ritcgab

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by ritcgab 2y ago
I agree with you, and the same also applies to the other parts of the world. So the question comes down to: why so many kids are failed by our colleges. I am pretty sure those tech giants actually pay more for H-1B workers.
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by ritcgab 2y ago
Fun fact: H1-B labor is, in most cases, more expensive, because the company needs to pay extra attorney fees.
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by ritcgab 2y ago
There is no shortage of US candidates but there is a shortage of qualified US candidates. Getting an engineering degree from an average US college doesn't mean you are a qualified engineer. In fact, most new graduates know absolutely
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by ritcgab 2y ago
It's highly dependent on the endpoint selection. Some providers' IP ranges are blocked while some are not.
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by ritcgab 2y ago
Protecting yourselves from what?
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by ritcgab 2y ago
H-1B is dual intent by definition, so it is not a backdoor. Any sane person who knows how green card application works understands that it is objectively hard, if not the hardest in the whole world. > Instead of telling everyone else to
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by ritcgab 2y ago
Stephen Miller does not approve this.
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by ritcgab 2y ago
Guy who born with natural citizenship is too privileged to imagine how hard it is to get a green card.
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by ritcgab 2y ago
> if there is a low supply of workers and a high demand for them Employers outsource all those works to overseas.
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by ritcgab 2y ago
So those immigrants are actually "documented", in some way, because they have got their visa after passing some screening processes.
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by ritcgab 2y ago
Just use wireguard.
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by ritcgab 2y ago
Duplicity is my go because it integrates so well with pgp signing/encryption. Other popular alternatives like borg and restic just do not have it.
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by ritcgab 2y ago
> harmful combustion products Care to share what are they?
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by ritcgab 2y ago
It's ugly but it's inevitable in some sense. The author should know what they are doing, and `// SAFETY:` comment is a must.
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by ritcgab 2y ago
The base system and packages are usually smaller than home, so the possibility of a bitrot is actually lower. Package files' integrity can also be automatically checked by some tools. In addition, they are much easier to reproduce, as
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by ritcgab 3y ago
For (sequentially) writing a file this is true. But a database might be more complex, as the underlying I/O is transparent to the user. The database needs a semantics to indicate that "this ingestion will produce a large bulk of s
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by ritcgab 4y ago
Manual malloc() + free() is the way. The language design makes it hard (if not impossible) to generate compilation-time GC routine. Runtime GC will be another thing, and you probably will lose raw pointer access, because we need some higher
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by ritcgab 4y ago
I think the main insight is that user-level memory allocation does not necessarily involve the kernel. If the application uses `malloc` to get memory allocated, the real "application" that will (possibly) request free pages from t
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by ritcgab 4y ago
The semantics of a bare file system cannot be (easily) changed, I think. What would be nice is having a thin shim layer on top of their existing semantics to handle more advanced file abstraction. Applications nowadays need to repeatedly do
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by ritcgab 4y ago
Another important perspective of ECC memory is whether your machine can properly respond to the interrupt. ECC without reporting and handling is not a working ECC. I have been using Ryzen machines with AsRock motherboards and the Linux EDAC
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by ritcgab 4y ago
Linux desktop on x86 is the backbone of (almost) every single ARM MacBook.
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by ritcgab 4y ago
The so called "zero-covid policy" in China has already failed, in practice, though the party would never admit their failure. Now they identify thousands of new cases daily in almost all states. A lot of tragedies happened during
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by ritcgab 4y ago
What is Cloudflare? The answer is simple - the biggest MITM on your Internet traffic.
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by ritcgab 5y ago
I cannot see the goal of this move. Those Russian users will move to other platforms and those platforms will still pay taxes on their Russian sales - which in turn helps authoritarian government. What is the difference? Or is it just becau
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by ritcgab 5y ago
I have moved away from Linode since they started billing VMs in hours. I don't like that cloud bs.
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by ritcgab 5y ago
A raspberry pi 4 can do everything this machine does.