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by spudlyo 8y ago
Confluence's editor is truly awful. I've spent 15 minutes just trying to remove superfluous newlines -- it's maddening. If you do something like {{fsck}} to create a bit of monospace text, it's totally unclear if there i
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by spudlyo 8y ago
You are not alone. My laptop travels from work to home in my backpack and is immediately plugged into a dock connected to my Kinesis keyboard, mouse and monitor where I do all my serious work. I guess I mostly use my laptop like it's a
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by spudlyo 8y ago
I've worked in some big, comfortable cubes next to windows, and they were quite nice. Even going to a smaller cube with no view would be a luxury compared to open concept hell.
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by spudlyo 8y ago
Sometimes the bottleneck is your wallet.
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by spudlyo 9y ago
I think we agree that the many eyes maxim isn't as big of a factor as some might make it out to be, perhaps it's more of a "the devil you know" situation. With hardware there isn't a lot of transparency around the i
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by spudlyo 9y ago
Now I'm not one to go quoting ESR, but it's essentially because FOSS crypto software is widely used and has had a lot of eyeballs on it. Clearly that doesn't grant it immunity from bugs, but given my recent experiences, I&#x2
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by spudlyo 9y ago
Personally, I now prefer to do crypto using FOSS software, even if it means a CPU performance hit. Who knows which crypto library is being used with hardware? I had certainly never heard of Infineon's RSALib before CVE-2017-15361 cause
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by spudlyo 9y ago
It was disturbing to think of the Flatline as a construct, a hardwired ROM cassette replicating a dead man's skills, obsessions, knee-jerk responses. --Neuromancer
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by spudlyo 9y ago
I really like that idea. It might be fun to be given some `strace` output (with the initial `execve` and writes to stdout/stderr redacted) and then be asked to determine which UNIX command it was, or more broadly what it was doing.
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by spudlyo 9y ago
Do you know about `comm`? Given two sorted files it will show you in three columns. * unique lines to file1 * unique lines to file2 * lines common to both files You can pass it various options to suppress any of the three c
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by spudlyo 9y ago
I too instinctively run `w` whenever I log into a machine, and that instinct helped me land my current job. One hour long component of a (now deprecated) SRE interview loop was for the candidate to SSH into a series of EC2 instances and deb
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by spudlyo 9y ago
Agreed, this really grates on me too. I'm seriously thinking about just filtering anything with an unsubscribe link.
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Alacritty integration with Tmux(arslan.io)
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Fancy Bear DDoS for Ransom(security.radware.com)
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by spudlyo 9y ago
If you have an iPhone make sure you're on iOS 10.3.3. For Macs, you want macOS 10.12.6.
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by spudlyo 9y ago
Reminds me of my 300/1200 baud days, when you couldn't live without it.
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by spudlyo 9y ago
Can we change the link to point to the full video[0]? [0]: http://www.reuters.com/video/2017/07/12/fintech?videoId=3720...
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by spudlyo 9y ago
Several years back I worked as a DBA at a managed database services company, and something very similar happened to one of our customers who ran a fairly successful startup. When we first onboarded them I strongly recommended that the fi
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by spudlyo 10y ago
In the US most folks only have a handful of service providers to choose from. There are a huge number of VPN/PaaS/HaaS providers you can choose from, it shouldn't be hard to find one that respects your privacy.
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by spudlyo 10y ago
Excellent point. In the US you likely only have a small number of ISPs you can choose from, but there are huge number of VPN/PaaS/HaaS providers out there that you can route your traffic through. Surely some will compete on privac
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by spudlyo 10y ago
A buddy of mine, for fun, has learned how to hand assemble X86_64 ELF binaries using a primitive line oriented text editor and arcane keyboard sequences. He's used this technique to bootstrap his own stack based programming language an
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by spudlyo 10y ago
Heh, nice! I'm a big fan of eggcorns[1] and your post is positively teaming with them! [1]: http://eggcorns.lascribe.net
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by spudlyo 10y ago
Excellent point. Racism and sexism are big ideas that operate on more than one level. Thanks for the reminder that I was thinking about it a narrow way.
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by spudlyo 10y ago
I've worked with a number of otherwise smart people who have a low social intelligence . These folks tend to do their work and keep their heads down, and might not even realize that there are widespread cultural problems at their work
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by spudlyo 10y ago
I think we're having an argument about semantics. I think it's a mistake to conflate racism with prejudice. I believe it diminishes the concepts of racism and sexism to invoke them in a non-systemic context.
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by spudlyo 10y ago
If you substitute the gender or the color of "young, white physically fit dude" you get blatant racism or sexism. I agree. If I did have a bias against white males I might consider it technically racism or sexism, but not blat
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by spudlyo 10y ago
It would be tempting to vote no on an otherwise qualified candidate citing "culture fit" who has Uber on their resume and a whiff of "bro dude" about them. Ultimately though I hope I'd resist that temptation, becaus
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by spudlyo 10y ago
"Okay, let me see if William is available." The product support engineer brings up the customer's service record and looks at the name of the support engineer who handled the earlier call: billg. Those details were fictiona
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by spudlyo 10y ago
This actually happened. I wrote the account lower on that page attributed to 't-mikeha' which was my Microsoft username back in 1989. I also made the same comment here when this story originally appeared on HN years ago. My friend
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by spudlyo 10y ago
I've been a DBA for thousands of MySQL hosts in production and just a handful of PostgreSQL clusters, so I'm not a PostgreSQL expert by any stretch. These PostgreSQL machines were also inherited from a company we acquired, so some

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