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by vladak 4y ago
Another piece of advice I received from an OpenBSD contributor is to lurk on the mailing lists and see what the OpenBSD developers (esp. those that hack on networking code) actually use themselves and get that if you care about stability an
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by vladak 4y ago
Closed cities, like those in Russia/Soviet union are exception. Either people were forced to come or the incentives were too high to refuse.
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by vladak 4y ago
I contemplated the move from Google services and at one point I went ahead and was very pleasantly surprised how easy the move to Fastmail [1] was. [1] with the domain managed by Cloudflare
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by vladak 5y ago
https://archive.org/download/the-unwritten-laws-of-engineeri... I had a colleague that can be considered brilliant engineer and I believe could be doing all kinds of exciting hard projects and work in the top tier comp
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by vladak 5y ago
https://pcpartpicker.com/b/8hgJ7P
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by vladak 5y ago
- Ethernet from local ISP that is fed into Ubiquity EdgeRouter Lite running OpenBSD (octeon platform) with extensive PF setup - 8 port managed switch connected to the router with a number of VLANs (IoT network, general/guest Wifi, trus
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by vladak 5y ago
Here, such devices are used for testing kids at basic school. I heard a story from one of our managers that some kid in his kids' class wanted to fake his test to read positive (to evade school duties) so he used a pen marker however t
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by vladak 5y ago
Incidentally: after working from home since the start of the pandemics, I feel the need to actually monitor myself as I often lose track of my working hours and I have a suspicion that I work longer hours than previously. Related to that, l
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by vladak 5y ago
I wonder what other languages/ecosystems embed the versioning into the binaries. This reminds me of the mcs(1) command (Manipulate Comment Section) used for some Solaris 10 binaries to display the patch level information: # /usr&#
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by vladak 5y ago
This. Reading about 0 gravity setup immediately reminded me of the suspensors used by Vladimir Harkonnen in the Dune. I have been using standing desk for a year, trying to switch sitting and standing frequently, in my case at least every ho
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by vladak 7y ago
Whenever seeing the staggering number of Wikipedia articles it reminds me of my own recent experience with creating an article. To centralize some of the knowledge of now niche set of keyboards (manufactured by what used to be one of the FA