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by thyrsus 2y ago
1. git complains about the uncommitted changes 2. When intentionally writing perl, half the time my "perl -c foo.pl" complains about syntax or badly used names (usu. misspellings), with the typo to correct being obvious. As a pra
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by thyrsus 2y ago
I've always wondered why people didn't edit out the extra fingers and legs. I haven't played with it myself - is post editing difficult?
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by thyrsus 2y ago
I looked at vault, but I opted for a simpler, less flexible solution: rrsync (restricted rsync) to a tree available only to an account with its .ssh/authorized_keys populated with the host public keys with forced rrsync commands restri
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by thyrsus 2y ago
Does this include technical books? O'Reilly and Manning seem to have substantial customers. Or is the licensing of PDFs excluded from such figures?
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by thyrsus 2y ago
I'm more than half the time figuring out the environment. Just as you learn a new language by doing the exercises, I'm learning a bunch of stuff while I try to port our iptables semantics o firewalld: [a] gitlab CI/CD instea
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by thyrsus 2y ago
Is that not presumed by capitalists as well? It appears to me the difference between the two lies in the expectations (Marxist: bad outcome; capitalist: good outcome) and the degree to which moral judgements adhere (ironically, the putativ
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by thyrsus 3y ago
At the end of the article, Cockburn complains that asking ChatGPT about Palantir work with the IDF gets a hallucination in response. I just queried duckduckgo.com with "IDF Palantir", and receved links to several news articles fr
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by thyrsus 3y ago
...for those lucky enough to be able to do so. I've been promised the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 systems will be replaced in two years. 10 years ago, they were to be replaced in one year.
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A ragtag band of internet friends became the best at forecasting world events(vox.com)
229 points by thyrsus 3y ago|132 comments
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A ragtag band of internet friends became the best at forecasting world events(vox.com)
2 points by thyrsus 3y ago|0 comments
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by thyrsus 3y ago
I was quite aware that our (different company) time server was based on getting CDMA signal, and - oh, wait - CDMA was retired last year? Luckily, we could open our internet firewall to let it talk to external stratum 1 servers and config
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by thyrsus 3y ago
We were using the weave CNI on our kubernetes cluster. It started failing, so we called weaveworks to try to buy support. They said no, recommending a different CNI which would necessitate a disruptive cluster replacement. Once that was
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by thyrsus 3y ago
A decade or so ago, we had an ice storm take out power for much of the town for five days. Because the copper pair was still intact and powered by the central office, we never lost phone service. This week, after heavy rain, the copper lin
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by thyrsus 3y ago
If we can formalize our ignorance, then it can become knowledge. Uncertainty is another name for ignorance, and quantum mechanical formalism of uncertainty has been enormously useful. [Edit] Quantum mechanics makes enormous and pervasively
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by thyrsus 3y ago
The essay generalized that to all oral culture, based on recordings of pre-literate Yugoslav bards.
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by thyrsus 3y ago
I too am Catholic, and understand the Catholic teaching that, within its domain, science honestly pursued tells scientific truth, e.g., evolution. Science trespasses when it leaves its domain to make assertions about God or the soul. That
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by thyrsus 3y ago
I don't find the "we're in a simulation" argument convincing: Moore's law of exponential growth is bending into the S-curve dictated to all initially exponentially growing physical systems, and thus we will never ha
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by thyrsus 3y ago
So you needn't do so: SEEK_HOLE does not occur in the GitHub.com repos for postgresql, mariadb, nor sqlite. Are there system libraries they incorporate which use SEEK_HOLE?
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by thyrsus 3y ago
Recent history has demonstrated the impotency of impeachment.
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by thyrsus 3y ago
Historically, very few colleges admitted women, thus when they began doing so, they became "coeducational" institutions, but the prominent feature of such institutions was the (then minority) presence of women, who thus became ass
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by thyrsus 3y ago
I use multiple profiles on my desktop; too bad it's not available on Android.
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by thyrsus 3y ago
The barber was a woman.
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by thyrsus 3y ago
"Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to be maintained." I am instantly reminded of /bin/true which originally was a 0 byte length file with the execute bits set. Then the edict came down that
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by thyrsus 3y ago
“Our entire belief in objects,” [Bergson] wrote in Creative Evolution (1907), “indeed rests upon the idea that time does not bite into them." The only "objects" I know of that time does not "bite into" are mathemati
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by thyrsus 3y ago
The Moms for Liberty agenda is to abolish public schools because public schools undermine their ideology. Anything that damages public schools advances their agenda. Free public education was always a socialist conspiracy.
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by thyrsus 3y ago
The body says large trees are more susceptible to drought, but the first companion article in the list below the article says large trees are less susceptible to drought. There needs to be a reconciliation.
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Moderation Strike: Results of Negotiations(meta.stackexchange.com)
70 points by thyrsus 3y ago|29 comments
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by thyrsus 3y ago
Doing devops/sysadmin, I frequently find myself spending 90% of my time on the last 1% of systems that I can't declare out of scope but that are broken/nonconforming for "business reasons". I'd be 10x more pro
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by thyrsus 3y ago
Perl was published by Larry Wall in 1987; Perl 5 appeared in 1994 and has been remarkably stable since then -- I have code from 1998 that still works great. It feels like a more powerful sed or awk, and has an enormous available online lib
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by thyrsus 3y ago
Before reading the article, I imagined myself asking that question, and it was the rude or exasperated version of "What must I do for you?" (to make you stop bugging me). The polite or generous version is "What can I do for

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