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by davorak 13y ago
Is there something special about glibc conflicts that goes beyond normal versioning conflicts? Package A could depending on glibc-2.13 and package b could depend on glibc-2.17. No conflicts would because by both running at the same time.
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by davorak 13y ago
Does it also provide multiple versions of the same package running side by side? That is one of the more useful features of nix to me.
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by davorak 13y ago
I read one article and skimmed the other under "Background reading" but I could not spot what the core philosophy or mechanic of how you are producing atomic and reliable upgrades. I try to stay abreast of package systems which have the sam
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by davorak 13y ago
> I still run into issues where a package is uninstallable because of some other package that it depends on is pinned, or the wrong version, or any number of other reasons. I ran in to this problem quite often when trying out science or
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by davorak 13y ago
That is too bad it has worked fairly well on vmware for me. I have also enjoyed using the nix package manager on my macbook as well. The documentation can be lite on examples but it is very forgiving distribution to experiment with and I d
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by davorak 13y ago
Sure, nixos is very forgiving to experiment with because you can easily rollback to a pervious configuration. Modify a library and something stops working fixing it is as simple as `nix-env --rollback` for a user package and `nixos-rebuild
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by davorak 13y ago
Some of the value of running an event like that is get people to feel involved and make them feel good while doing so. By buying out the last portions of tickets it prevents much of the good will the event was supposed to generate. Knowing
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by davorak 13y ago
The equivalent of the DM saying "yes, but" or "no" would be the government changing the law which both companies would more then likely comply with happily. However if the loop holes exist they have a strong motivation to take advantage of
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by davorak 13y ago
Are the rules really that static that once you know the trick it will last for years if not decades? Or do you have to pay a staff yearly to keep up with the small changes to stay a little ahead of the tax law to make sure you have all the
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by davorak 13y ago
Perhaps they waited for people to lose some interest in the story. Or to try and let cooler heads prevail.
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by davorak 13y ago
Most of the backlash comes from the over reaction of the school and the DA. While her decision was not wise and definitely had some risk, I do not know exactly how she cared out this demonstration so the amount or risk is rather unknown to
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by davorak 13y ago
Could you provide some examples and some links if possible. I do not know the specifics of what you are talking about.
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by davorak 13y ago
> As far as UX, I would expect click+drag to move the graph, but instead it gives me a context menu to zoom. My impression was after reading this is that I expected to be able to drag the graph by holding cmd, option, ctr, or shift with
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by davorak 13y ago
If this is the case I hope you are donating to him.
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by davorak 14y ago
> Perhaps if my contract didn't have a built in expiration I would be willing to care-bear-share my fractal search methods and spend my Thursday afternoons showing you how to Savitsky-Golay smoothing works, but as long as I'm out of a j
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by davorak 14y ago
50% is an easy first order approximation. Better approximations are great, but I see not obvious winner for a better approximation whose error bounds do not include 50% and has or is likely to gain significant mindshare.
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by davorak 14y ago
I never would have guessed this was a problem for some people, it has not gotten my wrong yet.
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by davorak 14y ago
Doing fine here, both amazon.com and the AWS console.
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by davorak 14y ago
On maybe 2-5% of my trips it ends up being 20-30 minute wait at the same airports that normally take 3-5 minutes to find a screener. As a result I still need to show up 20-30 minutes earlier then I would otherwise.
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by davorak 14y ago
What alternative do you think is reasonable to help track down problems like this after the fact?
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by davorak 14y ago
After reading about a paragraph I assumed that it would only be fore the initial trail run going on right now.
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by davorak 14y ago
I think this is hard strategy to convince the world to follow. It involves causing culture shift in existing business and the culture momentum in this case is not insignificant. The next problem is that the business exist in a legal system
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by davorak 14y ago
Could a mod correct the title which is currently misleading.
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by davorak 14y ago
I will encourage you like I have in several other posts, example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5484850 , at this point to contact the FBI. If this was happening over a 56k modem on a phone line it would clearly be wire tapping. I do
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by davorak 14y ago
Is there a downside about notifying the FBI of this? I encouraged the op to do so in another post, encouraged. If this was happening on a 56k modem over a phone line it would clearly be wire tapping. I do not see any downsides to contact th
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by davorak 14y ago
If this was happening on a 56k modem over a phone line it would clearly be wire tapping. I encouraged the op in another post, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5484850 , to contact the FBI. If you see a downside to this let me know, but
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by davorak 14y ago
Are there down sides to contacting the FBI about this? They in part exist to document and keep track of potential crimes(potentially correlate them over long time frames that may not be worth while to keep track of for an individual but can
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by davorak 14y ago
I do not think ghc/haskell-platform targets homebrew, as most programs/libraries do not right? So some amount of leg work is bound to come up if you install many packages through homebrew.
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by davorak 14y ago
Did the cache expire or is that a incorrect link.
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by davorak 14y ago
> There is no discernable difference between the correct answer and an incorrect one, For non-experts in forensics vs statistics can an average jury member make better decisions about expert level results in forensics compared to statis

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