salmo

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by salmo 4y ago
I think this is just the nature of English. It's not a static defined thing. Words shift over time and concurrently mean different things within different contexts. One of my favorite examples is "Lord." I'll probably
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by salmo 4y ago
I can’t imagine a company wasting money on this. Distro facility space is money. Especially these days with all networks stressed. They may delay to optimize a route with more stops, or prioritize guaranteed shipping dates. But being puni
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by salmo 4y ago
My friend had an Newton and I was in awe. It made Palm look like a pocket calculator. Got killed when Jobs left out of spite. But that was back when Apple could make very simple hardware do amazing things. NeXT was mind blowing when you loo
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by salmo 4y ago
I feel “useless hop in TCP connection chain” is treated as a virtue in “modern architecture.” Somehow micro services and cloud native turned into that. So yeah, slow response times, wasted infrastructure and most work put into I/O and
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by salmo 4y ago
Wow. I totally had blocked those out of my memory. I deployed a batch of desktops to an office with the drives and 1 disk each. We hoarded the disks of course. I think I mostly just fidgeted with them at my desk since we just had a few mach
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by salmo 4y ago
Thanks for preventing the frustration there. I’ll try to survey the landscape I guess. I also haven’t taken on rust. But I’m really wanting to play with a smaller language that has enough to do something practical with. The C replacement l
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by salmo 4y ago
I agree with this so much. I loved Python for decades. Kinda loathe it now. All scripting languages have fallen into this, managing interpreter, test tools, and dependencies in a dev environment, CI/CD, and prod is more work than doin
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by salmo 4y ago
Was interested in the size of these things: MVP: 8.52K water: 31.61K tacit: 5.49K concrete (from child): 7.15K + 5.99K for normalize.css (13.14K total) Tacit is most appealing to me to whip something together. Hits the best look/byte
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by salmo 4y ago
> Mozilla seems to be inching closer and closer to just another Chromium. Not sure I understand this. I mean Chrome drives the feature set and performance, but it's not like Mozilla's switching to Blink/v8 AFAIK. Competi
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by salmo 4y ago
I think it’s mostly semantics here. Companies didn’t care about it for security. They cared about it for productivity. Enterprise development is always about delivering features first. Performance, security, reliability, etc. come after tha
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by salmo 4y ago
Oh, you are totally right. I read that in the GitLab issue tracking their version of the problem and totally forgot that’s where they landed.
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by salmo 4y ago
Oh, totally agree. It’s not a performance thing for me. I don’t have a fancy car, just enjoy the activity. I mostly envy the nav on my wife’s Apple Car Play. Otherwise it’s just a running map and an album art display. We use Waze for inter
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by salmo 4y ago
Well, I do understand that the actual version used there is ambiguous. Probably the best would be to take the newest from go.sum. That’s what some scanners are doing now. Filed bugs with 2 vendors over this though.
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by salmo 4y ago
Oh my goodness I hate that so much. Every time I have to explain that go.sum lists every compatible version, not the version baked in. But this is even an improvement over any other language I've seen. All just flag CVEs in dependent
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by salmo 4y ago
There was no original design for Unix. It never was 1 thing, but a bunch of loose ideas wired (and rewired) together pragmatically over time by different people, usually scratching an itch. I highly recommend Khernigan’s UNIX: A History an
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by salmo 4y ago
It all depends on the clutch to me. My ADHD is so satisfied by a manual. I’m engaged in the machine. It’s fun and you don’t need a real sports car. But paddle shifters do nothing for me. There’s no feel to it. It’s more like 3 on the tree
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by salmo 4y ago
You’re not wrong, but it is funny how we got here from Gosling’s Oak addressing set top boxes. The thing was built to address the burgeoning embedded w/ a little horsepower market with its variety of hardware and OSes. Now it runs Ente
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by salmo 4y ago
Distortion, overdrive, and the 808 are all examples off the top of my head of folk analog audio. The former two tend to use the imperfection of diodes leaking to create varying degrees of fuzz (really clipping) based on placement. It fakes
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by salmo 4y ago
Bah! You're totally right and I'm wrong. I flipped them in my head. Thank you for the correction. Definitely some are not great, I can name 3 within a mile of me I won't go to. And some are "sketchy" but delicio
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by salmo 4y ago
Agree. Politically a government is responsible for giving its citizens a sense of security… maybe more so than actual security. Ghana and the US were both doing that in this scenario. Whether the fear is 100% reasonable or not is ultimatel
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by salmo 4y ago
My guess is that really it’s an acquisition of engineers unless they already have some kind of market dominance in this space. I don’t see any novel tech here, but I’m not the target audience.
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by salmo 4y ago
There isn’t any fraud here. It’s all very normal corporate structure. Yum! Brands owns both, and Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, KFC, etc. The restaurants themselves are owned by franchisees who license the trademarks (and all kind of complicated b
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by salmo 4y ago
Funny enough, "electricity" and "hydro" were synonymous in Toronto when I lived there in the early 90's because of Ontario Hydro. It was named for the electricity coming from Niagara Falls, but then yeah... like y
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by salmo 4y ago
One of my first gigs was replacing a VAX/terminal based software package with a Windows NT/PC thick client one. 17 year old me scoffed at the dumb terminals. When we converted users and they hated it, I learned SO MUCH. They could
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by salmo 4y ago
After 40 years of wanting to sleep in as long as I can, I flipped and wake up early and go to bed early. It’s amazing. My free time is now when I can think and play with hobbies. Those can be code, music, sewing, fishing, etc etc. After w
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by salmo 4y ago
Tesla is only targeting the “luxury car” market. They don’t stray from Lexus’s or BMW’s footprint and haven’t touched the others lucrative SUV business. That’s a very small niche in the grand scheme of vehicles. And they’re dodging the la
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by salmo 4y ago
I don’t think the other specs are necessarily backwards compatible. The NICs on each end negotiate the fastest commonly supported spec. I’ve had 10G cards that would only negotiate down to 1G or only do 10G. But those were over Twinax. I
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by salmo 4y ago
Reminds me of the bank of modems we hung off our VAX to let employees telnet and do work from home. It was like maybe 32 28.8 modems. My memory is so vague, and it was just a pile of cables and boxes behind the VAX. I mostly just flipped t
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by salmo 4y ago
It’s also funny to think of companies like Apple, MS, etc. as having 1 opinion or even tactic. I know they say it. But they’re made up of 100s-1000s of groups. And at Apple especially, many of these groups are not allowed to talk to each
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by salmo 4y ago
RedHat claims or at least claimed that for EL. I think it’s limited to within minor releases though, with majors being API. That’s fine if you’re OK relying on their packages and 3rd party “enterprise” software that’s “certified” for the r

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