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by thyrsus 3y ago
I thought that was how book clubs worked: they picked a book, the members then read it over a reasonable period, then reconvened to discuss it and pick the next.
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by thyrsus 3y ago
I worry about those interconnections and the risk of cascading failures. I know just enough about it to worry that the problem might be order NP, and a directive to go faster when the modeling, aka software, just can't, could be disas
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by thyrsus 3y ago
I'm unfamiliar with Blake Smith's work, or with the usual tenor of literary criticism in general. By about the third paragraph I wondered if this was what the word "snark" was invented for, or the phrase "backhande
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by thyrsus 3y ago
I was completely taken in until the octopus hat. There's no way 1920s fashionistas go from feathers to a pile of brown turds on their heads. The 2nd ddg hit was the Wikipedia article, the second word of which was "fictitious&quo
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by thyrsus 3y ago
Tolstoy argues that it is the conscience in particular that is stupefied; he may also have been influenced by behavior he observed. I have anecdotal experience of Russians drinking themselves beyond garrulity into stupor, although I'm
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by thyrsus 3y ago
In this polarized environment, my Republican Senators would look at my highly Democratic leaning address, and do the opposite of what I ask.
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by thyrsus 3y ago
Nope: I tried that. No response to any common keyboard combo. As suggested in a sibling comment, X11 shares the blame.
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by thyrsus 3y ago
The NYTimes animation of the Canadian fires air quality effect froze Firefox, mouse, and keyboard on CentOS 7 for me. I could ssh in from another system, kill -9 Firefox and it recovered.
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by thyrsus 3y ago
Thus the apothegm: extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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by thyrsus 3y ago
Meanwhile, in this suburb of a modest city, I'm wondering if I'll ever see more than one bar of LTE. Thank goodness for Wi-Fi calling.
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by thyrsus 4y ago
I think I read that the image you distribute expects to use a C compiler in it's execution, and not every computer has a C compiler - or did I misunderstand? The run-in-browser blob cannot make that assumption, but perhaps that's
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by thyrsus 4y ago
Glass as I encounter it is a form of silicon dioxide, and not particularly soluble. What new meaning of the word "glass" is being used here?
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by thyrsus 4y ago
I speculate national security concerns contributed a great deal to that $38,000 cost. How many servers with SSP and POAM documents were needed for its design to classified requirements, sysadmins with security clearances, and for classifie
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by thyrsus 4y ago
I predict the Federal Reserve will buy them at close to 100% non-default value while dry heaving over their involuntary involvement in politics. I further predict that those shorting the securities will lose their court case against the Fe
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by thyrsus 4y ago
What do you do with a 20 year old embedded Linux system which still "works" and where management has been saying they'll replace it for more than ten years but meanwhile don't touch it, and, oh yeah, "make it secure
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by thyrsus 4y ago
For exasperate, I think you meant exacerbate.
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by thyrsus 4y ago
What are file systems using? What are tar/cpio/dump/rsync files using? What is kerberos using?
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by thyrsus 4y ago
It's never occurred to me that it would be advantageous to do this. Would anyone like to guess why? Relevant clip: watch to the end. https://youtu.be/jRTU2iUNt94
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by thyrsus 4y ago
That's a criticism of the government, not the people. They are hoping policy will change and they'll be able to help.
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by thyrsus 4y ago
We're using ansible-pull. Aside from occasional access to NFS mounts, there's a minimum of network traffic. E.g., the git retrieval is usually: I've got version x. That's current? Thanks, we're done. The time i
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by thyrsus 4y ago
This looks great. The first use case that occurs to me is to accelerate pieces of our horribly slow Ansible scripts - but I'm probably the only one on our team who's interested in making the investment in learning a new language,
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by thyrsus 4y ago
It's good to see "technical debt" discussed sensibly in non-specialist media.
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by thyrsus 4y ago
This paper coomparing code developed without copilot to code developed with it feels relevant: https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.03622
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by thyrsus 4y ago
Is that the Morris worm sendmail with its Turing Complete address rewriting language that I'm seeing in the same sentence with the word "barebones"? ;-)
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by thyrsus 4y ago
TIL: Coffin: six sided. Casket: four sided.
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by thyrsus 4y ago
In the low end models that I'd be willing to pay for, there is no price difference between stick and automatic in the U.S.
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by thyrsus 4y ago
I feel just the same, with the proviso that I want a mechanical backup for catastrophic software bugs - a fully mechanical drive disengagement, aka shift to neutral. And the emergency, aka parking, brake should have no software mediation e
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by thyrsus 4y ago
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/the-rea... ...and my experience as a varyingly persistent introvert :-)
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by thyrsus 4y ago
Message from the Chair of the UNC Computer Science Department (personal phone number elided): Dear Friends, It is with great sadness that I must share the following update on the health of the Department Founder Dr. Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
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by thyrsus 4y ago
As (43) states, introversion is on a scale (a matter of degree) rather than a type (i.e. not like char vs. float). That it is persistent in a probabilistic sense is well established.

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