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by hapless 12y ago
This IBM no longer exists, physically or spiritually. Physically speaking: near as I can tell, the printer plants in Armonk, NY and Charlotte, NC are long-shuttered. If anyone has evidence to the contrary, by all means, post it. Spirituall
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by hapless 12y ago
The practical solution is to spend more money . That means high-wall cubicles (6'-8') or private offices. Those have been the known solutions for forty years. I doubt other solutions exist. Yes, this will cost more. No, there is
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by hapless 12y ago
We don't need pages of workplace psychology to explain the open plan office. Open plan just has lower visible costs. Twice as many workers per square foot is very compelling math. The cost of lost productivity is hidden. The reduced
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by hapless 12y ago
They failed to mention that this project is close to two years behind. The modular construction project has been such an abject failure that the other two building projects on the site have broken ground with conventional steel frame cons
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by hapless 12y ago
I haven't listened to my voicemail in probably two years. In the age of caller ID, what's the point ? I can see that you called me, and call back.
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by hapless 12y ago
You are almost certainly more experienced than ESR. He held his last technology position in the early 1990s.
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by hapless 12y ago
You are making an unauthorized copy of their copyrighted software. Copyright infringement is illegal.
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by hapless 12y ago
Your karma check for today: There once was was a user that whined his existing OS was so blind, he'd do better to pirate an OS that ran great but found his hardware declined. Please don't steal Mac OS! Really, tha
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by hapless 12y ago
I don't think anyone is surprised when a software piracy site doesn't have careful copyright attributions for all of its piracy tools.
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by hapless 12y ago
Transit 5B-5, one of the two very early satellites mentioned, seems to have carried a very early RTG. I wonder if it is still running on its nuclear power.
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by hapless 12y ago
"Opportunity?" They openly admit committing crimes to the press.
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by hapless 12y ago
In two out of the three given examples, the people involved admit to deliberately structuring deposits to avoid reporting requirements. That is a crime, in and of itself. Ignorance is not a defense. These people were given bad advice by
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by hapless 12y ago
Aren't vacuum tubes still used in photomultipliers?
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by hapless 12y ago
The N64 cut down on a lot of expensive parts. Versus a typical-spec SGI Indy, the cheapest SGI, thousands of dollars were shaved off. Nintendo/SGI might have still lost money, but if an SGI workstation was a sedan, the N64 was a hot
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by hapless 12y ago
The "fixed cost" of the branch network is an illusion created by the high fees. Regulation and a less friendly lending environment showed us who's swimming naked with over-extended branch networks: everyone
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by hapless 12y ago
This isn't as complicated as it looks. The services around time deposits (providing a checking account, processing transactions, balance inquiries, ATMs) are not that expensive to provide relative to the profits made lending that money
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by hapless 12y ago
Every time I touch systemd, I find another bug. I never wanted to break out GDB to manage my freaking init.d scripts. * Error in `systemctl': double free or corruption (fasttop): 0x00007f26ef8089c0
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by hapless 12y ago
The core aesthetic problems in the Aztek all came from the same place: to save money, they started with a minivan body and drivetrain, the GM U-platform. After the decision to base the Aztek around a minivan was made, everything was deter
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by hapless 12y ago
To put it bluntly: The next Perl release should be 6.0. The existing perl6 projects can figure out their own branding, because it's clear they are no longer "successors" or replacements for Perl.
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by hapless 12y ago
Separate rights of way are the only way to ensure on-time service. Bus "bunching" is an unsolved mathematical problem. Traffic is just not predictable, and since buses follow a defined route, they have an even worse time of it t
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by hapless 12y ago
A conspiracy to control sales of busses. Every transit agency in the country was already investigating busses to replace street-level rail and trolley-bus systems. Lower costs (both up front and operating), greater route flexibility, an
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by hapless 12y ago
Employees probably paid their half automatically, but the other half is on the employers' books. The employer's half is what is commonly referred to as "payroll tax."
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A Window into Airbnb’s hidden impact on S.F.(sfchronicle.com)
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by hapless 12y ago
SELinux is supported by the principal Linux vendor, Red Hat. As a result, on RHEL/CentOS systems, there's tons of high-quality policy pre-written for any daemon you could want to install. Instead of writing thousands of lines of
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by hapless 12y ago
Here is your annual reminder: Use SELinux. Nothing with a shared kernel is going to be very secure. That's just the nature of the beast. It's why Docker supports SELinux. It's why RHEL and CentOS ship with pre-written SELi
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by hapless 12y ago
Registering your copyright entitles you to damages in court. It's quite valuable. Edit: to be clear, with an unregistered copyright, you can still sue for an injunction to stop someone from distributing your material. You won't
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by hapless 12y ago
Niagara included a crypto accelerator. Its successor chips had fancier ones. https://blogs.oracle.com/ningsun/entry/cryptography_accelera...
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by hapless 12y ago
The chip is vaporware. They've been talking about it for two years, but to quote the article, "Cavium has yet to share performance figures for the chip, which is not yet in first silicon." I will be very excited to see some
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by hapless 12y ago
devPixelsPerPx is much, much better than "page zoom." For example, it displays 2x content correctly. In fact, Firefox is the only browser that supports high-DPI displays on Linux. Chrome doesn't bother.
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by hapless 12y ago
notably the goal with the GPU hardware was to avoid doing endianess conversions in userspace code that talked to GPU drivers. userspace, the root of all evil

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