davidmoffatt

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by davidmoffatt 6y ago
Dumb idea. Read the man page for tunefs. The file system has some thing called min free which does the same thing. However this does not interfer with wear leveling. Dummy data does.
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by davidmoffatt 6y ago
Tech support. If they have a good ticket system and they use it you can gleen all sorts of info.
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by davidmoffatt 6y ago
I agree with dinamic 1. Not suitable for a blob on hacker news. It would be cool if it had the text + translations but... Also there are some obvious errors. One item is noted as being from a periodical from the year 4.... Hmm I thin
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by davidmoffatt 7y ago
Hopefully we are now following the UK's lead and starting to face our demons. Finally, a judge with an iota of common sense! Why did it take so long to call the government out on something which is, so clearly, a violation of due p
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by davidmoffatt 8y ago
"Dan Schawbel wants to save you from loneliness at work." Any time you see self referential sentences like this at the beginning of an article hit the back button. It is just another schmuck selling snake oil and I call shenani
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by davidmoffatt 8y ago
We have too much of this saccharin sweet but vacuous tech support. What you really need to do is. 1) Be polite even when they are not. (The authors approach of doing this makes you sound like a teenager trying to take the car on a date,
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by davidmoffatt 8y ago
Yes I too would love to see this. Noise canceling headphone seem to cancel everything but voices and that is the opposite of what you need.
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by davidmoffatt 9y ago
Nothing is new. When I was a NOOP programmer I knew the crusty old build engineer called Diane. She did not like my shell script and rewrote it with a terse comment "Exit early and often". The same idea as the article and t
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by davidmoffatt 9y ago
The Little Lisper by Dan Friedman. It is probably 30 years out of publication but I pulled it off of my shelf the other day, reread it, and the next day I noticed that my code had improved. It is a quick read, nothing earth shattering,