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by rleigh 8y ago
For filesystems, it's a tough call. They are one of the most, if not the most, important parts of the system with respect to requiring absolute reliability. Being stable isn't necessarily a bad thing. In the case of OpenZFS, whe
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by rleigh 8y ago
This was really painful. Back when I was a Debian developer tracking unstable, I would update every evening and it would sometimes take multiple hours to complete. The fsync performance is a truly awful design flaw, and while eatmydata do
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by rleigh 8y ago
zfs is also getting zstandard: e.g. https://reviews.freebsd.org/D11124?id=30301 Doesn't appear to be merged yet, but it's coming.
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by rleigh 8y ago
Knowingly, some Sure anti-perspirant (solid, not spray). That's the only thing I know of, but there might be a small number of other things. Their manufacturing for export isn't large that I'm aware of, but there is some.
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by rleigh 8y ago
What's the reason for that though? I used to have a 30 min bus ride to work and back. I could have driven, but was more hassle and required getting an expensive parking permit. The bus gave me 30 mins to read a book or newspaper, re
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by rleigh 8y ago
I just don't get the huge-truck-owning mentality, even after reading about it. Unless it's serving its actual purpose of being a truck, it's a waste of a vast amount of money to purchase, and the poor fuel economy will cost
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by rleigh 8y ago
I wouldn't describe an inch as arbitary, but it is customary. And variable before standardisation with different sizes of thumb! The basis of the metre in comparison is definitely arbitrary!
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by rleigh 8y ago
The other thing here is, of course, that these "companies we all know" are not the be all and end all for software development. There are hundreds of thousands of smaller companies the world over doing development in every field
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by rleigh 8y ago
The main challenge would be the information asymmetry between both sides (as is already the case). It's one thing for the recruiter to be able to scan all your contributions. Would you as a potential recruit be able to do the same, a
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by rleigh 8y ago
To be honest, if a tool could run a scan over all my github contributions, and then use that to find a really well matching job, that might be potentially very interesting. Finding a job which is a good match for your skills and interests
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by rleigh 8y ago
I used to live near the Terry's factory in York. The smell of melting chocolate wafting over the river was divine. Sadly, that was shut down and sent overseas just like Cadbury, despite being a well loved company and great local empl
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by rleigh 8y ago
Not just the workers though. Read more about Quaker businesses, rather than jumping to conclusions. They were responsible for treating their customers and suppliers ethically and fairly as well. For example, the reason we have standardis
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by rleigh 8y ago
I think you might want to read up on this history of Cadbury and the Quakers in general. They were some of the most ethical companies around.
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by rleigh 8y ago
It's gone from being OK-but-nothing-special to a brown-wax-cake-topping like Hershey's. Inedible and worthless. I've gone to more premium dark chocolate from a local company (Mackies) or Lindt. Costs more but it's wor
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by rleigh 8y ago
Make your own, with 100% butter. Takes 5 minutes, and tastes so much better it's not funny. Palm oil is barely fit for human consumption, and it tastes bad. When mass manufactured products are no longer fit for purpose, it's tim
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by rleigh 8y ago
That's definitely how these things are played, no argument at all. But, this is one of the things I would never, ever compromise on. Allow my personal being to be violated for a job. Never.
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by rleigh 8y ago
Look at the history of e.g. International Computers Limited (ICL) to see what nationalised computing industry was like. Slow pace of development, product development interference by government, and high prices. It's personal computin
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by rleigh 8y ago
Anyone who submits to this, and allows their employer to perform a surgical procedure upon them in order for them to work, needs their head examining. I'd personally be straight out of the door for a new job.
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by rleigh 8y ago
And even when they do have one, it can be a day trip (or more) to visit. Onsite and courier options provided by other vendors such as Dell put Apple to shame.
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by rleigh 8y ago
The main problem as I see it is the dynamic that "if you pay, you pass". I've seen first hand the unwillingness to fail students who have done no work and have zero aptitude or willingness to learn. And that's just the
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by rleigh 8y ago
Most bugtrackers don't allow outright deletion of tickets. They allow closing them as invalid/irrelevant/offtopic or whatever tagging metadata that particular system allows, but they don't allow for deletion. There&#x2
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by rleigh 8y ago
With the ongoing catalogue of update disasters, am I the only one questioning whether Windows can be considered an operating system suitable for production use? Could you run your business on this with all the implied risk? Most small and
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by rleigh 8y ago
In the town I grew up in (Blackburn), all the traditional family-run shops in terraced streets had the shop on the front room on the ground floor, and the living room and kitchen at the back, bedrooms on the top floor. Bakeries, butchers,
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by rleigh 8y ago
I don't use a credit card. I'm also 100% debt free. I don't purchase anything I can't afford up front. I'm also British. I don't agree with the "rewards", which seem like a massive scam, which rips
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by rleigh 8y ago
This seems bizarrely restrictive. To not be able to use a computer or a device without the specific app seems somewhat foolhardy.
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by rleigh 8y ago
I've never heard of it until reading this article! Maybe I'm not the target demographic or something. Or is it only marketed in London?
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by rleigh 8y ago
Mm, input redirection with the shell is the very epitomy of basic Unix functionality.
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by rleigh 8y ago
It was supported for many years by the LSB standard init headers which were used to compute a dependency graph for parallel execution.
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by rleigh 8y ago
Except that it doesn't, in practice, boot any faster at all. Most times I measure it, it's actually slower. And by the way, its predecessor, with insserv and startpar, also supported parallel execution of init scripts.
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by rleigh 8y ago
I often wonder how much creativity, thought and self-reflection is missed out on because the response to boredom or quiet moments is to reach for the phone, rather than engaging the brain and being alone with one's thoughts for a time.

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