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by corbet 2y ago
-18°F here (-28°C) here this winter. The heat pump (Mitsubishi) definitely worked hard and burned through our net-metering credit, but it did what we needed it to do. -15°C is just not even remotely a problem.
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by corbet 3y ago
Just in case anybody is wondering if this is significant...think about the implications of tens of thousands of CVE numbers being assigned for every stable kernel patch. There will have to be changes in the ways people are dealing with the
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The Linux kernel project becomes a CVE numbering authority(lwn.net)
77 points by corbet 3y ago|24 comments
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by corbet 3y ago
"The Future" by Naomi Alderman also explores this space, with some familiar-seeming characters; a good read.
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by corbet 3y ago
Earlier this year I had to cancel a trip to the south Pacific because, it turns out, four months is no longer enough time for an "expedited" passport renewal. Appointments for urgent-travel renewals are not available in the US no
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by corbet 3y ago
The kernel docs are generated with Sphinx, just like the Python docs are. Are you saying you wish we used the Python theme?
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Hyphens, minus, and dashes in Debian man pages(lwn.net)
1 points by corbet 3y ago|0 comments
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by corbet 3y ago
REMOTE | Writer/editor at LWN.net Come join us and write for one of the smartest and most engaged reader communities on the net. We've been covering the Linux and free-software communities since 1998 and don't plan to stop a
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by corbet 3y ago
Not in New York... But our Bolt, while not the cheapest car ever, certainly doesn't match your description here. One doesn't have to buy a Tesla to get an EV.
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Replacing OpenSUSE Leap(lwn.net)
31 points by corbet 3y ago|17 comments
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by corbet 3y ago
That's funny ... the "big guys" are some of the biggest contributors to the Linux network stack, almost as if they were actually using it and cared about how well it works.
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by corbet 3y ago
Dunno why they had to go on about the "obsession with range" - range is not a function of smallness; indeed, smallness helps in that regard. We have a Chevy Bolt in the Colorado front range area...it's nominal 238-mile range
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by corbet 3y ago
I can't resist pointing out that LWN ( https://lwn.net/ ) has been dedicated, for many years, to the production of operating-system information that is not terrible. Have a look, and perhaps consider joining us :)
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by corbet 3y ago
We have a Bolt; it's a great car. Not everybody wants their EV to be a four-ton behemoth...
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by corbet 3y ago
For the curious, I strongly recommend this Long Now talk by Edward Slingerland: https://longnow.org/ideas/drinking-10000-years-intoxication-... In short: it's about why we continue to drink despite the obvious cos
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by corbet 3y ago
LWN coverage of the LSFMM session that led to this decision: https://lwn.net/Articles/932201/
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PeerStreet Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection(finance.yahoo.com)
2 points by corbet 3y ago|0 comments
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by corbet 3y ago
I got to meet him once at a protest at the nuclear test site — back in those days when we were still setting off bombs in holes in the ground. Took a couple of pictures... https://social.kernel.org/notice/AWl7MdCuvetRL
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by corbet 3y ago
See also: LWN's coverage from last year: https://lwn.net/Articles/882799/
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by corbet 3y ago
I got the idea from the emails Intuit kept sending me saying that the desktop version was done and I'd have to buy a subscription from now on.
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by corbet 3y ago
Please consider sending patches back if you think they would be of wider interest.
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by corbet 3y ago
The pain I went through to stop The Economist has made me reluctant to subscribe to anything too - and I run a subscription publication business. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that this approach hurts revenue overall.
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by corbet 3y ago
Even an uncontended mutex can create a lot of cache-line bouncing, making it less cheap than it seems.
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by corbet 4y ago
LWN.net | Full-time and freelance writers | REMOTE (USA) LWN.net has been covering the Linux and free-software communities since 1998; we are looking for writers to join our effort. Details can be found at https://lwn.net/A
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by corbet 4y ago
LWN is still looking for a full-time, remote writer: https://lwn.net/Articles/895695/
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by corbet 4y ago
25 years of LWN experience says that this advice is mostly right on — except that I wish "content creators" were in the sort of oversupply he says.
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by corbet 4y ago
My father did this. It allowed him to close out a full life on his own terms and is definitely an option I would consider if I were to ever find myself in that kind of place.
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by corbet 4y ago
"EV drivers who charge up at home spend about $11.60 per 100 miles" Hmm... My Bolt gets something over 4m/kwh, let's call it 4 even, so 100 miles is 25kwh - about $4 at current pricing in Colorado. So I'm not thin
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by corbet 4y ago
LWN.net is still looking for a technical journalist: https://lwn.net/Articles/895695/ Here is your chance to immerse yourself in the open-source development community — and be paid for it. (This is a fully remote
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by corbet 4y ago
I bailed on the Economist a couple of years ago after at least a couple decades...thought I was the only one who felt it had declined. I haven't really found a good replacement still. If nothing else, the pain they put me through to e

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