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by thyrsus 6y ago
I'm fascinated by the layers of ownership. Do "usual" providers, e.g. Cloudflare, have such obscure ownersip?
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by thyrsus 6y ago
Hypothesis: "redacted" in the original because of changed/abandoned phone number.
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by thyrsus 6y ago
And recovery from backup is a routine exercise, no?
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8kun again loses internet service protection(theguardian.com)
8 points by thyrsus 6y ago|1 comments
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by thyrsus 6y ago
The entries in our ansible git repository are supposed to be that log.
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by thyrsus 6y ago
My bank uses some kind of mandatory javascript malware to make it impossible to paste or password-manage the password they demand. I'm beginning to see this on an increasing number of sites. Even if I could find out which banks don&#x
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by thyrsus 6y ago
TIL "git status -s". So much ad hoc bad parsing no longer necessary!
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by thyrsus 6y ago
If the data is small, then expressivness is more important. If the data is large, then multiple processes connected by pipes lets you employ more CPUs.
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Taming the Demon(commonwealmagazine.org)
1 points by thyrsus 6y ago|0 comments
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by thyrsus 6y ago
"To astronauts who ask whether they can get out of a black hole, physicists can answer, “Sure!” But if the astronauts ask how to do it, the disquieting reply will be: “No clue.”" My intuition is that these astronauts would exit th
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by thyrsus 6y ago
Organizations own work-for-hire, and to establish ownership, you would need to prove the non-existence of the organization (reverting the copyright to the author/heirs) or determine the beneficiaries of a possibly ephemeral organizatio
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by thyrsus 6y ago
I am aware of a written work on which the author inscribed "Copyright (C) <year> <organization>" and as best I can tell <organization> was fictional, and thus incapable of enforcing any terms of the copyright. W
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by thyrsus 6y ago
Please correct errors in the following: polarization of photons is another form of entanglement, and I seem to recall there are others. Does this result solve the "action at a distance" problem for all of them?
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by thyrsus 6y ago
The Democratic Socialists of America exist, with a platform mildly more ambitious than the Sanders/Ocasio-Cortez wing of the Democratic Party. The less fascist voting public ignores them, the more fascist voting public believes they a
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by thyrsus 6y ago
Even in the absence of vpn, is it not sufficient to use encryption, e.g. https?
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by thyrsus 6y ago
Race can be a proxy for the amount of melatonin, which influences vitamin D. It can also be related to many other things. How would you use race to interpret the data?
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by thyrsus 6y ago
I haven't had the peers to know if I'm a strong coder, but the last time we filled a position, I'm certain none of the candidates was a strong coder. I tried to get each of them to just read a 200 line NON(!)obscure perl pro
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by thyrsus 6y ago
Thank you for this. What is the difference between their measure of grit and their measure of conscientiousness?
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by thyrsus 6y ago
I use both vi and emacs. I find vi quicker under my fingers, but more complex things are easier for me in emacs: compare-windows, keyboard macros, the shell in a window (especially since it became smart about passwords a decade or more ago
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by thyrsus 6y ago
It is regretably the case that holders of strong ideologies or political beliefs frequently are dismissive - "incurious" - of facts and arguments that challenge their beliefs, and often use many of the other abjured rhetorical de
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by thyrsus 6y ago
I'll pile on: I'm working through Marko Luksa's "Kubernetes in Action", where he introduces this quaint line of code: etcdctl ls /registry He notes in an aside that you may have to do etcdctl get &#x
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by thyrsus 6y ago
I torrented CentOS 8 in December; I must have been given another DHCP address since then, since the site shows an empty list for me.
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by thyrsus 6y ago
I've had enough years to become wiser, become a fanatic for configuration management, and get over the embarrassment: I'm the consultant that screwed things up. Some background: the Stat department was running a variety of system
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by thyrsus 6y ago
I think you are right about distinct devices. I use a phone and computers owned by my employer for professional activities, and a different phone and personally owned computers for my private interests. There is, of course, uncomfortable
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by thyrsus 6y ago
The title aludes to the movie titled "Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines", a comedy I found entertaining both as a child and adult: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Those_Magnificent_Men_in_the...
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by thyrsus 6y ago
The size of the file is a red herring. Has the work been done to analyze and test the subroutines? How many lines are intricate logic, and how many are embedded data? How prevalent are references to global variables across subroutines?
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by thyrsus 6y ago
Explanation of the joke: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_cow
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by thyrsus 6y ago
What's the best way to get a paper copy? I see Amazon for the DevOps book; are they the easiest to deal with? Most reliable? Highest margin?
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by thyrsus 6y ago
This is why one should not automatically load external content in e-mails. This Forbes article covers the same territory: https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2020/04/27/your-... I have to s
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by thyrsus 6y ago
I can observe my own mental states, and I work to bring them into better alignment with my observations - more ordered. When I think it helpful to others, I use language to represent them. Because other's mental states are not direct

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