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by sparcpile 4y ago
I use them as for when my housemate and wife, who both have disabilities and are fall risks, need help. All they need to do is call for help. I set myself as the emergency contact, so my cell phone and other Echo devices will tell me that t
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by sparcpile 4y ago
Simon Winchester has written several great books that I've thoroughly enjoyed over the years. He's one of my favorite non-fiction authors. A pair of books called The Atlantic and The Pacific; detailing the history of the ocean, pe
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by sparcpile 4y ago
This also the same company that smuggled artifacts out of Iraq. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobby_Lobby_smuggling_scandal It did come to a head with the case of United States of America v. Approximately Four Hundred
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by sparcpile 4y ago
It is an interesting idea to use these in mock-ups for the TFMS replacement as long as they were example and not hard HF/CHI requirements. I would not trust college students with no experience in HF/CHI to create GUI requirements
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by sparcpile 4y ago
Yes, C++ has CppCon, so that conference is making money for the organizers.
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by sparcpile 4y ago
There is no money in a C/C++ Conference. Conferences are held so that the organizers can make a profit from tickets and booth fees.
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by sparcpile 4y ago
With the EFI stub in the Linux kernel and the ability to embed an initrd in the kernel, you can boot a small distribution with just the kernel file. The only issue is that it takes a long time to load a very large kernel into memory like th
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by sparcpile 4y ago
There have been some attempts to capture sites that became the ghosts or disappeared completely. During the dotcom bubble through 2008, Steve Baldwin(co-author of Netslaves) had that as a side project. https://www.disobey.com&#x2
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by sparcpile 4y ago
The author re-worded iterative development where you start with a skeleton and slowly build out. Their example was to build out a simple build pipeline with stub projects that are replaced over time. The Practice of Programming(Kernighan an
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by sparcpile 5y ago
The XML backup that is available in the Server and Datacenter editions was not meant to be used for anything other than toy instances. The documentation suggested that you restore from database backups and copies of the home directory that
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by sparcpile 5y ago
TheRasteri on had a set of Youtube videos where we created a DOS/Windows 98 gaming PC using the Vortex86DX and when through a set of benchmarks and comparisons. The retro enthusiast community started about the WeeCee that he created.
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Mozilla Prompting Pixar Movie(mozilla.org)
11 points by sparcpile 5y ago|5 comments
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by sparcpile 5y ago
NCommander had a multi-part stream of building LFS up to Firefox. He's gotten up to building Xorg and the Firefox prereqs so far. I don't know when he plans on doing the final push to building Firefox. Part 1: https://w
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by sparcpile 5y ago
There is an interesting fork of LFS that uses Musl instead of glibc. https://github.com/dslm4515/Musl-LFS I played with it for a while as the base OS for my KVM hypervisor servers. A couple of years ago, I tried to fin
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by sparcpile 5y ago
Perpetual Stews are an interesting thing. A couple years ago, I found out about Burgoo, which is an Appalachian stew. Burgoo is the subject of many cookoffs and festivals there. Perpetual Stews were a way of stretching food so that every li
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by sparcpile 5y ago
As a warning, if you use JFR in the Oracle Java SDK, you have to pay a commercial license. If you want to avoid the legion of Oracle lawyers, only use JFR in OpenJDK. https://docs.oracle.com/javacomponents/jmc-5-4/
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by sparcpile 5y ago
The No Place of Honor came from the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant report out of Sandia National Lab back in 1993. It is good read about long time and how to deal with communicating messages through the ages. https://digital.library
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by sparcpile 5y ago
US-40 from I-95 to Atlantic City is still very rural. When I lived in the DC area, I would take US-40 from I-95 to go the FAA's Technical Center at the Atlantic City airport because it was nicer drive and you get to see interesting sit
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by sparcpile 5y ago
Boothbay is a nice area as well. When the Boothbay Harbor's beach gets too crowded, The nearby Pemaquid Point Lighthouse has a good park and pocket beach. The Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens in Boothbay are also nearby. We've visi
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by sparcpile 5y ago
After medical and recreational weed was legalized, the lost weed company is not really needed. Their prices were pretty high and have stayed that way.
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by sparcpile 5y ago
We use grace to provide graphs of resource usage for our end users. We wrote a tool that pulls together acct and other data sources to provide a graph of usage over time. It made it very easy for them to tell us that at 0300, 0442, 0529, th
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by sparcpile 5y ago
I still use NEdit when I develop code. I don't like 1GB+ RAM IDEs like Eclipse or VSCode when I can get things done in a smaller text editor and a command line. I'll use vi for small edit jobs or quick text. NEdit comes out when I
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by sparcpile 5y ago
It wasn't good. During his tenure, he had the university create a deal with Kaplan to brand Kaplan University as Purdue Global and get the Indiana legisture to pass a sweetheart law for it. The result is that Purdue's name as a ve
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by sparcpile 5y ago
Nathan Lineback has an article with more screenshots on his site. His review is over 20 years old now. http://toastytech.com/guis/dvx.html
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by sparcpile 5y ago
For the wireless connections listed (Telstra, Opus, and Vodaphone), I do wonder how much of this are on the same physical tower and network. Certain parts of this multi-home connection would be running off the same physical network due to
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by sparcpile 5y ago
The program's name was AAS, the Advanced Automation System. It was designed to be a full end-to-end system replacement for the HOST mainframe systems that were the FAA's backbone. This included terminal, en-route, oceanic, and eve
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by sparcpile 5y ago
DevOps = sysadmin SecOps = sysadmin has to apply the CIS/SCAP/whatever security template to the machine DevSecOps = developer also has to apply the CIS/SCAP/whatever security template to their machine It all ends up beco
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Rocky Linux releases its first release candidate(rockylinux.org)
149 points by sparcpile 5y ago|116 comments
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by sparcpile 5y ago
His previous work has been software games, which make up a fair share of his income along with YouTube ads. He quit his real job to be a YouTube personality and sell software on the side. The design goal of the X16 was to try to make a 8bit
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by sparcpile 5y ago
The 1.6 series was the last to use the old-style version of up to three version levels. 2.0 was the start of the version.release scheme. I've been using NetBSD for over 20 years now and I keep coming back to it when I want a coherent a

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