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by cturner 3y ago
It is useful when you have typed some commands, and then want to edit a text file without losing the text. Consider if you are working on text that you will want to copy+paste into a jira/bugzilla ticket as an evidence-of-work. Or if a
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by cturner 3y ago
Could not read the whole article but get the gist. Time was that I would have agreed. But I have changed position. Candidates: you need to appreciate how difficult it is to hire good people, the dishonesty of many candidates, and how limite
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by cturner 3y ago
This could be covered if there was a principle to respect the man in the arena. That should also discourage you-reinvented-the-wheel pile-ons. The Ratatouille critic put this well - "We risk very little, yet enjoy a position over those
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by cturner 3y ago
This is true. But it would be a mistake to see the legislative options for the US towards crypto to be as straightforward as its options for its own share market. With crypto, there is far more potential for unintended consequences that wou
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by cturner 3y ago
There is an important difference between shares and crypto: US shares exist as a result of US legislation. Hence, it is straightforward to make regulatory or legislative changes for the operation of a share market. This is not true of crypt
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by cturner 3y ago
The article will be a confusing read to someone who does not know what a JIT is. Look at the paper after the heading "What is a JIT?" The first paragraph moves towards an answer - "compilation design that implies that compila
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by cturner 3y ago
I am not fond of the author's substitute suggestion - "Scientists: Snake Oil Doesn’t Work". This turns scientists into a priesthood of experts, and that is not what science is about. Science is a process, not an authority. We
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by cturner 3y ago
Clayton Christensen talk about the steel industry, and how businesses resist change - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpkoCZ4vBSI&ab_channel=Sa%C3...
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by cturner 3y ago
My parents live in another country, and I want to set up some network equipment at their house so that I can coordinate their network if they get into trouble, and to support cameras as one of them has become high-care. My dad also has some
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by cturner 3y ago
> If you take that away, I do not see how you automatically strengthen scarce property rights I made this case in the grandparent post. To reiterate: the presence of scarce and non-scarce property rights creates a contest between two thi
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by cturner 3y ago
Higher up, I phrased it the other way around - but they are the same thing. The creation of property rights around non-scarce things undermines scarce property rights. There is a contest between scarce rights and non-scarce rights. At the m
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by cturner 3y ago
There is no analogy between (strengthening scarce-property rights) and (communism). There is no analogy between (preventing copyright) and (communism).
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I do not understand your point. (or maybe you did not understand mine)
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These are fair criticisms of the proposal. A similar but more workable path would be a constitutional clause to 1. limit the concept of property to scarce goods and 2. outlaw the creation of legal mechanisms like copyright.
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by cturner 3y ago
If you alienate the people that generate wealth, they will eventually move away. Overwhelmingly, such people do not want to live in a city with slums.
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In a world of plastics, clay pipe still stands out(undergroundinfrastructure.com)
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by cturner 3y ago
Yes, this space is high on tradeoffs. With plenty of source power, pixel grids are flexible. You can construct these from LEDs and paper, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWGoC-9z2Qw . Or chain together 16x2 displays, or use
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by cturner 3y ago
You may be surprised at how difficult the regulators make life for the banks. Read this case-study from the UK. https://www.financial-ombudsman.org.uk/decisions-case-studie... "We thought the spending on Marta’s accoun
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by cturner 3y ago
Intel evolved the x86 line beyond 386, into Pentium Pro and then to amd64. Why did Motorolla not do the same with the 68k? I have seen discussion that treats it as assumed knowledge that 68k was obsolete and needed to be replaced by powerpc
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by cturner 3y ago
You equate the central API to the database but they are not equivalent. The issue is not how much apps depend on them, but maintenance options: in a central-database model, refactoring is high-friction. Whereas an API model can be built so
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by cturner 3y ago
"Great achievements have become team sports. You need multiple experts in disparate skillsets to achieve a huge business or great discovery." Whether this is true or not depends somewhat on definitions, but I am going to take the
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by cturner 3y ago
Agree, systemd is not the last word in init systems. There are use-cases where linux/whatever is used to run a single system across a cluster of hosts. For this, you need a scheduler to dispatch across a set of machines. There is room
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by cturner 3y ago
Consider a minimal install of linux/unix with no C compiler and no binutils. Editing text. Construct an ed-like editor in shell - the first character/token of each input line is a command. You could use awk or shell for this. Crea
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by cturner 3y ago
Write-up of a similar system. http://songseed.org/post/20120101.aa.saga.html
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by cturner 3y ago
> Groups have responsibility. Only those that have proxies to accountable individuals, as in the example of the corporation, and with its exceptions such as with limited liability. Or an association, which has a board and a charter. >
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by cturner 3y ago
You are reintroducing group guilt concepts, discussed higher in this thread. Groups do not have guilt, individuals do. When someone is wronged by a corporation, that is an individual. If you remain attracted to group guilt as being valid, s
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by cturner 3y ago
It is both drivers and the userland tools that you get in the tarball. This stuff is often developed by people with a focus on hardware. They will build something to work well on their machine but may never have used a different linux distr
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RHEL has a major ecosystem advantage related to drivers that they may not be aware of. They risk ruining this, as I will try to explain. At the time industry started to take Linux seriously, RHEL was the dominant distro. As a result, and by
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by cturner 3y ago
The coroutine approach shines for complex business-logic. Consider this example algorithm, of several async steps, 1. Download a file into memory 2. Email a link to a review web page. 3. Wait for the user to review. 4. Upload the file to a
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by cturner 3y ago
It was poorly allocated capital. Akin to building an expensive bridge to nowhere. Sometimes there are silver linings to those situations - eg dark fibre after the dot com crash. Here there will be discounted coworking space. Regardless, fai

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