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by babarock 6y ago
Honest question, what's the difference between "from inside a VM" and "directly on a hypervisor"? I always thought it meant the same thing.
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by babarock 6y ago
Genuinely curious what issues you came across. Any chance you documented them somewhere?
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by babarock 6y ago
First of all, I want to mention that SICP is so much more than learning lisp. As a matter of fact, learning lisp only takes 10 minutes in the first lecture. The rest of the course is about learning programming techniques (and _magic_ as t
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by babarock 6y ago
The 2 aren't mutually exclusive. Seriously, I wonder if adding those cookie banner impacted tracking in any significant manner, because it definitely significantly impacted the usability of the web.
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by babarock 6y ago
Between this and their Azure Sphere product, Microsoft may very well be the largest Linux vendor today. As someone who discovered Unix in the early 00s, this makes me chuckle. What a world!
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by babarock 7y ago
One of the areas where I really like "incidental duplication" is in tests. Tests can sometimes be very repetitive and identical, and it's tempting to want to refactor it in some clever way. That's almost never good. On t
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by babarock 7y ago
"presumption of innocence until proven guilty" is a Human Right (article 11 of https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/ )
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by babarock 7y ago
You can be a volunteer project and still strive for having uniformity across packages in your project. The fact that you're volunteering doesn't mean you get to do whatever you want. That's exactly the reason Debian holds suc
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by babarock 7y ago
Not a downvoter, but if you think that compiling from source means you don't have to trust anyone, then I encourage you to read a paper called "Reflections on Trusting Trust" by Ken Thompson. It's a very famous computer
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by babarock 7y ago
Same. And I like many, I turned that damn cube off after 2-3 months of use.
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by babarock 7y ago
Slight nitpick. OpenShift, since its latest major version (3?) is Kubernetes. It's mostly a repackaging/distribution of k8s. OpenShift can run on top of AWS/Azure/GCP, but also, most importantly, OpenStack.
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by babarock 7y ago
Red Hat employee here, working in the cloud division. I can't speak for IBM, I'm not too familiar with it. I don't know what the future will hold. So far, Red Hat plays in a field slightly different than AWS/GCP/Azu
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by babarock 7y ago
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/journald.co... Seriously, it's in the man page.
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by babarock 7y ago
> And that timeframe might be shorter than you'd think. My guess would be "days". Any evidence to back up your guess, or is it just the hunch of some dude on the internet?
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by babarock 7y ago
How will they service open source if they stop funding its development? I'm assuming that you're implying that's what IBM wants?
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by babarock 7y ago
"IP acquisition"? Honest, if all the code that RH writes is open source, how can this be an IP acquisition?
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by babarock 7y ago
Depends what you're looking for. If you want blazing fast text-editing, you're better off learning advanced vim features like jumps, macros, registers ... If you care about integration with other text-based tools (like email, inst
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by babarock 8y ago
Thank you for the reasonable answer. Still, I find no harm in asking "what is it about this species that makes them stand out?" I was expecting to get factual answers along the lines of "these butterflies are tied to this spe
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by babarock 8y ago
380,000 employees at IBM, you're sure your 3 categories encompass everyone?
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by babarock 8y ago
You say laziness, I say censorship. Which one of us is right?
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by babarock 9y ago
This. Not breaking user space is fundamental to the success of most operating systems today. I read this article I cannot seem to find about Microsoft employees spending months replicating "wrong" behavior in <oldwindows.. win9
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by babarock 9y ago
> Why would you not want this? You don't want your machine to start crashing after installing the latest kernel. Or at least, that's the golden rule of Linux development. If phones start crashing after installing the latest And
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by babarock 10y ago
"Best way to learn everything about a topic is to explain it wrong on HN" ;)
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by babarock 11y ago
A lot of people are busy arguing who to blame, I just think it's interesting that sometimes you need to support non-standard software. Actually, I think it's interesting that highly successful programs are not the ones who go &quo
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by babarock 11y ago
There are many things I dislike about Monopoly but the randomness isn't one of them. A good deal of games I love have a big chunk of luck/randomness and I'm fine with it. The things I dislike about Monopoly: * Not too much st
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by babarock 11y ago
You can own a gun but not be able to do whatever you want with it. Property doesn't mean absolute freedom. Not even for libertarians.
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by babarock 12y ago
There's a lot you can do. * Writing (doc, blog posts, ...) * Evangelization (answer questions on IRC/Mailing-lists, help your entourage to start using it, go on live conferences, give talks, ...) * Testing. Test everything in each
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by babarock 12y ago
You kinda alluded to it, but I'm going to leave this here for reference. Here's a good explanation of why you should avoid parsing the output of `ls`: http://mywiki.wooledge.org/ParsingLs
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by babarock 12y ago
Good question. I've been working with awk for several years now, and here's how I feel about it. AWK is old. 1977 old. Later versions that appeared (nawk and gawk are the most common) helped make it a smoother language, but it&#x2
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by babarock 12y ago
I spent a couple of years using vim before switching to emacs around 3 years ago. I'll write about my own experience with both editors. Learning emacs won't automatically give you a huge productivity boost the way learning vim doe

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