them blocking buys for any individual (or even small group of them) is within their rights per their customer agreement. But blocking them en masse is market manipulation, and their tos isn’t going to protect them from that.
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by abotsis 6y ago
Looks like a phishing attempt to me: “download this binary to order burritos”!
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by abotsis 6y ago
Wow, this. One thing I didn’t see mentioned was “0”. You mentioned it, but it didn’t grok to something I know to work in some implementations: “ping 0” behaves like “ping 127.0.0.1”.
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by abotsis 6y ago
“The FBI then got a warrant and the help of a victim who sent a booby-trapped video to Hernandez” Seriously, Vice, “booby-trapped”..? It’d be funny if it wasn’t minors. Actually, it’s still kind of funny.
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by abotsis 6y ago
“This damn rocky soil is playing hell with the tiller!”
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by abotsis 6y ago
“After more thought, I determined that the rows do not alternate but are arranged in a repeating "ABBA" pattern.” ... which differs from Konami develops, who used a “BA” pattern in their roms. Sorry, couldn’t resist. My brain did
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by abotsis 6y ago
This might be a naive question, but regarding “Let's imagine that we simulate the brain in all biological details on a supercomputer. Will that supercomputer be conscious?“ ...wouldn’t the only reason for this be one of efficiency? Th
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by abotsis 6y ago
Also of interest might be Sprite- a Berkeley research os developed “back in the day” by Ken Shirriff And others. It boasted a lot of innovations like a logging filesystem (not just metadata) and a distributed process model and filesystem al
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by abotsis 7y ago
*Just kidding on send/recv, looks like it’s there now. Substitute with encryption if you need another example.
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by abotsis 7y ago
It’s worth noting that much of the premise of the article (wanting flexibility) is outdated. Zfs has support for removing top-level raid 0/1 vdevs now. So you can take a raid10 pool, and remove a top level mirror vdev completely. Note
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by abotsis 7y ago
Which api’s specifically? VMS was always (and still is?) posix compliant, as was nt. VMS even ran x11!
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by abotsis 10y ago
The point was to be used as a colloquialism to address people who disagree and encourage them to stop, think and remember everything has tradeoffs and compromises. Then to think about those before simply saying "this isn't a GIL w

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