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by salmo 5y ago
Spent some time in Brimingham. Worked crazy hours, but would wander at night. Local beer was a little rare in the places around our hotel (probably because we were near Broad Street), but they had "Trooper" at Malt House. It was
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by salmo 5y ago
About 10 years ago, I took a background with 2 cats and pinned window-decoration-less xeyes to them. It was hilarious when I paired with people and they would realize the cats were watching us. Even at the time, most folks had forgotten or
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by salmo 5y ago
I wonder how you could find training for this? It sounds absolutely fascinating. My wife and I have always had problems camping and hiking at night. My night vision is great. Hers is abysmal (she also would wear coke bottle glasses witho
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by salmo 5y ago
I have used `tac`, `shuf`, and `yes` in real life (the latter obviously for driving an obnoxious installer). `yes` is pretty common, not just on Linux. `figlet` is great for pretty MOTDs, and used it back in the `finger`/.plan days on
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by salmo 5y ago
The best use case I see for this is when you inherit a testless codebase. It's a way to get bootstrapped, and go from there. Sometimes you have to honor bugs as part of the (undocumented/evolved/inferred) interface. It coul
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by salmo 5y ago
I'm very confused by this conversation. I am agreeing with you. The line you quoted, I had in quotation marks because it was essentially the question of the parent thread, not because it was my stance. "That context" meant t
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by salmo 5y ago
Thanks! Hopefully it saves someone else from being confused and gets you more sales.
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by salmo 5y ago
The Augmentation Research Center (aka Augment) was Englebart's lab at SRI. This was a project that wanted to change computers from being number crunching machines to "augmenting human intellect". Things like the mouse, windo
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by salmo 5y ago
I’m confused. It looks like none of the buying options include the display, just the board or board and enclosure. Is the display on the back side? Just not pictured or listed? If it has to be purchased separately, it’s not called out eit
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by salmo 5y ago
I think it's wonderful to see "pure R&D" these days. The days of Bell Labs, Xerox PARC, etc. are gone. Even NASA is so much more restrained. Focus on practicality leads to incremental change. But free research and aspir
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by salmo 5y ago
I'm just amused that the article ends with the quote: "the challenge is substantial and the ramifications are industry-wide." Heheh. RAMifications.
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by salmo 5y ago
Yeah. It was like once things that were 'nerdy' became cool (comic books, sci-fi, video games, etc.) all of a sudden everyone was a nerd. I guess that's good and bad. It does feel weird though. I don't watch comic boo
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by salmo 5y ago
It's probably the same park. Pay money, dig through dirt, keep what you find. Pretty rare to actually find one I've heard, and normally small. The 2.2-carat one there wouldn't normally be used for jewelry because it's
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by salmo 5y ago
I think this is the lifecycle of all 'nerd' sites. Slashdot went this way, Digg, Reddit, and we're seeing it here. It starts with insightful stuff, knowledgeable people, real discourse. Reddit may have been special because a
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by salmo 5y ago
I started using neovim when it had async and vim would hang. I think vim maybe caught up here, but I found I lost nothing in the move and the snappiness hooked me. I just haven't switched back. The items here are really exciting. VSC
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by salmo 5y ago
I get the target of HyperConverged infrastructure. It's a pretty big market: potentially all private/colo datacenters. And there are only a few players left. Dell/EMC/VMWare, Nutanix, Cisco's schizophrenic offering
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by salmo 5y ago
And maintenance. I like the idea of having to give them a key to your house to replace a disk when the SMART alert phones home. :)
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by salmo 5y ago
Now I just like the idea of you telling the electrician that you need a 3-phase >5kVA PDU. :)
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by salmo 5y ago
:). Yeah, it’s a running joke at work that I can take any devolved meeting and turn it into a lecture on some random topic.
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by salmo 5y ago
I mean SVN for the code repository vs a more modern alternative eg git, mercurial, fossil… I don’t know of an SVN language?? Not hating on SVN, just think the “why aren’t they using a more modern/superior X” should be taken in that con
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by salmo 5y ago
My biggest reason is that I don’t have to finish. When I get bored with it, I move on. I used to put pressure on myself to “finish” and would often miss and feel guilty. Not just computer projects, but electronics, learning musical instrume
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by salmo 5y ago
The code is in svn. I think it's all relative.
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by salmo 5y ago
Containerized DBs are great for dev work, toy projects, etc. Notsomuch for production. I know... folks do it. But I wouldn't run anything on it that I wouldn't do w/ sqlite.
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by salmo 5y ago
Sounds like it's ^C on a client that doesn't trap SIGTERM and cleanup. Probably something they're working on.
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by salmo 5y ago
Async ACID DB interfaces are so weird to me. I guess the async all the things! is frustrating since I’m brought in when things go boom, and folks that couldn’t deal with parallelism are all up in concurrency and baffled by the result. I ge
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by salmo 5y ago
Having run all these thing in prod (except BTRFS, it ate a mirror on my desktop), I’ll say that even the LVM + + is so much more hacky than geom on FreeBSD which feels much more ‘Unix’ with a designed composable interface. Although, I do pr
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by salmo 5y ago
Unfortunately the github page and the website don't explain what the OS actually is. Anyway, it's on Wikipedia and is fairly fascinating: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TempleOS
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by salmo 5y ago
Power9 is actually made at GlobalFoundries. And it's mostly just in (fading) IBM i systems and one-off super computers. Power 10 is supposedly on the horizon. There's a handful of niche workstations, and "a partnership"
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by salmo 5y ago
It's super-promising and actually looks pretty ergonomic in comparison, but it'll take rewrites of existing C API leveraging packages. There's not really a way around that, since they have to interact with refcounting now vs
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by salmo 5y ago
Some of that logic (logged in, or exposing stuff based on RBAC) are usually pretty easy in templates of any flavor. And that's usually where I have to revisit for changes, so maintenance shouldn't be bad. Sometimes I do common th

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