bifrost

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by bifrost 7y ago
> Or, more accurately, Linux stopped Unix in its tracks Thats hardly true. When Linux was ramping up steam the Big Iron companies were the only real option for stability and performance. Also for years the largest sites on the internet r
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by bifrost 7y ago
Not really, one mistake installing a package and you can have everything break. This is basically why containers/Docker and things like virtualenv exist.
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by bifrost 7y ago
Can you expand on what you mean by "DevOps" culture? Developers doing operational stuff has traditionally not been great and Operations people doing SW development is usually less great; for a long time DevOps was the worst of bot
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by bifrost 7y ago
I remember using Coherent along with Xenix around the same time. I think I tried everything I could get my hands on :) I even used 386BSD heh.
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by bifrost 7y ago
I've used it on servers, its handy but the install process is pretty weak compared to some other OSes. A lot of the drivers were pretty behind so custom builds had to be made. Nix on Ubuntu was pretty useful, I tried Nix on FreeBSD but
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by bifrost 7y ago
Thats the magic of NixOS basically. I've used a handfull of OSes regularly and I worked somewhere that used the Nix package manager, its pretty neat in a land of broken everything (most Linux distributions)!
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Sony confirms the PlayStation 5 is coming in 2020, reveals new hardware details(arstechnica.com)
6 points by bifrost 7y ago|0 comments
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by bifrost 7y ago
I see comments newer than 2 weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=windexh8er
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by bifrost 7y ago
As an aside, the Maser wikipedia article is a bit incorrect. > The laser works by the same principle as the maser, but produces higher frequency coherent radiation at visible wavelengths. There are plenty of lasers in the non-visible spe
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by bifrost 7y ago
> The gateway then NAT's all those mapped IPv6 addresses to it's IPv4 address. Right, then its not a pure v6 network, its got v4 somewhere patched in. When I'm on my pure v6 network at home, Twitter does not work.
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by bifrost 7y ago
That can't be totally true, Twitter doesn't work on v6.
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by bifrost 7y ago
> imagine a laser at typical radio wavelengths Huh? Radios are Kilo/Mega/Gigahertz. Light is Terahertz.
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I'm Aron Eisenberg's son. I want to invite everyone to something(reddit.com)
1 points by bifrost 7y ago|0 comments
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by bifrost 7y ago
I should also add that he was a great person, I had a few interactions with him via a common FaceBook group and he was really a wonderful person.
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by bifrost 7y ago
Aron aka Nog was a member of "Star Trek Shitposting" and he participated in several memorable events. He was a kind and very likable person with a wonderful sense of humor. If you've ever watched DS9, I hope you support this.
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Fans Are Petitioning for a Captain Nog Statue in Star Trek: Picard(dailystartreknews.com)
2 points by bifrost 7y ago|2 comments
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by bifrost 7y ago
I'm a friend of the author, I'm also a ham of 25 years, feel free to post up in here! I'm also usually monitoring 28.3-28.5 MHz after 9pm on weekends.
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by bifrost 7y ago
Its still PHP...
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Fixing up KA9Q-Unix, or “neck deep in 30 year old codebases..”(adrianchadd.blogspot.com)
3 points by bifrost 7y ago|1 comments
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by bifrost 7y ago
Having dealt with some disclosure issues in the past, its fraught with peril. There's even a conference dedicated to it now: https://www.disclosureconference.com/ Its probably worthwhile to attend.
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High-severity vulnerability in vBulletin is being actively exploited(arstechnica.com)
111 points by bifrost 7y ago|59 comments
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Jessica Meir Just Became the First Female Swedish Citizen in Space(swedesinthestates.com)
1 points by bifrost 7y ago|0 comments
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by bifrost 7y ago
Thats kinda my point, its not a gun, its parts. You can't walk into a store with $300 bucks and walk out with a useful thing.
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by bifrost 7y ago
I don't believe so. The "Mini-14 Ranch Rifle" designation is well over 30-40 years old at this point. The fact that they now have a "Tactical" model is just marketing. The scope mounts clamp onto the receiver for al
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by bifrost 7y ago
If you're going to buy an old-style rifle thats true, I rarely see A1 or A2 style uppers anymore. Its about as dated as the Mini-14 design as well and thankfully eliminated.
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by bifrost 7y ago
They are to the FBI, which is where this stat is from. You might want to educate yourself to the actual problems that we have.
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by bifrost 7y ago
Putting a scope on any Mini-14 requires a proprietary adaptor. Compared to an AR its a huge pain in the behind. Compared to any other proper tactical rifle, its terrible. I saw the one they marketed as "tactical" and I'd def
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by bifrost 7y ago
I keep hearing $300, where? This does not seem to exist outside of airsoft...
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by bifrost 7y ago
We've got 2700 firearms homicides per year in the US right now, its low; That includes lawful shootings by police and DGU. The average anti-gun person is hyped up by the news and by ableist rhetoric when suicides are reported as gun vi
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by bifrost 7y ago
Legislators attempting to talk about banning "Assault Weapons" come across about as intelligent and informed as those who want to ban violent video games. Neanderthals to those who know whats going on, saints to those who are blin

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