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by rwmj 1y ago
Yes, fsck for NTFS has a direct immediate real world usage completing this function: https://github.com/libguestfs/virt-v2v/blob/dda93d7fd3ef5b2c...
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by rwmj 1y ago
I gave a lightning talk about virt-v2v, VMware and Red Hat at DevConf last year. It's online at https://pretalx.com/devconf-cz-2024/talk/SN93LG/
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by rwmj 1y ago
I think this is the fourth attempt at an NTFS implementation for Linux. The first was the classic, abandoned NTFS kernel driver. It was removed from the kernel last year, but used to be found in fs/ntfs. The second is FUSE-based ntfs-
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The slender-billed curlew has been officially declared extinct(independent.co.uk)
2 points by rwmj 1y ago|0 comments
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by rwmj 1y ago
They're elegant at first glance, it's just the attack surface of "exec this other program" turns out to be enormous. eg. You wouldn't necessarily think that you'd have to clean out all environment variables, b
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by rwmj 1y ago
Economists generally point out that the world would be a lot richer with open borders. You can of course argue about whether its desirable to be richer. https://www.economist.com/the-world-if/2017/07/13/
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by rwmj 1y ago
The Amstrad PCW word processor was also very widespread in UK offices, and that used 3" disks so there must be tons of letters, interoffice memos and other office documents out there in that format. Of course that's only half the
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by rwmj 1y ago
That's for personal tax returns. For businesses, the new MTD stuff is all through commercial partners.
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by rwmj 1y ago
Tell me about it! The bottom tier subscription services are also subtly crippled to make filing MTD tax returns difficult. eg. Xero's lowest tier doesn't let you easily add cash payments (without jumping through hoops for each p
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Last-minute /boot boost for Fedora 43(lwn.net)
3 points by rwmj 1y ago|0 comments
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by rwmj 1y ago
Just use paper, that's the answer. It works fine. There is simply no need at all for a machine to be involved. > You get fast preliminary results A non-problem. Exit polls can do this if you really need it.
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by rwmj 1y ago
It was more like, library writers forgot how to provide stable APIs for their software, and applications decided they just wanted to bundle all the dependencies they needed together and damn the consequences on the rest of the system. Henc
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by rwmj 1y ago
If you're flying a plane, you probably don't want safety critical code to throw an assertion. It's for this reason that Airbus spends a bunch of money & time on proving their flight control software.
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by rwmj 1y ago
I don't disagree!
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by rwmj 1y ago
He doesn't have power in that sense, but if people lose "faith" in the aura of the monarchy then things could go south quickly.
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by rwmj 1y ago
I am British. I think QE2 made a good job out of this cursed tradition. Charles is a crank, but a crank that I happen to agree with, so fine. But I suspect things are going to go off the rails with his failson William. > I would much
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by rwmj 1y ago
I'm now wondering if painting a roof white is better than covering the same roof with solar panels and using that to drive air conditioning (in the house). My intuition is that painting it white must be vastly more environmentally fri
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by rwmj 1y ago
I'm quite surprised that he said asserts are not found in production code. Is that really so? I rarely write Java, but in C code we use asserts (in production code) all the time. It's not uncommon for functions to contain 2 or
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by rwmj 1y ago
https://archive.ph/AQp2G
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FIFA's 2026 ticket scheme is a late-capitalist hellscape(theguardian.com)
5 points by rwmj 1y ago|1 comments
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by rwmj 1y ago
So I think this law is stupid. But it's also popular, for the reason "something should be done, this is something, so this should be done" . I doubt that exceptions are going to be made until the effects are felt strongly
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by rwmj 1y ago
I think the headline should more accurately be that repo.or.cz has a UK geo-block. I'm unclear why it has one, since it's highly unlikely either that the site contains anything that is covered by the OSA, nor that even if it di
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by rwmj 1y ago
And just like senior managers, every time you ask it a question, it starts a new context.
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by rwmj 1y ago
Nope. Python has a habit of regularly breaking working stuff. It's a developer/community problem - the language itself doesn't require it.
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by rwmj 1y ago
I can't find the reference now unfortunately, but I read it was about 50:50, so half is the data center land / building / cooling / power generation, and half is in the GPUs themselves. This is notably very different fro
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by rwmj 1y ago
UGREEN isn't really build your own. The hardware is similar to Synology (but I think slightly better made, and definitely with much higher specs). But unlike Synology it's easy to install your own OS. I used Fedora, but a lot o
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by rwmj 1y ago
Too bad. I switched to UGREEN (DXP6800 Pro) will likely stick with them now. It was easy to install an alternate OS (Fedora 42 in my case) on it, and the hardware appears to be very nicely built.
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by rwmj 1y ago
OOBE = Out Of (the) Box Experience, in case anyone was wondering. And not out of body experience ...
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by rwmj 1y ago
I agree, but especially in business we have to deal with the world as it is, not as we'd like it to be.
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by rwmj 1y ago
A couple of uses of consultants that I've seen at first hand: - They helped our company to negotiate the minefield of government R&D tax credits, by interviewing all the developers and assessing how much was R&D compared to the

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