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by rleigh 10y ago
When Uber and its employees and/or contractors are intentionally and knowingly breaking criminal laws, then they are absolutely liable to criminal charges. They don't get to ignore laws they disagree with any more than any other
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by rleigh 10y ago
Potentially interesting for use with ZFS as an LZ4 alternative? I recently did some benchmarking with lz4, gzip-6 and gzip-9 to look at using better compression for archival datasets. However, the overhead of gzip made the system largely u
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by rleigh 10y ago
If you're a developer or tester, this means every single time . Because every start is the first time for that build... Regarding the gdb signing, it's painful. Even more so is the privilege escalation--it's impossible to
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by rleigh 10y ago
Just checked in my new-ish flat where I have an electric oven only (gas hob). It's a 13A square pin standard wall socket, but does have a dedicated breaker, so it is indeed not on the ring main for the other wall sockets. It has a 32
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by rleigh 10y ago
All the places I've lived in (UK) used a 32A 240V radial spur with a dedicated breaker with the appliance hardwired, or a regular wall socket on the kitchen ring main, 13A 240V, with a shared breaker (lower power portable appliance).
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by rleigh 10y ago
I also love animations... the first time, and for a short while after. They are new and exciting. But they quickly start to grate, then frustrate, and then become downright annoying. Like the article stated, the MacOS spaces transition w
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by rleigh 10y ago
Some very interesting thoughts; I've been thinking them myself for some time. With regard to the limitations of terminals (rich media, typography, whitespace), these are limitations of current terminal emulators but are not an intrins
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by rleigh 10y ago
I bake bread at home (in Britain, using a standard recipe). I use a single teaspoon of sugar to feed the yeast before mixing it in; so most is consumed by the yeast. 18oz flour, 0.5oz butter, 1 tsp salt, 10fl.oz warm water + yeast The bigg
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by rleigh 10y ago
There have been a few high profile incidences of fairly bad things happening over the last year; see the code of conduct introduced at some conferences after some of them. Some people just don't know how to behave appropriately, sad t
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by rleigh 10y ago
Whatever you choose to do, some subset of the team will end up being left out. Some of my team occasionally go out for a drink+meal. Usually when some remote workers are in town for the day, and we go out after work. Yes, it excludes peo
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by rleigh 10y ago
It would be nice to believe that all these reported events are exceptional, and to an extent they are atypical, but it is indicative of a fairly broken work culture that such things happen. Until recently, I'd only ever read accounts o
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by rleigh 10y ago
I'm really looking forward to this. I've hit the 2^16 symbol limit in the ancient GNU ld in base several times over the last few years (the version in ports is fine). It will be great to have a default linker without such 16-bit
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by rleigh 10y ago
You could visit other parts of Europe without a visa before the EU, and before the EEC. I see little reason why it would change. Right to live in another country might require some paperwork filing, but visiting is rather different.
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by rleigh 10y ago
Inherited ACLs take effect only at creation time inside that directory as far as I understand it; they are basically copied to the new child file/directory. You have to enable it explicitly for ZFS with the aclinherit property. Links
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by rleigh 10y ago
It's too coarse grained and has annoying and inflexible semantics regarding umask and the setgid bit. And you can only have a single group granted read or write access. What about granting an additional group read-only access? For s
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by rleigh 10y ago
If you read about the semantics of mounting a filesystem, particularly with regard to bind mounts, you realise that this is poorly abstracted. Mounting a filesystem and then binding it to a namespace are two separate actions. There is no
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by rleigh 10y ago
Most people aren't aware of what they are missing and how it could bring a great deal of benefit. This isn't about NFSv4 (the filesystem), it's about the rich permissions model it standardised which is now used by more than j
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by rleigh 10y ago
Linux supports POSIX.1e DRAFT ACLs. These are a de-facto standard by implementation, but were never formally standardised by POSIX. They are also supported by other kernels. However, other systems support the more modern and featureful NF
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by rleigh 10y ago
It's not just due to the recent MacBook Pro controversy; that's just the latest event in at least five years of decline. At work, we target MacOS as a supported platform and have systems for continuous integration and deployment o
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by rleigh 10y ago
They might be doing "fine" right now by some metrics like sales numbers, but that doesn't imply they will continue to be successful. Many companies have posted increasing sales figures right up until they crash. I've be
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by rleigh 10y ago
Print out onto paper, then I can read it anywhere, annotate it and file it away if I will need it for future work. I vastly prefer it to reading on a screen.
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by rleigh 10y ago
LVM snapshots the raw block device (logical volume). The filesystem is layered on top of that, and then open and partially written files on top of that. So snapshotting an active database is really not the best idea; it might work, it sho
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by rleigh 10y ago
And LVM snapshots aren't exactly the most reliable way to do a filesystem backup either, in terms of filesystem consistency, data consistency or reliability of the snapshot itself. And even kernel locking bugs when creating and dest
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by rleigh 10y ago
Likewise. It took me weeks to figure this out when I learned GObject/GTK+ back in the early 2000s. I ended up writing my own tutorial on the subject due to the existing documentation being so utterly lacking ( https://gitlab
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by rleigh 10y ago
Backing helps but that's not the root cause of the project's problems. The project has /always/ been unfriendly and abrasive. There's a reason why there aren't many contributors--the core team drove most of th
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by rleigh 10y ago
Regarding ACLs, I'd say that there's little choice here: it has to be NFSv4. The rationale for this is that POSIX ACLs are firstly too simple to model what we need. And they are also non-standard (POSIX .1e ACLs are a DRAFT speci
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by rleigh 10y ago
Install them separately, but don't embed. CMake provides features like the external project stuff which lets you fetch and build other sources. But even then, you don't need to embed that in your source tree either--do it at a h
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by rleigh 10y ago
While such delay is frustrating, do bear in mind that these "inefficient" people are entirely unpaid volunteers doing this on their own time and at their own expense. Which is not to say that the process could not be improved, of
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by rleigh 10y ago
"Upload and forget" leads to packages which are uploaded once and then abandoned. This then becomes a burden. While the Debian process is time consuming and arcane it does select for people who are prepared to commit to maintain
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by rleigh 10y ago
You've made the mistake of assuming that the old system couldn't start up stuff in parallel. That's simply not true; Debian had insserv/startpar to create a global dependency graph and run the scripts in parallel while

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