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by blagie 3y ago
I am moving outside of my zone of expertise, but when I last looked (decades ago), systems like NSF assumed a filesystem backing store and thinks about things like byte ranges. There are a lot of operations which file systems support which
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by blagie 3y ago
This seems really nice! If this is posted by the author looking for feedback: 1) WebDAV is a much better choice than FUSE. FUSE is a good concept, but buggy and poorly-implemented. Things like sshfs can break in very bad ways if e.g. there
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by blagie 3y ago
> no, this is all nonsense. really, did any consumer buy an SGI workstation? or a Sun? Yes. I had plenty of friends who did. Mostly from, very likely, similar companies like the ones you worked / consulted for when they upgraded. It
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by blagie 3y ago
If corporations can use CFAA to go after individuals, individuals should be able to enforce CFAA against organizations as well. I gave one example, but there are many others. It's used (alongside DMCA) to lock down all sorts of devices
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by blagie 3y ago
shrug And NT was on plenty of high-end devices too. Most e.g. developers and sysadmins ran NT since it came out, over the 95/98/ME line. 95/98/ME were still the consumer brands. At the time, there was a split between &
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by blagie 3y ago
The history, as I recall it: - VMS developer develops WNT, playfully incrementing each letter of his prior OS from former employer, based on similar concepts. - Corporate lawyers. - Obvious explanation vehemently denied. - Alternative expla
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by blagie 3y ago
A lot of things illegal under CFAA shouldn't be considered fraud, but here we are. If e.g. this happens: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz The reverse should happen too.
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by blagie 3y ago
shrug It probably gave you months of fun.
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by blagie 3y ago
No, Windows NT was first in the OS line. Windows 2000 was NT 5.0. There was no home / consumer / client version of Windows 2000. The versions were: Professional, Server, Advanced Server and Datacenter. Windows XP was the first con
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by blagie 3y ago
Same general reason I'm not allowed to violate your security systems. In reverse, people have been sued for less under: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act If I have a technology which bypas
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by blagie 3y ago
Windows didn't start out as an OS. It started out as a windowing system for DOS. That's the landscape all the trademark suits happened in. Footnote: Windows 95/98/ME was still DOS + Windows bundled in one box. Windows XP
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by blagie 3y ago
There was an action. It barely went Microsoft's way. You can pull on this reference trail: https://www.zdnet.com/article/we-own-windows-trademark-micro... I believe the problem is that "Window System" is
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by blagie 3y ago
Doesn't matter either way who invented it. This is trademark, not patent. If they wanted a trademark, that needed to appear on copy from day 0. The paper is titled: "Improving Language Understanding by Generative Pre-Training&quot
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by blagie 3y ago
... I thought the original premise of Prime was to take goods and services which, under basic economic theory, are more efficient centrally-funded by taxes, and provide those via a private entity. Especially things with zero marginal cost,
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by blagie 3y ago
ESPHome is fine, but it's not representative of what people mean by "wifi devices." Most wifi devices require a proprietary app, sweep up your data to some fly-by-night operation, stop working during an internet outage, don&#
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by blagie 3y ago
They've been at mercy of Intel x86 APIs for a long time. Didn't kill them. What happens here is that the original vendor loses control of the API once there are multiple implementations. That's the best possible outcome for A
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by blagie 3y ago
Oddly enough, I find cheap Chinese fountain pens to be quite... for lack of a better word, random, but in a good way. They cost a couple of dollars, and some are horrible and some excellent. You buy five, and by fluke, one will be really, r
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by blagie 3y ago
ChatGPT a plurality of the time. I go through the API with a little script I wrote. If it doesn't work, I step up to GPT4. The costs are nominal (<$3/month). ChatGPT has gotten worse over time, so the need to escalate is more f
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by blagie 3y ago
This discussion started with what a data engineer does, and the diversity of roles. I wasn't trying to push my workflow on anyone. With what I'm doing right now (which includes data and SWE; I'm now writing more holistically)
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by blagie 3y ago
Reach out to me in six months, and I should have one up on github if I'm lucky :) (I've had a design in the works for years, and finally should have time and budget to implement it. Probably not helpful for legacy systems, though.
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by blagie 3y ago
Not a data engineer per-se, but I do a lot of data stuff. I find AI has revolutionized anything one-off, and data stuff has a lot of one-off. 80% of the time, I can ask the LLM and get a solution which would take 1-2 hours to code which wor
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by blagie 3y ago
That's what would change this from a lousy resource to a brilliant one. Little SQLer ("Little Squealer")
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by blagie 3y ago
No, it hasn't. The term has always gone in a half-dozen directions at once, and ranged anything from * an idiot making PPT decks for business presentations based on sales data; to * a statistician with very sophisticated mathematical b
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by blagie 3y ago
In my original post, I wrote: "'Climate change' was a step forward in terminology from 'global warming,' but we need about five more steps before it's something people care about." Yes, words do matter, an
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by blagie 3y ago
>There is great certainty in the knowledge that a train will derail given certain conditions. > > There is immense imprecision and a fundemental inability to predict where the cut glass vase in the dining car will come to rest. Tha
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by blagie 3y ago
> Climate change will make some current food production areas unsuitable (high confidence). Current global crop and livestock areas will increasingly become climatically unsuitable under a high- emission scenario (high confidence) (e.g.,
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by blagie 3y ago
> Ice ages occurred over the span of thousands to tens of thousands of years See "Little Ice Age" and it's effects. > Once a century droughts are becoming common "Climate change" not "global warming.&quot
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by blagie 3y ago
Absolutely.
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by blagie 3y ago
> driving more extreme changes, intoducing [sp] greater storms Respectfully, the mean temperature is the wrong measure for that. You want to look at measures like variance / std. div. -- the second moment and not the first. That&#x2
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by blagie 3y ago
Yes.

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