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by rwmj 1y ago
Truly a legendary man for finding himself in the right place at the right time.
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by rwmj 1y ago
Every country is different. The UK (temporarily too embarrassed to be in the EU) has some very generous tax advantaged accounts which match the US ones, so you can map "401k" to pension and "Roth IRA" to ISA to get somet
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by rwmj 1y ago
I hope this wasn't for a UPS company!
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by rwmj 1y ago
This project won't do anything (as you likely already know). The reason electricity is so expensive is because it's tied to gas prices, which is an entirely political decision.
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by rwmj 1y ago
Is it 300 or 600 MWh? Or is the storage 600, but it can deliver 300MW/h? Edit: The company press release is much clearer: https://stateraenergy.co.uk/news/thurrock-energisation The storage is 300 MWh, but it can
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by rwmj 1y ago
Various projects have proposed a "Co-Developed-By" tag. Even if that were not used I'd expect some open source developers to have become much more productive, and written about it. We'd also see widespread adoption of
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by rwmj 1y ago
Where is all this code? If the tools are so useful it should show up in widely used open source projects, but I'm not seeing anything.
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by rwmj 1y ago
The UK is a mid-sized country in Europe, and that's fine. Only you seem to think this is a problem.
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by rwmj 1y ago
It's a constant source of legal action and negative news. There's not any strategic need for the UK to keep an island in the Indian Ocean. Might as well get rid of the whole mess for someone else to sort out.
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by rwmj 1y ago
The UK offered residence with a path to citizenship for all BNO holders in Hong Kong, which was pretty much the limits of the UK's power. What are we going to do? Invade Hong Kong? Hold China over a barrel by refusing to sell whatev
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by rwmj 1y ago
BTW here's where I ported nbdfuse from v2 to v3 so you can see the kinds of changes: https://gitlab.com/nbdkit/libnbd/-/commit/c74c7d7f01975e708b...
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by rwmj 1y ago
Number Field Sieves are still the best method, and the techniques are three or more decades old with only incremental improvements. (Of course there might be an incredible breakthrough tomorrow.)
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by rwmj 1y ago
> The lesson here isn't to rage-quit Claude or to become paranoid about every AI service. It's to stay actively engaged with the tools you depend on. Check the settings. Read the update emails everyone ignores. Assume that tod
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by rwmj 1y ago
But that's exactly the point here. In the context of a whole distribution, you don't want to update some package to a new version (on a stable branch), because that would affect lots of other packages that depended on that one.
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by rwmj 1y ago
It's a strawman to imagine that Debian doesn't have a way to ensure filesystems are safe and to respond to critical bugs that might cause data corruption. It's just that you have to follow their rules to do it. (And broadly
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by rwmj 1y ago
Not too familiar with the kernel process for this, but for Linux distros there are ways to respond to critical issues including data corruption and data loss. It's just that you have to follow their processes to do this, such as produ
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by rwmj 1y ago
It's just that it was so obviously going to fail, because there's no mass market for a product that you have to strap onto your face. You didn't need to spend billions to learn that. If they'd spent the money researchin
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by rwmj 1y ago
Ha ha, yes it's bad, but somehow slightly better than the enterprise alternatives.
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by rwmj 1y ago
But is that a good use of Meta's money? Compared to making a few patches to Linux to fix any performance problems they find. (And I feel bad saying this since Meta obviously did waste eleventy billion on their ridiculous Second Life
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by rwmj 1y ago
We use Concur (SAP? expenses software), and it can scan your paper receipts and fill in the fields for you. I'd say it's about 30% accurate. Occasionally it'll be incredible. But mostly you end up having to manually adjust
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by rwmj 1y ago
https://archive.ph/QBXCE
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by rwmj 1y ago
Lying to a court is usually pretty serious. Any sensible legal department will tell you never to do that, whatever your CEO says.
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by rwmj 1y ago
I'm well aware. I used it on Solaris.
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by rwmj 1y ago
And so you now have to make a decision, is this file small or large? This pushes the problem to users and programs. (A very real problem too, we made large changes throughout libguestfs to sort out "small" and "large"
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by rwmj 1y ago
It only became the default on Fedora and other Linux distros following systemd because it was the default in systemd. It was a bad idea on Solaris too, but at least back in those days the trade-off between RAM and disk storage was very diff
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by rwmj 1y ago
Sounds like fixing that ext4 problem could make a lot of things go faster.
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by rwmj 1y ago
It's a dumb idea that came from the systemd people. They've never explained properly why it's a good idea, but it's the systemd default and for some reason distros defer to that.
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by rwmj 1y ago
'systemctl mask tmp.mount' - the most important command to run in these situations. It's a really bad idea to put /tmp into memory. Filesystems already use memory when necessary and spill to the filesystem when memory i
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by rwmj 1y ago
Got it growing in our garden, so not that forgotten.
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by rwmj 1y ago
Or the Apple iBook G3 which had faulty soldering. (This affected mine.) Apple never acknowledged it.

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