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811.
by pavon 4y ago
I presume they are referring to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar
812.
by pavon 4y ago
Self-hosting Gitlab typically consumed about 1/8 FTE for projects I've worked on, which comes out to 50-100 users break-even point, depending on your sysadmin salaries.
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by pavon 4y ago
When I see this I pretty much read it as: > This software is not mature yet. Beta testers are highly welcomed, but neither users nor developers get value from people running a beta release that is over a year old. Which is a perfectly re
814.
by pavon 4y ago
Agreed. I have nothing but bad experiences taking cars to the dealership for repair, and normally choose to avoid them for everything except for recalls. However, when buying an EV, I want to know that the manufacturer has repair facilities
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by pavon 4y ago
The 2022 F-150 Lightning preorders filled up very quickly and far exceeded Ford's initial production plans. They will be supply limited for several years. Why spend a bunch of money on advertising when you already have more customers t
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by pavon 4y ago
Agreed, but apparently not completely impossible, depending on your definition of news. C-SPAN somehow manages to have three channels of content, while mostly avoiding the hype and bias that CNN has.
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by pavon 4y ago
Google stopped allowing username/password to authenticate to gmail in May. You have to use Oauth2. Not personally familiar on if/how to configure this with FairMail.
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by pavon 4y ago
It is good that these things were opt-in but I disagree that the implications were obvious. There is an entire spectrum of implementation options for many of these features regarding how much work is done on the device and how much is done
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by pavon 4y ago
In Scrum you have Sprints (~weeks) and Releases (~months), and at the start of each you meet to plan User Stories and Features, respectively, that you want to accomplish during those time frames. SAFe is a formalized version of Scrum of Scr
820.
by pavon 4y ago
I do this and haven't had nearly as many problems as the author for a couple of reasons. First, I refuse to give out my email in most of the situations he complains about. I almost never want or need to link my physical retail purchase
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by pavon 4y ago
Over the last several years, Roku has also changed business models to being a rent seeker, to the point where they now derive four times more income from companies paying to put their channel on Roku than they earn from hardware sales[1]. T
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by pavon 4y ago
No, in this case that is the full extent of what they are providing. The digital goods make no use of any of the software platforms Google provides. Google is not hosting the goods or footing any bandwidth bill for their delivery. Google do
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by pavon 4y ago
The situation with Barnes and Noble is even worse. They partnered with Google to use Android on the Nook Tablets, so users could have access to the Play Store and Google apps. Now, because of this change you can't even buy eBooks from
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by pavon 4y ago
Eventually we'll have equipment on Mars that we want to function for a long duration, and we'll need to solve that problem, but for InSight (and others) death by dust was by design. It costs money to operate these probes with a wh
825.
by pavon 4y ago
My take: 1-13) General background info that informs the rest. 14-25) Important for any programmer that does enough file IO that they need to optimize it. 26-29) Important for any system admin to ensure they aren't inadvertently limiti
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by pavon 4y ago
From what I understand, in the US the FCC licensing for fixed location transmitters, relocatable transmitters, and transmitting while in motion are different (sorry can't remember the official terms). These stations may not be approved
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by pavon 4y ago
I really want a filesystem with snapshots as the foundation of a better backup system. Bcachefs has other useful features like CoW and disk pooling (in fact snapshots weren't even on the table until recently), but in my mind snapshots
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by pavon 4y ago
Missing Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact - the most recent (and apparently last) small phone that Sony made.
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by pavon 4y ago
One thing that hasn't been clear to me about CentOS Stream is if it is possible to determine that the repos at this instant are identical to a given RHEL minor release (and possibly stay there temporarily). For example, if I have a non
830.
by pavon 4y ago
I spent a fair bit of time trying to move to the podman ecosystem and rootless containers before deciding it wasn't ready for production in RHEL 8. I was used to RHEL being more, well, stable and wasn't expecting them to be pushin
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by pavon 4y ago
I'll add another: The Institute for Justice - https://ij.org/ - a "libertarian" ACLU I consider their core focus to be on issues that are universal and non-partisan like Free Speech, Police Abuse, Civil Forfe
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by pavon 4y ago
In that part of the country they would likely have been prairie dogs. And yes, they live sparsely all throughout the desert, but cluster more densely on the edges of cultivated land where there is more food.
833.
by pavon 5y ago
I refinanced with them, but mostly because the salesman I talked to were misinformed or intentionally lied about some detail of how they could do FHA refinance which made them sound like a better deal than everyone else I compared against.
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by pavon 5y ago
Helper functions or macros are just as clean as the bitfield syntax. That said, hardware register access is one of those things that is intrinsically tied to a specific platform (and if you target multiple platforms, it will already be behi
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by pavon 5y ago
Agreed. This article is so off the mark, trying to talk all the ways technology can help this problem without a single sentence retrospecting about any of the problems that shitty EMRs have caused or at least facilitated. The massive increa
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by pavon 5y ago
In the 20 years since I've graduated college, the longest I've had the same PCP is 3 years, about half of the remainder I had for 2 years, and the rest I only saw once before they left and I had to change again. Even if they do st
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by pavon 5y ago
AddressSanitizer aka libasan is also wonderful for tracking memory errors. I find it both faster than valgrind and it has fewer false positives. I still use valgrind for 3rd party code, but prefer libasan for first party code, and insist on
838.
by pavon 5y ago
For vim, many of my coworkers love YouCompleteMe, which provides IDE-like autocompletion and more. I don't use autocompletion much even in an IDE, so I mostly stick with ctags in vim to let me jump to definition of functions/varia
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by pavon 5y ago
All of the resources I used to learn C++ are probably obsolete at this point, so I can't give any advice on how to get started, but I highly recommend reading Effective Modern C++ after you learn the basics, which covers a lot of best
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by pavon 5y ago
The Twitter board has unanimously approved Musk's purchase, pending approval by stockholders, and Musk has stated that once he owns the company they will open source the "algorithms" for transparency. So not a troll, but yes

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