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by loudmax 8y ago
> But most people do agree that climate change is real and will get worse. President Trump does not believe that burning fossil fuels contributes to climate change. He may not be "most people" (in fact most US voters voted aga
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by loudmax 8y ago
I'd go a little further than "documented". MS Office's .docx and .pptx files are "documented" but creating a compatible reader is a major undertaking. I wish people would hold off until there's an existi
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by loudmax 8y ago
I agree that 10 years is a little short, but I wouldn't call it absurd, certainly not comparable with the absurdity of 95 years. When you speak of GRR Martin "losing ownership" of his characters, ownership wouldn't simp
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by loudmax 8y ago
Microsoft's vendor lock-in is still very dominant, and a lot of sysadmins don't really have a deep understanding of anything else. Facebook's social network effects are analogous to Microsoft's vendor lock-in, but they
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by loudmax 8y ago
> Being famous, even slightly so, isn‘t as nice as it seems from the outside. It's not that I don't believe you. I can rationally accept that what you've said makes sense. However, being on the outside, it takes some men
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by loudmax 8y ago
Dan Carlin's "Death Throes of the Republic" series goes way into the fall of the Roman Republic. It's $10 if you buy directly from his site and absolutely worth it. Along the same lines, fans of Mike Duncan's &quot
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by loudmax 8y ago
I read a lot of posts on Reddit bemoaning Tumblr's decision to stop carrying adult content. A lot of people there and here feel that this decision spells the end of the company. That may be the case, but I never understood how Tumblr
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by loudmax 8y ago
There's an unofficial Arch package for it: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pandoc-bin/ I wish I'd known about this sooner. I don't spend much time with text documents outside the web, but when I
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by loudmax 8y ago
The post is about resilience to censorship from outside organizations. That is, it's about governments not being able to selectively block content from service providers. What you're talking about is the service providers themsel
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by loudmax 8y ago
> For instance, when looking for current weather, I want to input my location and a time span, and get weather data. I want to be able to script that. I don't want to waste time looking at ads, pretty pictures, non-relevant text and
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by loudmax 8y ago
This is a great graph. I love videos like this. One thing missing is migration out of the United States. For much of the video, the largest source of immigrants is Canada. Surely the US Canadian border is a two way street. I'd expe
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by loudmax 8y ago
You're right, the Github page says as much: > gVisor may provide poor performance for system call heavy workloads. Incidentally, I find the description on Github much more interesting than the one on the Google Blog: https:/&#
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by loudmax 8y ago
The Github page mentions that postgres, nginx and elasticsearch aren't currently supported by the gVisor kernel (or pseudo-kernel?). Those are significant, but they shouldn't be showstoppers for a lot of deployments. They list e
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by loudmax 8y ago
I hope that's Apple's response too. But I fear they might just conclude to that their expertise is in cell phones and they shouldn't invest too much in laptops after all. Maybe introduce some more gimmicks and see if anythi
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by loudmax 9y ago
Given the expense and difficulties of complying with these rules and enforcing them, we should seriously consider the opposite approach of radical transparency. As the ability to collect and process data becomes cheaper and easier to deploy
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by loudmax 9y ago
> Developers should be careful, though; this could prove to be a slippery slope leading toward something that starts to look like a microkernel architecture. That's an interesting warning. Pushing more tasks out of the kernel would
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by loudmax 9y ago
I've been riding a bike to work on and off for several years, and I pretty much also think cyclists don't belong on the road. The road is dangerous, far better to ride on sidewalks. In the Northern Virginia suburbs where I live,
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by loudmax 9y ago
This is analogous to Unix commands assuming you meant what you said. 'rm /bin/bash' Ok boss, no questions, no confirmation prompt, done. One of the first things I do on a new Unix login is alias the rm, cp and mv comman
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by loudmax 9y ago
In the context of the article, I'm pretty sure this relates to nutritional value for ducks, not humans. Birds and people can eat a lot of the same food but our metabolisms are optimized very differently. I read one article that compa
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by loudmax 9y ago
Agreed, I don't see any posts in this thread arguing that MS charging for office is a bad thing. And I don't see any problem with charging money for productivity software either. But since the issue has been raised, I'll bi
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by loudmax 9y ago
The Dispossessed and The Left Hand of Darkness are seminal works. As you've gathered from this thread, The Dispossessed can be understood as a critique of capitalism. It is not uncritical of the alternatives. Likewise, the Left Hand
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by loudmax 9y ago
Off-topic, I thought the title was referring to the Wizardy video game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizardry:_Proving_Grounds_of_t... When my family bought our first PC in 1981, Wizardry was the first computer game I
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by loudmax 9y ago
I don't have much experience with makefiles but for shell scripts, I tend to think that your approach is correct as long as you're working with small or fairly trivial files. If the file is small enough to see all at once (and you
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by loudmax 9y ago
Chrome OS uses a Linux kernel. I believe much of it comes from Gentoo.
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by loudmax 9y ago
Don't read it like this: rename <expression> <replacement file> ... Read it like this: rename <expression> <replacement> <file(s)...> Argument 1 is a string (not a regex), argument 2 is string to replace
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by loudmax 9y ago
Are there really more than half as many Linux desktop users as Mac users? If so, it's heartening our share increasing, even if's still tiny. FreeBSD and OpenBSD are pretty great OSs too. I wonder if their share isn't so tin
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by loudmax 9y ago
If you're looking for raw data, you can find measurements from NASA's earth observation missions here: https://earthdata.nasa.gov/ NASA's Worldview application presents the data as overlays on maps of the Ear
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by loudmax 9y ago
https://www.idagio.com/geoblocked Pity. This is a good demonstration though of the value lost to dysfunctional copyright laws.
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by loudmax 9y ago
The problem with the Trump era is that part of the political establishment is so divorced from reality that expressions of support are indistinguishable from sarcasm.
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by loudmax 9y ago
I'm in agreement that solar panels in south Florida are a good idea, and that to single out this law as an end of American freedom is ridiculous. But we have to admit that this isn't the best way to address the problem. The law

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