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by rubicks 7y ago
The same way you handle pci and usb devices: unless you configure a root-owned devfs bind-mount, you don't.
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by rubicks 7y ago
How might one compare/contast critic.sh against the following? * https://github.com/djui/bashunit * https://github.com/kward/shunit2
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by rubicks 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
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by rubicks 7y ago
I worked for a large financal services institution. They cared about the vagaries of floating-point money only slightly more than they cared about numerical stability --- which is to say not at all.
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by rubicks 7y ago
I give thanks every day for pxz. I can churn out apt indices so much faster relative to the alternative.
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by rubicks 7y ago
Tell that to a friend that runs secure boot enabled.
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by rubicks 7y ago
Was expecting "Aw, shucks, I can't stay mad at you" love letter to the humble Common Lisp operator. Was confused to find story illustrating psychological phenomena at work.
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by rubicks 7y ago
When Intel touts a device "On Linux!(tm)", I have to lower my already meager expectations. So long as you expect the drivers to be very thin open-source wrappers around very brittle proprietary blobs, you won't be unpleasantl
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by rubicks 7y ago
I mean... your friend's not wrong, if by "Linux" she/he means "Ubuntu 16.04 LTS" with the caveats: * disable Secure Boot xor create your own efi signing key pair, get friendly with `mokutil`, and pray your firm
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by rubicks 7y ago
The Realsense hardware might be great. The software that goes with it is not: * DKMS kernel module for what should be a plain vanilla USB 3.0 device * firmware updates require closed-source libraries * breaking API and ABI changes that do n
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by rubicks 7y ago
Concur. Docker the runtime is unnecessary, but the day I started with Dockerfiles was the day I stopped building my chroots with Makefiles.
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by rubicks 7y ago
I have used docker with qemu syscall emulation to build various projects for foreign architectures. I really wanted to cross-compile, but the build tools chosen by those projects made it infeasibly difficult.
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by rubicks 7y ago
This. Why do programs do this when they don't have to? I'm genuinely asking here; I'm trying to understand the thinking that motivates this kind of decision.
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by rubicks 7y ago
I've wrapped expect scripts around prompt-happy config scripts supplied by third-party vendors. What they intend to be idiot-proof usually ends up as an unwieldy tool that takes no options and/or assumes bad defaults. The vendor d
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by rubicks 7y ago
Expect is nothing short of a blessing for those who need to automate tools that actively resist automation. When some janky cli script decides to read the tty and not stdin, I reach for expect.
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by rubicks 9y ago
Former epa intern here; can concur, chlorinated anything is trivially detected with an ECD. Biological activity of the chemical under analysis has nothing to do with its detectability.
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by rubicks 11y ago
I cannot second this hard enough.
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by rubicks 11y ago
Moreover, "commonly bound" need not be ergonomic. E.g.: qwerty.
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by rubicks 13y ago
"Big machines either work as they’re supposed to or they don’t." Anyone else struck by the wildly reductionist sentiment in that statement?