bboozzoo

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by bboozzoo 10mo ago
I do something similar but with Emacs and org mode. I start a new file each time I join a new company and just keep on updating it with things as I'm progressing through my day. The one I carry right now goes back as far as Dec 2017. I
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by bboozzoo 11mo ago
You're mistaken thinking those engineers aren't facing the same market downturn. AFAICT, it's exactly the same in Europe. The only difference is that in Europe folks weren't paid exorbitant salaries like their US colleag
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by bboozzoo 11mo ago
It's not all roses unfortunately. See discussions https://github.com/landlock-lsm/linux/issues/28 and https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAG48ez1O0VTwEiRd3KqexoF78WR+cmP... Even the exampl
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by bboozzoo 11mo ago
But it's coming anyway, whether people like it or not. FWIW, it is my understanding that XWayland is still supported, so it's not like your apps will stop working.
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by bboozzoo 1y ago
> What is surprising is that a classic Time-of-check-time-of-use (TOCTOU) bug was latent in their system until Monday. Call me naive, but I thought AWS, an organization running a service that averages 100 million RPS, would have flushed
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by bboozzoo 1y ago
Isn't it universally true that if you're rich your life can be much easier? With enough wealth the actual health care system does not matter much. Neither does the country in which health care services are rendered. You just pay a
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by bboozzoo 1y ago
Seriously, how on earth are you coming up with this? Time and again they debunk those silly claims but people just keep bringing this up on and on. Is it some sort of conspiracy theory?
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by bboozzoo 1y ago
I probably have a bunch of such tools installed on my main machine. The problem is you actually need to remember to use them, and then maybe their command line switches to get the desired output. Whereas cat/less/git/vim are
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by bboozzoo 1y ago
> Same as how a fetus will inevitably develop into an adult and be fully conscious, if nothing goes wrong. Unless it dies in pain and suffering hours, days, months or a few years after birth due to a defect that we already know can never
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by bboozzoo 1y ago
> Long story short, the entry level car now costs close to 25k EUR. [1] Just this February I bought brand new 2024 Clio for ~17k EUR, gas+LPG. At least until July it was super easy to get even better deals on small/compact cars with
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by bboozzoo 1y ago
Did you mean a race towards the end of one's life?
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by bboozzoo 1y ago
With that many ways to try things out differently hoping for good results, it feels like this would become a huge time sink, wouldn't it?
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by bboozzoo 1y ago
Whoever wrote that `unpack_dns` C snippet needs to have their keyboard taken away.
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by bboozzoo 2y ago
> In addition to it all, Zuck's taste in board games is basic. FWIW, Ticket to Ride and Catan are decent, worth playing, euro games. That's miles better than Monopoly or Risk which the casual folk immediately think of in the co
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by bboozzoo 2y ago
> some weird-ass white guy annointed himself keeper of the material how's their skin colour so relevant to the discussion that it needs to be brought up? what if they were yellow/black/green?
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by bboozzoo 2y ago
> where workers can easily move to. Is this part still true though?
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by bboozzoo 2y ago
Not all of Europe. The immediate neighbors were always wary of Russia's game, but attempts to bring that up only got them labeled as rusophobic.
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by bboozzoo 2y ago
Why do you assume it's about engineering? Not every role demands the same set of skills or they are not equally important.
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by bboozzoo 2y ago
Undoubtedly, but maybe not the best set of skills for a given role.
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by bboozzoo 2y ago
It's quite surreal when a colleague apologizes as they won't attend the daily standup bc they need to leave to get to the bomb shelter. Or another one joins the standup while working in a bomb shelter and apologizes in case their
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by bboozzoo 2y ago
But not necessarily less buggy or more useful than the counterparts (if there even are any).
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by bboozzoo 2y ago
> back when I was using arch I wrote pkgbuilds instead of configure/make/installing to my home folder. kept my ./local/(bin|lib|share) clean and meant I could update it easier or uninstall it with pacman. This is exac
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by bboozzoo 2y ago
I'm always puzzled how folks praise PKGBUILDs when it's mostly irrelevant for a regular user. Unless by 'PKGBUILD system' you mean AUR, a place where random people push random build scripts and other folks are happy
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by bboozzoo 2y ago
FYI, in case you missed that, Leap has been EOL since late 2022.
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by bboozzoo 2y ago
Is Oracle committed to actually supporting the distro with security updates and so on? I was under the impression that it's simply a bug-for-bug compatibility rebuild from RHEL sources, which aside from rebuilding effort, the majority
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by bboozzoo 3y ago
Since you almost always need to open a file in order to do anything useful `strace -vf -e openat` helped solve a lot of issues from simple configuration file lookup to ld.so library loading problems.
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by bboozzoo 3y ago
Phew, only 5 hours, that's really great. How about a week of 2-3 after-hours work to fit within the time limit, then submitting the PRs and addressing review for each of the 3-4 steps?
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by bboozzoo 3y ago
Always had the impression that same could be said about solving math problems at school/uni. Some planning, knowing the right algo or tools, some creative thinking, many ways to get the desired output. Linear algebra was particularly f
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by bboozzoo 3y ago
It's not like you couldn't transport troops on a passenger train, so I'd say may they never see the light of day again ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. In reality though, I doubt this will result in any serious repercussions for whoever calle
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by bboozzoo 3y ago
This is exactly what you wrote, a vision. The first major obstacle is our urge to lower the effort one needs to get through the day doing all the chores, groceries, work etc. If you tell someone that now they need to move their lazy ass, an

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