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by sigil 10y ago
You can use xargs for parallel remote execution too. In the simplest case: list-hosts | xargs \ -P8 \ -n1 \ -I% \ ssh % some-command
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by sigil 10y ago
The "magic" is simply output buffering inside GNU parallel...something you should be aware of if the concurrent programs are producing large amounts of output.
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by sigil 10y ago
Wow. I'm a Spotify on Linux user and I've been trying to track down this issue for months. System Load Indicator showed huge write spikes, but they were brief enough that I hadn't yet caught the culprit red-handed in iotop. T
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by sigil 10y ago
Agreed, http://cr.yp.to/ is a triumph of minimalism, and the best trailing argument to `wget --mirror` you'll probably ever find.
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by sigil 10y ago
If you found the Cracked article insightful, an even deeper discussion of this "dark matter" phenomenon ("I don't know anyone who supports candidate X, but I can measure their gravity, so they must be out there somewher
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by sigil 10y ago
It feels to me like title-centric corporate culture might be a part of the problem here. Are you an SRE? An SWE? Do you Build? Or do you Run? Are you a Software Developer or a Software Engineer? They're interchangeable to the author, b
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by sigil 10y ago
Not sure exactly. Tinkering, curiosity, free reign to learn new things at a few lucky jobs, guilt at throwing problems "over the wall" to ops people, and the fact that we're all operators sometimes (we all probably run person
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by sigil 10y ago
Great advice on the whole! > 3. Use common command line options. The GNU options standards are good, but see also the "Command-Line Options" chapter in "The Art Of Unix Programming" for some of the reasoning and his
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by sigil 10y ago
I can recommend apenwarr's redo implementation [0]. There's occasional activity on the mailing list [1], which leads me to believe people are using it, but not promoting it much. The apenwarr implementation includes a full Python
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by sigil 10y ago
The Game Boy wouldn't run a game unless the cart sent it the Nintendo loading screen - a clever legal ploy that meant unofficial games were breaking copyright laws simply by replicating the logo. Diabolical! I wonder if Nintendo ever
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by sigil 10y ago
Interesting, thanks.
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by sigil 10y ago
Sounds a problem with your mailcap.
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by sigil 10y ago
> I often receive emails with attached images or HTML code. Here's my ~/.mailcap file: text/html; w3m -T text/html image/gif; gm display - image/jpg; gm display - image/eps; gm displ
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by sigil 10y ago
> There is still no good mechanism to use some features with Mutt like thread muting. I use `collapse-thread` (Esc-v) on long threads I don't care about, but you're right this is less than ideal. New messages in the thread unco
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by sigil 10y ago
Send a mail from your address to mailtest@unlocktheinbox.com. They send back an extensive "lint for smtp" report within minutes. I found it indispensable for debugging a DMARC issue recently.
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by sigil 10y ago
That Landis paper is great, thanks.
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by sigil 10y ago
Paper: "The Peaks of Eternal Light: a Near-term Property Issue on the Moon" http://arxiv.org/abs/1608.01989
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Legal Loophole Could Trigger a Landgrab for the Moon's Most Valuable Real Estate(technologyreview.com)
2 points by sigil 10y ago|1 comments
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by sigil 10y ago
Paper: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1607.08236v1.pdf
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Single-Pixel Camera Reaches Milestone, Mimicking Human Vision(technologyreview.com)
2 points by sigil 10y ago|1 comments
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by sigil 10y ago
Thanks, I hadn't seen `freebsd-update install --not-running-from-cron`. I'll give that a try.
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by sigil 10y ago
I've used the new pkg tools a little. Can you be more specific? Can they be used to reliably apply unattended security updates now?
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by sigil 10y ago
Keeping software up-to-date on FreeBSD sucks. That's my one and only complaint. If that got comparably easier, I'd be switching from Ubuntu/Debian on servers back to FreeBSD. I still run FreeBSD 8.4 on one production system,
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by sigil 10y ago
I'll give you an example. I used protobuf as the output format for a web crawler. Workers read urls and sequentially write entire HTTP responses to disk. [0] Sure, you could serialize the responses to JSON, but the overhead of represen
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by sigil 10y ago
What's the added value over xargs + ssh? Eg: echo host1 host2 | xargs -P2 -n1 -I% ssh % uptime
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by sigil 10y ago
> that offers transactions, or "compare and swap"-type operations? "Things UNIX can do atomically" https://rcrowley.org/2010/01/06/things-unix-can-do-atomicall...
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by sigil 10y ago
I tried to read and understand the Lightning Network paper recently. Glad I'm not the only one: If I’ve gotten anything wrong here, it’s because the Lightning Network is ridiculously complex: the paper is some 57 pages written in bloc
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Mpe.js – Multidimensional Polyphonic Expression (node, Browser)(mpe.js.org)
2 points by sigil 10y ago|0 comments
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by sigil 10y ago
I love TinyScheme. I love NaCl. This is wonderful!
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by sigil 10y ago
This looks really neat! There was a story about Lisp at JPL that got me dreaming about embedded REPLs: > The Remote Agent software, running on a custom port of Harlequin Common Lisp, flew aboard Deep Space 1 (DS1), the first mission of

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