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by vacri 9y ago
scp requires additional network routing config to get it past a NAT, which is most residential internet.
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by vacri 9y ago
So... 'brew install rssh' is bad and kludgy, but 'brew install magic-wormhole' is easy and light? And hey, if you're not on a mac, you have to also install a bunch of other deps too. You probably shouldn't have
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by vacri 9y ago
Does it really run on every phone since 2013, or merely 'run' (= not usefully) on every phone since 2013? The folks in my office complain that newer iOS makes older iphones slow to the point of near unusability.
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by vacri 9y ago
How either of us defines major metro areas doesn't matter anyway, because the median household income in NYC is in line with the rest of the country, in the low 50s[1]. San Francisco's is around 65k[2]. If you're earning $120
725.
by vacri 9y ago
... because the linux kernel and git are awash with donations from users?
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by vacri 9y ago
You haven't used a myki machine, clearly! (myki is the horrible Melbourne version of the Oyster card. a bungled project from start to finish)
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by vacri 9y ago
I've always found it weird that de Raadt is admired for being abrasive, and Torvalds is pilloried. I've always wondered, if the grsec people are such believers of 'security above all else', why they just don't work
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by vacri 9y ago
> When the authorities issue new fire safety regulations for buildings, then that is breaking compatibility to the older building standard. Do the old buildings automagically get updated to the new standard everyone is using? Does the
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by vacri 9y ago
> The fact you can't go from a high paying IT job to a factory job or retail management position and still have enough money to put your family in a decent home with 3 hots and a cot and to put your kids through school and college
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by vacri 9y ago
> And wouldn't a child see through a comment, 'tought like mummy' Nope. Sons are told all the time to "be big and tough like dad". That one annoys me, as does 'feminist like daddy', because they'
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by vacri 9y ago
The median household income in the US is ~$52k. Unless your definition of 'middle class' is 'top quintile', $120k is not 'barely middle class'. NYC and SF are also notable outliers, and aren't representa
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by vacri 9y ago
Jimeoin had a bit years ago where he talked about the three kinds of 'mate' there were. There's the short, clipped 'mate' for when you're pissed off (oh, mate, got a parking ticket). There's the medium &#x
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by vacri 9y ago
> InfluxDB, Telegraf and Grafana are pretty trivial to set up. No, they're actually not. They're trivial to get to a state of "the process is running on my machine", but to actually get a set of suitable metrics pre
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by vacri 9y ago
No-one says doco for 'documentation', but they do all the time for 'documentary': "I saw a doco on sharks last night..." We're definitely losing a lot of our colloquial terms, but not so much the way we sp
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by vacri 9y ago
> I'm dubious that you really need these things enough to pay ~2x to have them. Does your business have an accountant? Why not just get a high-school grad - after all, totting up numbers is simple maths, and it's much cheaper
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by vacri 9y ago
The computation costs for Lambda were $174, not the full $370.
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by vacri 9y ago
You can buy a laptop that just runs Chrome and get most desktop tasks done on it. The Chromebook has been fairly popular.
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by vacri 9y ago
Isn't it funny how the 'for example' of Torvalds' language is always exactly the same email? Over 25 years of continual interaction with developers and the greater public, and it's always this email. And if you need
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by vacri 9y ago
Companies that hire exclusively women are not 'perfectly PC'. That's a canard thrown in as a strawman.
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by vacri 9y ago
Yes, david38 patiently waited for the right number of replies before pasting his own, just so the proportions would be right. /s For someone complaining about shoehorning words into others' mouths, you're doing a gnarly job o
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by vacri 9y ago
Here you go: http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/a-bloke-called-barry-and-t...
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by vacri 9y ago
Throwing my antipodean hat into the ring to add to the growing chorus of "black olives come in jars".
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by vacri 9y ago
> who is doing IoT and Esys in Python outside of toymakers? Aren't most IoT things basically toys anyway?
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by vacri 9y ago
> If they want a bike, they will get it no matter what. There's a god-botherer in my city who gets old bikes, attaches a placard with how you're all going to hell if you don't let jesus into your life, and then leaves th
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by vacri 9y ago
In support of what you said: yesterday I took a couple of hours off to visit an art gallery with my mother, visiting from interstate. The permission I had was "hey folks, I'm going to do this", knowing that they could say &qu
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by vacri 9y ago
Your anecdote describes a very bad behaviour, but the generally simple requirements banks have is a necessity of dealing with the general public. The more complex the requirements, the more customer support with tech naifs you need. And ove
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by vacri 9y ago
> Besides, my local librarian doesn't decide what books the library will have vs > curated collections open to the public What's the difference between Google removing a terrorist video from public view (they never delet
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by vacri 9y ago
By 'our police', do you mean 'actively curating their own content'? Do you call your local librarian a cop as well?
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by vacri 9y ago
Use Debian Unstable on the desktop, and Debian Stable on the server. Despite the name, Unstable is pretty stable - it's just making it clear that you're dealing with relatively fresh packages and these often break as they're
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by vacri 9y ago
I remember hearing a Debian Developer give a talk where he said that 'testing' can almost be considered a normal rolling distro in its own right, but there are times when it's broken - the example he gave was that at one poin

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