concrete-faucet

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by concrete-faucet 8y ago
If RMS thinks that dumb jokes in documentation are worth having, I say we wholeheartedly embrace it. For example: * GNU/Hurd - almost as traumatic as childbirth. or * childbirth - if it takes as long as it takes to write GNU/Hurd
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by concrete-faucet 8y ago
Only building what is needed is only part of avoiding writing code. I'd say that during the first half of my career, I was completely ignorant of just how powerful shell scripting was for increasing productivity and reducing the amoun
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by concrete-faucet 8y ago
The last time I used Pine was in the early 2000s. I had gone on vacation and during that time some computer virus caused mass emails over the course of a few days (can't remember any more detail than that). I returned to work with ma
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by concrete-faucet 8y ago
The thing that gets me most of all with the SBCs is that I need to go out and buy another power supply. I know - they aren't really that expensive, but I just don't want to do it. I already have so many 5V USB power supplies tha
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by concrete-faucet 8y ago
Where I live, there are gifted schools for kids that speak Polish, Spanish and Russian. Their only goal for English is to make sure the child is proficient by the 6th grade. The kids section at the local library branch (there is one in eve
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by concrete-faucet 9y ago
Serious trouble like jail, hundreds of thousands in fines against you personally, being labeled a rogue employee and treated as the whipping boy, paying for your own defense out of your own pocket? Yes, it might be a bit serious. When the
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by concrete-faucet 9y ago
Well, what about adding a new signal (SIGXMEM) with a default action of ignore? If the system is running low on memory it can send this to some or all processes and wait for a little bit to see if things get better. This is how iOS has han
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by concrete-faucet 9y ago
What does State Farm have to do with Chicago? The HQ is 150 miles away. And how does an insurance company lose money absent a massive act of God? By being bad at math, that's how. Why is that the fault of government?
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by concrete-faucet 9y ago
> Eventually somethings gotta give and I am assuming it will be much higher state and property taxes Well since y'all refuse to consolidate governmental units, it will be higher property taxes. A typical suburb with 50,000 people h
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by concrete-faucet 9y ago
Oak Park is very urban and not at all a typical suburb, though the property taxes are astronomical! You already know that though...
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by concrete-faucet 9y ago
I stay in Chicago because I have a very high quality of life here. Higher than I could get in many other places. Every single person that I work with that complains about taxes and money lives in the suburbs. It's no wonder, of cours
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by concrete-faucet 9y ago
> The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. This really isn't as crazy as it may sound. When my spouse was working in BigLaw, we rarely paid anything for weekends out. A t
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by concrete-faucet 9y ago
> Does anyone know why they don't do this? Or know of examples where they do do this? Just about any capital-intensive industry cooperates. Your computer is made by any one of a few dozen companies; open it up and you'll see a