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by curt15 9mo ago
>You know what else is UNIX certified? IBM's z/OS. Yet I don't think people would be clambering to say that z/OS's USS is "quite literally UNIX" with the same ferocity. Does "Unix" still carry
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by curt15 9mo ago
What sort of applications would benefit from MacOS instead of Linux as a headless server OS?
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by curt15 9mo ago
>A standardized container adds regularity to irregular shapes. Does putting differently shaped icons in a standardized container make them harder to distinguish? When I look at an object its boundaries register first. If all icons are en
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by curt15 9mo ago
The common wisdom used to be that containers are not a security boundary. Is that still the case?
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by curt15 9mo ago
How does this relate to the work presented a few years ago by the ZFS devs using S3 as object storage? https://youtu.be/opW9KhjOQ3Q?si=CgrYi0P4q9gz-2Mq
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by curt15 9mo ago
There is a related issue of ownership. When human programmers make errors that cost revenue or worse, there is (in theory) a clear chain of accountability. Who do you blame if errors generated by LLMs end up in mission critical software?
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by curt15 9mo ago
>The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app The Vietnam government has banned phones under their user's control from using any banking app.
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by curt15 9mo ago
>We have to take the Presidents Statements are credible, firstly, because it's the closest thing to the truth anyone has. * "Statements", not "statement". Past statements can be used to assess the credibility of
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by curt15 9mo ago
How much work is it to get snaps out of your way? Canonical seems to be going all in on them as their business strategy.
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by curt15 10mo ago
AI refers to whatever would have been called "Machine Learning" five years ago.
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by curt15 10mo ago
P.S. Regarding the SEC, SEC v Jarkesy (2024) curtailed the use of ALJs by the SEC, holding that the SEC proceedings in question were basically like any other lawsuit so as to trigger the Constitutional protections afforded to defendants. If
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by curt15 10mo ago
The administrative law proceeding is a judicial proceeding. Its purpose is to determine whether someone has violated the rules created by the SEC. It's fundamentally no different than a court proceeding to determine whether someone has
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by curt15 10mo ago
>Can Congress create a law that provides for judicial law clerks to exercise power “independent” of Article III judges? No. It’s an extremely easy question. Myers v. United States got the right answer almost 100 years ago. Article I cour
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by curt15 10mo ago
>How can you cite “precedent” when Myers v. United States decided this issue in favor of the unitary executive back in 1926? The administrative state that exists today was only facilitated by the FDR Supreme Court overruling a bunch of p
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by curt15 10mo ago
The Constitution was, after all, written by people who had just fought a war to throw off an overreaching executive. No goal was more important to them than to prevent another one.
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by curt15 10mo ago
They might as well be political appointments after Trump v Slaughter is decided since the unitary executive maximalists would swallow all for-cause job termination protections that have defined the professional civil service.
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by curt15 11mo ago
>If you are not able to upgrade your stuff every 2 to 3 years, then you will not be able to upgrade your stuff after 5, 10 or 15 years. What happens if your software takes 2 years to develop?
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by curt15 11mo ago
>Step 4: Database Container (Quadlet) Isn't it common wisdom that production databases should run directly on the host?
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by curt15 11mo ago
>I had to download a .pkg and basically sideload the app, which is not published on the Apple Store You mean install the app? The fact that Apple and Google wish to suggest that software from outside their gardens is somehow subnormal
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by curt15 11mo ago
Has Apple loudly objected to the CCP's requests?
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by curt15 11mo ago
Is Google also deep in the hole with Gemini, or is it just OpenAI that can't make ends meet?
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by curt15 11mo ago
>What if I need cron in my docker container? And ssh? And a text editor? And a monitoring agent? :P How are you going to orchestrate all those daemons without systemd? :P As you mentioned, a container running systemd and a suite of backg
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by curt15 11mo ago
>Will ICE get it right? or will she be put into a prison for months with poor conditions, with an administration that does not want lawyers involved, with little ability to be found or call out for help? Better yet -- whisk her out of th
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by curt15 11mo ago
Shouldn't the codegen_gcc project[1] theoretically allow Rust to target backends that only GCC supports? [1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rustc_codegen_gcc
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by curt15 1y ago
Of course the poster did. The question is why does everyone else prefer to use the Apple/Google-coined term rather than the standard "installing" verbiage.
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by curt15 1y ago
The most pernicious effect of Big Cloud is the general erosion of infra know-how in the general public. People increasingly need to go out of their way to learn about computer hardware, networking, databases, disaster recovery, etc, when th
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by curt15 1y ago
OS X doesn't have a merged /usr. On my Mac I see /bin as a separate directory, not a symlink into `/usr`. Does Linux have a compelling reason that OS X lacks?
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by curt15 1y ago
Germans also squeegee their blackboards.
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by curt15 1y ago
Does ROCm work on Ryzem Max AI?
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by curt15 1y ago
Is the bloat irreversible? It seems odd to that the first remedy is to increase the partition size instead of de-bloating the firmware. How large is the boot partition on other Linux distros like Ubuntu, or on Windows?

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