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by ploxiln 3y ago
> No need for intermediary companies to authorize it - you just go directly to a lab, which keeps the costs low as there's fierce competition for your business unlike in America > Healthcare should never be a business! ... seems
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by ploxiln 3y ago
The problem is that a measure became a target. Most companies with a significant internet presence and a "cybersecurity" division have a policy of patching all CVEs. They can't understand vulnerabilities, there are too many a
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by ploxiln 3y ago
In a classic Linux distro, various OS components are much less tightly coupled than in Windows. You can easily update the linux kernel, without updating all the system libraries, daemons, configs, tools, applications, much less your user co
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by ploxiln 3y ago
1999. That's when the first version of this document was published. The original 1999 press release is linked to Wikipedia. There were some conferences and debates that happened before that, and some settling of the OSI in the early 20
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by ploxiln 3y ago
that's called "Source Available", it's also been a thing for 20+ years (but the limitations are pretty annoying so most people aren't into it)
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by ploxiln 3y ago
There's a pretty good Open Source definition that's over 20 years old: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Open_Source_Definition "Business Source License" is not Open Source. You don't have to r
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by ploxiln 3y ago
I just went and checked this option on my phone; Google Fi requires 2G to be available! seriously Google?
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by ploxiln 3y ago
... less than when you connect to the archive.is servers for http requests
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by ploxiln 3y ago
If you want to compare compressed size, then alpine is 3.25MB
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by ploxiln 3y ago
It has a dedicated AMD GPU option. That should work quite well for gaming. For CUDA ML stuff, it won't, as you suspect. (Will an Nvidia GPU come later, theoretically it could, but Nvidia is probably less willing to work with Framework
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by ploxiln 3y ago
same ... it was pretty flaky early on, got stuck, double commits, not configurable merge-group size ... but it's pretty good now
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by ploxiln 3y ago
... or leaving you at GitHub (or GitLab, or SourceHut). You can pip install a git repo directly, and specify tag, or a hosted release tarball. If only the ~ 10k most used python packages were available from pypi, and the more niche ones had
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by ploxiln 3y ago
It was Xscreensaver, written by JWZ. He was pissed that debian distributed old versions, so he put in a timebomb that would make it stop working on a certain date. I kinda forget the details, but still I wouldn't consider this malware,
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by ploxiln 3y ago
> Hopefully that clears up the first question of "why does it need malware signature files?" The malware signature files really don't help prevent your router joining a botnet. Firmware updates, maybe, maybe not. It is qui
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by ploxiln 3y ago
https://opentaxsolver.sourceforge.net/ It's just a bit too much grunt work to make something that lots of people really want to use. Tax codes change very year, there are 50 states in the US with different tax codes, i
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by ploxiln 3y ago
I think you just have to start: have an idea for something slightly different than any of your kits do, assemble it on a breadboard, go through the pain of troubleshooting it (and maybe working-around issues you can't quite solve direc
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by ploxiln 3y ago
Most places in the US are like that - just show up. Some places are too popular and would be way too crowded, and the situation is pretty dire for the most majestic and famous places around SF. I did the popular half dome trail in yosemite,
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by ploxiln 3y ago
I live in a nice condo building. Every floor has a recycling room, with a sign above the two bins that says "no bags, put recyclables directly in bins". I still see a lot of bags. I think there just needs to be someone supervising
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by ploxiln 3y ago
It's a dramatic trope. I'm an american, born and raised as they say, and I've never seen that. It probably happens sometimes in places I'm not familiar with, but ... come on, it's absurd, anyone would be incapacitat
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by ploxiln 3y ago
Natural gas distribution is also leaky, IIRC, and the amount of gas released into the atmosphere is significant. So I wouldn't say electric heating is not "greener", I'm pretty sure it is. But electric is way more expens
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by ploxiln 3y ago
I've given some family members small paper pads and encouraged them to write down important passwords, and keep them in their home office. This way they can at least have a chance with semi-reasonable unique passwords, vs falling back
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by ploxiln 3y ago
There are 10x the customers who don't have any idea about these search operators, and sometimes accidentally include one, and are dissatisfied with the results. Companies can't help but cater to the 10x bigger market. They probabl
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by ploxiln 4y ago
Well, you don't have that much choice of CPU manufacturers, if you want a 65W+ performance class CPU, so you do the best you can. But anyway, there are many manufacturers that were happy to sell widgets without internet-connected softw
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by ploxiln 4y ago
Also, IIRC, many smaller projects using autoconf have copied in a bunch of boilerplate feature tests that they don't need, like "is strncpy available" "is snprintf available" "does realloc NULL work". As y
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by ploxiln 4y ago
This is the magic of "corporate compliance". A corporate organization can only add more forms, checks, policies. They can have both a big fire drill for a thing that was left in a conf room one time, as well as leak huge amounts o
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by ploxiln 4y ago
Yes the article mentioned venv. And the parent said it's hard to choose. But the choice is easy: just use the basic built-in one. (Until you have a reason to use something else.) It's a good general philosophy for software enginee
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by ploxiln 4y ago
python3 includes "venv". If you don't have an existing preference, use that. python3 -m venv ../my-venv-dir # wherever you like . ../my-venv-dir/bin/activate pip install whatever you can clos
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by ploxiln 4y ago
Yes. But I think it also shows a common misunderstanding of "open source" (and even "free software"). What he did was incredibly valuable to a huge number of successful people and corporations. But no one owes him anythi
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by ploxiln 4y ago
Proximity to the web. Think about how web companies can have very low up-front costs, use a cloud provider and some high-level frameworks for python or JS etc, make a stupid social-media connected app, and start making big money (or get inv
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by ploxiln 4y ago
There's probably a vague/inconsistent (possibly "AI") threat-score / heuristic. I've heard of extra security requirements being imposed for like 30 days or so when you haven't accessed for a long time (or

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