spauldo

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by spauldo 6mo ago
Everybody smoked back then. Besides, until you get older your health is much more affected by your lifestyle than whether or not you smoke.
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by spauldo 6mo ago
Most astronauts were chosen from a decent sized pool of military pilots. Pilots are some of the most expensive assets the military has (moreso than the planes they fly) and they have to be physically fit. People wanting to become astronauts
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by spauldo 7mo ago
They'd lose a whole lot of users if they killed Java edition, since the modded community is so large. They'd quickly find one of the Minecraft clones reaching feature parity. And there's no good reason for it - it's not
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by spauldo 7mo ago
We already have to trust that none of the people involved in the official images are foreign (or even domestic) intelligence agents, so it's not that different.
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by spauldo 8mo ago
I don't recall the Bible saying much about who to vote for, given that democracy wasn't much of a thing in the ancient middle east.
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by spauldo 8mo ago
I haven't used Linux as a gateway in years, so I can only compare pf to iptables. The two biggest differences are the way the rules are applied and the logging. pf rules work a little backwards compared to iptables. A packet traverses
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by spauldo 8mo ago
You're confusing two different things. For most C and C++ software, you use the system packaging which uses libraries that (usually) have stable ABIs. If your program uses one of those problematic libraries, you might need to recompile
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by spauldo 9mo ago
That's when you rewrite your codebase in the SPARK dialect of Ada and play innocent when your management questions you about it.
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by spauldo 10mo ago
True, there are exceptions. Stallman thought strategically. Having a free-but-non-copyleft licensed reference implementation is necessary if you are trying to wrest dominance from an established but proprietary standard. But I'm willin
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by spauldo 10mo ago
The FSF has written extensively on why (in their opinion) you should prefer copyleft licenses over non-copyleft licenses, but they don't require a license to be copyleft in order to be considered free. It's worth spending a bit of
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by spauldo 10mo ago
It's not the development model at fault here. It's the simple fact that Windows makes up nearly the entire user base for PCs. Companies make sure their hardware works with Windows, but many don't bother with Linux because it&
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by spauldo 10mo ago
Yeah, V8 is the shape of the engine - 8 cylinders in two rows offset at an acute angle (i. e. V-shaped). Likewise a V6 has the same number of cylinders as an inline 6 but performs very differently. There's a handful of different engine
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by spauldo 10mo ago
Especially since, IIRC, it actually predates C.
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by spauldo 11mo ago
A Linux-based system would be identical to a Windows-based system as far as operator experience goes. They interact with HMI software and only see the OS underneath when Windows pops up silly notifications and errors. Windows owns the indus
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by spauldo 1y ago
Yeah, I was there too. The three companies you list are horrible examples. IBM is kind of a UNIX vendor, sort of, but not like Sun or DEC. They sell solutions, and the solutions that use AIX don't overlap with what Linux was capable
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by spauldo 1y ago
No, we wouldn't. Linux climbed its way up to overtake proprietary UNIX despite being less capable, which it very much was at the time. Linux came around at the right time when the Internet was going public and regular people had access
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by spauldo 1y ago
I doubt NetBSD gets much use by "big corps." It's used by hobbyists, researchers, and universities.
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by spauldo 1y ago
NetBSD is the slim, small, traditional BSD that has an emphasis on clean code and portability. It's great for small jobs and it'll run on that old SPARC that's collecting dust in the closet. It's simpler than FreeBSD (th
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by spauldo 1y ago
You aren't going to see OpenBSD share a kernel with anyone - it's too different and makes trade-offs the others won't accept. And NetBSD doesn't need the heavyweight kernel FreeBSD uses. From what I've seen, the BSD
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by spauldo 1y ago
It's my nameserver/DHCP server. I used to have it set up as an iSCSI target for backups and as a boot server for my firewall, but I do something else these days. My main reason for using NetBSD for this is to have easy access to t
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by spauldo 1y ago
Yeah I don't buy that argument either. The amount of e-waste being saved by NetBSD is so tiny as to be insignificant. NetBSD is great for retrocomputing, since it's a modern OS that can run on very limited hardware. It's also
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by spauldo 1y ago
Try going to west Oklahoma sometime. Not even the people who've never traveled think it's the most beautiful place on Earth.
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by spauldo 1y ago
Norse runes are just an alphabet. As long as your language uses the same set of sounds, you can write with them today. People get confused about them because there's a tie-in with the old Germanic religions where they're used by t
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by spauldo 1y ago
Terry Pratchett had some books kind of like this. The Carpet People has characters that live in the fibers of a living room carpet and are subject to mysterious phenomena they don't understand (such as a vacuum cleaner). The Bromeliad
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by spauldo 1y ago
What an outrage! Everyone knows (but big pharma tries to hide it) that if a barrel of the vaccine rolls off a high roof and falls onto your head it'll kill you instantly!
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by spauldo 1y ago
The differences between the translations are generally very minor. There are very few places where there is any significant difference in meaning.
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by spauldo 1y ago
I suspect it depends on the industry and type of product. In the PLC market, I've worked with Schneider-Electric, Wago, and Emerson support. All three were excellent. They're excellent because they know we're going to choose
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by spauldo 1y ago
Note I specifically said "is used to spread hate." There are a lot of people who use religion as a tool to push their agenda. That's especially true here in the US, where the evangelical churches are so prevalent. It differs
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by spauldo 1y ago
150 years ago, the buildings where I live were made of wood or sod and there were no cities. Fifty years before that, there were no buildings at all. The native people lived in tents, followed the buffalo herds, and the sky was their temple
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by spauldo 1y ago
You must be in a very different part of the world than I am. One with grand cathedrals, perhaps. Where I'm from, a church is usually a big box with a brick facade, glass doors, paint over drywall interiors, and fake wood trim. Outside

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