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by fargle 5y ago
Grow up! I'm serious - yours is a normal reaction, at some point every intelligent, reflective person realizes essentially this. Oddly, I've seen the age at which this happens be 16 or 50+. For me, about 21. Whenever it happens, i
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by fargle 5y ago
Wrapping everything in a euphemism does not make it more professional. Finding a way to speak clearly and truthfully without being outright rude, as appropriate for the culture and situation, is important. Speaking up when necessary is im
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by fargle 5y ago
Debian vs. Ubuntu is basically the same these days. Ubuntu is 98% just pulling from the Debian upstream. There are a few apps that need to be more bleeding edge, but to me Debian is just a "stable" Ubuntu. Without Canonical drama
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by fargle 5y ago
> Not to be mean, but 'leave nursing' and then what ? Nursing is a well paying middle-class job without a lot of transferable skills to other professions. Whelp, that the whole point. When you have a good paying job and people
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by fargle 5y ago
really ? I don't mean understand how to apply a new label. I mean understand what the policies are and how they work, be able to create new ones that apply to you, and verify that the ones given to you by the distro are correct fo
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by fargle 5y ago
How can I trust some opaque policy I cannot see? Not just trust that it is well intentioned not evil, (Oracle Linux?), but that it does what it says. And does what I need and that the opaque developers have correctly envisioned what I n
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by fargle 5y ago
very, very, roughly: - build a rootfs using the poky reference distro (but do it for your arm target). - https://docs.yoctoproject.org/ - https://docs.yoctoproject.org/brief-yoctoprojectqs/index.htm...
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by fargle 5y ago
Certainly! It's just that you might want separate mount, network, etc. namespaces. Hence: "the next step" With a little work you should be able to do this as unprivileged/rootless as well.
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by fargle 5y ago
Toward the end of the article they use chroot to run an entire rootfs as sort of a user-level system emulation. The next step is to do the same thing except using containers/namespaces. I was able to run a Yocto rootfs build for ARM co
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by fargle 5y ago
The lesson learned is that outsourcing at the level of containers or machines and raw compute in the cloud is one thing. It's a pretty fungible open market. But outsourcing one's whole engineering environment to a SaaS on a cloud
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by fargle 5y ago
It mildly bugs me that things like this are reported as "Git Security Vuln". CVE-12345: insecure use of consumer grade operating system in multi-user role when expecting any form of real isolation CVE-12346: faulty system administ
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by fargle 5y ago
sure not a usa-ism, but just bad software. We'd probably say the A6 or the A6thou or something short. or the 21-79. whatever's shortest and not a mouthful. true 'mericans don't even know how to pronounce-out numbers tha
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by fargle 5y ago
the toxic sewage that occupies most bandwidth deserves this
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by fargle 5y ago
Oh, I agree it's good to have picked a modern language. And yes, I agree with doing it in a proper idiomatic style as opposed to java-in-name-only-basically-still-assembly. But the way they made the argument was disingenuous, I suspect
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by fargle 5y ago
I once worked on a project to convert 200,000 lines of Fortran to C. Mostly F77 with some F4. Fortran and F4, especially in control-flow, is a fairly primitive language. 200K F77 is probably around the same size and complexity of 200K lines
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by fargle 5y ago
"Excellent" engineering management for sure. Politically adept, sounds right to both business and technical minded folks. Sensible. And doomed. > However, it’s not the kind of thing where we could hire a journeyman Java program
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by fargle 5y ago
> Doesn't matter. The arguing would happen (or not happen) anyway, because it, too, would be absolute and predetermined. Of course! And this would make it a pointless and futile debate then. You might even be right, but you should n
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by fargle 5y ago
EXACTLY! that's really the definition! But I do not need to win the point "pointless to do anything", sufficient is "pointless to debate". If it is predestined, then it is simply not really a debate.
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by fargle 5y ago
> Why would it be pointless to reason out if free will exists? because everything is pointless then - it's already happened, it's known. done. You are a puppet on a string and have no free-will. As I said, to argue that fre
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by fargle 5y ago
If the universe was as deterministic and predetermined as to exclude free-will, then all debate itself, including one as to whether "luck determines everything", would be pointless. Whether you were right or wrong would be both ab
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by fargle 5y ago
> the code, not so much Exactly. And what's nice about that approach is that it sidesteps that ludicrous license. As many people point out, you shouldn't roll-your-own numeric code. Unless you are solely responsible for knowing
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by fargle 5y ago
YES! As the article made plain, she had a LOT of equity in her house. Now equity isn't as good as cash, but there's at least 10 ways to convert it to cash so you can pay your taxes. In her case, I'd think a reverse mortgage
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by fargle 5y ago
This is so cringey. Please don't behave as this would suggest. In technical and scientific areas as most of our HN friends are likely to be, seeking status, measuring status, cultivating and being concerned with it is just a negati
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by fargle 5y ago
> would you argue that without violent enforcement nobody will stop at red lights? No, I would not. What the hell are you even talking about violence? If you could argue that you were "ill" "confused" "old",
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by fargle 5y ago
she chose to freeze up and do nothing instead of fixing her situation. She chose to let a +200K equity get repossessed and taken instead of paying her taxes. She chose to let a 10K tax bill balloon into a 24K tax bill and then freak out and
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by fargle 5y ago
Usury in MA (with contract) is 20%. https://www.findlaw.com/state/massachusetts-law/massachusett... Plenty of CC's charge 19.5% for this reason. > it would be entirely reasonable to prohibit the sale of th
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by fargle 5y ago
How is that "immoral"? It's not. She had the choice to pay the taxes and keep the house. And CHOSE not to. If you make a bad business decision and you get screwed, it's not a moral problem. She could at ANY TIME have pai
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by fargle 5y ago
This has everything any campy 1980s movie about the poor old lady losing her house because <something evil> will evict her unless she pays back <largesum> by <deadline>. But read this carefully. In real life, that "ev
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by fargle 5y ago
Step #1, sign up for twitter. Step #2, get offended... whoops. took care of this at step #0. Have a nice night, y'all. Problem solved.
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by fargle 5y ago
dealers do this (basically) as a scam. - the cost of these units is very cheap in bulk maybe ~$100 - their shoddy mechanics cut into power and CAN bus cables to sloppily and cheaply install them. They're usually zip tied up under the s

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