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by mprovost 5y ago
Calling cut with a newline as the field delimiter works: man systemd | cut -d $'\n' -f 4 Works with multiple lines too: cut -d $'\n' -f 10-20,50-60
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by mprovost 5y ago
And cgi-bin was really just an evolution of inetd (or ucspi-tcp if you worshipped at the altar of djb). You didn't used to have to worry about binding to ports or long running processes. Something would just send you a message on stdin
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by mprovost 5y ago
This smells like an opportunity to build some charging stations that provide more to do than a gas station. You could build a diner, with an arcade or mini golf or some attraction to keep people busy (and take more of their money) for a few
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by mprovost 6y ago
I write and maintain an open source monitoring tool and I looked into adding a mode to output metrics in Netdata format and ran away screaming. It's just an unstructured text format where you output commands to stdout, one per line. Ea
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by mprovost 6y ago
I remember finding Microsoft copyright statements in some programs on a Solaris 7 box in 2000 (my memory says /bin/true but some googling reveals it was probably /usr/bin/clear). Some of these programs were implemen
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by mprovost 6y ago
People dying because ambulances are delayed by low traffic areas in London is a myth started by the Daily Mail. There’s no evidence of it happening. In fact the ambulance services support these schemes. [0] [0] https://www.thegua
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by mprovost 6y ago
You just described every open plan office ever. At least this way nobody can look over your shoulder at your screen. And you can turn your camera off if you want a break.
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by mprovost 6y ago
Damn now I have to update the URL on my resume.
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by mprovost 6y ago
It's probably the opposite - the marginal value of the work done from 32 to 40 hours is a lot lower than the first 32. In fact I doubt most organisations would be able to distinguish between the output of someone working 32 vs 40 hours
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by mprovost 6y ago
And yet... I've been using screen for 20 years and it never seemed inefficient, even when running on a 180MHz Pentium Pro. These days I have to believe whatever it's doing must be pretty minor compared to the overall system perfor
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by mprovost 6y ago
I talked myself into one of his classes as an undergrad and definitely came away with the belief that he was the smartest person I would ever meet. It's been 23 years and that's still true and I'd take a bet today that it wil
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by mprovost 6y ago
There are a couple of these trees in my local park in London. I collect windfall fruit in the autumn. Nobody else seems to notice all the free fruit! I put them in a box in a closet for a month or so and then make jelly. It goes a really de
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by mprovost 6y ago
To index from the end of the string. If you want the last 3 characters from a string, it's often easier to reverse the string and take the first 3.
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by mprovost 6y ago
Nice! What were the tools you used to write it and convert it to the ebook and paper versions?
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by mprovost 6y ago
I don't think you can argue that the UK's process was random. There is a process, it went faster, and achieved the same result. Maybe in some other universe it would have missed something and the longer process would have had a di
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by mprovost 6y ago
And yet from the US tech side of things there is basically a complete lack of awareness on the part of American (or European) staff of which schools are considered good (or the equivalent of Ivy League) in India. I would bet if you asked an
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by mprovost 6y ago
The UK has been vaccinating for more than 12 weeks now and the evidence shows that people aren't getting infected in that time period once they've had their first dose.
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by mprovost 6y ago
Since both approval processes reached the same conclusion it clearly wasn't premature.
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by mprovost 6y ago
People said the same when they switched from air to water cooled engines.
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by mprovost 6y ago
Sure, Alexandria was only the capital for 973 years.
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by mprovost 6y ago
The classic study of how distance affects communication was done by Thomas Allen in the 70s and results in the Allen Curve [0] which shows that people are four times as likely to communicate regularly with someone sitting six feet away as w
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by mprovost 6y ago
Ok so everyone is happy with your performance except your manager. Unfortunately they're the gateway between you and promotion at most companies. So whatever you're doing that you consider to be successful doesn't match their
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by mprovost 6y ago
You're right, there were a lot of compatibility problems in the past because tools reused the same names but didn't behave the same. Sometimes they were completely different like ps - the BSD and System V versions are totally inco
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by mprovost 6y ago
There's a great opportunity to not just reimplement the GNU coreutils but to actually rethink them. The way I install a Linux system these days and then immediately download ripgrep or fd reminds me of how the first thing I used to do
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by mprovost 6y ago
Cool, this camera was installed on the Convair B-36 [0] which is one of my favourite examples of a "transitional platform". It was a bomber with 6 propeller and 4 jet engines. These days we'd call it a hybrid. It's a gre
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by mprovost 6y ago
Wow I haven't heard the name Tom Christiansen in years. I remember when he used to comment on Slashdot. This inspired me to find my slashdot login and dig up some of his old posts. I just discovered his amazing eulogy for Gary Gygax [0
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by mprovost 6y ago
Each of these chat applications have answered the questions you raised in their own way. Since we haven't converged on a single set of standard behaviours in 20+ years, it probably means there isn't a single right answer.
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by mprovost 6y ago
ICQ came out in 1996, AIM in 1997, and MSN in 1999. I don't think it's fair to give the people working on this a pass by saying this is a new problem - working products have been shipping for over 20 years. Some of the devs workin
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by mprovost 6y ago
I always assumed that they lived in Silicon Valley because the sports teams from Stanford are called "Cardinal". But I just looked it up and they're named after the colour, not the bird.
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by mprovost 6y ago
Moderna is also approved, although there doesn't seem to be much supply. Novavax should also be approved within the next few weeks.

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