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by spauldo 1y ago
I suspect part of it is just the desire for something different. I browse eBay and still get the irrational urge to buy unusual hardware, even though my Sparcstations and Alpha have proven time and time again that the novelty dies away quic
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by spauldo 1y ago
Cousin sex is what gives you the Habsburgs. It's why Jewish folk are more likely to have certain genetic disorders. It's harmless if it's occasional, but if it's repeated over and over again problems start building up.
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by spauldo 1y ago
The rand(3) thing isn't about repeatability across implementations. Normally if you call srand(3) with the same seed, you get the same sequence of numbers from rand(3). It's useful for testing and debugging. OpenBSD ignores srand
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by spauldo 1y ago
Nice. We got told we should "have some pride" and clean the office on our own time.
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by spauldo 1y ago
I totally agree. A major change in my field over the last few years is the rise of Ignition, a SCADA suite that's taking over everywhere. And sure, it's got simpler and cheaper licensing than it's rivals. But for our projects
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by spauldo 1y ago
Found the Keyence sales rep! No, I'm the lead integrator at a small-to-medium-sized company. Which means when an engineer brings me in on a project, I have a decent amount of influence on the software and controls hardware we use. The
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by spauldo 1y ago
It's not horribly common. If POSIX mandates something insecure, OpenBSD will often break POSIX in favor of security. The simplest example is gets(3) doesn't exist in libc. rand(3) and family aren't deterministic (srand_determ
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by spauldo 1y ago
> There is more than one way to do it. I see what you did there :)
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by spauldo 1y ago
FreeBSD cares about POSIX and traditional BSD compatibility more than OpenBSD does, so it'll run more software than OpenBSD can. That can be an upside or a downside depending on your point of view - when OpenBSD breaks POSIX they do it
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by spauldo 1y ago
It's not so much about advantages as it is about making the FreeBSD laptop experience better. A lot of people like FreeBSD on the desktop but use Linux on laptops because Linux has better support for those. If you're not the type
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by spauldo 1y ago
I'll tell you how not to do it. Require me to give you my contact information just to download something. Have sales people blow up my phone and/or email and ignore polite brush-offs. Keep reaching out to me periodically with requ
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by spauldo 1y ago
Tobacco, and cigarettes in particular, has been used as a medicine for hundreds of years. And it's not just in the distant past - a friend of mine was actually prescribed cigarettes for anxiety about 30 years ago here in the US when he
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by spauldo 1y ago
Assuming you're talking about the COVID vaccines, I don't know if I ever saw any healthy suspicion. The signal to noise ratio dropped to zero because it was a political football. It's a good thing I'm not dictator, &#x27
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by spauldo 1y ago
In that case it'd just live on in Melpa regardless of what the mailing list thinks.
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by spauldo 1y ago
It has a great editor - evil-mode!
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by spauldo 1y ago
The Emacs community is incredibly diverse. You'll find derision for just about everything if you look for it. I'm guessing there's a lot of grumbling on the mailing list about non-free AI services. That's fine, you can i
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by spauldo 1y ago
The objective is very much to stop non-free software. It always has been. It's not secret - it's explicitly why the FSF exists. And that's a good thing, for the most part. Someone needs to hold the hard-line stance. It'l
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by spauldo 1y ago
It'd be no different than eglot, project.el, etc. Third party packages experiment with stuff, then a stable implementation appears in core.
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by spauldo 1y ago
Automation costs a lot. The projects I work on are almost always in the millions of dollars,band they're far from being considered "big" projects. The hardware manufacturers will sell you equipment that runs for thirty years.
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by spauldo 1y ago
There is a diverse set of opinions on this site. We don't all think the same. Also, there's a distinction you're overlooking. Not trusting big pharma isn't the same thing as not trusting medicine. Big pharma will happily
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by spauldo 1y ago
Competition is great except when it isn't. Rural customers get screwed because they're not worth the effort. You'll spend more money running fiber to them than you'll ever get back, and that's before you take compet
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by spauldo 1y ago
"Now I've been admitted to Refrigerator Heaven..."
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by spauldo 1y ago
1954, actually. But it's a minor thing. You don't need to know anything about the IBM 704 to write Lisp. A cons cell is a specific data structure and its components have specific, if unusual names. There's a lot of unintuitiv
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by spauldo 1y ago
I've got two and will probably add a third. The one pointed at the driveway sends an alert to my phone when someone visits. It's handy because I can't hear the house from my office so I often don't realize when we have g
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by spauldo 1y ago
To be fair, this isn't what normal Perl usually looks like. Perl allows you to write like this but most people don't. This is more like Duff's Device in that it works and it's clever and you'd can anyone who put it
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by spauldo 1y ago
I do that and I'm senior :) (To be fair my kind of testing is a lot different than unit tests, and the tests I'm cancelling are mulit-page forms that require three signatures.)
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by spauldo 1y ago
Probably better off not applying for the mafia in the future :)
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by spauldo 1y ago
I'm working on it, give me time.
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by spauldo 1y ago
More like they don't have guns any more. Go back a hundred years, you can see what went on when they did. And the government was right there with them.
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by spauldo 1y ago
I think you missed my last paragraph :)

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