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by vram22 4y ago
>If you worry about backblaze, the solution isn't to have yet another backup, it's to test your backup recovery process regularly The solution is to do both, or all three (or n), where #3 is another backup process. And to test
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by vram22 4y ago
Also, Nendran has an indescribable but distinct flavor which is different from a regular dessert banana.
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by vram22 4y ago
Nendran can be eaten either raw (i.e. ripe, but uncooked) or boiled, often with a little jaggery and spices like cardamom. People who don't like raw ripe Nendran may find the cooked variant tastes good, although it is not like the exp
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by vram22 4y ago
Wow. I was going to mention the Nendran (Kerala), a somewhat unique banana variety in both appearance and taste, but did not know all those ones you mentioned. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changalikodan
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by vram22 4y ago
Finnix and other light distros: https://jugad2.blogspot.com/search/label/Finnix?m=0
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by vram22 4y ago
Haven't used them for a while, but IIRC, the combination of lsof (which Sloth is based on) and fuser (including with the -k option) can be useful. In fact I first found lsof when working on HP-UX servers. IIRC, it was written by an Ind
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by vram22 4y ago
>If they're not, then there's a deeper issue in the production process that desperately needs fixing. Five Whys. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_whys#:~:text=Five%20why... .
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by vram22 4y ago
>systematic systemic?
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by vram22 4y ago
>I'm sure there's a term for all of the de-personalization, but I don't know what it is. Let's see ... marginalisation? disenfranchisement? alienation? Just throwing some words out there to see what will stick ... l
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by vram22 4y ago
Seen on a related business networking site [1] a while ago: CFO to CEO: What if we train our employees, and they leave? CEO to CFO: What if we don't, and they stay? [1] LinkedIn.
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by vram22 4y ago
The story evoked a memory of the movie Dersu Uzala by Akira Kurosawa. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dersu_Uzala_(1975_film) I had read about the film several years ago. Not seen it. The part that stayed with me the
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by vram22 4y ago
Got it, thanks.
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by vram22 4y ago
What is blog spam in this context? Content farms?
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by vram22 4y ago
Good deep meta-link for Advaita (posted by me a few days ago in another thread), the Prasthana Trayi: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34202984
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by vram22 4y ago
Good one, thanks for sharing, and rings true, except for the last clause of the quote: >but never to your true self - your mind. Advaita (Vedanta) would beg to differ, and say that your true self is the witness (sakshi) of both the body
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by vram22 4y ago
I had checked out plotly some years ago: plot.ly now has an API: https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2013/07/plotly-now-has-api.html
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by vram22 4y ago
Epictetus is great. I like this saying which I think is attributed to him (words are from memory, actual may be different): "Practice yourself in little things, for heaven's sake, and thence proceed to greater."
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by vram22 4y ago
>They'd often share programs and circuits in the magazine that others could recreate at home. Yes. (Steve) Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar, for instance, was very popular. I used to read that column sometimes, even though I had no har
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by vram22 4y ago
DDJ was more software- and programming-oriented than BYTE, and some of the articles in it were very interesting too. It remained alive for longer than BYTE, IIRC.
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by vram22 4y ago
I read (IIRC in Andy Grove's autobiography, Only The Paranoid Survive), that this dumping was what made Intel switch from making memory to processors. The rest is history.
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by vram22 4y ago
Possibly like IBM to HAL, with a subliminal cipher in between. Both pairs being TLAs ;)
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by vram22 4y ago
Wow, that's an interesting take on it, as well as a novel way of putting it.
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by vram22 4y ago
Good to know, can be useful.
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by vram22 4y ago
bc is built on dc and uses infix notation. bc -l supports arbitrary-precision arithmetic, IIRC.
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by vram22 4y ago
Downvoter prolly doesn't know Forth, and fifth, has no sense of humor :)
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by vram22 4y ago
Did you mean: THIS TRUTH ANY TO?
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by vram22 4y ago
CHECK FACTH FIRTH YOUR
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by vram22 4y ago
>It's often suggested that one needs to work hard to crack a hairy problem. Nonsense. You've got a subconscious system always processing some idea, integrating external unrelated stimuli while you're doing something else:
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by vram22 4y ago
Which linked article?
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by vram22 4y ago
>Being dead doesn't censor anything. After all, I'm here reading and replying 10 hours later. It just makes it invisible to people without "Show dead" enabled. IMO, effectively, it does censor it; not de jure, but de

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