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by usr1106 2y ago
This is how it used to be in Finland, too. More houses than in many other countries are heated electrically. With the cold winters here the variation is extra big. Still since a couple of years ago bills have to be paid according to monthly
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by usr1106 2y ago
I had now idea REXX still exists. I played a lot with REXX while being a trainee at IBM in 1987/88. I have not used it since and remeber very little. Would there be any reason to prefer it over let's say Python?
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by usr1106 2y ago
Which country? I am in Finland and have had the same number for over 20 years. It is publicly listed. I receive maybe 1-2 marketing calls a month and less than one SMS scam per year. I am somewhat restrcitive filling in my contact details w
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by usr1106 2y ago
That's the software part of the story, which became fully public in form of MeeGo. But there was also a hardware story how Nokia would start Intel silicon. I don't think anything of that has ever been publicly annouced before it f
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by usr1106 2y ago
Google voice is a US-only thing. Not sure whether that's bad or good. At least I am not tempted to sell myself to Google.
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by usr1106 2y ago
Exactly. I still have to call foreign phones, but not regularly enough to really wanting a subscription. It can be 500 minutes one month and then close to zero for several. Pay as I go seems the right choice. But there seems to be no compet
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by usr1106 2y ago
They did more than investigate. Nokia, at that time still market leader in mobile phones, wasted a lot of time and effort because management wanted them to move to Intel. Nokia engineers did not believe that Intel would ever reach the requi
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by usr1106 2y ago
EDG: 6 employees according to Wikipedia. That's what I call travelling light, not much room for corporate BS there, I bet.
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by usr1106 2y ago
Fabrice Bellard, unbelievable what a single person can get done.
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by usr1106 2y ago
Good point. I completely forgot IBM. And I even was a trainee there, when mainframes where a big thing, PCs an exception and nobody including myself had heard about AIX (although technically it was a year old).
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by usr1106 2y ago
How many C or C++ compilers are in wider use today? Not really working in the area and did not research now, but I can come up with: * gcc * clang * Microsoft probably has their own implementation * Intel probably still has their own implem
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by usr1106 2y ago
You did not read before commenting. OP had already done this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42347618 Not blaming you, we all do this. Just stating a fact.
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by usr1106 2y ago
Right. But now you have agreed not to tell anyone about this bug. What you've told before cannot be counted I assume. And you have agreed not to access any information not yours. So if in n months you will be greeted "Treat your
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by usr1106 2y ago
What will be the bill?
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by usr1106 2y ago
While this is not a completely wrong observation, it's worse for Atlassian BitBucket. With github I have no experience.
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by usr1106 2y ago
I have used Gitlab CI basically daily for over 5 years and it makes sense. I would need to think hard to come up with something that seems fundamentally wrong. I have never used Github Actions. Can you explain or give some examples what doe
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by usr1106 2y ago
Everyone and that even includes many software developers uses unprofessional tools. Wysiwyg and pressing buttons are easier when you start. Text-only sources and mark up (like Markdown...) are more powerful when requirements grow. Just as a
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by usr1106 2y ago
I have gotten rid of those by the rule: If a commit update updates a submodule, it must not update anything else. (Yes, this can violate the general rule that nothing needs to be added to a commit to be complete. But updating submodules has
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by usr1106 2y ago
They are not allowed to buy wine themselves. Most parents wouldn't allow them to drink when alone. Drinking small amounts of wine at the family dinner table makes the educational difference. Social media is consumed without any family
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by usr1106 2y ago
The harm of social media is closer to alcohol or tobacco. Addiction, even though with milder physical conseques. Nothing to do with demonizing.
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by usr1106 2y ago
The majority of the customers. (That majority of the customers might stand for less than the turnover of the minority that enjoys discounts. But that does not help you if you belong to the majority.)
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by usr1106 2y ago
Only someone who has the keys can display the cleartext. I don't think any forge has support for that and it don't see the use case for first encrypting and then giving the key to the forge. I store only secrets in encrypted form,
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by usr1106 2y ago
Drug dealer pricing? You start free and once you are on the hook exorbitant increases will come.
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by usr1106 2y ago
Oh, hex. Another bashism. Not sure when I would have needed that in a shell script last time. So in most cases just using [ solves the problem. If you want to use hex from untrusted user input you need to validate the input first. Yes, the
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by usr1106 2y ago
Can you give an example where = would be unsuitable for comparison of numbers?
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by usr1106 2y ago
You are defining a function and then you use it interactively. That does not demonstrate that bash scripting is dangerous. Can you demonstrate the problem in a script? Yes, you can do dangerous things in bash scripts. This might be one of t
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by usr1106 2y ago
So -eq triggers evaluation? Sounds like typical bash magic. I would use [ an the problem goes away. Showing -eq is not the best example, it can just be replaced by = and the problem goes away. But if you need -gt or similar there is no repl
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by usr1106 2y ago
Ok, need to read it again with more time. Myself I typically don't script in bash. Most of the extras like [[ are not needed, you can do everything in dash. Arrays are the only feature that comes to my mind where bash would be handy.
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by usr1106 2y ago
The first function one is not particularly well-written, but harmless. The quoting of ${num} is completely useless. Inside [[ bash does not do any word splitting after variable expansion. Double quotes never prevent variable expansi
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by usr1106 2y ago
Not even that is enough if the malware has loaded a kernel module.

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