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by rleigh 8y ago
Why is it simple? Because you should never, ever need to use personal equipment or other resources for work use. If you're on-call, then the company should be providing the equipment needed to do those on-call duties, and pay for p
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by rleigh 8y ago
I always deliberately try to mis-train it. But they can undoubtedly filter it out.
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by rleigh 8y ago
Not long at all, I think. The US (and European) car and truck industries have been doing too much navel gazing, and far too little forward thinking and investment. While they have been selling things like gas guzzling light trucks and mar
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by rleigh 8y ago
Travis is limited. Stuff like this https://gitlab.com/codelibre/ome-model/pipelines/37267293 is several steps beyond the capabilities of Travis. This is using platforms not supported by Travis, plus custom D
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by rleigh 8y ago
Agreed. An 8K monitor will be great. The equivalent of a 300DPI colour laser printer. Genuinely letter quality text. The quality is good at 4K, but there's still room for visible improvement. I can still easily distinguish individu
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by rleigh 8y ago
Actually, I missed out what I really want. When it comes to CI, a Mac Mini is acceptable only because it's the cheapest bit of Mac hardware for the task. Not because it's the most appropriate. What I'd really like is to b
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by rleigh 8y ago
Apple is riding on their earlier successes, and failing to look to the future. Take that "BSD open source tooling". It's a decade old. I depend on that stuff, and Apple used to market its UNIX roots heavily to people like m
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by rleigh 8y ago
Thanks, I took a quick look. However, it appears to be XML-based markup not too different from HTML or DocBook. So I don't see this having the benefits which lightweight markup provides. It has all of the same disadvantages of HTML
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by rleigh 8y ago
Volunteer time often means that if something isn't immediately actionable, or actionable with minimum effort, it gets ignored, and then it gets forgotten. It's not malicious, it's just the reality of things. If you had obtai
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by rleigh 8y ago
No, but it is horribly verbose and a pain to work with. I personally find the flow of writing to be constantly interrupted with the demand to mark everything up just so, and for very technical documents with a lot of markup, the markup can
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by rleigh 8y ago
I did this for the debversion datatype (on pgxn). It's surprisingly easy to create custom types, along with all the necessary operators and hash functions for them to be efficiently indexed and compared. And the speed is excellent, s
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by rleigh 8y ago
This very much depends upon the project. Being open source doesn't imply an open development process. It's very frustrating when people ignore contributions. On the other hand, some contributions can be very expensive to integra
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by rleigh 8y ago
You can stop using the tool yourself, but still have a large active userbase depending upon it. As a result, you can still end up with an unwritten obligation to support that userbase.
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by rleigh 8y ago
You end up having unwritten obligations to your users. You can start from the position that you can write your software, make it public, and you have no obligation to do more. Some people do just this. But once you have to (or feel that y
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by rleigh 8y ago
Yes, it is annoying. However, it's not as bad as I thought it might be. Since the display is quite big in size, I generally use one window on each half of the display and I don't feel I'm really missing out on vertical spac
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by rleigh 8y ago
But they make some terrible compromises. The crossover-type have less boot space than my old UK Ford Focus hatchback, same with the rear seats down. A real station wagon has gallons of space. It's all cosmetic style without a huge a
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by rleigh 8y ago
I'd certainly not discourage having a play around with it! I started trying it out with FreeBSD 10.0 a few years back. pkg was rough around the edges back then. If you had a lot of packages installed, like lots of development tools a
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by rleigh 8y ago
You need to cater for both nowadays, I think. I recently upgraded from a 26" 16:10 1920×1200 display to a similarly-sized 16:9 4K display. I ran them side-by-side for a few days to compare. The difference in text quality was night an
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by rleigh 8y ago
There are degrees of difficulty. If you're developing on Linux there are numerous portability traps you might fall into if you're not paying attention and testing on other platforms like MacOS or BSD. From glibc-specific functio
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by rleigh 8y ago
While this is certainly true, have you used pkg in the last year or so? It's come on leaps and bounds. The solver is now on a par with apt's SAT-solver, and overall it's (IMO) almost as good as apt at this point.
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by rleigh 8y ago
Have you seen the current size of the ports tree? It's on the scale of a distribution the size of Debian. While there is certainly some Linux-specific software which doesn't work on FreeBSD (and vice versa to a smaller extent), t
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by rleigh 8y ago
The UK has the British Transport Police. They are a branch of the police force dedicated to policing the railways. You won't normally see them on trains, but they have offices in most big stations and if there's trouble then it&
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by rleigh 8y ago
It's a huge conceit to suggest that "internet companies" have not got a "real" location. They are registered companies. They have head offices. They have regional offices. They own entire datacentres. They are t
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by rleigh 8y ago
Expanding 1-disc storage is trivial. Scenario 1: Replace smaller disc with bigger disc. Add new disc as mirror to vdev. Wait for it to resilver. Remove original disc from vdev. Pool will autoexpand to new disc size or can be manually ex
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by rleigh 8y ago
I don't think this is correct. File-change notifications wouldn't provide any information which isn't already known. dpkg, after all, is entirely responsible for unpacking the .deb files and doing the file modifications. I
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by rleigh 8y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by "went anywhere". It's perfectly functional as it stands. The main missing piece is proper support in the installer for using it as a root filesystem. Currently this requires manual setup,
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by rleigh 8y ago
While this is a good idea in theory (and is possible on e.g. FreeBSD with ZFS with boot environments), dpkg can't do this easily. The main problem is that it's possible and supported for the managed files to be placed upon multip
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by rleigh 8y ago
When I went to Sellafield they had Win3.1 on the fuel rod chopping machine in the reprocessing plant (admittedly in '97!)
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by rleigh 8y ago
That's by far from the only failure case to worry about. In addition to random dataloss, the most frequent failure cause I dealt with was complete unbalancing making the filesystem read-only. This happened every ~48 hours of continuo
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by rleigh 8y ago
Dont' we already have the beginnings of such support with Canonical's support of ZFS in the Ubuntu Linux kernel? I'm writing this reply on a system running ZFS as the rootfs. % findmnt / TARGET SOURCE

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