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by volkadav 2y ago
<3 it's good to see a little person having fun with all this technocrap that us grognards have gotten so bitter about over the years/decades. :) i hope she continues to have a blast! (from the dedication page in SICP:) “I think
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by volkadav 2y ago
high level, a vm is an entire virtual machine with its own kernel/operating system/filesystem/etc. a container is a process (and associated files/archived filesystem) with a (more or less) isolated view of the world (net
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by volkadav 2y ago
Around a decade ago I was working at a developer tools company. An org within Dell was using our product. When we spoke with their management about how it was working, what their feature requests, etc. were, they'd frequently refer to
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by volkadav 2y ago
If you're looking for introductory material, I'd highly recommend Computer Systems, A Programmer's Perspective by Bryant and O'Hallaron: https://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/ It sounds like the material you're
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by volkadav 2y ago
I'm guessing the 13km diameter refers to the event horizon rather than the singularity itself, which I gather could be considered as zero-sized, or maybe one Planck length in size because we can't definitively measure anything sma
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by volkadav 3y ago
https://unixgeeks.net/posts/2022/10/check-for-openbsd-ffs-fi... may be helpful. tl;dr - timestamps and blocknumbers are 64b in FFS2, intro'd in 4.2 and made the default (more or less) in 6.7
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by volkadav 3y ago
Kinda mundane but it fits with the theme: well before 9/11, a client of the small web agency I was at wanted full drag and drop file management for their company's driver/manual download site, all integrated with their web ad
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by volkadav 3y ago
I first parsed this as "decades old" and "mk linux", heh. Was rather surprised to see the new intel machines in the article and not, like, an m68k or ppc model. :) You know you're getting old when "lightweight
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by volkadav 3y ago
"taerDown" good to see that php's upholding the tradition of putting the K in Quality ;)
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by volkadav 3y ago
lol. we'll be lucky to keep it under 3x that, given that drastic coordinated action on the scale of the second world war with no fuckups or backsliding would be required to keep at two degrees, and people are involved in implementing a
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by volkadav 3y ago
We're around there (hand-waving here about exchange rate) in Scotland. What's fucked up is that most of the UK's power is generated in the north and yet electricity rates are based on how far you are from London .
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by volkadav 3y ago
to be fair, a bleak dystopian corporate black comedy called The Expense might also have legs :)
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by volkadav 3y ago
Strictly in my opinion, the M1 mba is perhaps a tie or even slightly edges out the x2_0 series. Solidly built (would I use it as a melee weapon? no, that's what actual melee weapons -- like model m keyboards -- are for), fast, quiet, g
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by volkadav 3y ago
Technically, the OpenJDK project is independent of Oracle, even though they do sponsor and presently lead it. That source is no more Oracle's than the linux kernel is Red Hat's (in both cases, a large contributor with their own co
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by volkadav 3y ago
Oracle's stance on what contexts their JDK/JRE is free to use in is ... nuanced, and has changed in the past. While I don't wish to spread FUD, the thought of using it in a commercial environment in any fashion would give me
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by volkadav 3y ago
Three things that in concert let you really dial in your ergonomic setup to fit you : 1) A good chair (e.g. aeron, leap) 2) A height-adjustable desk 3) A monitor arm It'll take some fiddling to get just right, but standing up after a
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by volkadav 3y ago
The memory of the Deathstar drives that stands out most in my mind was a coworker managing to destroy hardware with SQL. We were at a really ... frugal ... interactive advertising firm and our dev server had been slapped together with a RAI
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by volkadav 3y ago
With extended support available for JDK 8 until this end of this decade or so, it's going to be a while before the real laggards upgrade, heh. Maybe that'll be my generation's method of funding the retirement RV purchase like
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by volkadav 3y ago
Danger, Will Robinson! Time for a new boss, possibly new company.
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by volkadav 3y ago
Maybe there'll finally be a strong economic driver for ripping out all the old lead plumbing around the world, heh. Watch how quick Flint, MI gets their stuff updated if someone can make a buck on the old pipes!
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by volkadav 3y ago
Yeah, I'm hopeful the five year support window for Debian LTS releases now will help drive that migration. I suspect though the lowest-effort path for migrating from one commercial vendor to another will be towards Canonical, given Ubu
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by volkadav 3y ago
There can be quite a number of distro-specific quirks to bear in mind if you're targeting more than one, enough so that as a downstream product vendor it's nice to only have one or two ideally slowly-moving targets (say, RHEL and
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by volkadav 4y ago
Wez is a really nice guy to work with too; had the pleasure of working with him briefly a bit over a decade ago (we were at sort of sister companies on a project that involved both). Sadly he was impacted by the layoffs at Meta recently, so
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by volkadav 4y ago
idk, I think the site's design is kind of endearing even if it isn't super ergonomic. Maybe I'm just old and nostalgic for the wild west creativity of the early web before everyone slapped bootstrap on wordpress or whatever a
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by volkadav 4y ago
The startup I was at had a ~10% layoff mid last September that I and several other senior (i.e. expensive) folks were caught in. I started a new, equivalent job in mid-November. It probably would've been quicker but my family and I hav
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by volkadav 4y ago
fwiw, fix available in openbsd patch https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/7.2/common/017_s... (run "doas syspatch" if you haven't in a while) spot checking, debian stable, ubun
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by volkadav 4y ago
There's been gigabytes of text spilled in flames back and forth about systemd over the last ... decade? The first google completion suggestion for "is system" is "bad" and that'll lead you to plenty of criticis
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by volkadav 4y ago
I was a manager there from 2016-2019 and ... it still absolutely sucked. :) Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
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by volkadav 4y ago
LOL, small world. I was at OmniTI from '10-'13; I was around for the transition from Solaris 10 to OmniOS. It was an interesting system and I do wish the rest of the freenix world would learn some of the lessons that could be lear
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by volkadav 4y ago
the leading zeros are a sign that the poster is unusually short-sighted and only concerned about the next 98,000 years or so in their fixed-size date representations. before i get tarred and feathered, i'm just going for a cheap ironic

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