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by bpchaps 10y ago
If you lose a shoe while running across a highway, it's probably not worth the risk trying to get it back. The disk usage is just one example of many. Actions that you take really depends on what field you're in and, and again, le
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by bpchaps 10y ago
I agree with what you're saying, and this is almost exactly what I do, but when disk space is limited - particularly during time-sensitive situations - this advice isn't very useful. For example, if a host or service is on the cus
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by bpchaps 10y ago
These days, I've been very implicit in how I run rm. To the extent that I don't do rm -rf or rmdir (edit: immediately), but in separate lines as something like: pushd dir ; find . -type f -ls | less ; find . -type f -exec rm &
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Can confirm that it really works. I suggested to an old mentor a couple years back that he should run for office. He eventually (somewhat reluctantly) did, and found that it was surprisingly easy to get into, even without a large network of
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Funny, I just started doing similar work with the data a few days ago. It's definitely an interesting dataset that's been fun to play with. From the privacy side of things, and to prove a point, I've been working on de-anonmy
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by bpchaps 10y ago
I definitely had that same experience. I've been writing code like that for about 15 years now and it's only started changing over the past two years or so. I think it stems from a few reasons - 1. I have a tendency to fix small
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Yeah, the amount of resistance towards automation at some larger companies is a total mindfuck. My first ops job back in 2008 was at a large exchange's NOC where we shut down and clean the application environment every day. Every Frida
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by bpchaps 10y ago
In fairness to the folk who can't install Visual Studio - it's a genuine pain in the butt. Last time I tried, half of the download links were absolutely non-functional. Their documentation didn't help much, either, since they
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Not OP, but I'm not sure I follow your question. Are you asking to learn context about problems outside of your own class? I was raised in a lower/middle/working class area and went to its local community college and could pr
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by bpchaps 10y ago
I tried something similar to this a while back and found that using Shannon entropy, though effective with long strings, failed pretty hard with shorter strings. Lots and lots of false positives. An alternative that worked surprisingly well
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Surreptitiously, not really. Obscurely? Kinda: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13252761 It wouldn't surprise me if they had some decent fudging to match most conversations to TV quotes. I'll be taking off my
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by bpchaps 10y ago
From the receiving end (long history of "ops" work), I've seen that a lot of the code itself tends to come out really well and the developers who write the code are a lot happier. That said, many of the feature requests from
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by bpchaps 10y ago
If the information was noticed after being stapled to electrical poles, should Comed be given the credit? Hell no. Just because reddit is where the ack happened, that doesn't mean it was reddit who "did it". It just happened
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by bpchaps 10y ago
I once had to raise a huge security risk to Comcast and resorted to a reddit post after very little luck raising it through official channels. It was a pretty sobering experience to how reddit users use downvotes for things they didn&#x27
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Fantastically written and great blog overall. It's great to see a focus on simplicity and understanding. Keep up the good work!
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Counterpoint - except for one, the homeschooling parents I've met either have a strong scientific background or work in a CS related field. It's mostly out of frustration with the education their kids are getting. FWIW, they'
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Agreed with the others here that your experience seems rather sheltered. You had luxuries that many, many others didn't have. It's incredibly unfair and borderline insulting of you to say that those parents "don't care&q
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Awesome! I'll definitely check these out. (Disclaimer: I'm a sysadmin and hobbyist programmer, so my workflow might be a bit different from most.) The strangeness I saw was mostly in from difficult to follow documentation and the
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by bpchaps 10y ago
At the very top of GP's article: This article has been superseded by a major rewrite, “Open Source” misses the point of Free Software, which is much better. We keep this version for historical reasons. With a bit less animosity furth
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Heh, I just started doing some searching on probabilistic programming about an hour ago. Funny how that works. Since it's on subject here - anybody know of any good clojure libraries or resources for probabilistic programming? Anglican
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Same class of thing, sure. But definitely not the same thing...
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Could you explain your thoughts on how those two ideas are necessarily inconsistent with each other?
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by bpchaps 10y ago
I used to take lithium and brought up to my doctor that it destroyed my creativity, which affected my job. His answer was, "Then the medication is doing its job." Psychiatry has been a very unempathetic field in my experience (acr
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Well, look for companies that are willing to do interviews during your lunch. Those are the companies you'd want to work for anyway, since they have enough empathy to understand that 2+ hour interviews are risky if you're already
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Yep. Even in states like Illinois where NCAs are non-enforceable, they can still complicate hiring decisions. I've heard of a few cases where companies (particularly in trading) will choose not to hire someone with a NCA because of the
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Yeah, you're right about needing root (edit: for processes not owned by the current user). Though, if you have the access, it's a very, very worthwhile tool to learn: ~ $ lsof -a -n -c chrome -iTCP:443 | head -2 #sanitized out
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by bpchaps 10y ago
My worst offense of this was for a linux admin position when asked from another abmin about how to list connections on a machine. My answer was "lsof -i, since I've found it's easiest to pull granular information." &quot
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Issues where HR departments are actively non-accommodating to reported mental health issues, for one. You're practically screaming into a megaphone, "I'm not crazy!". It's social and career suicide.
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Believe me, I completely agree. It's the number one problem I face on a daily basis and it fills me with stupid amounts of desperation that seems to only make matters worse. For me, 'fixing' the lack of inclusivity is the num
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by bpchaps 10y ago
That's not the problem in so many cases. If you ever try to do anything remotely adversarial (investigative journalism, whistleblowers, for example), you'll find that the anonymity problem goes far beyond cultural inclusivity. Tha

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