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by rleigh 6y ago
No, can't say there's anything in them that really stands out as new and interesting. It's a Mac with an ARM processor. Don't get me wrong, they are nice hardware and the custom silicon and the overall design is beauti
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by rleigh 6y ago
Absolutely, after the first shot you do have immunity but it's not as fully developed compared with having two, so it will take longer to respond than with two, and that does present a larger window of opportunity for the virus to caus
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by rleigh 6y ago
Two doses is very common for vaccines because this is based upon how the immune system responds to real infections. The first dose will initiate a primary immune response. The second dose will act as a "challenge" to trigger a s
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by rleigh 6y ago
Regarding what's in the main table, that's solved in circular tables like this: https://www.webelements.com/_media/periodic_tables/periodic_...
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by rleigh 6y ago
That would break down in short order. Wood isn't suitable. The crankshaft and axles would snap from stress if they didn't wear from fricton and vibration. The frame would be subject to horrible vibration and shocks; it would qu
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by rleigh 6y ago
One of the reasons is because they used the switch to ARM to lock the system down tightly. Mandatory secureboot that couldn't be disabled. A Windows system that's not as open to modification as the x64 version. They did their le
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by rleigh 6y ago
In part, yes. But at the same time, all of that money and business has spurred research, development and investment which have improved computing technology dramatically. Today, you can buy an STM32 Nucleo board for under £20 with all sort
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by rleigh 6y ago
That can be just as bad, but for different reasons. It distorts the economy, in potentially very harmful ways, because it can induce some really perverse incentives. Real situation: in India, Western companies paid so much above the local
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by rleigh 6y ago
It's not about "enjoyment", it's about charity undercutting local economies and preventing the development of local business and industry to service local needs. "Charity" can play a part in keeping communitie
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by rleigh 6y ago
Absolutely agreed, the customer's data is paramount, and I think from the perspective of supporting that with their well established in-house expertise, it makes sense. However, XFS isn't perfect. As I wrote in a separate reply i
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by rleigh 6y ago
The reason is they hired the XFS developers from SGI. And they bought Sistina for LVM. As a result, they have been wedded to both XFS and LVM for many years now, because there is likely a combination of wanting to maximise their investmen
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by rleigh 6y ago
XFS is one of the only filesystems I've suffered serious catastrophic dataloss with. The other one is of course Btrfs which was and is the worst of the lot. What was worrying was that the XFS dataloss was due an action totally out of
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by rleigh 6y ago
The Brtfs commands are very poor compared with what ZFS offers. The ZFS commands are organised around the end user: the system administrator. The Brtfs commands are not. As an example, you're running low on space and need to find out
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by rleigh 6y ago
rsync doesn't scale like zfs send/recv. It requires scanning of every file at both the source and destination to compute the delta to send. zfs snapshots and send/recv don't need to do that. The delta is already fully
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by rleigh 6y ago
A lot of the scientific sensors are Peltier cooled to -20C to reduce noise, particularly IR.
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by rleigh 6y ago
Yes, you can try, and it does respect it to a degree. But not all the time. And it likes to reset the settings following updates. There isn't a single and unambiguous knob to set which will guarantee it will never ever happen. Even
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by rleigh 6y ago
It doesn't matter. If I'm running a job overnight, I'm not plugging or unplugging any peripherals or starting or stopping any other tasks. My sole expectation is that the system will run my job to completion. Not to rudely
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by rleigh 6y ago
It's extremely paraphrased and slightly exaggerated, missing some of the context (intentionally, because I don't want to break confidentiality). It was an attempt to provide an example of why working long hours is not a good idea
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by rleigh 6y ago
I used to be that workaholic who worked crazy hours and had "passion" for the job. Thing is, it's not sustainable in the long run no matter how much you love it. It might be OK in your twenties. But you're not going t
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by rleigh 6y ago
It's "more stable" but is it "more reliable"? Not when it decides it's going to reboot in the middle of a long-running job even when I've told it not to. The inability to disable windows from updating it
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by rleigh 6y ago
Exactly so. The first year, I thought I would do all the accounts myself... with zero formal accounting knowledge. After all, with just a few invoices and payments, how hard could it be? The answer was... it's an entire discipline I
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by rleigh 6y ago
This was exactly my experience of "consulting". I too was between jobs, and it seemed like an idea worth trying. At the very least, something interesting to keep me occupied while unemployed. And it was an interesting experienc
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by rleigh 6y ago
Having a full-time and well-paid job means that open source work is in my spare time, and that time is limited and precious. I don't actually want to be paid for that. Or have any written or unwritten major obligations to others.
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by rleigh 6y ago
It's easy enough to add your own. I use the cloud-based runners for Linux, then provide my own for Windows, Mac and FreeBSD, all VMs.
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by rleigh 6y ago
I did the same, and no regrets. ZFS and FreeBSD are a great combination. Wish I'd made the move several years earlier.
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by rleigh 6y ago
Hard to argue with any of his points, I've felt the same way about the state of Mac hardware and software for even longer. The software quality has been on a slow but sure slide for well over a decade at this point. The quality of Ca
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by rleigh 6y ago
No, I don't necessarily work any faster. But I will switch between multiple feature branches as necessary. And to keep up with master, I'll rebase my feature branch onto origin/master or depending upon the circumstance I&#x
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by rleigh 6y ago
I rarely use "git pull". Why would you? More typically, I will "git fetch origin" to fetch the current integration branches, then "git checkout -b <feature branch> origin/master" to start a new feat
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by rleigh 6y ago
\pset linestyle unicode (Full disclosure: I added this. But I think it makes the output more readable. Just retry your examples and compare them.)
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by rleigh 6y ago
It does tick a lot of boxes, but I can't say I'm happy with the absurd overcomplexity of the configuration and build system (west + kconfig + cmake). It is extremely opinionated, and while I can see why they did things this way,

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