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by posix_me_less 5y ago
I don't believe that. There are many ways to express an opinion about Linux software, e.g. by writing about it, or by rejecting some software, or by adopting some different software. I don't use systemd on my systems, I prefer sys
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by posix_me_less 5y ago
Yes, but often only for major bugs that are deemed worthy of developer's attention. In practice it's not always so great. Read systemd's bug tracker, not all user-reported bugs get fixed to those users satisfaction, neither b
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by posix_me_less 5y ago
> you don't really have a moral or tactical position other than "shut up and code." I don't believe that. People commenting negatively on some Linux software/trend do not need any such privilege or permission or
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by posix_me_less 5y ago
That was mostly feature expansion. I meant improvement of existing workflows. Maybe high DPI would count. I didn't have high DPI monitor back then, but those who did maybe were pleased. Fixing a bug in shell script, even if 30 times,
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by posix_me_less 5y ago
What exactly do you miss in MySQL compared to Postgres? With InnoDB it can do transactions, no?
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by posix_me_less 5y ago
Writing more code does not always mean producing better software. Often it's better to just move to an already existing better software. For service management, there are many alternatives already.
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by posix_me_less 5y ago
> Such a thing doesn't happen if the thing offered isn't an improvement over what was before. It does happen sometimes. GNOME3 and GTK3 didn't offer much to Linux desktop users, yet they were adopted. And improvement is su
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by posix_me_less 5y ago
One often encounters the claim that RAID 5 is supposedly dead because declared unrecoverable read error rate (URE) of high capacity hard drives 1e-15 is too high a RAID5 array rebuild is supposedly likely to fail before completion. It turns
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Bonus Tip – Unrecoverable Errors in Raid 5(raidtips.com)
4 points by posix_me_less 5y ago|1 comments
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by posix_me_less 5y ago
Not true. You can trust your own observations and thought process results and can make your own small statistics from anecdotes coming from your acquaintances.
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by posix_me_less 5y ago
Could it be simply because UDP packets may be treated with higher priority by all the middleman machines? UDP is used by IP phones, video conferences, etc.
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by posix_me_less 5y ago
Which is why putting that observation here on HN is so important. We can do something about it!
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by posix_me_less 5y ago
Best policy/strategy isn't necessarily the same for every possible place in a country. It is not easy to compare numbers for different places and judge strategies absolutely, when observed differences between counties or larger ar
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by posix_me_less 5y ago
Yes respirators are better than cloth. Both make sense when getting close to strangers, like in a bus, train or airplane. They don't make sense outside where people density is low. Effectiveness most probably tanks immensely once you
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by posix_me_less 5y ago
Why would a phone pouch/box build up great charge? You don't ground your home because of charge buildup either - grounding is there to decrease the chance a thunderbolt will run through precious things, like house walls, people, e
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by posix_me_less 5y ago
> If you consider the compactification of R^3 by a single point “at infinity”, an electric charge inside the surface is the same as the opposite charge at infinity (this is just Gauss’ result) This is a mental operation, not physically p
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by posix_me_less 5y ago
> ground your faraday cages. Why?
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by posix_me_less 5y ago
This regurgitates the well-known incorrect or misleading pop-sci descriptions of quantum physics ideas one has come to expect from pop science writers and science communicators of the day. > "electrons or photons can instantaneously
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by posix_me_less 5y ago
Sea water is highly conductive, with potential close to ground, so the high potential cable cannot be allowed to touch it. So the cable has to be well insulated from the water. Discharge can happen in this insulation, that's why it has
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by posix_me_less 5y ago
No, EM radiation beam still obeys inverse square law.
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by posix_me_less 5y ago
The gap is reported to be increasing, but is that actually regarded as a problem by the ruling class? They may actually prefer this, as it gives them greater chunk of power and secures their position. In other words, the gap may be increasi
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by posix_me_less 5y ago
The idea of different news organizations coordinating on publications hitting their common hated competitor is a "sound idea"? Don't you want independent and balanced reporting without group think and narrative coordination?
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by posix_me_less 5y ago
Mainstream/establishment media like to hit at Facebook, probably because it is eating their profits. But it's a curious double standard - Twitter and Google allow similar nasty stuff on their platforms too but are being tolerated.
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by posix_me_less 5y ago
I'd like to try this combination sdl+virgl that is better than spice, how do I force it on qemu? Like this? https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2019/08/28/virg...
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Btrfs Advocate Neal Gompa and ZFS Advocate Jim Salter – Late Night Linux Extra(hwcdn.libsyn.com)
5 points by posix_me_less 5y ago|0 comments
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by posix_me_less 5y ago
> sdl/gtk display is flakey How is it compared to spice/qxl - does it have some advantages?
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by posix_me_less 5y ago
If using web search using textual tty interface was useful for something, I would want to do it via my existing terminal program, not via browser. But, is it useful for anything at all?
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by posix_me_less 5y ago
Stop spreading disinformation. https://medicine.wustl.edu/news/good-news-mild-covid-19-indu...
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by posix_me_less 5y ago
> They're technically below the noise floor, and receivers have to use shenanigans to get a usable signal at all. This is nonsense.
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by posix_me_less 5y ago
Military and government can pay for stuff also using deficit spending, which is not "our" money. It's either FED's money which they create (and thus steal value from us) or it's borrowed money from wealthy interests

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