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by sedachv 9y ago
https://system76.com/ and https://www.thinkpenguin.com/ both sell laptops specifically for the Linux market. Recent Dell XPS laptops are also supposed to be great.
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by sedachv 9y ago
The Emacs keyboard chords were worked out on keyboards that had the Control keys nearest the Space bar - the intention was that you would use your thumbs to press the Control and Meta keys. Turns out this is really useful not just for Emacs
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I don't think X11 has anything to do with this. You should set ulimit for the browsers.
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VMs need to be kept track of in whatever system you use for provisioning (AWS, OpenStack), otherwise you now have three sources of truth: what the configuration says should be running, what the DCIM thinks is running, and what is actually r
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by sedachv 9y ago
There is an even better alternative. You can put infrastructure information into the same version control repository where your infrastructure code lives, and you can even keep all the benefits of spreadsheets by using plain text format spr
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> That prompted me to recall Carl Berg from the prior era of the 1980s and 1990s tech boom. Minor point: those were two tech booms, a 1980s one and a 1990s one, separated by the recession of the early 1990s. I was not around, but period
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> To submit a bug you need to use a mailing list or antiquated bugzilla instance. What is wrong with mailing lists?
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XLISP (and therefore XLISP-STAT) had rational numbers[1] and came out in 1988, R2RS[2] introduced rational numbers in 1985. The Lisp Machines Lisps had rational numbers. There were a lot of people who had rational numbers in the 1980s and t
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Not for everyone. I know a few people that prefer to run real hard drives in their hardware, especially when they show at vintage computer exhibitions. These people go out of their way to get old ones for spare parts and to repair what they
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> Outdo your peers in skill, aesthetics, novelty, materials, scandal. Fortunately this part is completely optional. There are many very successful conceptual artists with terrible ideas and a complete lack of technical skills (you can te
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HN user kyledrake started https://neocities.org/ in 2013 and it is going strong.
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> I never dispose of them with other equipment, instead telling myself I will someday wipe them manually and/or drill through the platters Don't do that! Hoard them to sell on eBay for hobby money later. There is a looming retr
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by sedachv 9y ago
SEEKING WORK - Los Angeles, CA / Remote / Willing to consider travel Hi. I am a Los Angeles-based independent software engineering contractor specializing in web- and cloud-based services and SaaS applications, Unix (GNU/Linu
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Pretty much. One of the metrics optimized for was profitability of repeat business. You want that inflection point where you get as much as possible from the customer while still leaving them solvent and up to date on payments. This is wher
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Source: worked for an online payday lender. There are a lot of commercial APIs from "Consumer Reporting Agencies," providing public information beyond credit rating agencies, that are in use to determine lending decisions. The Wik
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Any time people claim that Lisp is a functional programming language, I like to drag out this example posted by Joe Marshall to comp.lang.lisp[1]: (DEFUN RDSYL (L DF) (PROG (LL BRAKP ANS CH) (SETQ DF (MERGEF DF &#x27
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> The real story is the engineer drinking 8+ cups of black coffee or 10 sodas per day... Very much agree. Compulsive consumption of sugary/caffeinated beverages is very much an eating disorder. People engage in this at work as a mea
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> But if someone is showing up with "brain fog" and underperforming while feeling skilled, that really sounds like something else is up. One of the things that sustained stimulant abuse contributes to is sleep deprivation and t
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Your local public library will have a lot of quality career advice books. Nancy Barry's When Reality Hits is a good one. Go to the shelf it is on and browse around.
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> I wouldn't. What's the point exactly? If the smart house/ambient computing stuff ever works as described, it will be really useful for people with disabilities.
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> Flippantly dismissing certain technologies and engaging in “just”isms needs to be called out because it’s not productive or helpful. I agree that hashkb's comment was flippant and unhelpful, but your reply was not any better and w
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> By spreading the load across the dev team I can automatically get a high bus factor and 24/7 hour on-call rotation. This assertion supports what vidarh wrote. What you wrote has nothing to do with DevOps or software or engineering
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Not only did BrandonM have a point in 2007, today it is even easier and much more advantageous to do file synchronization with Free Software tools. If you have multiple machines you have SSH on all of them already. There is no better soluti
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> what I wouldn't give to have my aux connector in again. Your head unit probably has an aux connector in the back, either 1/8" or RCA input as part of video input. You can run a long 1/8" male-male wire from the
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Sorry, I don't think you know anything about the history of the relationship between computer programming and philosophy. Kurt Gödel was an analytic philosopher. John McCarthy's work stems directly from analytic philosophy, and go
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> Especially if the loan is single-action or your investments get funneled into creditor-protected retirement accounts. That is a very interesting strategy. Do you have any recommendations for books or other resources that discuss this?
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Here is a definition of analytic philosophy from Wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytic_Philosophy ): "As a philosophical practice, [analytic philosophy] is characterized by an emphasis on argumentative
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> Can you expand on this? To me, Plato seems like a fairly good fit for the computer world. That is exactly the issue - computing is the closest thing we will ever have to Platonic Idealism. You can create simple, elegant, symmetric worl
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Absolutely, because it keeps you from wasting time. Computer programming is applied analytic philosophy and unfortunately very few people realize this. For example, if more people knew about the shortcomings of Platonism, we wouldn't b
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> 'first' and 'rest' for 'car' and 'cdr' are obviously better, because they say what's going on I sometimes use cons cells for binary trees - first and rest are misleading in that case. I

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