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by gvb 9y ago
Comparing containers (a concept) with VM/jails/zones is a non-sequitur. To quote: A “container” is just a term people use to describe a combination of Linux namespaces and cgroups. Linux namespaces and cgroups ARE first class obj
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Close Call: CL-415 Canadair Hits a Barge After Scooping Water in Scary Footage(theaviationist.com)
1 points by gvb 9y ago|0 comments
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On Becoming a Wizard: Strategies for Keeping Up as a New Developer(spin.atomicobject.com)
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CLOSE CALL: CL-415 CANADAIR HITS a BARGE AFTER SCOOPING WATER IN SCARY FOOTAGE(theaviationist.com)
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It looks like yet another satellite is breaking apart at GEO(arstechnica.com)
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by gvb 9y ago
Battles last for hours, days max. Most of war is boring.
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by gvb 9y ago
Same reason people watch car crashes on YouTube: you know it will end badly but don't know how.
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New Ryzen Is Running Solid Under Linux, No Compiler Segmentation Fault Issue(phoronix.com)
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How California Grid Operators Managed the Eclipse(spectrum.ieee.org)
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The Great Soviet Crescent in the Sky(airspacemag.com)
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by gvb 9y ago
The Sears Roebuck catalog. Ref: http://mentalfloss.com/article/23210/toilet-paper-history-ho...
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by gvb 9y ago
Alternate take: "It's not a big deal, most of them are dead."
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by gvb 9y ago
The whisky is diluted as part of the manufacturing process to the optimum(ish) level: 80 proof / 40% ABV. You are correct to not dilute it further. Ref: Whisky is distilled to around 70% alcohol by volume (vol-%) then diluted to abo
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by gvb 9y ago
"tabs are automatically controverted to spaces" I don't know if that was a typo or intentional, but I like it!
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by gvb 9y ago
If your phone is powered off or in airplane mode it is not supposed to emit RF and thus cannot be tracked. This is a matter of trust, so if your threat model includes high end threats, the assumption that it follows the normal requirement
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by gvb 9y ago
"Alexa, Simon Says Alexa, order an echo."
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by gvb 9y ago
Or right-click / inspect element and kill (overtype) the tag <div id="seckit-noscript-tag">
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by gvb 9y ago
Even if the company doesn't go bust, the severance pay gets stingier and stingier on every round of reductions.
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by gvb 9y ago
If your management is buying "advise" from the Gartner Group, that is a "bad management smell" IMHO. My advise is to work on your escape plan. Every time I read or hear Gartner Group "information" piece on a
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Self-Managing People Are Smart about Asking for Help(spin.atomicobject.com)
94 points by gvb 9y ago|10 comments
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by gvb 9y ago
FWIW, buildroot now has the ability to build a complete cross build environment (I've used ARM and PowerPC). This is a configuration option: buildroot's cross or an external cross build environment. Buildroot does the Right Thing:
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by gvb 9y ago
I did not say it was better, I said it was very popular (I even weaseled on that - I did not say it was "most popular" because I don't know that). Better is a relative term and may be different between your use case and mine.
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by gvb 9y ago
An alternative (very popular) is buildroot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buildroot
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by gvb 9y ago
They confuse helicopter pilots too! http://www.snopes.com/humor/nonsense/kangaroo.asp
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by gvb 9y ago
Owners of the TRS-80 called it the "triss-80". It was owners of other computer brands that called it the "trash-80". My TRS-80 is still in my attic. I learned assembly language from Bill Gates - I disassembled and hand
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by gvb 9y ago
Sold Yahoo to Verizon. "Yahoo stock was up by 8.5% at the time of writing." http://www.businessinsider.com/yahoo-verizon-sale-approved-2...
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by gvb 9y ago
The sites that REALLY piss me off are the ones with a timed redirect like: <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="1;url= http://www.example.com/nojavascript" /> which show a usable flash of th
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by gvb 9y ago
Redundancy provides availability more than reliability. The odds of GitHub going down and your local copy/instance simultaneously is very low so availability is high. Reliability is how often GitHub or your local instance goes do
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by gvb 9y ago
The Journal’s ad revenue wasn’t affected by its recent drop in Google traffic because social media visits grew 34 percent in that time, keeping overall web traffic flat, Watford said. Their numbers agree with your hypothesis: people simpl
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by gvb 9y ago
For the readers here, your comment added no value to the article in question. Your comment was all about your suspicion of being hacked that read pretty tinfoil hat - "my screen blinks so I think someone hacked my computer and router b

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