andrey_utkin

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by andrey_utkin 5y ago
On the same topic: API Practices If You Hate Your Customers https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3375635
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by andrey_utkin 5y ago
Filesystem. Linux has VFS cache which is very robust and efficient. Remember that it is typical for programs to read /etc/nsswitch.conf, /etc/resolve.conf and tons of others at startup time - the filesystem is the data
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by andrey_utkin 5y ago
Nothing prevents hn users from getting to know each other and communicate. I attribute lack of evident destructive mobbing on hn to adequate moderation workforce.
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by andrey_utkin 5y ago
> Why are people still using IRC? Aren't there better, more private/secure channels? Equilibrium. An old essay "A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy" explains this idea in an enlightening way: https://www.gwern.n
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by andrey_utkin 5y ago
I support this line of thinking. It's delusional to completely outsource the assessment of plausibility, it's a fast track to dictatorship. It's on each of us to assess how much faith to hold in such claims. Otherwise we fall
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by andrey_utkin 5y ago
Helping is activity, how do you evaluate the outcomes?
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by andrey_utkin 5y ago
A question for all the PEs here. When you want to reflect critically on what you do, and actually measure your performance and/or bottom line contribution, what do you measure and how? What do your bosses measure? Surely warm fuzzy fee
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by andrey_utkin 5y ago
I used an existing open source python codebase. See https://github.com/andrey-utkin/MiBand3
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by andrey_utkin 5y ago
Wearable computer (on-body Linux) with audial calendar reminders and "normal" hand-strapped "desktop" https://github.com/andrey-utkin/wearable-computer/wiki TODO list and personal project track
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by andrey_utkin 5y ago
I have an even more naive question: if EU wants a secure and well-overseen root services operator, why don't they spin up their own one? They can do whatever they fancy for their own money.
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by andrey_utkin 5y ago
I really like the nomenclature described by my coworker Gareth Rees: stack has hot and cold ends. The terms of top and bottom just confuse everything. https://garethrees.org/2018/03/12/stack/
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by andrey_utkin 5y ago
Or bad news, that the govt's unreasonable bias is the reason why it is the optimal economic behavior to neglect maintenance?
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by andrey_utkin 5y ago
> Maintenance is a bad business Could you please elaborate why? I would agree that such business has relatively low ROI. Still, for example, Linux distros and *BSD foundations are to an extent a maintenance business.
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by andrey_utkin 5y ago
How do you want the responsibilities to be split between you the self-hoster and the software vendor?
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by andrey_utkin 6y ago
It must not be all or nothing. In firewalls we have rules. In SELinux etc we have rules, and distros package them for you.
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by andrey_utkin 6y ago
Xfce4-terminal prompts for confirmation when there's newline in the pasted contents.
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by andrey_utkin 6y ago
Nice to see all of this. Nice to see Nitrokey afloat - a small company serving to the demands of us, FOSS centric folks. Nice so see them striking good deals with organizations which deliver FOSS. Was nice to get my own Nitrokey free of cha
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by andrey_utkin 6y ago
It's not insane if it's rewarded in the long run of the competition. Like, "it's insane to grow legs just to live, if you can just crawl like a worm".
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by andrey_utkin 6y ago
Free and open source software is not all about "best utility for users". It's about freedoms being valued extremely highly; people self-select for being or not being the consumers of it.
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by andrey_utkin 6y ago
What's the point of wishing for existing FOSS artifacts (supposedly) "being more widely used" if it stops giving the foundational freedoms to the user?
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by andrey_utkin 6y ago
This is my response: > How many entities do you trust? I think this question is missing the point. Trust is how humans sense risks of a relationship they are in. Risk can be described as a set of potential events, characterised by amount
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by andrey_utkin 6y ago
So you count on SELinux. Who maintains SELinux policies for you, so that it knows what is allowed to a program and what isn't? It's people just like other software maintainets. There is no way around having to trust somebody else.
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by andrey_utkin 6y ago
> That a for-profit company proved able to develop the technology does not mean that for-profit companies are good at research. Is there any kind of argumentation or evidence that could possibly make you agree that for-profit companies
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by andrey_utkin 6y ago
> fundamentally about communication between a human and a machine. True! And we should not postulate who is at both sides of the communication - machine or human. It's like postulating that a hammer is a tool which must be held by a
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by andrey_utkin 6y ago
> Most psych facilities are over-enrolled and have no interest in keeping people around once they're stable enough to be released Penitentiary system is overburdened and has no interest in keeping people around once they're saf
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by andrey_utkin 6y ago
It is possible, and in some cases practical, to spend more resources to obtain more information which narrows the range. That's what Applied Information Economics methodology preaches. Page 5 of author's intro booklet has a flowch
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by andrey_utkin 6y ago
See http://www.hubbardresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/In...
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by andrey_utkin 6y ago
> What if the "value" is actually less than the cost of the task (but it's still absolutely necessary)? This is a false premise. But it's surprising how many people seem to hold it, to their peril. > I have a feeli
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by andrey_utkin 6y ago
It's an investment problem for those who hold the money in the organization. Say, we have an organisation consisting of exec team and engineering team. Engineering team has a bright idea that a certain undertaking will reduce time to m
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by andrey_utkin 6y ago
> but if you include the cost of that higher salary reducing his value would that also reduce the salary you want to pay? Doesn't make sense. It indeed doesn't. Where did you get that idea? It's not as complicated as you p

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