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by geofft 5y ago
The keybindings for XMonad are pretty similar to the keybindings for GNU screen - if you already spent time getting comfortable with screen, it won't take you too long to pick up. dwm is a tiling window manager with very similar keybin
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by geofft 5y ago
What's wrong with being a blue-collar worker / commoditizing the profession? Seems fine, in and of itself. If you mean it as a proxy for salaries going down because of competition - so many engineering orgs are understaffed, I don
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by geofft 5y ago
Worth remembering that Paul Graham defended the Facebook/Instagram merger as the expected, non-malicious outcome of a healthy startup economy - see under the heading "Understand" in http://www.paulgraham.com/g
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by geofft 5y ago
The article makes a passing reference to "Google Fibers" and "a new API for cooperative scheduling in user space." There seems to be a Phoronix article with some more info and a link to a preparatory patchset that's
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by geofft 5y ago
Arguably, every line of code in the Linux kernel came from someone who couldn't run their binaries on mainline.
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by geofft 5y ago
Not everything can be written as modules. The module API is fairly limited, and it doesn't let you arbitrarily customize the behavior of existing parts of the kernel. Examples from the article include OOM and scheduling. One I ran into
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by geofft 5y ago
Ah, well, I'll just modernize my IPAM, no big deal.... I have actually seen quarantine IPs for new clients, if memory serves - it was on MIT's wifi network in the late '00s, back when MIT still had all of 18/8 and gave e
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by geofft 5y ago
Can you explain, in your own words, how that responds to the point above? The post above claims that homicide rates started to go up " during the previous administration " (i.e., before January 2021) / " in the summer of
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by geofft 5y ago
That would be a reasonable argument if decreasing incarceration increased homicides. But, first, as you point out, homicides are already increasing despite our current strategy. That's enough reason to ask whether it's working.
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by geofft 5y ago
Is that true of the Manhattan Project? The fundamental science that the bomb was potentially possible had already been worked out (which was why they launched it in the first place). Most of the work there was physically building the bomb,
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by geofft 5y ago
Wow, I'm honored! I haven't been actively involved with that project for a long while but if it's making people mad enough to create throwaways, it means my work has real impact. Thank you <3
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by geofft 5y ago
Oh, sure, but my point isn't about implementation complexity, it's about network architecture. SLAAC doesn't work the way DHCP works. Do you have an IPAM tool that assigns addresses? Do you have a VMM/private cloud where
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by geofft 5y ago
> What about IPv6 makes it such a chore to become widespread? IPv6 is not just a straightforward extension of IPv4 to bigger addresses (plus some cleverness for how to route between them, if at all). There's a whole lot of other
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by geofft 5y ago
> I don't know what specifically motivated this PR It's mentioned in passing a couple of comments in. To highlight it (because it's easy to miss): "I watched a group of people use these specific phrases to justify m
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by geofft 5y ago
I find it confusing too, but my reading of this is that @hmdne is trolling, but the actual changes @hmdne wants to make are fine and defensible in their own right and in fact make it easier to kick out trolls like @hmdne (e.g., a troll ca
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by geofft 5y ago
It seems like it does inform. That's not necessarily the same as it being actionable information, but I do think background information is useful. But I think there's another way to think about this story: consider the opposite
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by geofft 5y ago
This, by itself, should be damning: > This suppression of dissent brings us to the matter of safety, which for many of us is the driving force for coming forward with this essay. At Blue Origin, a common question during high-level meeti
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by geofft 5y ago
Strictly speaking, what the Bible prohibits by "magic" is recourse to powers other than God . Curses are fine: the third- and fourth-last verses of the Bible itself are a warning of plagues and misfortune to anyone who messes wit
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by geofft 5y ago
Right, it's not a conspiracy. When there are multiple participants in a forum, and one participant has already raised a point that you agree with, saying "I agree with so-and-so's point about..." is the normal way to do
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by geofft 5y ago
1. Are we agreed that "securing the network" means "having enough computational power that an attacker cannot out-compute us," and conversely that the security threats that Bitcoin protects against are via attackers out-
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by geofft 5y ago
Before the argument against blockchain methods is an argument against centralized methods such as "did:ccp", which seems to be an identity mechanism backed by Baidu accounts: https://w3c.github.io/did-spec-registri
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by geofft 5y ago
I didn't say 50%. Simply, there is some level at which an attacker has enough computational power to pull off an attack, and such an attack is fought off by the legitimate participants in the network having enough computational power
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by geofft 5y ago
> It's interesting to me the amount of energy people spend on convincing themselves that a technology (POW) that didn't even exist 12 years ago and ran on home PCs up until 7 years ago is somehow responsible for wildfires in C
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by geofft 5y ago
All the more reason to incentivize real-world use of other approaches. "This is how we've always done it" is poor reasoning, whether it's about blockchain or lead pipes or asbestos.
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by geofft 5y ago
Companies don't "want" things. They do not have a single will. Companies are agglomerations of many humans, who have various wills and more importantly various incentives. Same with "HR," and not only are there mult
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by geofft 5y ago
No, I don't think that's the same problem / the same solution. A source map translates between a layout checked into the code and a format generated at build time. I'm talking about translating between a layout in a deve
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by geofft 5y ago
One of the practical issues here is, if your code fails to compile in CI with an error like /home/ci/src/foo.c:123:45: error: use of undeclared identifier 'a' or /home/ci/src/
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by geofft 5y ago
It's actually slightly easier these days (at least on my phone): hold down the power button as if to turn it off, but don't swipe to actually turn it off, just hit cancel (or home, or power to turn the screen off). The phone will
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by geofft 5y ago
> Of course, because their revenue depends on it, they probably would want more control. I don't think this follows. They could have all the control they wanted if they set up their own product, but their revenue doesn't depe
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by geofft 5y ago
Not to defend Wikipedia at all (and they certainly should not get your money), but, the solution that Wikipedia themselves would advocate is that you should publish those explanations on some site of your own, and Wikipedia could then cite

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