rleigh

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by rleigh 8y ago
If exercise is making you vomit, I think you're doing it wrong. What did you have to do to get that reaction? Did you try backing off the intensity to a level where you could simply cope and enjoy it?
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by rleigh 8y ago
No, it's not entirely voluntary. It's a necessity to live. I might be able to pick and choose between several employers, but ultimately I'm going to have to choose one of them. There's a power imbalance between empl
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by rleigh 8y ago
While a PhD isn't necessarily "exclusively for academic careers", in practice this is the primary focus of the training undergone during one, including most of the career-oriented stuff. But it's a lie. The vast majori
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by rleigh 8y ago
My understanding of arts and humanities PhDs is that they are largely self-funded, much fewer in number, and mostly vocational for the truly dedicated. I think you might have a different perspective if you were to do a science PhD. It&#x27
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by rleigh 8y ago
Property taxes (including inheritance taxes) can introduce huge inequalities of their own. Look at Italy for an example, where there are many beautiful villas left to go to ruin because the taxes were unaffordable for the families who owne
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by rleigh 8y ago
Britain's democracy evolved gradually from feudalism, without much in the way of violent uprisings or outright revolution. The entire system is based upon incremental changes to give us the democracy we have today with various checks
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by rleigh 8y ago
Unfortunately, people can and do indulge in exactly this behaviour, and there does need to be some pushback against it. Individual self-interest must be counterbalanced by what is in the interest of the business when the two are not aligne
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by rleigh 8y ago
Everyone who doesn't develop exclusively for MacOS X, which is most of us. Am I going to rewrite my OpenGL application to use Metal. No. I might update it to use Vulkan, and see if it works with the MoltenVK shim for MacOS X. But I&
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by rleigh 8y ago
True, but it's not just the version control that's the important part. It's the infrastructure around it. Today, when you submit e.g. a homebrew PR, it gets comprehensively tested by CI builds, including rebuilding and testi
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by rleigh 8y ago
It's all down to history. When Debian was started, individual maintainers owned their packages completely, and they were often not kept under version control. This was a practical necessity for distributed development in the mid &#x2
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by rleigh 8y ago
There's no problem with systems which allow interaction by email. It can be handy, and if you like that, then the Debian BTS is convenient for responding to bugs as a maintainer. However, email- only systems which don't offer a
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by rleigh 8y ago
Because you might need to reply to a specific email with all the same people CCd in who wouldn't necessarily be copied in by the bugnumber address. It also includes the appropriate message ID to make threading work. And you can quote
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by rleigh 8y ago
Homebrew is effectively a "rolling release" with fast turnover of package versions. So in that sense it's not directly comparable to Debian stable (or even unstable). That rapid turnover has led to numerous breaking bugs ov
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by rleigh 8y ago
Bad reports can be closed with a message. But you can't do much about good reports which never got filed because the process was unnecessarily complicated. There are tools like reportbug which already help to filter out inappropriate
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by rleigh 8y ago
It's not just about "low quality" bug reports. The entire system is baroque and messy to use even for experts. I've been using it for 2+ decades now. As a maintainer, I frequently needed to change bug tickets. Tags, v
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by rleigh 8y ago
Likewise for the BSD ports. There are advantages to both ways. However, a single repository permits changes to multiple packages in a single change. In Debian, simple transitions which affect multiple packages can take months or even year
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by rleigh 8y ago
I do like the fact that docker now works for non-Linux cases, like Docker on Windows with Windows containers. Would be nice if they would also support MacOS containers, FreeBSD etc. That would certainly entrench themselves as a "univ
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by rleigh 8y ago
See IEC 62304:2006 ( https://www.iso.org/standard/38421.html ) and the related standards which govern the formal processes which medical device software must meet for FDA and CE approval (as well as other national standa
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by rleigh 8y ago
It's not about whimsy being "too much". It's that it conveys an unprofessional and immature image, which may result in people taking their business elsewhere. I too looked at this page a few years back. And I was not i
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by rleigh 8y ago
Swapping out Travis for something else takes a few minutes. If you have a lot of repositories and very complicated scripts, it might take a day or so. But ultimately, the lock-in for CI solutions is minimal. The effort to migrate is very
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by rleigh 8y ago
This was concerning for several years now. Who knows when 18.04 will make an appearance. 2021? Never? I appreciate what they were trying to do with their multiple versions of every language in their stock images. But, in practice there
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by rleigh 8y ago
The problem with this is primarily that it's not the default. It's a remedial action to make a poorly functional system usable at a basic level. People in the know are aware of Classic Shell. Most people aren't. Most peopl
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by rleigh 8y ago
This doesn't appear to be accessible without a Google account.
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by rleigh 8y ago
This is exactly why I like to use these UI toolkits, and despise most web "UI" frameworks. That uniformity is why these applications are usable and predictable, and yes, boring. Deviating from the defaults takes effort, and that
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by rleigh 8y ago
As the other responder noted, "harsh" was probably not the best adjective to use here, so I retract that.
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by rleigh 8y ago
Any project can contain fatal flaws irrespective of its review policies. Particularly when we are concerned with the subtle behaviour of the interaction between write and fsync. Even if you read the standard it's not clear exactly ho
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by rleigh 8y ago
It's by far not limited to only open source projects. There are many situations where some fault, no matter how small or irrelevant, has to be found in order to sate the ego of the person doing the review or consideration of a problem
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by rleigh 8y ago
Review in the PostgreSQL community does tend to be on the "harsh" side. I've only submitted one patch (\pset linestyle unicode for psql), and with a few rounds of review and revision it made it in. Overall I found this proce
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by rleigh 8y ago
And the original Links ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5TPAxMfpbQ ) from the same company. Really nice use of the PC speaker in the intro, as well as the game.
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by rleigh 8y ago
Another reason is that "embedded" roles encompass tools and products spanning all sorts of different fields, many which require extensive domain knowledge and experience. A new CS graduate might be fine at the software side of th

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