mattpallissard

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by mattpallissard 1y ago
I agree most of it doesn't, especially if it's about current events or captures the feeling of the era. My Cousin Vinnie is an example that holds up still. No current events, no racist jokes, just typical social interactions that
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by mattpallissard 1y ago
> It’s like a world inside one’s head with a text-based interface. I had a co-worker describe it as a giant Linux playground. Another as ETL nirvana.
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by mattpallissard 1y ago
Every job on an HPC cluster should have a memory and CPU limit. Nearly every job should have a time limit as well. I/O throttling is a much trickier problem. I wound up having a script for users on a jump host that would submit an sb
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by mattpallissard 1y ago
Obligatory, Joel Grus: I don't like notebooks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jiPeIFXb6U And the slides; https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1n2RlMdmv1p25Xy5thJUh...
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by mattpallissard 1y ago
The functional code isn't reassigning the same variable. The and/or have something that looks like an implicit return.
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by mattpallissard 1y ago
I have 5 and can say that this is the way.
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by mattpallissard 1y ago
> many of us kind of hate it and only stay because of the money, and would work anywhere else if the other jobs paid well enough. I think you just described most people who aren't SE's. The only difference is that they can&#x2
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by mattpallissard 2y ago
Arch user here. These things work much nicer than any of the previous alternatives. Sure, kernel signing is a bit of a mess, but that's more of a product of how key-signing at a low-level works than anything. Cryptsetup, cryptenroll
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by mattpallissard 2y ago
> Frontend is a mess because all you people are a mess. As a backend guy who considers himself extremely fortunate that nearly all of his users/customers are technical, this got an audible chuckle out of me.
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by mattpallissard 2y ago
> There is no "syntax", it's all just key=value pairs, This, with the sections, is INI. Duplicate keys included. Loosely defined spec, but INI none the less > I don't know why you'd be parsing unit files or
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by mattpallissard 2y ago
> If systemd is the reason, there are several good distros without systemd I totally get avoiding systemd, I don't myself, but I get it. The author on the other hand talks about the problems doing this in a professional setting. T
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by mattpallissard 2y ago
> Other potential tells include long pauses and inconsistencies on candidates’ resumes, such as claimed expertise in technologies before they were developed and widely available. Funny, I've seen a fair number of job postings that r
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by mattpallissard 2y ago
Same boat as the author here, except I switched from physics to software after year three. I had never heard of them until I was _years_ into software engineering. I think this is more common than you may think. I had never dealt with lin
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by mattpallissard 2y ago
I think this is the case. Most of my family and friends use and like the various AI features that are popping up but aren't interested thinking about how to coax what they want out of ChatGPT or Claude. When it's integrated into
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by mattpallissard 2y ago
That's not the same type of bot net. Fail 2 ban simply is not going to work when you have a popular unauthenticated endpoint. You have hundreds of thousands of rps spread across thousands of legitimate networks that. The requests ar
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by mattpallissard 2y ago
I'm working on genuinely connecting with people. My wife, my kids, my friends, strangers. I've always been a "stuff it", sort of guy. Not wanting to bother people with my problems. It turns out sharing the good and ba
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by mattpallissard 2y ago
Oh I dunno. With cmake it really is pretty straight forward. You can pull from VCS, a tarball, even use a git submodule. If it's another Cmake project, that's the happy path. Easy peasy. If it's not you still have the abi
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by mattpallissard 2y ago
Agreed. I describe that movie to people as "Spielberg, but not constrained by reality"
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by mattpallissard 2y ago
I could be wrong, but I think that term life insurance usually pays out but a whole life policy doesn't. At least that's been how my policies were.
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by mattpallissard 2y ago
And at one point glyphosate was less toxic as well.
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by mattpallissard 2y ago
While serving time in HPC I saw a set of ETL jobs that were written using awk and xargs that beat the pants off a lot of in house code on both a performance and a simplicity standpoint. You lose a bit of "safety" when you take th
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by mattpallissard 2y ago
> For extra credit, you can try to figure out what's going on here: I've spent a few minutes staring at this section and still haven't figured it out. Anyone smarter than I care to shed some light?
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by mattpallissard 2y ago
While I agree with the sentiment of that, it still seems a lot easier than escaping characters. I would probably opt for a mix. Control separation with new lines
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by mattpallissard 2y ago
It looks like it would just be be ctrl+^, which seems pretty straightforward.
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by mattpallissard 2y ago
> Go initially lacked generics And even though it has them now, the generics syntax is pretty clunky IMO.
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by mattpallissard 2y ago
> no known Trump supporter will ever get my handshake. This is exactly the attitude that pushes people apart. People on both sides do it and it really brings me down.
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by mattpallissard 2y ago
Are you me?
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by mattpallissard 2y ago
> Bayesian (ex Salute) Changing the name of a vessel is bad luck. That's all I need to know.
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by mattpallissard 2y ago
Agreed, the mailing list is the place to lurk.
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by mattpallissard 2y ago
I've seen a lot of complaining without any facts. I've been building and automating data centers for years now. Systems has greatly simplified my life. I use all of the systems tooling; timesyncd, networkd (which is actually doe

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