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by salmo 5y ago
No, definitely not full admin access. Just a support tool called “SuperUser”. It was a customer service rep who could send password reset emails. Systems listed were that app and SaaS offerings. The laptop was vendor owned and managed. Giv
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by salmo 5y ago
Tangentially, I do use a LaTeX inspired Hugo theme[1]. It’s not perfect, but I like it. I worked on math textbooks and LaTeX as a side gig in college and it’s very comfortable for me. Probably off putting to a non nerd audience, but it’s a
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by salmo 5y ago
Yeah, they both share Rob Pike and the Bell Labs heritage. Weird side note: Renee French did both the Plan 9 and Go mascot designs as well. https://go.dev/blog/gopher And to the further above, there are other languages
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by salmo 5y ago
LOL. Different batch of software. I think this experience is called “enterprise.” MS really shot themselves in the foot adding the ability for stuff to insert itself into I/O that easily.
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by salmo 5y ago
It’s also part of Windows hardening standards that are then pulled into compliance frameworks. My company installs at least 3 antimalware/security management products that cripple, I mean, protect endpoint systems. 2 vendors. None of
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by salmo 5y ago
autocomplete has worked for a long time with extensions like deoplete. Syntastic pulled in all the normal syntax and style checkers. But the most recent major neovim release has lsp support + treesitter. Some Linux distros don’t ship it y
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by salmo 5y ago
It’s not new. It’s the difference between a proxy war and an actual war. Rome did it with Germanic tribes, China did with step tribes. You help the little guy fight the big guy to sap them, but avoid going head to head. When they failed a
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by salmo 5y ago
Oh wow. Thanks! I actually downloaded the TCL/Tk version because the railroad stopped dropping for me right on the web one and I was hooked again. My 8yo daughter saw me playing and said “is that game like Minecraft”. I almost cracked
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by salmo 5y ago
Thanks! I’ll check it out.
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by salmo 5y ago
3rd party Mac apps that I like better than any of their counterparts on any OS are: - iTerm2 - it works right, it feels responsive. I don't have to futz with it but can - Pixelmator Pro - it's what Photoshop used to be to me 20 ye
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by salmo 5y ago
This is so much fun. I love the simplicity of the original feel of the game. No need for fancy graphics, etc. for it to be enjoyable. And I'm amazed at 0 browser issues or weirdness. Takes me right back to my Tandy 1000. My only wis
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by salmo 5y ago
I haven't physically paired in years. Even before the pandemic I'd often be screen sharing with someone across the table from me. We'd just be positioned where we could see each others' faces and our own screens. These
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by salmo 5y ago
Sounds like Drupal or Plone, but cooler. Looked at Plone once many many years ago, but it didn't actually fit my use case, and I can't imagine something like that w/ an opinionated data model ever fitting something I need to
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by salmo 5y ago
You should read Kernighan’s “UNIX A History and a Memoir”. Seriously a great book. UNIX was created with no purpose in mind other than to get some MULTICS-like functionality out of an old machine and not worry about design-by-committee. The
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by salmo 5y ago
Just installed the Debian flavor of this on a Rockpro64 today after failing to get the upstream Debian installer to work. Great experience. Got my ansible config for Raspbian working with a minor tweak or 2. I was worried from the descript
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by salmo 5y ago
It’s not a fork. It’s an extension. That’s both in the doc and build instructions. That is a very appropriate way to run ahead and add experimental features that could be folded in later, even just later maintaining the extension as part o
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by salmo 5y ago
This has been my experience, even now. I still prefer it to Teams and WebEx because of the reliability. I do like that Teams allows for a richer chat experience, but often just keep a Teams chat and Zoom call going when needed.
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by salmo 5y ago
Historically, this is why basic vi (of whatever flavor) was so popular. I could hop on any Unix and it was there OOB. I dealt with some mixed set of Solaris, BSD, HP-UX, Irix, Tru64, AIX, and Linux for so long. For a host I did primary dev
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by salmo 5y ago
The closest I can think of is the IBM PC. But we can all think of 100s of companies that did not do this and either died or are hollow shells of their former selves. Cloudflare et al are commoditizing their gig. As more new blood goes into
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by salmo 5y ago
Linode isn't used by Akamai customers and won't be. It would be a much bigger hurdle for Linode to become enterprise-friendly than for Akamai to become developer-friendly. Akamai is "call for pricing" because they never
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by salmo 5y ago
Same experience here! It was such a great first intro for me. Learned basic programming concepts but could quickly put together something "real" feeling. It was a nice middle ground. The Pascal aspect was pretty ergonomic for
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by salmo 5y ago
This is pretty cool. My dad was a Polaroid salesman in the 70’s, so I still have 2 of these and the 1 with the sonar autofocus. Have some of the sales material and his travel case for doing demos. Loved my old Polaroid in the 80’s too, eve
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by salmo 5y ago
This is just my experience, not a right/wrong thing. I’m the opposite. Part is that I irrationally hate lifestyle change. Part is that I work with so many teams. I hated switching. I liked my busy workspace and being able to jump in a
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by salmo 5y ago
And as has been noted before, similar relationships w/ the CIA/NSA that NSO does w/ Israeli intelligence. A lot of people shuffle back and forth between those organizations. Not as "scary" because they aren't
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by salmo 5y ago
Current gen with the Rockchip CPU isn't, at least w/ official links :(. I don't know about OP, but I wanted 64-bit ARM. Found a Raspberry Pi 4 in the UK from the current top post.
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by salmo 5y ago
Brilliant! (Did I UK right, there?) I just impulse bought one. I have a 1, 2, 3, and Zero (don't really want a Zero 2 or Pico). I was just feeling incomplete, and want to retire the 1 anyway... it's borderline unusable. Only 2GB
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by salmo 5y ago
I should also say, not caring about megacorp adoption is also totally reasonable. If I didn’t build it from scratch and didn’t want to start a company, that’s the route I would go.
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by salmo 5y ago
That is a totally valid option. That’s a successful model for things like DataStax, RedisLabs, RedHat, and on and on. If you’re wondering how a company makes money just selling open source, this is it. And for the record, I think this is du
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by salmo 5y ago
Just FYI: This makes total sense. But that’s not how corporate lawyers read it in my experience. I think it’s a) poor legal understanding of software and b) AGPLv3 signaling litigiousness. And in some regards, even if the lawyer doesn’t fal
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by salmo 5y ago
Uh, yeah. Especially in large companies, this is common practice, even without that transition you describe. It is often much easier to hire internally than externally. And that's good. It keeps people happy within the company vs fo

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