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by alrs 7y ago
I think the only suspects you can take off the list are oil-importing US client states and the LDCs of the global south. The unipolar moment is over, a Great Game is again afoot.
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by alrs 7y ago
The supplements-aren't-necessary-advice is often the lawerly "you don't need supplements if you're not malnourished" or "if you're getting a balanced diet." Left unsaid is my takeaway: modern agricult
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by alrs 7y ago
...or any country that wants to see the United States drawn into a proxy war for one of its client states in the Middle East. Or a country that wants to see oil prices rise in the short-term. Or a a country that wants to make European depen
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by alrs 7y ago
So long as I'm not getting called at 3am to debug it, then yup.
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by alrs 7y ago
If you replace 100 lines of my code with 20 lines, God bless you. If you replace 100 lines of my code with 500 lines of buzzword-driven development that is 50% copied off of Stackoverflow, we're going to have a discussion.
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by alrs 7y ago
I was buying nothing the-week-it-came-out in 1998.
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by alrs 7y ago
Years ago I would upgrade-in-place, now I don't bother.
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by alrs 7y ago
I've used Debian pretty much every day since the first day I installed it, which helps.
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by alrs 7y ago
I have a few of them in a box somewhere. https://www.amazon.com/Linux-Developers-Resource-6-CD-Set/dp...
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by alrs 7y ago
So here's what installing Debian was like in 1998. Short of going to a first-tier University AND having a campus job that allowed you near the ethernet jacks, you were either going to spend weeks downloading disk images over your 38.4
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by alrs 7y ago
Bike lanes exist to get bicycles "out of the way," which is why we have a decades-long alliance between the car-insurance lobby and the sell-bicycles lobby to get bikes off the road and on to facilities. This is a losing strategy
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by alrs 7y ago
The nice thing about pre-Slack was that there was a bozo filter: the only people who could bother you were the people who could figure out how to use an IRC client.
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by alrs 7y ago
If your job is to program, and people are sending you email and slack messages, you're a chump if you are replying in anything under 24 hours.
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by alrs 7y ago
System76 would have never happened, Dell and HP were already pushing Linux before OSX dropped. In the year 2000: https://www.zdnet.com/article/dell-linuxs-new-best-friend-50...
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Apple Is Blocking Linux User-Agent on appleid.apple.com(fosstodon.org)
335 points by alrs 8y ago|140 comments
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by alrs 8y ago
It must vary a lot. I live in the United States and I've never encountered anyone who wanted to communicate over WhatsApp.
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by alrs 8y ago
I tried Matrix last month. It's neat, but slow and a little buggy. Recommending it to anyone other than a Matrix developer right now seems a bit of a stretch.
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by alrs 8y ago
Without a hint of vitriol: any tech community that wants to use something like Slack is not the kind of tech community I want anything to do with. I'm glad they exist, I'm glad they like that kind of thing, and I'm glad to ne
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by alrs 8y ago
Is there a word for a case of "I told you so" that went on for so long that it curdled from frustration, to despair, to cynicism, to a realignment of your understanding of the human project as something barely capable of tying its
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by alrs 8y ago
Considering that the yearly cost of a first-world sysadmin is north of $200k (it's not just salary), finding someone to tend to the database for under $10k is a pretty good deal. Worth remembering: you need to have a team of ~10 people
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Elon Musk's Secretive Foundation Benefits His Own Family(theguardian.com)
10 points by alrs 8y ago|0 comments
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by alrs 8y ago
The x201 is a Thinkpad sold with an i3, an i5, or an i7.
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by alrs 8y ago
Nonprofit means there aren't investors being paid a dividend, you can still have a cluster of management parasites getting paid $1M/yr.
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by alrs 8y ago
i3wm is a window manager, not a processor.
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by alrs 8y ago
I'm on an x201 running i3wm. All good.
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by alrs 8y ago
I think that there is no shortage of endocrine disruptors in our environment. Sugar is a good problem to have, as you can opt-out. It's a lot tougher to isolate yourself from pesticides, plastics, fire retardants, and the whole host of
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by alrs 8y ago
I'm not obese, but I was. There is a weird Internet cult that celebrates obesity, but I think plenty who live in the "nothing you can do" camp internalized bad advice, got nowhere with it, and gave up.
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by alrs 8y ago
The "selfish-lazy-greedy assholes" hypothesis doesn't do so well in the face of endocrinology. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15987666
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by alrs 8y ago
I've found that it kinda-sorta works, on some hardware. I really wish they were targeting Debian instead of something as prone-to-broken as Alpine, but beggars can't be choosers.
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by alrs 8y ago
Elasticsearch is a distributed index, not a reliable document store. You can expect availability problems and data loss. This is fine, because you can rebuild the index from your source of truth.

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