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unfortunatly not really - due to the small flash on most devices the rootfs is compressed into a squashfs - but you can checkout the latest stable branch from git and build images with up2date kernel.
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yes. 17.01.4 is last stable, there is a 17.01.5 planned and this month there will be 18.06 - there a lot of hickup due to the split between active devs - that forked LEDE and the others - they reunited and things should go on more smooth no
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8y ago
there is a linux distribution for wifi-routers: https://openwrt.org table of hardware: https://openwrt.org/toh/start - current master runs kernel 4.14 / 4.9 for most targets, flow offloading, performan
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8y ago
replaced the link, but anonym.to is also sketchy...
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Intentional or not... you pretty much agree with jwz: https://anonym.to/?https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html ( https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html - jwz has some nasty opinion about hn v
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not sure if it's still a thing but akonadi / baloo on kde manages to even saturate slower sata-ssd random io and fills a mysql database. Lot's of fun if you have several kernel tree / buildroots laying around in your hom
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yes.
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Keep in mind it's for graph processing - Hadoop/HDFS still shines for data-intensive streaming workloads like indexing a few hundred terabytes of data - where you can exploit the parallel disk io of all disks in the cluster - if y
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See also the wonderful COST paper: https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotos15/workshop-program/p... But the article is kind of wrong. It depends on your data size and problem - you can even use commandline-too
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8y ago
> Sometimes you just want some 30-50 lines of piping a few commands and a couple of conditionals. maybe I was not clear - nothing against shell-scripting but doing some weird dancing like in the article is imho useless, also depending on
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8y ago
if you need arrays use mksh - https://www.mirbsd.org/mksh.htm - if you need complex scripting with small footprint and standard compliance avoid bash and use mksh.
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8y ago
If you reached a point where you need to require bash and not a posix shell and need to enforce these rules just use python or lua if you can or some scheme or whatever else... it's not worth the wasted time hunting bash cruft. if you
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8y ago
I'm with you. Maybe it's just that I'm familiar with Unity but GNOME feels like a step back in almost every aspect. On the other hand you can just install KDE Plasma that went a long way and works fine if you just stick to th
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We are talking millions of dollars. There must be someone who can figure that out - even if the failure is kind of random it follows probably a distribution and you can set it to a value that has enough margin to stop the train and not trip
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Every truck at least in the EU has such a mandated device. Basically it's a signed timestamp with current speed. They have a shedule, they know the driver. If they fear manipulation just include the device in the train and read the dat
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> The problem is that it's a very time-consuming and expensive fix to repair and/or replace all the signals. There must be some period of time with low traffic - put a few managers and signal-guys in the train and rock the line
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Strange how the article blames the workers and unions while also admitting it's not their fault. - cheap and worse brakes appear to be the initial error beeing made - lack of control over their signals and blaming the workers for it is
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8y ago
There are several distributions for mesh-networks: - Gluon is the most popular: https://gluon.readthedocs.io - Libremesh is more flexible: https://libremesh.org/ Like NYC Mesh both are based on OpenWRT.org a won
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> This is a nice sentiment, but would you quantitatively argue that this is a good investment? Yes. You learn about your behavior, the reasons you act like you do and learn tools to avoid the traps in the future. Effectiveness might depe
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That's wrong - here is the study: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa1212321#t=articl... We found that insurance led to increased access to and utilization of health care, substantial improvemen
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There are lots of problems you can avoid when you are able to regularly get a checkup from your doctor. Also not everything is only a cold and having someone who can check early for complications might save a lot of lives or prevent people
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> Or we could consider non-profit bases for pharmaceutical R&D, but that goes against the current dominant free market ideology. Considering the huge costs of healthcare in western countries why don't all the states or maybe EU
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In Germany quality of education is going downhill fast - that is not only my personal impression but also what friends in other Unis tell me. The universities grow huge marketing and managing administrations while teaching is lacking even o
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> Summa Technologiae--last time I checked it didn't have an English translation. Has anyone here read it? I've read it in German but it's been a while. It's one of those books where the exact words weren't known
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> We know how [...] decomission plants There are some poeple in Tchernobyl and Fukushima that are eagerly waiting for your call with instructions. Sarcasm aside existing long-term storage projects also turned out to be problem-prone i.e.
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Thank you. You are spot on with the quackery! This matches my experiences in participating in a course in Germany. > Maybe try hanging out with people praising homeopathy and not saying a single negative word as preparation for the kinds
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The Artist’s Machine / generated thesis
(tillmannohm.com)
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> Do you not like teachers receiving money to help their students? It's a shame that you need charities for such things.
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runit is an implementation of djb daemontools - http://thedjbway.b0llix.net/daemontools/blabbyd.html - the latest release is from 2001 - so this must be around since the early/mid 90ies - it's also what sys
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> Of course, you can't do much DevOps on Void Linux.. Why not? runit is really great - it's an implementation of daemontools from djb - it's a powerful system - including socket activation, log handling, you can even run c
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