rleigh

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by rleigh 8y ago
I am in complete agreement that the system is better than slashdot. However, I think even being able to see your own score can be detrimental to the way you behave. Is it healthy to check back and see if your comments were well received,
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by rleigh 8y ago
If facebook wasn't continually mired in controversy, then maybe it wouldn't feature so frequently and so prominently. Today, I've just read a paper copy of the Daily Telegraph (UK). The front page is a story about how a depr
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by rleigh 8y ago
The difference is the nature of the engagement. Facebook is primarily organised around the individual. You are following individuals, talking with individuals, and participating on a reciprocal basis as an individual with all the others.
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by rleigh 8y ago
While I am certainly not going to endorse any racism, I am a little uncomfortable with what's going on here. As a bit of background, let's look at Lysenko ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trofim_Lysenko ). To s
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by rleigh 8y ago
It already looked this way to me when I interviewed with them 8 years ago. But it takes time for public perception to catch up with the reality. When they scaled up and hired tens of thousands, they became yet another faceless corporate e
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by rleigh 8y ago
We're in a soft water area, so that wasn't a problem! And the type we used heated the water, so most residue would stay within the humidifier.
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by rleigh 8y ago
In my old office, one of the girls got a humidifier to combat the dry air during wintertime. It also seemed to help with the amount of static buildup maybe by making it easier to dissipate. Not a fix by any measure, but it did seem to hel
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by rleigh 8y ago
My G4 Mini had an external power brick. The inside of the case was pretty spacious; much more so than the unnecessarily cramped current model.
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by rleigh 8y ago
Unfortunately, they don't really have a non-luxury product line. The Mini is still poor value for money, and this means they have nothing to offer at the lower end for entry-level or business use.
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by rleigh 8y ago
Most recipes are very lax in their quantities. The size of an egg doesn't usually make much difference, at least for the cooking and baking I do. For the most part, they are a mixture of sizes including both large and small, so it usu
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by rleigh 8y ago
Yep, and it's not too far off the mark. Without foreign workers, foreign products and services, where would they be? The country would be largely uninhabitable without western technology for building, desalination, transport, food im
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by rleigh 8y ago
I'm no economist, but isn't one of the primary problems here that they don't have a well enough developed and diversified economy to invest in, and expand their economy and benefit their society in a virtuous cycle of investm
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by rleigh 8y ago
They could do it. But there are limits to the practicality of what they can do. It would kill the local economy in an instant. All those foreign workers are at the core of the productive economy, doing actual work that matters, including
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by rleigh 8y ago
A farm up the hill from where I live produces eggs from several thousand free-range chickens, and they sell them on site with a vending machine by the dozen. They also sell "catering" eggs in trays of 30, for under half the price
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by rleigh 8y ago
Honestly, everything Hollywood portrays is ridiculous. It's not like doctors and scientists have been singled out. How about the manner in which soldiers are portrayed, as unthinking meatheads high on testosterone. There is almost z
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by rleigh 8y ago
My first job required the use of an AS/400 for data entry. Hated it at first, but really grew to appreciate it for what it did. That single machine ran an entire manufacturing site. When we were forced to use a Windows front-end to
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by rleigh 8y ago
It's not enjoyable, but it's still the right thing to do. As for the logistics, each member of staff can be talked to by their immediate manager, making it scale easily. Matter of fact, this once happened to me, and my boss was a
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by rleigh 8y ago
I would never expect that core dumps to belong in a system logger of any description. A stack trace from the dump, maybe. But the actual core itself, could be tens of gigabytes. A constraint upon the maximum message size to a few kilobyt
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by rleigh 8y ago
Actually, one thing which drives me to distraction is Emacs making C-Z a shortcut for minimising the window when using the GUI version. It's not a shell!! It certainly makes sense when running inside a terminal. But when it's an
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by rleigh 8y ago
I'm unaware of tools to directly do this. Many years ago I wrote a tool to load a font with freetype and render it directly to the framebuffer. Would be relatively simple to do the same and dump out a subset as a psf font. Or perhap
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by rleigh 8y ago
The aggregation of these services are all understandable, because every one of them is about running a service. They might be triggered by different events (timer, network connection, at boot, manually), but other than that they are all do
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by rleigh 8y ago
I'm not in any way appealing to a "mythical golden age". I'm simply pointing out that the whole Linux world ran this way for over two decades without this being a critical problem, or even a problem of particular note.
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by rleigh 8y ago
The thing is, most Linux distributions ran services this way for well over two decades. The world did not end, and the number of problems we experienced in reality were negligible. If we wanted automatic service restart on failure, then t
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by rleigh 8y ago
The number of binaries isn't in and of itself a good measure. It says nothing about the tight coupling and poorly documented interfaces which tie them all together. There are two major things to consider here: - how easy is it to repl
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by rleigh 8y ago
There was a heavy influence from the GNOME camp, both upstream and within Debian, by mandating the use of systemd with GNOME. At the time, I wasn't particularly happy at the disproportionate influence for a specific desktop use case a
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by rleigh 8y ago
launchd has a clearly defined scope, and it restricts itself to doing only those tasks which fall under its remit. If systemd had followed a similar philosophy, it would have been accepted without anything like the same amount of criticism.
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by rleigh 8y ago
daemontools, or respawn from inittab. There are a number of perfectly reasonable possibilities, of which these are just two. But more generally, you didn't restart daemons if they crashed. Firstly, because they used to be written suf
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by rleigh 8y ago
Horrific. That wouldn't pass any ethics review board today. I worked for a short time in an animal facility nearly two decades back as part of an immunology undergraduate research project. I did all the ethical and vetinary training
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by rleigh 8y ago
Cycle? You can cycle in, run back, and reverse the routine every alternate day.
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by rleigh 8y ago
I think you're correct that the old GL API made it quick to get stuff working, but the modern GL is much nicer once you get past the overhead of setting up all the VBOs etc. That only needs doing once, and then you're set. I&#x27

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