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by ris 7y ago
That's not the sort of "stable" that is meant by "debian stable". It's "stable" as in "doesn't change". Things shouldn't break randomly every couple of months. You shouldn't w
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by ris 7y ago
Using Ruby to attempt to build entirely reproducible and yet flexible software package definitions would be an anathema. There is a reason functional programming languages are chosen in these cases.
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by ris 7y ago
There are a couple of us who use Nix.
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279 points by ris 7y ago|88 comments
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by ris 7y ago
I'm intrigued as to why they didn't use a big.LITTLE design (or whatever they're calling it these days). Perhaps mainstream-linux still isn't so great at handling it.
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by ris 7y ago
> Once cattle—raised on grass without synthetic fertilizer—are accurately assessed Except this does not cover the vast majority of cattle consumed. And it doesn't cover the effect of forested land being cleared for cattle production
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by ris 7y ago
It all almost seems too easy. How much time do you have to spend dealing with abuse reports?
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by ris 7y ago
> https://ngrok.com is also a very good alternative. But with non-standard and proprietary client software.
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by ris 7y ago
> Closed source Ah, so we'll just have to trust you that it's doing anything at all, then.
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by ris 7y ago
So of course the next big business idea is large unrollable printed vinyl top-views of cars. Get your employees to move them around a bit every morning, company's stocks start to rise. Anyone who ever considers this sort of thing to be
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by ris 7y ago
It works by detecting faces and using a different projection for them. How exactly would this be useful?
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by ris 7y ago
Unsure currently.
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by ris 7y ago
I've spent more than enough of my life now trying to clean up the messes created by people following Martin Fowler's ideas. It correlates perfectly with my desire to leave the industry.
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by ris 7y ago
> You ran WHAT script on your machine?!
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by ris 7y ago
> How does a piece of spent fuel end up in a "grassy bit of ground" outside the reactor? There was a pretty huge steam-based explosion, blowing the top off the reactor building and scattering fuel and various debris quite far &
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by ris 7y ago
> various other projects dealing with dynamic languages Not all dynamic languages are born the same. > I'm pretty sure Python can be a lot faster You might like you join the PyPy team then and find out.
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by ris 7y ago
When it comes to the whole "supply chain blockchain" thing, I agree it is easy to just think "so, you just mean a signed log?", but there is actually an aspect to the whole thing that makes actual blockchains relevant
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by ris 7y ago
If you look more closely, it often makes them thread-unsafe even with the GIL. Take a look some time at what operations the GIL can pre-empt a python thread in the middle of.
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by ris 7y ago
> If Python code were 10x faster That's a pretty big "if". Unfortunately making python a lot faster is difficult because python is such a dynamic language. The pypy folks have done their best, with a respectable amount of
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by ris 7y ago
Are these devices maintained by someone or are they sitting there running years-old crumbling stacks?
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by ris 7y ago
And until it's ready, don't forget Blender makes a very powerful video editor.
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by ris 7y ago
Your point seems a little like tilting at windmills to me. Different databases written by different entities who didn't have a huge incentive to strictly conform to each others syntax varied in their implementations. This is just life.
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by ris 7y ago
It's funny you should mention this - it's exactly what is on my mind at the moment too. I'm trying to resist the temptation to trawl ebay for peoples old VHS collections (search "used VHS" gives good results) and st
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by ris 7y ago
Cython unfortunately doesn't have a very good pypy story, which cppyy does.
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by ris 7y ago
> 128-bits of random data is sufficient to securely generate a stream of 100s of terabytes of random data. What you are describing is /dev/urandom. Your argument is basically "urandom is good enough for anybody". If y
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by ris 7y ago
Maintaining a certificate bundle is not something to be taken lightly - it's a central root of trust, and is something that should generally be deferred to the system or user and easily configurable globally. As a system administrator
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by ris 7y ago
> You really should always abstract IO interfaces I'd be very careful with the word always there. I've worked in projects where almost every external library we used someone felt they had to build a "wrapper" class
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by ris 7y ago
My spidey sense has been acting all funny around requests since I realized it has its own vendored certificate bundle...
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by ris 7y ago
"Hey guys, I think we'd get a lot of benefit switching our large application to be async" "But that would require us to port to a different http library - do you have any idea how many places we do intricate things wit
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by ris 7y ago
This is becoming very offtopic, but it's got to be said that there are also some horrors lying around KDE land - let's not talk about akonadi...

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