smarx007

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   by smarx007 5y ago

   I always admired their use of SQLite: https://blog.expensify.com/2018/01/08/scaling-sqlite-to-4m-q...
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   by smarx007 5y ago

   No, this is a shrewd defense against a witness saying in court "but the opposing lawyer didn't let me speak and only told me to answer their questions, that's why it's not in the deposition".
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   by smarx007 5y ago

   Most of the corporate IT leases employee hardware already and has 3-5 year laptop refresh cycles accounted for. I don't see how Windows 11 will affect anything in the big scheme of things for large enterprise IT procurement. But as far
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   by smarx007 5y ago

   Side note: this looks like a very well typeset document. Also, seems like the first use of Butterick's fonts [1] by the courts? [1]: https://practicaltypography.com/mb-fonts.html
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   by smarx007 5y ago

   > To ensure that every Pi at our decentralized locations always has enough network throughput, the uplink and downlink is fixed at 10 Mbps. Ok, thx, I have a 100/10 Mpbs link at home. The only reason I'd place my Pi in a colo i
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   by smarx007 5y ago

   Printer manufacturers figured out how to make their customers lives miserable long after the sale. Also, see what FTDI did: https://hackaday.com/2014/10/22/watch-that-windows-update-ft...
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   by smarx007 5y ago

   Not knowing about the flag :)
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   by smarx007 5y ago

   Waiting until screen sharing works under wayland in FF, Chrome etc. Quite a smooth ride otherwise.
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   by smarx007 5y ago

   Ah, but 'dnf install' does also what 'apt-get update' does when necessary. So, dnf is faster for me than 'apt-get update && apt-get install'. I think there is a flag you can alias to force disable updat
10. 520.▲
    by smarx007 5y ago

    And there is Rocky Linux for the rest.
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    by smarx007 5y ago

    Recent software just as in Arch while not fearing to upgrade and being unable to boot because you didn't read "edit this config" notice?
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    by smarx007 5y ago

    DNF is actually faster for me than APT on Ubuntu. 700 packages can get updated on 100Mbps link in a few minutes. Large package updates took 5+ minutes on Ubuntu.
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    by smarx007 5y ago

    Wow, I learned something new today! Didn't know you could get such a subscription for free.
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    by smarx007 5y ago

    Python 3 (3.6) is available in the base repos for Ubuntu 18.04 and CentOS 7. Ubuntu 16.04 was EOLed in 2021-04 and CentOS 6 is EOL since 2020-12. Using anything older is plain insecure (unless you are paying for ESR contracts beyond the EOL
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    by smarx007 5y ago

    Additionally, 'local -n' allows to define a local variable as a reference, useful with arrays, for example.
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    by smarx007 5y ago

    Actually, you can expect a recent version of Python 3 from most distros these days. Stdlib is quite powerful and no hurt would come from a small number of globally installed libs with stable APIs, like click and requests.
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    by smarx007 5y ago

    As I read it, "correct response or an error message" does not include "approximations". Your app either runs on it or fails with an error. I assume many apps use quite a limited set of T-SQL features when going through E
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    by smarx007 5y ago

    Thanks! It was not clear from https://www.sumologic.com/pricing/
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    by smarx007 5y ago

    At almost $100 per GB of logs ingested, I think it’s targeted at SV startups.
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    by smarx007 5y ago

    I run https://forum.open-services.net/ and "Latest" is the default option. You actually have to explicitly click "Top" to "get some algorithm that is determining hotness". As an admin, I can sh
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    by smarx007 5y ago

    ?! It’s common on many Linux distros as well as Windows to hit the Win key and type to filter apps to launch. Same on Mac, Win+Space allows you to type the app name.
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    by smarx007 5y ago

    Just had to do this a week ago to get a launch icon for Spring Tool Suite that is Eclipse based (not an sh file). This is a real pain, especially for people who are not familiar with a terminal. On Windows, you right click on any exe and cr
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    by smarx007 5y ago

    The key bit: “Yet lithium is a metal, and state regulations passed in 2017 prohibit mining for metals in open pits of more than three acres, which would be the only way to cost-effectively extract lithium at Plumbago North. “I don’t know o
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    by smarx007 5y ago

    Em, if there are many people that care about the issue, are those comments really spam?
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    by smarx007 5y ago

    > The third one I tried had a fault where it would spontaneously shut down if I had any USB devices plugged into it for any reason at all (in this case it was a mouse and a flash drive). I have a power supply that is so weak that Pi woul
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    by smarx007 5y ago

    I understand what you mean, of course. I am not sure if anti-dumping was ever applied to products given away for free with zero unit cost economics. If applied incorrectly, Apple and Microsoft could argue that Linux and Linux-based OSes bei
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    by smarx007 5y ago

    I definitely had a good laugh at "keeps competitors weak by being the best"
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    by smarx007 5y ago

    https://www.aaam.org/annual-conference/instructions-for-full... does not mention the publication of (indexed) proceedings.
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    by smarx007 5y ago

    Thanks! And the conference publication with technical details: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/355202701_Reverse_e...
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    by smarx007 5y ago

    I think it’s a job for Dutch courts to determine, not the manufacturer.