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by ninefathom 4y ago
I've had the privilege in the past of working with a small number of Irani technology professionals, and I found these particular individuals to be some of the most capable and well-rounded in the entirety of my experience with the glo
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by ninefathom 4y ago
> which if true, means they don't need a license. (And if false, then they're in violation of the existing licenses anyway.) Precisely my thoughts; either they're already violating the attribution requirements of such a li
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by ninefathom 4y ago
This makes me nostalgic for Trusted Solaris. Nearly identical motivations, but also allowed for runtime context switching (even within running X11 sessions) without a reboot. It combined Zones, ZFS filesystems, Crossbow network virtualizat
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by ninefathom 4y ago
raises hand In the same vein as others have stated, the airwaves are just getting too blasted crowded. In all but the most rural areas, even the 5GHz band in the United States is starting to get quite noisy, and I find the constant frequ
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by ninefathom 4y ago
Success and failure are, of course, highly subjective terms. Success, according to what definition? What flavor of failure? I'd almost be inclined to suspect that Musk says (privately, to his closest confidants) that he's had ve
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by ninefathom 4y ago
Of origin, certainly, though they experienced very different curves of decline, which seems more pertinent in this case
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by ninefathom 4y ago
To quote Yogi Berra, "it's déjà vu all over again." Those of us of a certain vintage remember this precise issue with Fortran a couple decades ago, and those out there of a certain further vintage probably remember it with CO
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by ninefathom 4y ago
Fascinating and terrifying all at once. Queue Fry "I'm scare-roused" meme...
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by ninefathom 4y ago
That's assuming a wholesaler business that ships to retail. There are plenty of us out there who actually let people - even commercial customers - into our greenhouses in person. Until this development by Cree, all of our viable opti
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by ninefathom 4y ago
Because humans are visual creatures, and we like our plant leaves green, and our flowers bright. Rephrased, just like in cooking, presentation is very important in commercial agriculture and horticulture, too. People hesitate to buy things
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by ninefathom 4y ago
That, too. But it's also much easier to sell plants that look the right color to people perusing them. Ever see a commercial or resale garden center using fuchsia-tinted grow lights? No? That's because they're out of busi
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by ninefathom 4y ago
Three words: About. F*king. Time. Anybody in horticulture or botany knows what a BFD this is. Anybody else... it's major. Those of you wondering about the green spectrum, try running a commercial greenhouse with fuchsia-tinted lightin
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by ninefathom 4y ago
This is still an impressive technical achievement nearly a century later. As another commenter has already mentioned, there really is something to be said for a business picking one thing- just a single specialty- and doing it really d**ned
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by ninefathom 4y ago
Inner geek: "Wow, the resolution is incredible! What an amazing technical feat." Inner insignificant mote of life hurtling through the cosmos: "Wow, I feel so tiny and fragile and humbled."
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by ninefathom 4y ago
This is actually very reasonable, but I think it's sad that we have to do such gymnastics to justify a healthy work-life balance. It's even sad that we had to coin the term "work-life balance."
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by ninefathom 4y ago
Short answer: yes, but only after a multi-year hiatus and a long hunt for a new employer. Long answer: after a long time in the technology sector with a single employer, I felt that I had grown to hate the entire tech industry. I left the
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by ninefathom 4y ago
The article itself mentions the impact on the economy. It also mentions productivity steadily increasing since 1948. So... productivity has been going up for decades, with purchasing power of average wages steadily declining over the same
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by ninefathom 4y ago
KI and Prussian blue (both in measured capsule form) are a standard part of my first aid kit. I don't see anything alarming about HHS being prepared; quite the opposite.
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by ninefathom 4y ago
Philip isn't the only one. I followed a very similar path; after a decades-long career in tech, I was completely burned out. It was caused by different issues than Philip, but not incomparable ones: the repetitive nature of the chall
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by ninefathom 4y ago
Like most folks here, I have mixed feelings about this. The dichotomy of "it's about time" versus "how tragic that it came to this" seems to be common, and I can get on board with that. Having said that, I don&#x27
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by ninefathom 4y ago
Yep... I too was hoping that something besides the first option would fit. Did not happen.
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by ninefathom 4y ago
But then... what would our elected officials drive?
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by ninefathom 4y ago
Update: Based on the comments here, I see that I need to clarify two things, as edits are locked. First, I actually happen to rather appreciate the Rust language itself. It is both powerful and pragmatic, and has quite a bit to recommend i
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by ninefathom 4y ago
"There's a world where Rust is as easy to use as C, C++, Fortran, etc. outside of cargo, but it's not an interesting use case for the Rust community to support right now for whatever reason. That's basically my point.&qu
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by ninefathom 4y ago
"one would hope it has accumulated more DevOps wisdom over that period of time" Yep. My thoughts exactly.
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by ninefathom 4y ago
There are new programs being written daily in COBOL and Fortran, and I'm fairly certain that I see new PL/I floating around occasionally. C and C++ aren't going anywhere anytime soon. Love them, hate them, want to burn them
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by ninefathom 4y ago
While the research appears well-considered and the article does indeed appear to make a valid conjecture, I'm a bit put off by the fact that the very first example of simplified "legalese" (re: severance payments, in the intr
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by ninefathom 4y ago
"by guaranteeing that resulting archive is accurate and exact mirror of original filesystem." ^^^ that is true enough "reduces cognitive load" ^^^ that I have doubts about. I expect this would be highly variable between
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by ninefathom 4y ago
This was absolutely fascinating, and a wonderful application. It seems to have a bit of trouble with daylight savings time- I think perhaps I might add a manual UTC offset selection- but on the whole, very well done.
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by ninefathom 4y ago
This seems like it could be a useful tool. At first read, there's nothing here that cpio, md5sum, *zip*, and mkfs in tandem couldn't do, but it simplifies the process. The real question in my mind is if the "attic space&quot

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