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by kakwa_ 8y ago
Reminds me of the time I rewired an old Mac SE keyboard to an USB keyboard controller. Basically, I took an USB keyboard controller from a cheap secondhand Dell keyboard, reversed its matrix, and then rewired every combination to the USB co
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by kakwa_ 8y ago
It also means that it's probably not practical to deploy it yourself as it relies on a big infrastructure deployed in a particular way.
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Not really in a day. You could probably hack something in day, hardcoding things like schemas, fields, and things like that. But having something that is reusable requires more work than a day. Just as an example, even handling ssl/tls
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by kakwa_ 8y ago
And if you are a user, a new version with numerous fixes (including security ones) was just released. Disclaimer: I'm the author of ldapcherry. My motivation was indeed that the go to solution is phpLdapAdmin, which is basically ldapse
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by kakwa_ 8y ago
It's a bit off topic since it's not a resource for learning, but: http://tatiyants.com/pev/#/plans (Postgres Explain Visualizer) When dealing with query optimization in practice, it helps a lot since it
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by kakwa_ 8y ago
Not sure if it's a good idea. A better idea in my opinion would be to have 2 versions: * an "API" version that specifies technical changes. * a public version more representative of big milestones in the project. It's ro
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by kakwa_ 8y ago
For each of your statements, there is a dark and depressing counter statement. For example: > We haven't had a major war for decades, despite having more and better weapons: Yes the last twos big ones were so horrible and pyrrhic th
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by kakwa_ 8y ago
From the same authors, as a child, I loved "Barbe Rouge". Who wouldn't? Pirates, age of sail (XVIII century), impossible missions, etc. Now, I see it's a bit too black and white but at the time I loved it ^^.
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by kakwa_ 8y ago
I hate writing systemd .service files. I'm always confused with the Type (should it be simple? forking?) and my program ends-up starting but not stopping or things like that. I know I lack the knowledge to write a good .service file in
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by kakwa_ 8y ago
And China actually made effort in past to control that as well (One Child policy). Only recently they relaxed it to avoid social side effects and unbalance in proportion between generations, and fertility rate is still bellow that of the US
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by kakwa_ 8y ago
Congratulation on the prefiction, they've already done since they started the year with a capacity of ~125GW. 200GW would make sense however.
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by kakwa_ 8y ago
I agree, MX Brown are silent enough to not get notice. I guess it's a positive side effect of open spaces: there is so much noise around from phone calls and co-workers discussing that it doesn't make any difference. More seriousl
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by kakwa_ 8y ago
And nobody suggested buying desktop workstations? A laptop is generally roughly half the speed of a decent decent desktop. And from experience, even if mobility is sometimes useful, it's hardly the norm. Personally my laptop is used ma
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by kakwa_ 8y ago
So basically, it's a cheaper helicopter? Don't get me wrong, if safe enough and cheaper, it could open new usages, hopefully beyond "now, this 'big project manager' can also take it, it's not anymore reserved t
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by kakwa_ 8y ago
You could argue the opposite: Since WWII, western countries have seen an incredible growth of wealth. This growth of wealth translated to a huge improvement of leaving condition for the masses, which means that said wealth was reasonably we
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by kakwa_ 8y ago
Another thing I found amusing about war time (WWI and WWII) coins: to save precious metal, they were made of cheap alloys. You almost have the feeling there are made of cardboard and that you could snap them in two. But I guess they didn&#x
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by kakwa_ 8y ago
He has reasons to, given that Oracle owns BerkeleyDB which used to dominate the embedded DB use case in the past, being often replaced by sqlite.
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by kakwa_ 8y ago
Sorry for the inaccuracy about Mossadegh. I do agree that the successive Iranian governments and the Iranian regime is far from a saint in this story, specially since the Islamic revolution. Calling Israel a "cancer" or a "li
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by kakwa_ 8y ago
I frankly never quite understood the extremely high stance against Iran. Iran has not really stage any offensive wars since 1856 (and most of the XIXe century wars were in fact to recover/maintain control over the Persian Empire which
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by kakwa_ 8y ago
> Most software in your local Linux distro's repository is maintained by a "community" that might just be one person working in their spare time. There is one big difference between Pypi and a distribution repository: With
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by kakwa_ 8y ago
I personally use Bacula: https://www.baculasystems.com/ But in truth, it's a bit complex to setup. You have 3 daemons (agent, director and storage) each with its configuration. This configuration files must match exact
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by kakwa_ 8y ago
Except that a large portion of of Amazon workforce is not contractually linked to Amazon. I'm thinking in particular of Amazon Flex. If you are not happy, with Amazon policy, they will just not give you any package to deliver.
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by kakwa_ 8y ago
Indeed, there are more contractors than US personnel in Afghanistan and formerly Iraq. These are not only used in logistic and services but also as combatant troops. And this not always has been the case, during the first Golf War, the perc
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by kakwa_ 8y ago
The partial counter argument to that is $10000 is nothing compared to a promotion campaign for a product which usually costs millions. The time and delay argument is a bit more valid. But if it is at the risk of such bad press, not sure it&
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by kakwa_ 8y ago
See how bad are software companies at creating reliable pieces software/services that don't crash and are without security flaws. Now imagine Companies where software development is not a priority and/or is not in the set of
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by kakwa_ 8y ago
Another simple mitigation would be the ability for one certificate to be signed by several CAs. We could combined with some DNS records that states the policy for validating the certificate (stating the number of CAs to validate a given cer
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by kakwa_ 8y ago
As the creator and maintainer of a project, it's really hard to let go of said project. It's really hard to completely abandon a project you know people are relying on. You do feel responsible for it in the end. Also, nearly every
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by kakwa_ 8y ago
I worked on a nuclear plant subsystem despite being anti-nuclear. I worked on an SSO solution for the Police despite being more of a libertarian. I worked on an ATC system for the military despite being a pacifist. Right now I'm workin
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by kakwa_ 8y ago
It may be better with III but with a Raspberry Pie II XBMC/Kodi is quite slow and a bit laggy. Personally, I switch to an Intel NUC with a fanless akasa case, and aside from the occasional Lodi crash it works relatively well.

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