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by forinti 3y ago
It does not make sense: you would need region-locked browsers. That's already an impossible target. But then how would you deal with people just using proxies, VPNs, ssh tunnels? It would just be easier for a government to block these
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by forinti 3y ago
This makes a lot of sense for businesses, even though it seems absurd for home users. A third of my IT department works just to maintain Windows infrastructure for end users.
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by forinti 3y ago
It's not uncommon to have warm days in winter down here, but lately we've had wild temperature swings every week or two. It feels like a very wild autumn. We used to have what we call "Veranico de maio" (small summer in
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by forinti 3y ago
I'm pretty sure Oracle works this way, but as company policy so that they can sell more support, consultancy, training, certification, etc.
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by forinti 3y ago
Surely the smoke would be an issue if you did this over a significant area, no?
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by forinti 3y ago
Although he is a bit radical, I have a harder time trying to comprehend how people put up with Windows nowadays. It feels like people will put up with anything that MS makes up. If Windows asked for a credit card number, people would happil
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by forinti 3y ago
I don't get it. You need glasses anyway for everything else. I've started using glasses and I'm not interested at all in getting a foldable. What I would like is something like an Ubuntu phone. And better batteries.
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by forinti 3y ago
Do you actually need the extra performance?
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by forinti 3y ago
It's not Postgresql vs. Elastic, it's Postgresql + Elastic: https://github.com/matthewfranglen/postgres-elasticsearch-fd...
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by forinti 3y ago
>Software development isn't high status field. Even if you are mediocre (or not even that) you can get a job that pays more than most jobs do. That counts a lot.
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by forinti 3y ago
I did the same thing for my mother in law, because other family members kept installing trash on her PC. Such was the success, that my sister in law started using LibreOffice and quite likes it.
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by forinti 3y ago
My firm was hacked, but only the Windows machines suffered. So there's the value of diversity for you. I'm pushing for some FreeBSD now.
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by forinti 3y ago
Not that surprising when you consider that some Japanese companies still weave jeans by hand. Japan is an interesting mix of old and new.
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by forinti 3y ago
Perl is still great for data munging and ETL. I use it a lot to load data into databases and Elastic indices.
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by forinti 3y ago
I was just discussing using timestamps or not on digital signatures. I guess we'll go with likes now.
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by forinti 3y ago
I did some experiments to find out what is the bare minimum I would need for remote work (VPN+RDP). It turns out it would be possible, albeit a bit slow, on a Pi B (512MB of RAM) using OpenBSD or FreeBSD. The latter was a bit faster. With R
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by forinti 3y ago
I remember the transition to GUIs and, although they looked nice, they didn't feel so productive. By the time the GUI had started up and you had found what you were looking for, you'd have been well into your task on DOS and Words
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by forinti 3y ago
I would like to see lotteries used for this type of thing, because they would be much easier to accept. You could have 10% or 20% percent of candidates chosen by lottery, or have a lottery for all candidates who have the minimum pre-requisi
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by forinti 3y ago
Portugal has relaxed its citizenship requirements and there are tons of Brazilians who could ramp up its workforce. The thing is that it's not that cheap a country anymore and salaries are still quite low compared to the larger EU econ
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by forinti 3y ago
North Korea is a capitalist country in which one family owns everything.
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by forinti 3y ago
I would prefer to not have to install a new language on the server. There's Python and Perl already; you would certainly cover nearly all Linux installations with these two. But it's a nice tool anyway.
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by forinti 3y ago
Check out this page: https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/hitachi/hmcs40 And this manual: https://www.manualslib.com/products/Hitachi-Ap1-10557785.htm...
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by forinti 3y ago
I recently took apart an Entex Pacman2 which I still have from my childhood. I found this strange CPU in it (and not much else): Hitachi HD388A20. It belongs to a family of 4 bit processors (HMSC40) with 10 bit words and 10-12 address lines
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by forinti 3y ago
Every few years I use Tcl/Tk and the most common reasons are: 1- It's easy to make an executable for Windows (as well as running it on Linux); 2- It's easy to write a GUI.
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by forinti 3y ago
Remote work is great for me, because I can take a 5 minute nap after lunch. I feel much better the whole afternoon.
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by forinti 3y ago
This readability requirement is a bit overrated. It's best to rely on comments and documentation so that you can rewrite something if you have to. I see lots of Java that's written in a simple and direct manner, but that has no do
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by forinti 3y ago
The first time I loaded data onto an Elastic index, I used Perl. Then I used logstash so that I could do it the proper way. It turned out to be about twice as much text. So this fantastic language was already there and there was already an
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by forinti 3y ago
It would have been better to offer them land and money to cross over the border and live in Russia.
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by forinti 3y ago
Their own government should be trying to stop this and to foment a local clothing industry. Ghana has cotton (not sure if enough, but other countries in Africa grow cotton too).
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by forinti 3y ago
Those endless rain videos really help me to sleep. Philosophy videos and walkabouts (when there's no narration) also help, but they are rarely very long.

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