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by dozzie 9y ago
> Creating unit files is trivial [...] Unless you expect anything but most trivial use cases, e.g. some user-owned directory under /var/run (/run). Then you need to wild-guess at what combination of options needs to be set
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by dozzie 9y ago
I concur, it's very hard to beat the diversity of package retention policies of all the different PPAs. There's no other solution among the package managers that allows you to get your system to the state that you can't repli
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by dozzie 9y ago
Have you talked to your manager? It's his/her job to straighten and resolve such things, after all.
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by dozzie 9y ago
How about you actually read your local laws or maybe consult a lawyer to explain those to you?
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by dozzie 9y ago
> You should always be able to stop before the visible part of the road ahead of you, or before the vehicle in front of you, right? ...unless you consider that "how about winter" part you used to explain that pulling to the roa
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by dozzie 9y ago
You can tell this is not "serious shell" by just this part: 1 #!/bin/sh ... 6 local arg arg_safe `local' is a bashism. You should not entrust teaching shell programming to somebody who can't
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by dozzie 9y ago
> They’re just specifying the country, not including it in the list. Yeah, no, not quite. Only one city got that treatment, so it's not an invalid interpretation. The alternative to the journalist who cannot read a map is that the j
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by dozzie 9y ago
I'm glad that both cities , Poland and Kraków, are popular. The journalist should learn how to read a map, though.
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by dozzie 9y ago
> GPS is difficult [...] How about dedicated GPS receiver connected with bluetooth? I used to carry one, it worked well.
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by dozzie 9y ago
> [...] it's more than fast enough (~400mbps). Even my GPRS connection is faster than 400 millibits per second.
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by dozzie 9y ago
The "purely functional" part goes out of the window with the introduction of post-install scripts.
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by dozzie 9y ago
"Needs" as in "need for entertainment", not "needs" as in "need for shelter". More of a "we want this and thus we're willing to pay for it".
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by dozzie 9y ago
> [...] that results in city-dwelling populations dominated by women(often single) and rural population dominated by men(also single). I'd love to live in a place where this were true. Which cities exactly have such thing going on?
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by dozzie 9y ago
> The poster was asserting that market forces don’t determine remuneration according to their satisfaction, and that instead people should be remunerated according to what the poster thinks they deserve. No. lobotryas was saying that we&
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by dozzie 9y ago
Your comment is close to being right (or maybe is right), but this was not the point of the parent poster.
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by dozzie 9y ago
Write-ish. I always had problems with how it worked.
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by dozzie 9y ago
This part seems to be written by somebody who's never had under their care more than a dozen of servers at a time. What's the alternative for managing configuration across a modest hundred of servers if you de facto can't use
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by dozzie 9y ago
Yeah, but only after two name changes.
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by dozzie 9y ago
Ha, even eth0 is a file! You can open a network connection by opening this file! Erm... no, that doesn't work. Then a process! You spawn a process by opening a file! Erm... again, no. You want me to continue?
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by dozzie 9y ago
Oh, of course you can quote me. Though you should also explain how is this particular quote of any relevance here.
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by dozzie 9y ago
You'd need tremendous amounts of engineering for all those not to suck. And engineering that's done by really experienced people. Too bad that people desiging the "smart" part are from the same IT industry that thinks 3
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by dozzie 9y ago
You're up to a surprise. It's not really that difficult to learn six languages to a level of using them professionally. I've seen it happen. And you overestimate the differences between the runtimes and frameworks. Most of th
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by dozzie 9y ago
> Implied in finishing university is the expectation that you have been taught what you need to make it in the work place. Its part of the social contract. No. That's not contract , it's a dumb expectation , though shared by
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by dozzie 9y ago
Yes, there are many curious effects and phenomena once we dispense with this silly expectation of business being sustainable.
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by dozzie 9y ago
With docstrings and most probably Sphinx. So? What of it?
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by dozzie 9y ago
> [...] how/where you would fetch the gem package without the language based package manager, and how this is linked to system deps? You unnecessarily constrain yourself too much. You don't need language specific package manage
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by dozzie 9y ago
It's no big wonder if one extrapolates from how many trivial questions you ask here.
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by dozzie 9y ago
You just changed one fad for another, that's all.
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by dozzie 9y ago
> A global distributed ledger is less cumbersome to develop and more efficient to run, when it uses a transactional NoSQL database, than a blockchain. In other words, a distributed system is less cumbersome if it is centralized. Blockcha
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by dozzie 9y ago
> I usually do not have another job lined up when I lose my current one, so I've been taking one mediocre job offer after another to make ends meet. This is your problem: to make ends meet . You're a programmer by profession,

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