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by iso1210 5y ago
You can only edit for I think 2 hours after posting. You get fainter when you get voted down a few points.
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by iso1210 5y ago
It's not the house that appreciates much in value, its the land the house sits on.
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by iso1210 5y ago
Only if you've changed from the default config file, and it's not anything in /etc, it's anything specified in the conffiles file in the .deb, which I believe should include things in /etc according to policy, but c
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by iso1210 5y ago
> If it is across apps... I cannot imagine the use case for maintaining formatting You have some formatted text (maybe some bold or italic in a line) on a webpage, you want to copy it into an email (lets set aside the argument that email
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by iso1210 5y ago
> Depends a lot on where you live and work. My experience was the exact opposite in Chicago. Heck, for some of my jobs I could outrun car commuters on my bike pretty trivially. I got a taxi from Gare du Nord to a hotel on Champs Eleyse t
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by iso1210 5y ago
I'm sure it was, but the numbers compared to Linux and even FreeBSD would be tiny.
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by iso1210 5y ago
I did a solaris 10 course in 2008, even then it felt that it was on the way out, with some big iron companies still having them of course, but then they still have systems even older than that. Solaris 10 did have some neat features not fou
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by iso1210 5y ago
> The /usr merge idea was first raised in "The Case for the /usr Merge" by Lennart Poettering in 2012. It came out of the systemd community Well that's a recipe for a long drawnout battle
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by iso1210 5y ago
Haven't run debian en-mass for a long time, for stable servers I stick the latest ubuntu 2004 and have unattended upgrades on, I haven't had any issues yet
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by iso1210 5y ago
That's depressing - the sudoku craze was nearly 2 decades ago.
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by iso1210 5y ago
I don't have an "office", but in my experience, and when I do visit various offices around the world, offices tend to be surrounded by buildings and traffic and shops, and tend not to be surrounded by fields, mountains and la
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by iso1210 5y ago
My office is between my kitchen and the bathroom so the commute isn't exactly onerous However when the sun is shining I'll take a 20 minute walk a few times a day through the country, or I'll take an 40 minute long walk to a
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by iso1210 5y ago
In my experience if you are going into a large (more than say 5 people) meeting to get a consensus for a decision you've made, you start with one-to-one conversations with every meeting participant, get them on side, then the large mee
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by iso1210 5y ago
It is a massive problem, especially if people don't mute when not speaking, or if people nearby are speaking at the same time (on a different meeting). Nothing to do with noise cancelling headphones
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by iso1210 5y ago
Money makes them think about value. When I took my current job in 2016 I wanted more than they could pay, they wanted me to be based in an office (Oh it would only be officially we dont mind you working from home) We compromised, my contrac
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by iso1210 5y ago
"Linux" typically refers to a standard Linux distriubtion, Debian Linux, Redhat Linux, or even subsets of those like Raspbian. They containing the core element (Linux) and a bunch of stuff on top (often things like X for example)
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by iso1210 5y ago
No, in theory it doesn't pay for the roads, and in practice it doesn't. That's just a lie put about by the anti-cyclist lobby. Most roads are actually funded from local taxes - mainly council tax and business rates in any cas
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by iso1210 5y ago
> rogue AV software You repeat yourself sir
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by iso1210 5y ago
If there is a way to invalidate a vote in the UK, I'm not aware of it, and as someone who's actively stood for election I've got a greater awareness of the average voter, and 50% of people have less awareness than the average
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by iso1210 5y ago
I went to school when Irish bombers will blowing up my home town and killing kids. I remember having a fire drill once at school which might have doubled as a bomb-threat drill. Far more danger from the car drivers outside the front gates.
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by iso1210 5y ago
I canvas in a rural ward, about half of voters are postal voters, many have adult children living with parents, and where one is postal, usually all are postal. It's quite easy to see how a secret ballot can be not secret if the (typic
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by iso1210 5y ago
> American here and I have had to wait >2 hours to vote multiple times. That doesn't have to be the case though, that's a political decision to staff voting booths like that. It's also trivial to fix.
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by iso1210 5y ago
> I don't know the rules in the USA, but in the UK it is generally forbidden to stream yourself voting or take a photo in the polling station. Maintaining the secrecy of ballots is high priority. Except we allow postal voting pretty
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by iso1210 5y ago
> Paper voting is extremely expensive to scale And thus is impossible to hack at scale. It costs $x to run an election and count the votes for Y thousand peple voting for a position, that scales pretty much linearly - have 1 ballot and 1
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by iso1210 5y ago
Build systems that can cope with the loss of nodes and ideally self-heal if you kill a node.
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by iso1210 5y ago
7.x is still effectively in beta, there are many features that don't work yet, last time I checked neither multicast nor bfd were working.
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by iso1210 5y ago
> Everything does suck. Some things suck less. Sometimes you can pay money to get things that suck less. And then there's Cisco
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by iso1210 5y ago
I've got a few hundred mikrotiks, mainly CCRs and 1100AHs, I guess I could merge my monitoring machine and my router, and it's handy if I just want to deploy a single device somewhere but manage it in the same way (firewalls, vpns
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by iso1210 5y ago
> clever answer Well that depends on what happens next, but ending up being thrown to the lions would take the shine of the "clever" part
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by iso1210 5y ago
I remember seeing the original proprietary one with amazing claims of multiple gigabytes on a standard blank VHS cassette, this was in the days of 1.44M floppies, 28k modems, and maybe if you were on the cutting edge a 56k modem and 100M zi

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