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by sedachv 7y ago
https://nixos.org/nix/ https://guix.gnu.org/ Containers are a very poor substitute for package managers.
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by sedachv 7y ago
Depends on what you use DNS for. Because the /64 space is so large, and you have a very large, very flexible subnet above that, you can set up an address assignment scheme for non-public facing nodes where you do not need DNS, and you
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by sedachv 7y ago
> I've had this sneaking but hard to articulate suspicion that datacenters, bare metal servers, VMs, operating systems, containers, OS processes, language VMs, and threads are all really attempts to abstract the same thing. There is
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by sedachv 7y ago
> You need docker to handle the DNS, routing, port forwarding etc. If you do IPv6, there is no need for all of these layers of IPv4 overlay network crap.
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by sedachv 7y ago
> Plato terminals had a custom keyboard Every terminal and personal computer had a custom keyboard back then.
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by sedachv 7y ago
I do not think you can talk about typefaces separately from talking about color themes. Different typefaces will have completely different legibility depending on the background and foreground color. Low-contrast themes are terrible for leg
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by sedachv 7y ago
> Job re-training is mostly a myth Job re-training is more than a myth, it is another Reagan-era privatization scam, designed to funnel public money to private for-profit training centers and trade schools. Gordon Lafer's _The Job T
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by sedachv 7y ago
> Assuming it's NOT biased something happened in the 2nd half of 2014 to destroy traffic to Yahoo Groups. That is the time when Yahoo! Groups fucked up their DMARC implementation: https://groups.google.com/forum&#x2F
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by sedachv 7y ago
My comment might have come across as bragging. What I should have stated explicitly is that, being a typical HN poster, my experience shows that the GMAT would not be a difficult exam for most HN readers.
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by sedachv 7y ago
> the GMAT is a tough exam It might work ok as a way to filter out people who had a poor quality undergraduate education, but it is not a tough exam. I got a 700-something score (95th percentile) in 2011 on my first try with less than 6
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by sedachv 7y ago
> And then at some point during some random update some random set of apps will break all over again. It’s a far fucking cry from Karibiner. My experience: Karabiner breaks on every Mac OS X release, and unlike xmodmap, I have never been
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by sedachv 7y ago
> For example, automated package management was banned at the company level. Instead there was a central repository of approved packages that everyone used. Do you mean they had a private dpkg/yum repository? That is a well supporte
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by sedachv 7y ago
The issue is memory management. Henry Baker helped popularize linear types in the early 1990s ( http://home.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/ ) in his proposals for Lisp, from which work Rust's affine types derive, but no one
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by sedachv 7y ago
Harvey and Wright's _Simply Scheme_ is another excellent book that does not get enough mention.
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by sedachv 7y ago
> Granted, it will be annoying and painful to find new ways to do things like search the web, manage files/emails The best thing I did to reduce annoyance and pain in managing files and emails was to move off of hosted garbage like
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by sedachv 7y ago
> GNU hasn't had an answer to this besides "boycott it," which feels an awful lot like horse-riders suggesting we deal with the problems with cars by never owning or supporting ownership of them. That is a really unfair wa
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by sedachv 7y ago
Or you can stop spreading the FUD and point people to: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-affero-gpl.html
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by sedachv 7y ago
https://www.newpower99.com/ has replacement batteries for a lot of Sansa players.
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by sedachv 7y ago
The Affero GPL is especially suitable for hosted computing and services: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.en.html
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by sedachv 7y ago
This is most likely motivated by the US government (current and past administration) efforts to suppress whistle-blowers: https://theintercept.com/2019/08/04/whistleblowers-surveilla...
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by sedachv 7y ago
> I don’t know how you conclude that Guix won over Nix There is no contest that I am aware of. I used GuixSD vs NixOS as an example of how adapting existing standards can provide a lot more benefits with a lot less effort than coming up
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by sedachv 7y ago
> Is NixOS a scheme? That question does not make any sense. I am talking about Scheme the programming language: https://schemers.org/ NixOS is a GNU/Linux distribution built on top of the Nix package manager. The Ni
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by sedachv 7y ago
I do not understand the need for all of these different new language implementations and data formats. GuixSD vs NixOS already showed that Scheme is a superior solution as a configuration language, scripting language, template language, and
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by sedachv 7y ago
> Had no real way of submitting it other than emailing it to the interviewer as a zip. Being good at email (ex: not relying on GMail, knowing basic things about line length, top-posting, signature, having your own domain(s), using an act
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by sedachv 7y ago
Here is a link to the original interview, since neither Krebs nor the people that made the translation seem to believe in citing their sources: https://krober.biz/?p=3200#more-3200
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by sedachv 7y ago
As others have mentioned, moving HTTP versions is easier because it is at a higher protocol layer. But it is also an apples-to-oranges comparison, because the benefits of HTTP 2 or 3 over 1.1 are marginal compared to IPv6. The amount of ben
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by sedachv 7y ago
If you want to help do something about Internet surveillance, donate to the Electronic Privacy Information Center https://epic.org/ If you cannot donate, subscribing to their newsletter is free, and I highly recommend it.
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by sedachv 7y ago
Jef Raskin wrote about this 25 years ago: https://www.asktog.com/papers/raskinintuit.html
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by sedachv 7y ago
> Interesting to see that Japan both has the most "can't use computers" and "strong" users... There was a good post about this from foobiekr a couple of months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/it
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by sedachv 7y ago
Consider this fact: 70% of the adult population of the United States is overweight or obese.¹ An uncharitable interpretation would be that 70% of adults in the United States cannot manage to feed themselves appropriately. ¹ https:/&#x

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