chunkyks

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by chunkyks 4y ago
Ten years, yep, sounds about right. We're finally getting rid of our last few RHEL6 boxes. It got pretty long in the tooth at the end there, but it never gave me any hassle.
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by chunkyks 4y ago
As someone who does both sysadmin work, and programming/modeling&simulation work, at a significant research nonprofit in the US... RedHat is stable: Which has the benefit that it's stable, and the cost that it's always be
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by chunkyks 4y ago
I mean, it's right there in the license, that this is an option: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html , section 6b [similar sections exist in previous versions] ----- 6. Conveying Non-Source Forms. You may
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by chunkyks 4y ago
Presuming you are correct: * Some number of people are sensitive to latency * Some people are unable to read my website You're gambling that there are more people who would walk away due to latency, than there are who would walk away d
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by chunkyks 4y ago
But then the website might not look like the designer's glistening perfect vision, that only ever worked properly in their browser on their desktop in the first place.
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by chunkyks 4y ago
I worked on postscript drivers for a few years. Escaping the sandbox was a feature! You could usually exitserver with a default password, then set global state to do annoying things. Imagine every print job being rotated five degrees, or ha
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by chunkyks 4y ago
"IANAL but GPL does state that you can relicense under any other later version of the license" No. GPL encourages people to say "GPLv2 or later" or "GPLv3 or later", but being under one version of the GPL does
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by chunkyks 5y ago
It feels like a cliche now. Read the article and of course, they're sunsetting something else.
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by chunkyks 5y ago
Here's looking forward to the acronym becoming "AANG" so we can make Airbender references and quote the show. For today I think I'll just go with the pithy "If I try, I fail". Edit: More charitably and optimist
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by chunkyks 5y ago
I recall taking a stab at audit2allow a few years ago, and finding that it was incredibly opaque and felt like practising dark arts. At this point, it's probably true that I should get onboard the SELinux train and learn it properly, b
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by chunkyks 5y ago
Things may have changed, but the last few times I looked, it was breathtakingly hard to a) identify if /when selinux is what's screwing you, then b) get selinux to stop it. I really wanted an audit mode that could also say &quot
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by chunkyks 5y ago
All the tooling, manufacturing, everything for the b2 is gone. They made twenty something, then converted the factories to other things. So whatever the sticker associated with one b2 is, the replacement cost is much higher because you have
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by chunkyks 5y ago
I hate writing resumes. So I found a job I like and haven't felt the need to apply to anything for thirteen years and counting
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by chunkyks 5y ago
Every time I see some glorious "this explains git in a single image", it's usually an interesting image for someone who already understands git, yet is entirely, 100%, opaque to someone who doesn't yet know git. [This co
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by chunkyks 5y ago
This is awesome. A bit of self-promotion: I, too, wrote a deliberately obtuse raytracer: https://github.com/chunky/sqlraytracer
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by chunkyks 5y ago
There are increasing numbers of days where I think google has hit the "live long enough to become the villain" stage of the story.
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by chunkyks 5y ago
Fine. Coughed up the $200. I really like the idea of a new microgame every week.
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by chunkyks 5y ago
I had never heard of playdate, and frankly was unlikely to buy one even after I had heard of it, except ... Lucas Pope [1] of "Return of the Obra Dinn" and "Papers, Please" fame is doing his next game, "Mars After
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by chunkyks 5y ago
It's not obvious to me that that is a problem for me, or that it makes the internet worse
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by chunkyks 5y ago
You haven't convinced me that preventing browser tracking is making the internet "slightly worse overall". If sites are having trouble converting me, perhaps it's not me that's the problem.
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by chunkyks 5y ago
I worked at Lehman for a year around 1999/2000. While I was there, they handed out these plinths, I still have mine: https://imgur.com/a/NKnJh
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by chunkyks 5y ago
Every time I see a link to source forge, it makes me wonder about what will kill github. Is it technical? Will a better code management tool show up? Technically superior, or just less user hostile? Or is it a business issue? Will Microsoft
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by chunkyks 5y ago
In the past I had a website with hundreds of gigs of data that needed updating regularly, but could be read-only from the web server perspective. I used sqlite for that, and had a mysql server for the user data and stuff that needed to be w
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by chunkyks 5y ago
It's shorter to write down a list of good actors. Generally I just assume a good old fashioned "48 hours", like in the olden days, and I have yet to be disappointed.
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by chunkyks 5y ago
We moved to o365, I was worried for my good friends the exchange admins, because the entire premise of saving money by moving to the cloud is that you can get rid of people. Good (?) news is that they're busier than they've ever b
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by chunkyks 5y ago
Indeed that's what I've experienced in the past. But I'm telling you this, for sure, based on my experience downloading a 200M tensorflow wheel the other day.
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by chunkyks 5y ago
Don't forget that you can literally concatenate jpegs and zipfiles [header at start of jpeg, but at end of zipfile], so the valid jpeg can also be a valid zipfile. Combine that with something like Safari's insistence at automati
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by chunkyks 5y ago
We have a security proxy at work that gives you the bits, but then holds the connection open while it does a scan, then resets the connection if it doesn't like something inside. Both Chrome and Firefox [haven't tried IE/Edge
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by chunkyks 5y ago
Sure. The problem is that I don't know what I'm getting until I follow the link. Even when I beep the qr code but before following it, 3/4 of the time I get some url shortener. To be clear, I think your website is a good idea
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by chunkyks 5y ago
Every time I follow a qr code pasted on the wall of a restaurant, I think "this goes against everything that I, a nominal computer professional, knows to be a good idea" Problem is, it's not a big enough deal for me to turn a

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