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by geofft 4y ago
Yes, but the consequence for society is that professionalization is coming to every single field, and the blue-collar jobs are evaporating, and we had better figure out how to get all those people either white-collar jobs or some other form
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by geofft 4y ago
Singers will do this via intuition - you don't think of, say, a perfect fifth as 2^(7/12) = 1.4983x over the root. You think of it as a particular pair of sounds that resonates well, much like when you picture "red" in y
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by geofft 4y ago
I believe https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterp... has decent docs on what to do here: - Run NTP in the guest - If at all possible, run the qemu guest agent, which can inform the guest to re
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by geofft 4y ago
But the only real way to be sure if something is a good idea, especially in complex distributed systems such as the web platform, is to try it out. And when you try it out at scale, standardization is very important. The alternative is to h
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by geofft 4y ago
I think it's okay for wild guesses to be zero expectation; if you look at it from an information-theory perspective, leaving the question blank and wildly guessing both communicate the same thing, "I don't know." What&#x
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by geofft 4y ago
I'm genuinely confused at the criticism of the content of the questions and especially the criticism that they're " not hard ". I mean, I guess they aren't algebra in the sense of "use the quadratic formula,&qu
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by geofft 4y ago
Docker containers don't have their own kernels. They share the kernel with the host operating system, and the host kernel handles interrupts. The Docker container is just a group of processes started in a particular way so they have a
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by geofft 4y ago
I don't think "more security training" will get us anywhere - we've been trying it for a long while. This is a technical problem and admits technical solutions. The most obvious, simple, and straightforward solution here
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by geofft 4y ago
Looks like it is based on the Mosh waiver https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/blob/master/COPYING.iOS , which went in about ten years ago. Blink Shell (which is of course also GPL'd) uses the Mosh c
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by geofft 4y ago
But automation gets more efficient over time. Twenty years ago, an automaton that could drive you around city streets required a whole university research lab and barely worked. Today, it's very realistically possible. Twenty years fro
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by geofft 4y ago
> The truth is that when you cut people out of the market you will replace people with machines and concentrate wealth in the hands of the machine owners. Is it not economically rational to replace people with machines and concentrate
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by geofft 4y ago
There's two reasons this argument doesn't work. One - some 15-20% of Americans have a zero or negative net worth, which straightforwardly inverts the argument. Let's say minimum wage is $1 and the family owes $100 in credit
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by geofft 4y ago
Snark, I think, correlates positively with terseness, and terseness correlates positively with upvotes - it's much easier for someone to read a short comment and say "Yes, that's it" than a very long one. So there's
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by geofft 4y ago
> But you have to keep in mind that RMS advocates the free software philosophy - the complete left end of the software spectrum I don't think this is true! There are notable portions of the free software community that are farthe
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by geofft 5y ago
There's also FreeRDP (xfreerdp/wlfreerdp) and rdesktop. Looks like all of the ones in the article (Vinagre, Remmina, Boxes) use libfreerdp as a backend. I was very happy with xfreerdp on Debian 10, but something on Debian 11 is ma
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by geofft 5y ago
https://twitter.com/lizthegrey/status/1497843649668739072 is a short thread on basically this subject, but no clear answer. 18 USC 958 makes illegal "within the jurisdiction" of the US to accept "a
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by geofft 5y ago
If you're asking in the general case , as opposed to "How would I respond to this call" - my opinion is that the most practical and effective thing you can do is to help secure code used by individuals - web browsers, the Li
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by geofft 5y ago
That part is getting a lot better with e-bikes, which is part of why I mentioned them. :) I'm in NYC, where the temperature does vary at least that much between summer and winter, and I recently got an e-bike in preparation for our o
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by geofft 5y ago
Not disagreeing, really, but - habit, culture, perception, and infrastructure . Minimum parking requirements, and more generally streets designed around cars, are a form of infrastructure. I'm not saying it's a good form of inf
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by geofft 5y ago
It's doing something weirder than that, but "it applies a diff between a specified commit and its parent on top of your current work" is more accurate/intuitive than "it does a three-way merge with a common ancestor
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by geofft 5y ago
Oh I totally missed that this was from Cato, got it :)
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by geofft 5y ago
I think that's precisely what the very idea of the sacraments is! Full disclosure, I'm a Lutheran, and so I obviously don't fully agree with Rome's take on things, but in this very specific bit, I do agree this is how th
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by geofft 5y ago
CCC 1257 says, "God has bound salvation to the sacrament of Baptism, but he himself is not bound by his sacraments." I think I've seen the hierarchy quote this a few times re this story. I believe that Rome's position he
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by geofft 5y ago
Google is a business - they are neither a kindly old wizard doing things for the good of the people, nor are they a game show wheel, randomly picking a product to kill today. You can pretty accurately model what they will and won't do
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by geofft 5y ago
I'm genuinely curious - this is the first I've heard of those countries being referred to as "libertarian." What makes them libertarian? Among other things, they all have substantial taxes (in the 25-40% of take-home inc
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by geofft 5y ago
The word "freedom" gets used in so many ways by so many partisan folks. Can you give concrete examples of what you mean? For instance, even within the USA, there are certain people who find more "personal freedom" in rur
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by geofft 5y ago
Right, or even consider the original case where you have an AirTag on your keys for if you lose them - given a name and a phone number, someone who finds your keys can quite possibly figure out where you live and use the keys. Most things
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by geofft 5y ago
Asyncio is weird. But check out Trio, an alternative and easier-to-understand async framework: https://trio.readthedocs.io/en/stable/tutorial.html Trio solves a problem that threading does not: switching between t
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by geofft 5y ago
There's a "verbatim" option under search tools for that. I agree with you that that's what I expect from quotes, but... I really think there are way more Google users who do not expect that. A lot of people think quota
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by geofft 5y ago
But most of that stimulus didn't end up in the hands of consumers . People weren't purchasing Pelotons with $600 stimulus checks. The sort of person who has nothing better to spend an extra $600 on than a Peloton is the sort of p

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