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by thwarted 2y ago
> While "Uncle Bob" certainly hasn't uncovered any silver bullets Which is compatible with Brooks, who famously had to point out that there are no Silver Bullets. Anyone who is reading these kinds of things and expecting
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by thwarted 2y ago
Rose colored glasses looking at the past. Nostalgia for something that never was.
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by thwarted 2y ago
Tragedy of the Commons Ruins Everything Around Me.
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I Saved an Electron Microscope from the Trash [video](youtube.com)
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by thwarted 2y ago
Additionally, there are a few more process accounting things, rusage, that zombie processes hold until reaped. See wait3(2), wait4(2) and getrusage(2).
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by thwarted 2y ago
Probably has some influence. Because everything needs to be an app, implemented as an SPA, rather than just a web page. Hypertext is dead.
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by thwarted 2y ago
> "Send me a push notification when the text on this webpage says the class isn’t full, and check every 60 seconds" Yahoo Pipes. Definitely useful, definitely easier for some folks to string together basic operations into som
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by thwarted 2y ago
Kind of quaint to use a template.
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by thwarted 2y ago
The military industrial complex is a socialist jobs program, both for those directly on the DOD's payroll and for the employees of the firms that contract with the government under the auspices of the military.
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by thwarted 2y ago
It says right in the readme: This project is licensed under the MIT License. I hope everyone benefits from this open-source project for the development of IPv6.
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by thwarted 2y ago
An LLM is an application that runs on an operating system like any other application. That the vendor of the operating system has tied it to the operating system is purely a marketing/force-it-onto-your-device/force-it-in-front-of
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by thwarted 2y ago
The problem with file transfer is they have a bad reputation since people use it to [insert illegal or immoral activity here]. Then rename it from "torrent" to something else.
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by thwarted 2y ago
This ASCII 7 (C escape "\a"), which when printed emits a bell sound. The exact sound is terminal dependent, and modern terminals won't use the PC speaker but rather play a sound using the audio hardware (which is required on
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by thwarted 2y ago
This is what the pause(2) syscall was made for, waiting for a signal forever.
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by thwarted 2y ago
Setting a process as the reaper means descendent processes are reparented to the reaper, which has to call wait like pid 1 does in order to collect the process's info and remove the zombie. This changes the default behavior where they
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by thwarted 2y ago
Just logging in now, for the first time in years, I found two options that seem relevant. For the first one: it presented that I had given permission to "paypal shopping" to share my identity. I removed that permission. This may
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by thwarted 2y ago
Yes, as time goes on, new features are added, and some are meant to address deficiencies that were unanticipated at the time and the limitations of the earlier designs are discovered.
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by thwarted 2y ago
No, nohup, as the name says, is about filtering/ignoring signals, specifically HUP, that are sent when the parent process shell exits.
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by thwarted 2y ago
Or prctl and PR_SET_CHILD_SUBREAPER are potentially useful for that.
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by thwarted 2y ago
Tragedy of the Commons Ruins Everything Around Me.
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by thwarted 2y ago
How would videos created from photos, photos that didn't capture her personality, show her personality?
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Librarians Should Rule the Net (1996)(cool.culturalheritage.org)
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by thwarted 2y ago
> only needing to know YAML, and not some custom DSL like chef or puppet. YAML may be a known syntax, but the use of it still requires domain specific knowledge, and is still a domain specific language expressing those domain specific
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Tragedy of the Commons Ruins Everything Around Me
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by thwarted 2y ago
And personally I think in the occasional interminable "oh wouldn't it be wonderful if programmers were real engineers like architects" threads, where people fail to understand those processes used by other engineering discip
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by thwarted 2y ago
Then these roles should be more involved with the wedding planning process. Neither the best man nor the maid of honor have the budget nor the authority to make sure things go smoothly.
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by thwarted 2y ago
This would be entirely self-documenting by replacing that with a function named after what it does, then the comment isn't necessary. To boot, a unit test could be written that would reveal the bug in the regular expression that makes
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by thwarted 2y ago
Agreed. There have been many assessments of what bugs cost, and the assessments are often very high, and that's the reason the industry has, for decades, been working towards having _fewer_ bugs.
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by thwarted 2y ago
> The pipe operator is a semantic execution barrier:everything before the `|>` is assumed to have executed and returned a table before what follows begins I already think about SQL like this (as operation on lists/sets), howeve
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by thwarted 2y ago
> I think understandably, everyone is concerned because it felt like an affront by MS against Linux. But, I don't think that was their thought process at all. Given Microsoft's history, it's hard to really be sure. It&#x

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