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by cat199 6y ago
from what I gather (not an implementor) r6rs was too much to implement for the smaller 'testbed' scheme's popular with language designers, and perhaps a bit too proscriptive for the core - which is why r7 has the small/b
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by cat199 6y ago
send contents back to the mothership? #massivespeculation
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by cat199 6y ago
The Cuckoo's Egg by Cliff Stoll documents one of the 1st cases of cybercrime on the 80s ARPANET that eventually led to US-CERT, etc.
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by cat199 6y ago
a 64bit DOS flavor with VT-x/SVM shim could be very good for 'cloud'
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by cat199 6y ago
isn't part of the reason for the curve to keep the needle from bouncing out of the groove?
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by cat199 6y ago
HTTP != browser always
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by cat199 6y ago
speaking specifically of local package caches for things like onsite networks which are themselves signed OOB
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by cat199 6y ago
... anyone trying to impose their form of pseudo-scientific anthropological thought as normative would (not) beg to differ...
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by cat199 6y ago
all clouds are not equal either.. colo'd datacenter or 'off brand' cloud provider can easily be much cheaper than the big 3, still get you out of 'dealing with hardware' and either way you are still 'setting up
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by cat199 6y ago
there is a middle ground of authenticating traffic without encrypting it - c.f. IPSEC AH mode - granted this type of thing isn't in HTTP but easily could be
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by cat199 6y ago
this breaks caching of simple objects that do not require content security
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by cat199 6y ago
http://scwm.sourceforge.net/ not updated in quite a long time, but still X :)
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by cat199 6y ago
You can link to a header in a wikipedia article by using #Header name https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_industry#Consolidation
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by cat199 6y ago
> Learn how to adapt and make the most of the systems that exist now. if this were the attitude, the free software that android is built on wouldn't have existed in the first place...
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by cat199 6y ago
> almost syntax compatible except the 'almost' can blow away filesystems if not used correctly (trailing slash vs no trailing slash being context dependent on presence/absence of remote files).. no idea why rync used diffe
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by cat199 6y ago
agree the keyboard-in-one is great - also fyi the pi-top project has a DIY 'all in one' for the PI: https://www.pi-top.com/products/pi-top-ceed and a DIY laptop: https://www.pi-top.com/product
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by cat199 6y ago
great notes didn't see anything obvious about messaging-style IPC like jms/0mq etc or more synchronous HPC mechanisms like MPI, which are also good/important topics to consider depending on the use case
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by cat199 6y ago
> “the free market of ideas” -as well as the idea that Facebook should remain a neutral party at all cost were abandoned by facebook the moment non-customizable feed algorithms replaced chronology, not after the resulting system lost wha
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by cat199 6y ago
> In any other language, all bets are off. No, in any other language, one has to have an understanding of the codebase and what is mutating and what is not instead of relying on the language to do this work for them, which, granted, can
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by cat199 6y ago
holding 'truth' as a single fixed thing is not 'modernist' any more than being relativist is true because it is what people do in some social setting. you are talking about philosophical relativism and using a philosophi
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by cat199 6y ago
> NFS seems like the easiest option but its ancient and insecure over the network. r.e. old: nfsv4 is a different beast than nfs3; r.e. secure: these things don't hold true with krb5 auth.
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by cat199 6y ago
as discussed in previous threads, the person promoting this claim within the linux foundation is also a microsoft employee, and microsoft owns github. so while it might represent some trend, it is also worthwhile to possibly consider editor
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by cat199 6y ago
not very familiar with vim internals (other than knowing vim is not vi codebase), but emacs most everything is natively written in emacs lisp and has lots of hook points, emacs extensions tie into these or in some cases may carefully provid
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by cat199 6y ago
call me back when you decide to use APL to create a logic program that dynamically generates an expert system engine based on analyzing the meta-structure of an input factset, with an instrumentation layer that reasons about the generated s
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by cat199 6y ago
agreed hard to keep secrets, but compartmentalized research into abstract weapons/physics/non-earthlings is probably easier for employees to digest ethically speaking than breaking the law to exert control over your fellow citizen
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by cat199 6y ago
> No. Losing friends through the "natural cycle of friendship" is just as traumatic or even more so. Not like this doesn't happen to those people as well, and in this case you are literally never allowed to have any rela
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by cat199 6y ago
> Except that can lead to operational problems down the road. in the example you mention the 'security' is working by design, but the operational parameters changed which in turn made that security model unsuitable - so it is t
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by cat199 6y ago
the vast number of threads supporting X11/remote and not caring about screen tearing in the least would seem to imply that your particular prioritization of features is not a commonly shared one.
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by cat199 6y ago
iirc linux fdisk was named after the dos (cpm?) utility of the same name, and so isn't really a unix command.
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by cat199 6y ago
> Always good to have a reminder to question all the other things we "know." See also the 'HISTORY' section in BSD manual pages, then check their GNU clones.

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