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by taftster 6y ago
I mean, yes. Paid for by $US Tax Payers. I'm for one glad to see at least some of my investment returned, regardless of your opinions about the NSA.
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by taftster 6y ago
> It installs like an appliance and feels like you are grappling with a legacy tool weighed down by a classic view on architecture and maintenance. This is actually a fair and well-articulated point of view. NiFi is currently an &quot
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by taftster 6y ago
NiFi at first glance sometimes just looks like a glorified GUI for building out a data-delivery application. But NiFi doesn't just compile an application to be deployed on your network. Instead, the "power" of NiFi is that i
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by taftster 6y ago
Agreed. So here's an attempt to describe NiFi at a high level. Fundamentally NiFi is a "dataflow engine", a system that can be used to automate data transfer from different and varying types of sources and sinks. It has a fa
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by taftster 6y ago
Yeah maybe, but that's a pretty bleak point of view. "Sorry, you need to die so that this deadly variety can't continue to spread." I think we'd all rather give a fighting chance to anyone needing it using the best
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by taftster 6y ago
So that's a justification for the "dealer tax"? That the process is not "largely done by an app"? Seems to me that if the process cannot be streamlined by an app, that the process is wrong. Growing pains for this i
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by taftster 6y ago
Why do you like these prefixes? Honest question. My thoughts are: They don't really add any value to the branch nor do they inform the developer. Identifying a bug fix, a new feature, or a document branch doesn't change the way y
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by taftster 7y ago
Is there any comparison of mdBook to AsciiDoc? It seems the SUMMARY.md page of mdBook is critical to promote markdown effectively into a "book" presentation, something that feels more like on addon specification to markdown that
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by taftster 7y ago
Thanks - I run ublock origin but haven't really played with options like that. Worked great!
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by taftster 7y ago
That's the '???' part of it, I would assume.
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by taftster 7y ago
Costco has a very liberal return policy. This has already been discussed here, but people are buying toilet paper with the ability to easily return in mind. If they can't use it, they will just return it for a full refund. This is an e
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GOG offers 27 games for free to help pass the time(gog.com)
29 points by taftster 7y ago|5 comments
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by taftster 7y ago
Honest question (and not being rude). Is that strictly just being pedantic about it? Is the concept of NUL vs "NULL" semantically the same, and so you are just pointing out the ASCII abbreviation being used (three characters being
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by taftster 7y ago
I thought this was going to be a configuration generator and/or parser of an existing configuration file. While the documentation here is excellent (and the style of the site very nice), when I hit the home page, I am still left asking
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by taftster 7y ago
Agreed. Their reports are horrible and for all practical purposes useless. It has a few other warts and areas of improvement, which bother me, but none as much as the lack of reporting.
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by taftster 7y ago
It's OK. Java 8 is supported until: * June 2023 - Redhat [1] * June 2023 - Corretto [2] * September 2023 - AdoptOpenJDK [3] [1] https://access.redhat.com/articles/1299013 [2] https://aws.amazon.com&#
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by taftster 7y ago
I kind of phrased that poorly. I should have added the context of "in git". Saving a new 10MB file every time you change it, as per my original premise, is not something that git was really designed for. It's asking a screwd
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by taftster 7y ago
Do you have tools that you can utilize diffs from your binary file changes? Or does a change simply just replace all the bytes. I'd argue if it's the later, that git was never the right choice to begin with. You don't really
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by taftster 7y ago
The Linux Kernel is big, but it's not likely as big (in terms of lines of code or pick your metric) as Google or Microsoft repositories. Maybe the kernel is just starting to feel that pain? Honestly asking.. Do you speak from some leve
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by taftster 7y ago
The point wasn't about startup time. The point s/he was making was that complexity can be a good thing in certain cases. No one would ever expect or claim that a JEE application would have a fast startup time. That's not the
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by taftster 7y ago
Somewhat. Shell is probably trying to position themselves against their competition. Yes, it's probably near zero-sum game, but there's still competition between the various oil companies, etc. So by having Said take on more store
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by taftster 7y ago
I mean, I don't personally disagree with you. But I was trying to keep the framing of my opinion a little more neutral. There are definitely some times when you want to go to the dealer; especially in rural areas, where the local repai
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by taftster 7y ago
FYI. The content looks real nice in "reader" mode (at least in Firefox). I kind of think this is the best approach. Write your content with as minimal markup as possible. Let the user-agent render the page in my own styling. I wis
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by taftster 7y ago
Deere is controlling the marketplace for "repairs." If a farmer is required to use service centers exclusively provided and controlled by Deere, then they are inhibited from using the free market. The right to repair is essential
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by taftster 7y ago
I almost missed the followup to this, which is here: https://www.sparkfun.com/news/1430 Apparently Fluke "allowed" SparkFun to distribute the multi-meters in question to educational and charitable organizatio
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by taftster 7y ago
For example, in the United States, the IRS applies a set of tests to determine if a person can be considered a 1099 contractor or a W2 employee. In the US, the primary determination is if the contractor can set their own schedule and client
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by taftster 7y ago
Unless it's self-signed. Presumably you do know yourself well enough?
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by taftster 7y ago
Don't forget porn.
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by taftster 7y ago
The fact that Let's Encrypt certificates expire quickly is a feature, not anything to do with paid vs. non-paid. Let's Encrypt could have just as easily generated certificates good for a year or more. But the point of Let's E
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by taftster 7y ago
Right. Encrypted web traffic at 90% is different than encrypted web sites at 90%.

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