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by macksd 6y ago
>> containers are the work of the devil or some such And ironically it was the BSDs and Solarises of the world that had more fully developed similar concepts long before they were mainstream on Linux. I'm not terribly surprised b
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by macksd 6y ago
I wasn't making an analogy - I literally use Alpine Linux when I need some common *nix tools but I want something lighter-weight than the Docker images from more mainstream distros. musl libc and glibc aren't 2 fundamentally diffe
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by macksd 6y ago
I've actually wondered if there would be demand for a Busbybox / Toybox clone built in Go for this reason. I have zero need for it personally, but I think it would be fun to make.
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by macksd 6y ago
>> Unless you plan to never run anything but Go on your system That's actually exactly the use case for a lot of containerized applications written in Go. edit: I've worked on multiple applications like this and there's
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by macksd 6y ago
Is it just me, or does it seem like an odd assumption that this hard-codes the value of the company to $2.5M-$2.7M? I would think they would have a percentage cut they target or a dollar amount they target, and the other variable is filled
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by macksd 6y ago
Yeah it's definitely doable. I suppose in addition to the relationships, I especially appreciate having been in the office because it was very early in my career. There's a lot of stuff I know now that I didn't know then abou
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by macksd 6y ago
I'm not sure I'd want all-or-nothing to be the norm. I was a full-time remote worker before the pandemic, but I think one of the reasons it worked so well for me is because I had been able to build up a lot of the working relation
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by macksd 6y ago
"Everyone" includes other users who would benefit from the fix, the PR author who can continue using the same version as everyone else, and yes, the maintainer who is foregoing even the possibility of the fix without starting from
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by macksd 6y ago
I'm sorry I simply cannot understand how you can read the entirety of my comment and see that as entitled and wanting something for free. I could fork a project and make the fix in my own repo. In fact you have to do that to make a p
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by macksd 6y ago
There are still some restrictions, and a good summary here: https://worldwaterreserve.com/rainwater-harvesting/is-it-ill... . When buying property, you may have agreed that you were not acquiring mineral rights, water r
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by macksd 6y ago
I like the idea of reducing the stigma, but honestly if I haven't realized they don't accept PRs by the time I'm looking for the PR tab, I've already done all the same work, kinda for nothing. It ought to be made very cl
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by macksd 6y ago
There's an excellent book (well it had bad reviews, actually, because it was perhaps overly detailed and tedious, but I enjoyed it) about the Gemini project called On The Shoulders of Titans. Reading through the notes of how NASA inter
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by macksd 6y ago
At no point in my comment did I imply anything to the contrary. "things like autism" does not refer to autism exclusively nor to a person.
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by macksd 6y ago
There's a movement to reframe things like autism as neurodiversity rather than strictly a disorder. I suppose the emphasis in that case would instead be on things people can do well, not what they do wrong by everyone else's stand
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by macksd 6y ago
That would have addressed all my big concerns, yes. In fact, especially if it had a 7-day trial period or something there's no reason I wouldn't be down to pay for that - I'm making a living in their ecosystem after all. But
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by macksd 6y ago
I suspect you're right that most users wouldn't pay, but I've gone to Red Hat's website many times over the years looking for a package that suits me and there's nothing. There's a segment of at least one (me)
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by macksd 6y ago
Yeah I'm glad to see that Rocky Linux is being a little more upfront about donating and sponsoring, and that they already have some big sponsors. Granted, it was early in my career, but I don't remember CentOS soliciting support,
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by macksd 6y ago
Under no circumstances did anyone force Red Hat to financially back CentOS, nor did I say they didn't deserve a premium. In fact I said the opposite.
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by macksd 6y ago
>> "These are people who", the CentOS team said, "never called, never write, they don't interact with us." So the people for whom Red Hat provided no measurable value beyond the intrinsic value of what you dow
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by macksd 6y ago
I've definitely worked on projects where people want to just have it working and leave it working until after I'm long gone. I've had clients that I'm sure are still on Java 6, CentOS 5, maybe older, and will be for year
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by macksd 6y ago
>> why should there be battery-less portable Workstations Actually I think the battery in my laptop mostly functions as a UPS, and is rarely used on my lap. I have a home office and used to visit other offices a lot, and the main use
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by macksd 6y ago
Thank you! I had actually tried to find it after posting my comment and couldn't find it through their website. The day of the announcement Github hadn't been updated yet, and I gave up when I saw this didn't say where to loo
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by macksd 6y ago
To be fair, it was actually extremely difficult for me to find the license text after Elastic's announcements too. All the announcements and FAQ's etc. seemed to omit a link to the actual text.
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by macksd 6y ago
And this is why it's important to recognize and retain people who get the right things done. One does not simply backfill a support position and replace someone who has built up the internal AND external reputation and relationships re
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by macksd 6y ago
I believe CentOS images are still available and supported as much as they were before through the rest of this year, fwiw.
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by macksd 6y ago
If you only want an answer to that question, I guess so, but answering that question is far from the only purpose of the post, as stated. I found it far from clickbaity. The title of both the article and the HN post imply it's more a s
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by macksd 6y ago
I am mistaken: 2 or 3 of the projects named here have recent updates and they look good. I might have to play with these this week: https://www.truenas.com/trueos-discontinuation/
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by macksd 6y ago
There used to be PC-BSD and DesktopBSD that were out-of-the-box desktop distributions of FreeBSD. I used them on my laptop through college and loved them - I feel like the end of those projects has left a bit of a hole in the community.
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by macksd 6y ago
Computer vision (i.e. deep learning on images / video)
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by macksd 6y ago
It's not like there's one ecosystem your software runs in. Sure, they could add a Debian mode. But you'd also need a Red Hat mode, Apple mode (and I don't know - do you need a homebrew mode that's different from the

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