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by jsiepkes 3y ago
> I have two young children and that poses further issues as this type of wildlife bring nasty insects and diseases along with them. Since both badgers and foxes are night animals I guess his children play at 01:00 during the night in hi
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by jsiepkes 3y ago
I think when doing integration testing with ToxiProxy often people want it to be "predictable". Most of the time you just want to prove the application behaves correctly when it needs to reconnect. Otherwise you can get tests whic
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HP Virtual Test Laboratory(developers.hp.com)
1 points by jsiepkes 3y ago|0 comments
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by jsiepkes 3y ago
If even Google, Mozilla, Apple and Microsoft can't get C++ right in their apps with all the fuzing tools they invented I don't have much faith other companies are going to fare better with memory safety and C++.
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by jsiepkes 3y ago
How much did memory safety factor in the decision? I mean only last week the IT world was yet again bitten by a major memory safety bug, in libwebp.
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by jsiepkes 3y ago
That's a _very_ incorrect statement. You can use any OpenJDK (which is GPLv2 with classpath exception) distribution you want to run Apache Zookeeper without having to have any agreement with Oracle or pay any fee. The Oracle JDK is jus
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by jsiepkes 3y ago
It's an OSS NGINX fork which implements some of the NGINX stuff which is only in the paid version (metrics, dynamic DNS updates for upstream servers, etc.).
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by jsiepkes 3y ago
Then why dispute YouTube is profiting from videos they themselves classify as harmful?
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by jsiepkes 3y ago
You seriously think the amount of money YouTube makes from ads on those videos is not a magnitude it costs them to host them?
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by jsiepkes 3y ago
Is Nouveau still important now that Nvidia has opensourced their display drivers sometime ago?
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Microsoft's Security Culture Just Isn't Up to Scratch(srslyriskybiz.substack.com)
2 points by jsiepkes 3y ago|1 comments
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by jsiepkes 3y ago
In the Netherlands more than 50% all homeless are addicted. 40% have mental health problems [1]. Not that surprising because everyone can get atleast 1200 Euro a month if you can't get a job [1]. And there is a bunch of additional mone
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by jsiepkes 3y ago
High paid tech workers disrupting local economies has been a showcase for trickle down economics not working.
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by jsiepkes 3y ago
I always wondered when these were going to be available. I've seen these things like forever (at least 10 years) on expo's like IFA and Cebit. I'm assuming there is something in the production process which makes the process
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by jsiepkes 3y ago
There is no way Hashicorp would have gotten this level of adoption (and become this big) as they are today if they offered their products in a classic Microsoft, Oracle, etc. pay to license way. Now that they have gotten what they want (get
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by jsiepkes 3y ago
> Next year they could changed the license entirely if they wanted to. Changing the licence can't be done retroactively by Hashicorp. Changing the interpretation of the licence can be done retroactively by Hashicorp.
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by jsiepkes 3y ago
I find it interesting that certifications like ISO27001 basically force you to use all these solutions which create massive single point of failures. Sure in theory you could use a more decentralized solution but often there are no COTS sol
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by jsiepkes 3y ago
My Pixel 6 Pro is starting to break down with the same symptoms it was repaired for about a year ago (screen starts flickering and at some point it will just stay dark). The phone is about 2 years old. Hardware wise it's the most unrel
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by jsiepkes 3y ago
This is why I don't like GPL-like licenses; Only a court ruling will give you a degree of certainty. Now sure, you could argue that's the case for all OSS. But the GPL family of licenses leave a lot of legal wiggle room. Unlike fo
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by jsiepkes 3y ago
Thats like saying YouTube isn't needed because anyone can upload a video to S3. It's about the visibility.
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by jsiepkes 3y ago
How is shooting animals for sport any better then shooting them because they are a nuisance? Sounds way worse to me actually.
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by jsiepkes 3y ago
Personal anecdote: The wife of someone I know got a full body scan in Germany (because they were outlawed in the Netherlands, don't know if they still are). Clean bill of health. About 4 months later she was in the hospital with cancer
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by jsiepkes 3y ago
Kicking a country out of SWIFT and making it much harder to do business by imposing sanctions because of an invasion you disapprove of is not some moral crusade?
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by jsiepkes 3y ago
I've had similar experiences with Hashicorp and small bugfix pull requests. The "Thank you for your feedback, we appreciate it" comment in response to a full page of well constructed feedback is exactly the kind of empty corp
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by jsiepkes 3y ago
It looks like a cool research project. But realistically I would be surprised if it could beat OpenJDK in any benchmark (though I don't think that's the purpose of the project). Writing something which is compatible with a specifi
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by jsiepkes 3y ago
Additionally OpenBSD 3.3 was released in 2003. In 2005 SUN started with opensourcing large parts of the SPARC processor design. You can find some of it here: https://www.oracle.com/servers/technologies/opensparc.ht
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by jsiepkes 3y ago
Gates and Ballmer even mocked the anti-trust investigation into Microsoft with a clip of the hearing of Scott McNealy in a video: https://youtu.be/IY2j_GPIqRA?t=14 (audio warning).
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by jsiepkes 3y ago
I wouldn't say my cats are smart but you can definitely see they are natural born killers. Everything they set their eyes on dies. Flies, spiders, you name it. Nothing is too quick for them. I keep my cats indoors (we take them in to t
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by jsiepkes 3y ago
You can give your windows an airtight seal but what about ventilation in your bedroom?
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by jsiepkes 3y ago
> it's essential to recognize that China aligns well with its WTO obligations There is no way in hell I (as a foreigner in China) will win an intellectual property dispute from a Chinese company in China.

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