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by rubicks 3y ago
Working with less-than-stellar tools --- ahem ROS --- has taught me how to placate commands that assume interactivity and/or a tty. To wrap up the offending command with a "fake" `tty`, I do script -qfec "mycomma
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by rubicks 3y ago
Same. As soon as I read the title: "Surely `sshpass` still works in this instance? Yup." Even if avoiding good practices with PKI was defensible (and it definitely is not), further avoiding `sshpass` in favor of this more contorte
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by rubicks 3y ago
Stupid tools need stupid fixes. I will die on this hill.
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by rubicks 3y ago
That's awesome. At my last job, I created a Makefile-driven abomination that would, for a specific form of shell script, generate .gitlab-ci.yaml fragment and "link" them together. I'm equal parts proud and ashamed.
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by rubicks 3y ago
My lab actually did have 88-gallon barrels for waste; one each for aqueous waste, organic waste, and ether waste. Ether waste was kept separate because we produced a lot of it and because it had to be treated with preservatives to prevent t
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by rubicks 3y ago
Heh. I never had the pleasure of working with aqua regia. I watched a grad student burn himself with it once. We were filling out incident forms for a week.
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by rubicks 3y ago
You probably could, assuming you had ptfe tubing (we didn't) but then controlling the flow velocity is harder. Heat of dissolution is real.
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by rubicks 3y ago
Ex-undergrad-assistant in a organic synthesis lab, here. I am extremely familiar with glass cleaning procedures, having done it nearly daily for one long semester. Base bath is how you clean glassware. The base bath was a _saturated_ soluti
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by rubicks 3y ago
It's also a great way to keep on programming when you need a CV and cover letter.
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by rubicks 3y ago
As an erstwhile C++ developer of finance monoliths running on OpenVMS Itanium, may I offer this sentiment: Good riddance.
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by rubicks 3y ago
Wait, I get to retire?
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by rubicks 3y ago
I love awk. Enough to shill for this: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/effective-awk-programmi... If TFA is an excerpt for a book forthcoming on dead-tree media, then I'll be buying that one as well.
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by rubicks 3y ago
Ah, yes. Debhelper, and its many integrations. I routinely work with the various attachments dedicated to the management of sysuser accounts, systemd units, config files... Yes, it's daunting. It also handles literally everything.
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by rubicks 3y ago
Ah, yes, I'm familiar with this. That's how "vanilla" kernel source supports Debian packaging. Lintian predictably complains, but I suppose that's to be expected.
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by rubicks 3y ago
Yeah, I should have mentioned this is specific to nvidia. Update: fixed.
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by rubicks 3y ago
Same. A long time ago, I envied Windows and Mac users. For the past decade, I mostly just pity them.
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by rubicks 3y ago
I thought "unified image" solved this? https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unified_kernel_image#Prepar...
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by rubicks 3y ago
In the _most common_ case (with nvidia), your graphics stops working entirely and you spend (at least) an hour in a virtual console trying to undo what you did. Fun times.
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by rubicks 3y ago
Seconded. Step 0: deploy your own PKI, install certificates on your motherboard firmware, sign your kernel, sign your modules. Step 0.5: Sign your DKMSs from Broadcom, Nvidia, and Intel. Step 0.75: Re-sign everything because you missed a st
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by rubicks 3y ago
Can anyone see how these Debian packages are being built? Asking because the last time I looked at Canonical's packaging, it was a little hairy.
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by rubicks 3y ago
I can appreciate that GNU parallel exists. I always use `xargs -P0` in my own work, though.
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by rubicks 3y ago
Pardon an old curmudgeon: I'm sure this improves on SWIG in myriad ways, but how, exactly?
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by rubicks 3y ago
ACE TAO didn't, but it was a long time ago and I was probably holding it wrong.
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by rubicks 3y ago
I definitely tried and it definitely didn't work for me because something something ~/.Xdefaults or whatever. But I hear good things.
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by rubicks 3y ago
Seconded. How many in this thread have found generated code in source control? My trophy case includes artifacts produced by: flex, bison, gperf, swig, and one particularly nasty CORBA stub generator.
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by rubicks 3y ago
Shoutout to Gitlab Pages for making this easy. https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/pages/
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by rubicks 3y ago
Looking at "professional" projects. There is so much objectively terrible code out there. Not only does it exist, but it actually generates revenue. I recall being simultaneously amazed and disgusted.
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by rubicks 3y ago
Same. It's such a great time-saver.
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by rubicks 3y ago
I am fundamentally and ideologically opposed to using a terminal emulator implemented in electron. If you feel similarly, then you might enjoy https://st.suckless.org/
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by rubicks 3y ago
See also: https://makeself.io/ https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/sharutils/shar.1.en.htm...

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