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by siffland 7y ago
It will not stop, as you have said, they copied and improved. I have said it before, the Chinese are excellent engineers, but they lack in originality. So they NEED the rest of the world to make original stuff they can copy and improve up
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by siffland 7y ago
The problem for the US in the case of trains is that the US government owns Amtrak and they own no actual train tracks. Therefore when there are 2 trains competeing for the same track, Amtrak has to yield to the commercial trains. I have
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by siffland 7y ago
Last contract i was on everyone was remote. I ended up driving in everyday to work on the systems because i was one of 3 people who lived in the same city as the systems. I could hardly ever get ahold of anyone. They would just not be the
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by siffland 7y ago
How is this a valid move. You bought a service and failed to pay for it. How is this different from predatory payday loans. Sure it is on a larger scale, but do you agree that if you get a payday loan you can leave the country and not pa
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by siffland 7y ago
I was just talking to a coworker yesterday and at his previous job part of his security was to go out to the employee parking lot and dump thumbdrives, if they were plugged into the corporate network they would send a message to the securit
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by siffland 7y ago
everyone must have way more upscale bars than i do. the 8 or so bars in a 5 mile radius from the house dont even have video cameras, let alone care who enters the bar (as long as they are over 21). I can see where this would be helpful, bu
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by siffland 7y ago
Just to clarify I was not implying a English degree is a bad thing. My sister is smart, she just didn't use it for anything or have any goals for it. So that is why i posed the question if it was a good choice (i had to use reference
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by siffland 7y ago
She did go to a private college and never had a job that paid more than 20k a year (mostly her fault). She has got extensions, deferments, etc... She is 7 years older than me so i didnt understand the differences in colleges at the time.
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by siffland 7y ago
paranoia, it is not just a social condition, it is also a defense mechanism.......
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by siffland 7y ago
So one thing i dont see is what their degrees were. If you have a bunch of people saturating the field, then jobs will be hard to find and low paying. If you have people getting degrees in leisure studies, they wont get a job, etc... My 1
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by siffland 7y ago
You are correct Netflix goes out of their way to reduce netowrk traffic. https://openconnect.netflix.com/ This is a pretty good read, albiet a few years old. https://gizmodo.com/this-box-can-hold-an-entire-n
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by siffland 7y ago
I would not be suprised if it is an offshoot of FreeBSD. That way they could get away from the GPL license altogether and wont violate any licensing agreements. If they based it off Linux, unless it was avalible to download online, it woul
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by siffland 7y ago
"and will be launching its own database similar to Oracle soon." Wonder just how similar to Oracle it will be.
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by siffland 7y ago
"the government arrests people and seizes factories that violate these ecological goals" But near human slavery in factories with working commiting suicide, that does not violate any goals. So it says greener today than 20 years a
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by siffland 7y ago
Yeah but Russia hitting us with hypersonic weapons and China sabotaging us with electronic warfare or North Korea nuking us is a far greater possiblity that may occur than aliens invading. That is why our money is pumped there. But at leas
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by siffland 7y ago
reminds me of the time Oklahoma City was threatening CentoOS with calling the FBI because there website was down and they thought CentOS hacked it: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/24/tuttle_centos/
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by siffland 7y ago
Mine is a cheap one, it does not have an external sdcard slot. It just has the internal 32GB, 1 usb3 and 1 usb2 slot and the HDMI port (and wireless and bluetooth). So i could boot from an external USB, but that kinda kills the point of t
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by siffland 7y ago
Get a Banana Pi M2 Zero for the same price and much faster. Yeah not as much support, but will still run a desktop. SBC's are getting better and better. I am just waiting for better storage and usb3 on the tiny ones (some have it)
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by siffland 7y ago
I have an intel compute stick that came with Widnows 10. It has 32GB of internal storage, the issue is the newest windows update wont fit on the silly thing. I got around it buy attaching a usb drive for the update and that left very litt
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by siffland 7y ago
“We can also make the same chips as the US chips, but it doesn’t mean we won’t buy them.” Does that mean they are going to steal IP and pirate it? Yes a silly question because i don't know what chips they are and who holds the IP for
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by siffland 7y ago
They say there is the ability to opt out, i wish the US Government would pass a bill that everything is opt out by default (for the US of course). This is not just for this article but for all data gathering devices/software in genera
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by siffland 7y ago
Systemd is not GPLv2, according to wikipedia it is LGPLv2.1+. Of course someone here at work told me i am splitting hairs and they are pretty much the same thing and compatible.
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by siffland 7y ago
One of my biggest concerns about systemd is the ownership. Sure it is open sourced, however RedHat has a lot of pull on its maintainers (Soon to be IBM). What is to stop them from dual licensing it or close sourcing it. They have lots of
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by siffland 7y ago
I have to call this out as a very poor comparision. I would love to know the linux kernel commits in 2019 vs CVE's in a percentage, vs systemd commits in 2019 vs CVE's in a percentage (or 2018 or 2017). Now compare systemd CVE&#x
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by siffland 7y ago
Oh, you forgot their software spinoff Micro Focus. 20 years of saying HP <softwarename>, everyone in meetings correct me with Micro Focus....old habits die hard. I just hope it is not like other companies they bought, rebranded and j
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by siffland 8y ago
it is all about the benjamins...and big ISP have more of them. I have 2 ISP's (Spectrum and AT&T), and both are really expensive. And i am in San Antonio, how is this competition and how does this help me the consumer. So very fr
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by siffland 8y ago
I thought Fuschia was BSD licensed? Isn't the source avalible online? Sure they can add binary blobs, but they do that already with android. Not that i trust google, because i don't ;)
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by siffland 8y ago
A problem with RediSearch, at least for me is: Note: clustering is only available in RediSearch’s Enterprise version https://redislabs.com/redis-enterprise/technology/redis-sear... At least with ES i can build and
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by siffland 8y ago
Would not that of violated the I.N.F treaty? This is a serious question because I am not sure.
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by siffland 8y ago
OK seriously, the other day at work we were talking about a coworker and one of my other coworkers said, oh you mean Sam Elliot because the first coworker looks like Sam Elliot from Roadhouse. Then there was a 15 minute discussion about t

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