badgersandjam

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by badgersandjam 12y ago
Unfortunately we live in an age of idiocy where anyone will sell their soul for a smaller fee and less privacy. There's no winning against that so you have to deal with this from the inside of the enemy via "legitimate sabotage&qu
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by badgersandjam 12y ago
You'd make a good politician because you make a bad human now with all that word twisting.
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by badgersandjam 12y ago
Entirely agree! But blaming everything on climate suddenly isn't the right answer. Perhaps someone lost a ship load of PCP in the sea and they just snuffed it. And they're trying to hide that. Another hypothesis that could be test
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by badgersandjam 12y ago
That's not what I'm saying. I can't make it much clearer than: a) suddenly out of the blue, a Ford Transit mutates into a toaster. b) someone is "pretty sure it is related to the impending comet impact". c) Everyone
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by badgersandjam 12y ago
Problem is we have about 50% certainty...
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by badgersandjam 12y ago
There's a pretty big assumption in there. That the comet is approaching earth and not going to miss it by half a parsec or that the comet is infact a bit of dirt on the lens of the telescope... All of which need testing first before yo
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by badgersandjam 12y ago
This is exactly the problem. There should be no activism and no causes in science. Each of them implies bias and results in less than ethical practice and unreliable theories. To ask for rationality and the application of the scientific met
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by badgersandjam 12y ago
None. However svn prevents them doing anything major unless they tell someone.
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by badgersandjam 12y ago
You never know with git. Which is one of my big problems with it. The picture on master doesn't necessarily represent what happens on other repos across your organisation.
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by badgersandjam 12y ago
Not sure why you're downvoted. That's bad science regardless of how you look at it. The use of the word "climate" in a quote is a big indicator of bad science as it happens to pay the bills and make a good quote in the p
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by badgersandjam 12y ago
I disagree. The tools are awful and terribly slow to execute at best. Then you occasionally get shafted with a relabel.
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by badgersandjam 12y ago
Interesting approach and one I hadn't considered. Thanks for the heads up.
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by badgersandjam 12y ago
Actually I had a nice dedicated box until 2013 at a reputable host in the UK. Unfortunately I no longer wished to fish out for £95/month for it. Still had problems even though the thing was well maintained and there were no bad neighbo
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by badgersandjam 12y ago
I'm not sure why you were downvoted - it's a valid solution. To be honest, I'd rather see DCE/RPC (DCOM's ancestor) make an appearance without some of the pain points of DCOM.
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by badgersandjam 12y ago
Don't bother running a mail server. It's hell. I did from 1998 until about last week. I started running it on a cable modem with an old Compaq desktop, migrated to a dedicated server (which hosted a load of other stuff) and finall
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by badgersandjam 12y ago
Spot on. I can't say enough good things about COM; it's enabled some quite amazing things for me over the years and really top notch distributed systems that are easy to manage.
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by badgersandjam 12y ago
Fantastic - thanks for the link.
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by badgersandjam 12y ago
I wonder what Andrews and Arnold's approach to this problem will be. They're the last bastion of common sense in the UK.
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by badgersandjam 12y ago
MVC is really easy to test. This example just completely ignores concepts as programming to interfaces, composition and single responsibility.
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by badgersandjam 12y ago
This. Plus its fucking miserable dying slowly over the space of 20 years. I've watched it happen to so many people. Avoid work, retire early, spend everything, eat everything, do what you must do as early as you can before probability
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by badgersandjam 12y ago
Just want to mention that some of the internals of this aren't great. There's absolutely no decoupling which makes testing very difficult and the contextual stuff is horrid. The components folder is also a cleverly hidden static b
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by badgersandjam 12y ago
That's not much. Our baseline config HP DL380s come with 64GiB RAM (!!)
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by badgersandjam 12y ago
Wasn't aware of the C65. I'd not have bought one myself. In 1990/1991 there were a lot better machines on the market. Unfortunately my only Commodore experience was the Amiga 2000. That lasted a mere year before it was replac
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by badgersandjam 12y ago
Ok perhaps the personal attack was uncalled for. Please accept my apologies.
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by badgersandjam 12y ago
That's exactly my point. It's not limited to the Linux core team. We divide into working groups of 2-3 people max to avoid this. Works quite well.
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by badgersandjam 12y ago
Not really odd. You just haven't poked the bits I have.
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by badgersandjam 12y ago
You're entirely right and I've upvoted you. However, with one small caveat: servers don't generally have sound cards so the impact of this was relatively low. There aren't that many desktop Linux users out there. I mea
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by badgersandjam 12y ago
Known good HP DL380 G8 pulled from production, ECC RAM, monitoring, SAS disks, full hardware test and memtest86 pass. Nope. Not that. We don't buy crappy hardware or not test it.
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by badgersandjam 12y ago
Yes you're right. When your system consists of functions "A, B, C, D", I'd expect to see test suites for "A, B, C, D". In this case there were test suites for "A, B, C". The client found D therefore t
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by badgersandjam 12y ago
You're 100% correct. In fact my own mail server/web machine uses it. Theo is not right at the centre; there's a large group of people who work together as equals from what I can see. I can't recommend it for our "en

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