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by joshklein 7y ago
I agree that it would be nice if everything were USB-C, including my 2019 iPhone XS, which I connect to my 2017 MBP with a third-party adapter.
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by joshklein 7y ago
What if the larger story of the industrialization enabled by that trucking warms the planet to the point that humanity goes extinct? Something to at least consider; unintended consequences are still consequences.
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by joshklein 7y ago
In French, most adjectives follow the noun they describe (while adjectives precede nouns in English), so the primary compromise is not naming per se, but specifically abbreviating. It’s a good compromise and a compromise good.
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by joshklein 7y ago
You’ll love their take on net neutrality.
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by joshklein 7y ago
Charging different customers a different price for the same product is illegal under US law, and California laws don’t change that. EDIT: Several comments below point out the innumerable businesses operating in such a way as to make mine an
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by joshklein 7y ago
Profile is for login shells (thus executed once when logging in at the terminal or over SSH). The rc file is for interactive non-login shells (thus executed once each time you open a new e.g. xterm window). But some systems treat all termin
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by joshklein 7y ago
As best I can tell, tmux is developed primarily by Nicholas Marriott for OpenBSD and made portable with libevent. The original paper uses OpenBSD, and here[1] he says: “I preferred to work on it in base: I felt tmux would be improved by bei
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by joshklein 7y ago
It’s worth pointing out that tmux is part of the OpenBSD project, where this would be mitigated by the replacement of sudo with doas.
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by joshklein 7y ago
This feels like using “keyboard privilege escalation” to mean an attacker could type on your physical keyboard to access a terminal logged in as root to execute commands.
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by joshklein 7y ago
For "most MacOS-like experience" and "willing to compromise on FOSS philosophy for practical convenience in GPU-related work", I recommend taking a look at Pop!_OS. It's System76's take on Ubuntu with Mac-like
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by joshklein 7y ago
Many will have heard the collective noun for crows via the Simpsons episode reference or otherwise (a “murder of crows”), but ravens get one of my absolute favorites: an “unkindness of ravens”.
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by joshklein 8y ago
Making sure I understand this: I’m some independent developer working in many languages. I like every project I work on to be inside ~/work/ within a subdir I name based on the project. I used to be annoyed that I had to put every
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by joshklein 8y ago
I think this comment is facetious (apologies if I’m reading it incorrectly), so I want to offer that this is “simple”, but opaque to someone who is unfamiliar with the syntax or background context. Andrew Ng’s course on machine learning fro
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by joshklein 8y ago
Another personal anecdote to support this; I’ve done this sort of “reset” more than once, and there is a qualitative difference between getting 9 hours of sleep between 10pm-7am and 1am-10am for me. Your mileage may vary, but that 3 hour sh
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by joshklein 8y ago
On this topic, I fanatically endorse “Great Books” by David Denby. He took the famous western civ core curriculum at Columbia as an undergrad in the 1960s, then again after 40-ish years. In addition to many other interesting subjects, the b
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by joshklein 8y ago
I first encountered this when I began working in golang because it was batteries included with go fmt. I know this makes me late to the party, so can anyone comment on similarly dominant/official tools in their language of professional
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by joshklein 8y ago
Well put, though he did have the distinct responsibility of communicating leadership decisions. “Ideas” are not a responsibility, but “communicating decisions” certainly is (in organizations scaled beyond the threshold for effective informa
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by joshklein 8y ago
What reasons are there to avoid doing this asynchronously? (Please note that I’m opposed to requiring user agent javascript to access something claiming to be a website, but let’s assume we’re talking about something behaving like a single-
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by joshklein 8y ago
I like the way I recall someone (Richard Hipp?) putting it: SQLite is a file format. SQLite is an efficient file format for relational data with excellent tooling.
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by joshklein 8y ago
Apologies, I intended "user" in my comment to mean "a developer using the license". Thank you for clarifying.
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by joshklein 8y ago
ISC is a more free license for its users. GPL protects theoretical future users of theoretical derivative software by restricting freedom for its users. It's important to remember that GNU is Not Unix, but OpenBSD userland is much
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by joshklein 8y ago
On the other hand, when a recent grad or otherwise distant connection-of-a-connection reaches out to ask me to coffee or a 15-minute call to “pick my brain” about my career experiences (a so-called “informational interview”), I almost never
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by joshklein 8y ago
Most of my career has been under the title of “strategist”. I’ve had to steer many client organizations away from jumping the gun on tactical thinking by convincing them strategy is qualitatively different and important. My experience is th
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by joshklein 8y ago
The usefulness of the service is dependent on the volume. If a 2x price increase cut the volume of passengers dramatically, the volume of drivers would correspondingly fall, and the likelihood of pushing a button on your phone to summon a d
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by joshklein 8y ago
I agree the movie is more interesting than my above comment implies, for the reason you highlight. That said, I dont believe the novel is about authoritarianism; it critiques universal suffrage, suggesting that only members of an in-group w
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by joshklein 8y ago
Stranger in a Strange Land was always one of my favorite pieces of science fiction, but I never knew he was the author of Starship Troopers (1959) until a few weeks ago. Of course, I knew Starship Troopers (1997) as a goofy action flick whe
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by joshklein 8y ago
The etymology of surveillance is closer to “watch over”, as if from above. The literal “sur” prefix could be “over” or “on” or “upon” when translated to English, so it implies an above-ness. The “sous” prefix is the logical opposite, usuall
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by joshklein 8y ago
The challenge for anyone looking to incrementally improve X11 is that “modern desktops” (i.e. Mac & Windows) leverage totally different design approaches vis-a-vis centralized authoritarian IPC and graphical hardware access. I’m glad pe
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by joshklein 8y ago
That is outside the scope of httpd; use relayd.
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by joshklein 8y ago
Searching for the term “inbound marketing” should give you a good sense of the process. The website submitted for this thread is a textbook example of what you would create, as appropriate to your target client.

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