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by zerkten 7y ago
It's the default for new Synology devices, and has been for a while. I suspect others are using it in a similar situation for home-grade NAS and up into the prosumer end of the market. I feel like Btrfs is probably going to be well tes
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by zerkten 7y ago
Like others I'm amazed that Quora still exists. In my experience it's accessible to people outside the programming bubble, but eschewed a lot of deliberate choices that StackOverflow made back in the early days. The result is that
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by zerkten 7y ago
I'm not sure it's specific to a limited set of cultures. I think there would be fairly broad cultural support for it being considered diminutive. Besides, the core of the problem is that it's only valid when that business own
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by zerkten 7y ago
It's a useful concept when used appropriately. There is nuance that you are missing. When used it's a description that the business owners provide based on how they run their business, then it's OK. When you use it to describ
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by zerkten 7y ago
In the UK during the nineties we had old versions of Delphi distributed on magazine covers. Magazines then carried numerous tutorials over the years that helped people get started on their programming careers when school computing courses h
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by zerkten 7y ago
They probably have a very different idea of "paid" from the companies creating the software. Even though you "bought" a piece of software, it's more accurate to say you "licensed" that software. Buying som
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by zerkten 7y ago
Isn't there a better solution involving offline storage? Keeping the data online is likely exposing it to insider threats as well.
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by zerkten 7y ago
> provide support for the team I'd be more specific and state that they should be consciously building systems to manage these things, even if it's done manually by them. This provides clarity about what and how things are bein
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by zerkten 7y ago
The problem here is programmers having a fixation on licences as some sort of template that must be followed exactly without having any real experience with how the law actually works. This is convenient for something like an OSS license us
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by zerkten 7y ago
Episodes 53 and 54 of https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/ are a good listen on this subject.
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by zerkten 7y ago
I'm not an organised note-taker, except for a few circumstances. Most often notes are just actions which get put in email to myself, or my team. Life has changed recently and I've been thinking about some low-friction options for
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by zerkten 7y ago
>> In most organisations, IT is seen a as a cost-centre, rather than a business enabler. So on one hand, you have management often wanting to cut costs to the bone - on the other, you have the very same people complaining that you&#x2
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by zerkten 7y ago
>> I am upset, and I do use ubuntu, and I am reconsidering that. Good for you, but don't you sort of expect this with Ubuntu? It's obviously pushing in a different direction from the likes of Debian. I'm not sure most r
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by zerkten 7y ago
It depends on your teeth too. We can appear to have near perfect teeth, but they can still be compromised in a way that flossing can help.
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by zerkten 7y ago
Choice is a problem with updates, but they probably went too far. When a choice is possible then people will skip updates which endangers the whole ecosystem. The prevalence of Windows means that they can't let individuals make too man
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by zerkten 7y ago
The StackOverflow 2019 survey suggests 47% of developers are on Windows ( https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#technology-_-... ). This is a big chunk of developers you can't reach well, if you are limited
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by zerkten 7y ago
How would your trust be impacted if there was better communication ahead of a breaking change you could almost agree with? i.e. the experience has been well beyond that which you currently expect and have been provided good reasons proactiv
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by zerkten 7y ago
You'd like to think? Operating systems have had loads of vulnerabilities from features like this. There needs to be defense in depth.
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by zerkten 7y ago
Those dialogs recognized the product had to change significantly for the time and were accompanied by many changes below the surface. I'm not sure that the same level of recognition exists in Apple circles.
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by zerkten 7y ago
Is this automatable with AppleScript, or similar? If so, then there are possibly some vectors that Apple are trying to block. There are likely many better ways to handle these situations, but I'm not sure I really expect it from the re
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by zerkten 7y ago
> find a blog that summarizes books like this into a few bullets or paragraphs. I personally find this is really important with business books. It is very rare that you need lots of depth, but you benefit immensely from breadth and under
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by zerkten 7y ago
This is covered in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_POSIX_subsystem . Version history: The POSIX subsystem was replaced in Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 by "Windows Services for UNIX", (SFU) which
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by zerkten 7y ago
VMware are doing some work to integrate with the Windows Hypervisor platform ( https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/api/hypervis... ). IIRC they have a release coming early next year that will allow
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by zerkten 7y ago
The core of this is financial liability. Whether that is extremely helpful, or just somewhat helpful depends on the context. I can't think of many cases where you wouldn't want to have an LLC, or Limited Company (UK), or whatever
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by zerkten 7y ago
It was significantly faster on Windows, but not so much on other platforms.
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by zerkten 7y ago
The cost was huge, but Firefox is much more competitive than it was. Chrome was faster for a pretty long time and was heavily marketed. It was bundled with lots of common utilities on Windows. Then things got to the point where developers s
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by zerkten 7y ago
The little MagSafe 1 to 2 adapters have been problematic for me and others, but the original chargers are not something I've heard problems about. I've not been able to find out what happens with the adapters, but it was surprisin
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by zerkten 7y ago
Windows via C/C++ is another one in this area. Windows Kernel Programming by Pavel Yosifovich is a recent book, but it goes much lower-level. Windows Internals is pretty good, but it's not a programming book per se. It's tryi
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by zerkten 7y ago
People are adjusting for inflation, but the rate of inflation on education has increased significantly without a stepwise increase in income or value from that education.
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by zerkten 7y ago
It'd be the case for anyone in the UK where fees for education are relatively new. I'm making an assumption about the poster though. I paid a tiny amount in 1999 in the UK, but fees increased significantly since then. Your respons

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