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by bityard 1y ago
If by "floating" you mean not a subscription, then sure. Non-subscription licensing for commercial software is going away for all but niche and indie stuff. For the same reasons my grocery prices have tripled even though overall i
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by bityard 1y ago
In business/investing circles, this is known as "analysis paralysis." There is no limit to the amount of preparation you can do in anticipation of a big purchase or effort, but past a certain point the returns are not only di
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by bityard 1y ago
I find the output of `ss` very hard to read in comparison to netstat.
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by bityard 1y ago
I said it was debatable, but you may be right. I still think if we hadn't already put a human on the moon by today and had a 10-year deadline to do it, it would basically not happen because it would get killed by bikeshedding, or red-v
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by bityard 1y ago
I once worked for a company that was very much like this in spirit. The whole management culture was: hire smart people, tell them the company's priorities, give them a general direction, remove any obstacles that stand in their way, a
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by bityard 1y ago
TFA mentions why academia is not the same as Bell Labs. Most researchers spend more time writing grant proposals than doing research. And the culture of publish-or-die leads to a lot of stress to just get something out the door, which leads
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by bityard 1y ago
I fully support right-to-repair but do you need a law to repair batteries? You can buy a battery build kit for M18 tools (for example) on AliExpress that comes with everything but the cells. I'm a bit of a tool nerd and I'm not aw
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by bityard 1y ago
Very interesting. Maybe I can afford Milwaukee tools now! Their tools are good, and sold bare, for semi-reasonable prices but their batteries are eye-wateringly expensive. (I should probably pick one of these up before Torque Test Channel d
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by bityard 1y ago
Sure, if you invent a time machine and rewrite how things actually evolved. Early on, you mostly had only two kinds of code: Proprietary software whose source code is closely guarded as a trade secret, contrasted with open software where th
730.
by bityard 1y ago
I was a big fan of Star Trek: The Next Generation as a kid and one of my favorite things in the whole world was thinking about the Enterprise's computer and Data, each one's strengths and limitations, and whether there was really
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by bityard 1y ago
In defense of the replies, your initial question was very vague and left people to assume you meant the obvious thing.
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by bityard 1y ago
In the house I grew up in, we had an old upright player piano with at least 250 rolls sitting in a rack on top. The piano itself was severely out of tune and a bunch of the key tops were missing. The piano had a motor and vacuum, but neithe
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by bityard 1y ago
I live near a major university town and one of the highlights of my year is move-out week. At dusk, a friend and I go dumpster diving at the apartments around campus. You definitely wear gloves and clothing you don't mind throwing out
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by bityard 1y ago
The reason you can't give away a mattress is bedbugs. If you know what to look for, a bedbug-ridden mattress can easily be avoided. And you can also buy protective breathable covers that keep the bedbugs either in or out. But most peop
735.
by bityard 1y ago
Yes, but there was still fraud. You didn't send your money away to just any random ad you ran across. Sears was VERY well known. And if you didn't know the company or its reputation, you likely wouldn't send your money away t
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by bityard 1y ago
This happened a couple decades later, but my first FOUR tech jobs came from attending a local Linux user group and networking with the people there. I was talking to someone and explaining that I was taking classes at a local community coll
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by bityard 1y ago
You seem to be implying that Debian makes large significant changes to upstream software for the sake of integration with the rest of the OS and that Arch makes none at all. Neither of these is true.
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by bityard 1y ago
First I want to say that I love Debian. They have a great distro that is simple and quite frankly a joy to use, and manage to keep it all going on basically nothing but volunteer effort. However, I do believe that in certain areas, they giv
739.
by bityard 1y ago
I always found solar farm engineering intensely interesting and looked seriously into becoming an electrician as a second career as something to "retire into" once I got sick of working in tech. And like you say, it turns out it&#
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by bityard 1y ago
Wow, not being able to have an off-grid system AT ALL without the utility's approval just sounds bonkers to me. I guess PG&E is even more evil than I thought. Used solar panels are a pretty brisk business right now. Lots of places
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by bityard 1y ago
That sounds incredible. This is the first year I've really started digging deep into solar generation and battery storage and it's one big fascinating rabbit hole. I've looked at it from a bunch of different angles and keep c
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by bityard 1y ago
That would have been a good argument to make a decade or two ago but these days switch-mode power supplies are very efficient, and GaN ones even more so. I have a small mess of 12-ish volt computer/network equipment in the corner of my
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by bityard 1y ago
I almost never write server-side JS/TS so I don't have a horse in this race, but it sounds like a good time and reason for a community fork that eschews legacy compatibility in order to focus on only modern features.
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by bityard 1y ago
I've used it on all of the DEs I've had over the years, gnome 1,2,3, MATE, cinnamon, KDE, etc. There's nothing to integrate, it just runs and sits there doing its job.
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by bityard 1y ago
This is very interesting to me but the source link at the bottom of the page is 404.
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by bityard 1y ago
But Google is one of their top sponsors: https://www.abetterinternet.org/sponsors/
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by bityard 1y ago
I have been using gkrellm for at least the last 25 years or so. I very much like being able to see what my system is doing at a glance and no other system monitor comes close to being both as detailed and compact.
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by bityard 1y ago
You can pick and choose which devices are important to monitor, and you can combine all the CPU cores into one chart. That's what I do anyway.
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by bityard 1y ago
If you're a botnet operator of a botnet that normally scraped a few dozen pages per second and then noticed a site suddenly taking multiple seconds per page, that's at least an order of magnitude (or two) decrease in performance.
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by bityard 1y ago
I do this at 60 minutes, even though my meetings are all over zoom these days. "Sorry, I need to step away to get some water. I'll be back in a few minutes."

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