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by dozzie 9y ago
Yes, it's called "OS fingerprinting" and is a known thing for longer than a decade.
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by dozzie 9y ago
> With b'' and u'' string syntax coming into the language, there is a realisation that string interpolation can be an opt-in feature among other reasons. This argument won't fly. Did you know that string interpol
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by dozzie 9y ago
Every time somebody mentions how awsome f-strings are makes me laugh. It was around ten years ago when Python community was looking down at Perl and shell with their string interpolation, but now that Python got pretty much the same it&#x27
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by dozzie 9y ago
Well, my `tail' (GNU coreutils) watches the file for being truncated. So does a log file follower that I wrote. Is it really that difficult to imagine the log can shrink, especially if one spent plenty of time in logrotate's confi
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by dozzie 9y ago
> Quite frankly, I'm not worried about physical access being a "vulnerability" But it is. Imagine a dongle that installs a rootkit once you plug it in. And now give somebody your laptop to hold for a minute. There were (st
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by dozzie 9y ago
As usual, somebody undereducated mistakes notation ("0.9999...") for the real thing (a number). Real numbers (and even rational numbers) are dense: pick any two that are different and you'll find a third one different than th
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by dozzie 9y ago
You mean something like your distribution's documentation on building packages?
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by dozzie 9y ago
> As If I Didn't Spent Enough Time on College Given the grammar, no, you haven't spent enough time on college.
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by dozzie 9y ago
Depends where. In my country, no. In yours, apparently.
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by dozzie 9y ago
> From an outsider's perspective it feels that, aside from Nix, there has not been any theoretic or standards progress in this field since Mark Burgess' time. Because there wasn't much progress indeed. IT operations is a f
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by dozzie 9y ago
Really? Then what's the tangible difference?
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by dozzie 9y ago
Why it's difficult? Because recruiters perform dumb keyword matching instead of understanding the trade they work with. Don't search for "DevOps engineer", search for "system administrator". And if the job real
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by dozzie 9y ago
Another example of stupidity around the term "tuple": it was not supposed to have a sequence , it was supposed to have a structure . The previous such dumb thing was (and still is) in Python.
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by dozzie 9y ago
> Every API in the world is following some sort of paradigm, whether it knows it or not. They will fall under RPC, REST, or a “query language.” No. OpenSSL's API, for instance, is neither of these. > XML-RPC was problematic, beca
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by dozzie 9y ago
You're a really tough guy, doing without syntax highlighting and even half of the keyboard. I need Vim for my work.
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by dozzie 9y ago
> It is easier because you do not need to have a Unix machine with the tools you mentioned and it takes just one click once you have the page open When the heck will you not have a unix machine at hand? And you need a whole browser to
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by dozzie 9y ago
So you have basically found out that one could log structured data and use message routers to pass these logs around? Well, congratulations, better late than never. The industry uses that for many years now.
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by dozzie 9y ago
Uhm... How is it easier than running /usr/bin/uuid or /usr/bin/uuidgen in console?
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by dozzie 9y ago
So it's a list of things that may be done if we have an (almost mythical) good manager at hand and the organization in the company is right? Not a list of concrete responsibilities that just come with the position and if the guy
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by dozzie 9y ago
> You could also argue that if you're enforcing helmets for riding bicycles then you should also enforce it for [...] being an occupant in a motor vehicle. Funny you mention that, because in my country a motocycle passenger is requi
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by dozzie 9y ago
> Project management usually takes some fixed bundle of work and aims to ensure it is within scope, on time, on budget, to acceptable quality. And project manager does that by what means? What useful things can a project manager do to ac
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by dozzie 9y ago
> [P]roduct is often made up by combining several projects [...] and it's the product managers job to manage the project managers. So if a product is split, it's like a project manager with a team composed of project managers?
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by dozzie 9y ago
And how exactly does this "managing time and resources on a project" look like if a project manager according to such definition doesn't decide what needs to be done? What such project manager actually can do ?
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by dozzie 9y ago
>> The YAML file is essentially code > YAML is not turing complete and is hence not "code". You do realize that YAML is a data serialization format, and as such is not a programming language by any stretch, right? And it&
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by dozzie 9y ago
> This sounds a bit like a conflation between Product Managers and Project Management. And what's the significant difference between these two titles? I can invent half a dozen more pro- something manager titles by myself, which do
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by dozzie 9y ago
Because it's often hard to edit (which includes quoting or decoding where computation or variable starts) and because it mixes formatting and presenting data with computation.
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by dozzie 9y ago
>> Is turning up on time for your job a terrible metric? > The worst metric. Not really. If your job is to be available to others (IT support is a good example), turning up on time is an adequate metric.
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by dozzie 9y ago
> The argument made is that being a "good employee" [...] is a signal to your employer that you're willing to make personal sacrifices to be dependable It would be nice if the employer was giving symmetric signal to be a d
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by dozzie 9y ago
Because it doesn't need encryption (packages' contents are public knowledge), while data integrity is protected by GPG digital signatures. That's why.
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by dozzie 9y ago
No, it's not odd, it's quite normal. Where did you get that idea?

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