teknopaul

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by teknopaul 2y ago
We need one of these for .debs. The answer files are easy to generate after installing once but it would be better to have an HTML ui that catered for every annoying .deb that can't think up sensible defaults for itself.
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by teknopaul 2y ago
If you are a white US citizen you have nothing to be concerned about. Unless you have friends, family or empathy.
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by teknopaul 2y ago
Just package node_modules subdirectories as tar files. I stopped using npm a while back and push and pull tar files instead. Naturally I get js modules from npm in the first place, but I never run code with it after initial install and test
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by teknopaul 2y ago
I don't see why system wide dns caching would be of use? How many different programs in the same process space hit so many common external services individual caching of names is not sufficient? Article lists a bunch of fun with system
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by teknopaul 2y ago
Don't do this too much. Your eyes have to focus. For things close enough they can tell from the required small angle of cross-eyed movement, how to focus. These pictures (and stereograms) disconnect the focus and angle of your eyes. D
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by teknopaul 2y ago
Sad that the US has all these power outages. It comes from rampant capitalism. No obligation to provide redundancy so the cheapest solution it wores on wooden poles and one tree down leads to outages. In every weather event in the US the ne
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by teknopaul 2y ago
I suspect nobody made xxx vlc plug-in because compiling it is far too hard. I tried to make a joystick controller for a particular use case on one platform (Linux) and I gave up. VLC solves a hard problem. Supporting lots of different libs,
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by teknopaul 2y ago
P.S. dont blame bash for sed. Once you grok bash, other tools make more sense. If you don't understand bashes escaping rules and options echo x | sed "..." Is doubly confusing.
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by teknopaul 2y ago
RTFM. I have never met a shell user who has read `man bash` from top to bottom. It's not a hard document to read if you have been using bash for a while. People read bits of it, as you do with other man pages, and get frustrated naviga
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by teknopaul 2y ago
Profit creaming, not good for county even if it seems good in the city. Everytime there is a natural disaster in the US the press report xxxx houses without power. US leccy firms pride the bear minimum service, always. Profit comes first. D
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by teknopaul 2y ago
Not important once has copilot ever suggested a correction, found a bug, noticed a typo, prompted for a better solution, which is what any human pair programmer would do. It's a tool. But thinking ng it's like a "copilot&quot
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by teknopaul 2y ago
LLMs pattern match, they say something that sounds good at this point but with no notion of correct. copilot is like pair programming with a loud pushy intern that has seen you write stuff before didn't understand it, but keeps suggest
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by teknopaul 2y ago
My two penneth: I find the replacement part the easiest and escping all the characters which mean something in regexp to be the most annoying part. Adding a new char to be escaped seems like another annoyance. I try to avoid tools that make
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by teknopaul 2y ago
I moved to Debian for servers. Ubuntu is no longer the easy option. Ubuntu has forced upgrades more often than any other platform. Added "Security" that breaks users workflows is crap. You have to trust the code on your pc. Spend
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by teknopaul 2y ago
Yep, if you package your own code or scripts, deb is easy.
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by teknopaul 2y ago
Just FYI. I know a few others who have suffered the same from this company.
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by teknopaul 2y ago
I'd say the same. But 90% of my time not writing code. It is mostly time wasted with github and k8s build issues.
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by teknopaul 2y ago
I could have told you that voicing deamons in your head gets rid of them 20 years ago. A bunch of my friends know this trick too. I have successfully used this in therapy, i.e. helping friends on many, many occasions. Strange that this is n
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by teknopaul 2y ago
alt="Windows user discovers beauty of Unix ;)"
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by teknopaul 2y ago
You have to define "desktop" as not being a phone or tablet for that stat to be sane. I would argue the desktop itself changed. A wooden desk with a PC, a keyboard, mouse and monitor is likely to run Windows: until it's repl
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by teknopaul 2y ago
I have a chart I call "the Ballmer peak" which is the huge trough in earning that accompanied Ballmer's time at the helm.
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by teknopaul 2y ago
He was impeached, and every single politician voted on party line, the whole GOP is 100% corrupt (if you agree he clearly did do it) impeachment is not a useful tool in this situation.
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by teknopaul 2y ago
To solve this problem recently, I just defined -1% as 'not at all' and 101% as 'all of it' . But then, I'm a Unix hacker. ;)
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by teknopaul 2y ago
If the devs indicate that they aren't going to fix it, raising a cve is - Rude - Counterproductive - not going to result in a fix - not going to help users If someone does that in the full knowledge that it will cause a DoS on inocent
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by teknopaul 2y ago
Don't see the problem with ssn as I'd. People have two, get two rows in your database. Not the end of the world often. database it's a tool thus limitation is not an error. E.g. maybe trans peeps want to forget their old ID,
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by teknopaul 2y ago
No shit sherlock
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by teknopaul 2y ago
Imho Presume 8 bit, encapsulting 7bit usacsii. That includes utf8 and many many other encodings. Don't interpret user supplied strings at all. Defines max lengths as byte lengths. Remain agnostic of encoding. Especially in libraries. I
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by teknopaul 2y ago
I suspect the author does not about the first bit being 1 thing. utf8 is magic. You can assume US ASCII for lots of very useful text protocols , like http and Stomp and not care what the variable string bytes mean. Soooo many software arch
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by teknopaul 3y ago
The term ludite indicates that is nothing new. IMHO this is not about tech being too good tho: it's about new tech being worse.
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by teknopaul 3y ago
Much tech _is_ getting worse. Particularly AI, much is about cheaply making a bot that works x% of the time, it's cheaper to piss off a few customers and pay no-one, than to do a good job. No one likes that, it's cheap and nasty h

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