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811.
by dsr_ 3y ago
My house has no garage, but a semi-circular driveway plus a spur that means that we could park 9-10 full sized vehicles. There are basically no houses here with a 3 car garage, and rather few with a 2 car garage. Houses without garages are
812.
by dsr_ 3y ago
You know who else has favorite kinds of dirt? Farmers. Gardeners. Potters. Kids who have ever been in the wrong sandbox. Sorry, I think your interpretation is incorrect.
813.
by dsr_ 3y ago
Fundamental dilemma: * The web is a great way to publish information and access a few services. * The web is the cross-platform operating system for applications. Everything stems from the difference in those two approaches. Both are correc
814.
by dsr_ 3y ago
If you have really steady winds, sure. Otherwise you're probably going to need to smooth out the RPM with an intermediate stage like a flywheel.
815.
by dsr_ 3y ago
Debian 6 was released in July, 2014. It is now August 2023 and stable is Debian 12. So that would be 6 stable releases in nine years.
816.
by dsr_ 3y ago
A solution doesn't have to be perfect in order to be much better than the status quo ante.
817.
by dsr_ 3y ago
Backblaze performs some of that role.
818.
by dsr_ 3y ago
Inside the 3.5" hard shell, there is a floppy disc. Inside a hard disc drive, there are aluminum or glass discs.
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by dsr_ 3y ago
The Doylist explanation is that of course the human brains are being used as computing substrates; the energy explanation is a symptom of how little the Zion people actually know about the world.
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by dsr_ 3y ago
Remember to keep control of the death-ray in the hands of people who will not point it at their enemies. Or their friends. Or threaten to do so.
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by dsr_ 3y ago
I switched from screen to tmux after almost 20 years of using screen. The impetus for the switch was that I found a bug in screen, and discovered that it had been reported for many years. tmux handles changing terminal sizes better than scr
822.
by dsr_ 3y ago
No, it doesn't. Email is a great feedback medium. "If you want to continue with the subscription, reply with the word YES on a line by itself. You can put comments on other lines and we will read them." do-not-reply@marketing
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by dsr_ 3y ago
If you were thinking more clearly, you would want to throw whoever asked for "email development" off a cliff. People choose the wrong targets for violence.
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by dsr_ 3y ago
There is nothing in the average internal email that requires HTML, much less CSS. There is nothing in the average external email that requires HTML or CSS. There is no useful content in any email that requires JavaScript. "looks unprof
825.
by dsr_ 3y ago
We have all of our dev and production servers running on Debian without systemd as init. systemd helper packages are still installed. It's more difficult in desktop installs.
826.
by dsr_ 3y ago
Explain to them that they need to use mouse blood.
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by dsr_ 3y ago
It went up for a number of awards, and won three majors including a Hugo and a Nebula, so obviously lots of people like it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_How_You_Lose_the_Time_...
828.
by dsr_ 3y ago
And almost all the rest are due to the CPU doing unnecessary work.
829.
by dsr_ 3y ago
If you stop treating it as a moral commandment and instead consider it a treaty which allows civilization to exist, it becomes obvious that it doesn't apply to those who won't remain bound by it. It's not a paradox. Tolerance
830.
Naomi Wu and the Silence That Speaks Volumes(hackingbutlegal.com)
449 points by dsr_ 3y ago|197 comments
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by dsr_ 3y ago
Look at the lifetime cost and the capabilities you're buying.
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by dsr_ 3y ago
If IBM tells Red Hat to do something, Red Hat will do it. If IBM tells Red Hat to not do something, Red Hat will not. That's the difference between being enslaved and being an independent entity.
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by dsr_ 3y ago
I talked to someone less than a week ago who works at a very large software company: their products are huge monoliths that take days to build, where the customers need to plan their upgrades months ahead of time because they can't aff
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by dsr_ 3y ago
"Except for helium, no other gas exists which does not have some form narcotic effect at higher pressures." I assume the narcotic effect of fluorine, chlorine and bromine are basically unstudied...
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by dsr_ 3y ago
I selectively rewatched B5 this summer with one of my kids, who had never seen it before. It holds up very well, actually, once he got past the blocky CGI. The characterization is wonderful, the plotting ridiculously tight -- episodes that
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by dsr_ 3y ago
I've said this before: At $company, we used an IRC server. Only the IT department used it. Then we ran an ejabberd XMPP server. Some of the front end devs used it on occasion. Now we run a Zulip server, and everybody uses it all the ti
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by dsr_ 3y ago
It has merit because Google provided the browser and the tracking system. Making implicit promises binds your whole company, not just one division.
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by dsr_ 3y ago
Right, just solve the Oracle problem. /s
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by dsr_ 3y ago
"Really, all science fiction is a subset of fantasy. "science fantasy" is just science fiction that isn't actually about the science, which is the bulk of the genre." All fiction is fantasy. Fantasy is the root of a
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by dsr_ 3y ago
No, you're missing the point. The Linux Kernel is the big GPL v2 fish. It's not a Red Hat licensing to Red Hat situation.

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