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by nrclark 7y ago
I've read a bunch of ESR's writing, and I disagree with him on an awful lot of political and social issues. Chances are we wouldn't get along very well. Tone-policing, cancel culture, and identity politics are a real problem
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by nrclark 7y ago
Cool! Does anybody know if there are plans to fix the .deb size limit? It's a bummer that .debs can't be more than 10 GB. That number seems big, but I've hit it before when packaging custom toolchains for internal use at my c
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by nrclark 7y ago
Definitely possible in theory. Kind of a pain in practice though. I was working on trying to package Xilinx Vivado for internal use on my company's build servers. It's around a 20-25GB installation, mostly of smallish files. I cou
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by nrclark 7y ago
Not trolling, but curious - do quantum computers do anything useful yet?
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by nrclark 7y ago
Just a note - I appreciate this discussion, and your point of view! Thanks for having it. Ease of contribution is a problem for sure, and it's one that GPLv3 was intended to address. My main point is that the changes from GPLv2 actuall
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by nrclark 7y ago
> We are in a bind here. If you ship GPLv2 software on a locked down device then nobody downstream has the professional opportunity to contribute, because they simply can't get any of their changes onto the device. I should clarify
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by nrclark 7y ago
> If a company is interested in "protecting their IP" by closing the source then it's questionable why they would have even wanted to use GPLv2 software at all. That also is not related to the security of the customer at a
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by nrclark 7y ago
The main issue with GPLv3 is the so-called Tivoization clause. It basically states that if you have a product that ships with any GPLv3 software, you need to give your users the ability to install a modified version of anything you included
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by nrclark 7y ago
The main issue with GPLv3 software isn't the linking. You can link stuff using GCC without making sources available to anybody. The main issue with GPLv3 is the so-called Tivoization clause. It basically states that if you have a produ
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by nrclark 7y ago
Have you ever needed to run a long-running job over SSH? If your command is still running and SSH disconnects, your command gets terminated. You can work around this by using nohup like this: `nohup <command> &` to launch your pr
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by nrclark 7y ago
Very true that you don't really have access to zoom-pane type features. But they're also not really applicable. The integration is more about giving you a native "tabs and GUI windows" kind of feel, so that you can have
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by nrclark 7y ago
To follow up on this (in case you see ever see this comment) - I don't think that the linked article suggests that rooting the phone -permanently- damages anything. To me, that reads more like "the phone's bootloader checks t
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by nrclark 7y ago
Correction for those playing along at home: remove the -F from above. That was a cut/paste error on my part. Corrected version should be: ssh user@hostname -Ct 'sh -l -c "exec tmux -CC -u new-session -AD -s remote"
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by nrclark 7y ago
iTerm2 will use tmux's scripting mode to give you a "tmux without tmux" kind of experience. Scrollback will work normally, and so will opening new terminal tabs and new windows. It doesn't give you anything if you'r
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by nrclark 7y ago
Sorry about that! Take off the -F. I grabbed it out of a bigger script that also generates and uses an SSH config file. Looks like I pulled out the actual file from args, but not the -F.
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by nrclark 7y ago
Not sure whether or not this is a little-known feature. iTerm2 has _fantastic_ integration with tmux (software used for persisting a terminal session across multiple logins). Tmux can be a pretty complex piece of software, but iTerm can bas
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by nrclark 7y ago
I'm interested to read more about this, do you have a source for it? That seems like it would be just asking for a world of warranty returns and support nightmares for whatever company built it into their phones.
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by nrclark 7y ago
This looks perfect for when you need IBM to help you cyber.
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by nrclark 7y ago
I had a Blackberry Pearl candybar back in the day, and it remains one of my favorite phones ever. The half-qwerty thing was fantastic, and the little trackball was nice too. The magnetic case was super cool. I could type way faster on it th
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by nrclark 7y ago
Isn't Scipy on 1.4.1?
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by nrclark 7y ago
I can only speak from personal experience, so don't take this as true for everybody. But for me, NFS has always been a colossal pain to use. The server has to run in kernel-space. Shares have to be enumerated in /etc. There are a
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by nrclark 7y ago
It's great to see all these new features entering the kernel. Here are a couple of other things I've seen in recent changelogs: - The 5.4 kernel can use CIFS as a root filesystem, meaning CIFS can replace NFS for diskless boot. -
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by nrclark 7y ago
Keep in mind that a political party is larger than any one person. Both major parties in the US benefit from maintaining the status quo. Neither one wants to do anything that takes power away from Congress and puts it back in the hands of t
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by nrclark 7y ago
This is a cool project! Is there any info available on the utilization numbers for the core? I'm curious how it stacks up against Xilinx's HDMI bloatware.
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by nrclark 7y ago
Does anybody here have a Thelio? I'm curious as to whether they got the fan-noise thing sorted out.
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by nrclark 7y ago
How do you get people to use it? Like let's say I have drinks plans with my friend, and I want to bail using this service. How to I tell her to install the app? Wouldn't asking her to install it be pretty rude? It would basically
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by nrclark 7y ago
SAP is Germany's revenge for WWII.
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by nrclark 7y ago
It's kind of insane that attorney fees are allowed to go that high (and higher). Really just predatory and bad when you think about it. In a lot of lawsuits, the plaintiff's attorney can essentially set whatever rate they want and
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by nrclark 7y ago
not trying to shitpost - I'm legit curious. What's the difference between the two? Like in this snippet, are the two resulting functions different from each other in some way that I haven't considered? def parent_functi
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by nrclark 7y ago
You can actually just use a regular function declaration in the middle of arbitrary Python code if you want. Does that count as a multi-line lambda?

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