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by zlynx 9y ago
I like that they ARE buckets of bytes on Unixen. As an analogy take the common text file. Would you like it if the read() and write() system calls looked at the file extension and refused to write non-ASCII or non-Unicode into it? I would n
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by zlynx 9y ago
I didn't write it, but I ran into a problem on Windows when pulling a Git repo that had INSTALL (the instructions to the user) and install (a script that ran the installation).
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by zlynx 9y ago
If net neutrality means the ISP cannot filter and shape at my request then I don't want it. You realize that reliable VoIP requires ISP side traffic shaping, right?
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by zlynx 9y ago
I've got six WD Reds and can't hear them at all. I put them in a Fractal Design R5 silent case. :) It's a home NAS but I figure I can shut it down to replace a drive. No need for drive bays, neat as they are.
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by zlynx 9y ago
Eh, journalctl isn't that bad on a spinning drive. The recent parts of the journal are usually in file cache, so if you use the limiters, like "journalctl --since today" or "journalctl -e"; or view in reverse orde
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by zlynx 9y ago
Linux can use kpatch to upgrade the kernel while it is running. The difficult part is writing and validating the actual patch. I recall that the only people writing kpatches charge a lot of money for them and only provide them to their payi
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by zlynx 9y ago
Easily moving from bytes to strings and back is the only way it makes sense for Go. It runs on POSIX for the most part, and every. single. POSIX. API. is done in bytes. Not Unicode. Bytes. Languages like Python 3 that try to be so Unicode-p
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by zlynx 9y ago
If you resurrect objects in the GC finalizer, you probably weren't that good with Java.
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by zlynx 9y ago
The biggest problem on some of these is the lack of TRIM support in the hardware and/or operating system. After the device has written its complete 32 GB or whatever, it drops into slow mode on the storage Flash. There are ways to get
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by zlynx 9y ago
There are dangerous things that you can allow Docker to do. But if you don't do those things, it is pretty difficult to break out of a container. Redhat has been especially good here, with not allowing anyone but host-root to connect t
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by zlynx 9y ago
"Even the most hard-line free speech absolutist can't defend Anglin without being made radioactive by mere association" If only our education system would manage to teach logic. Instead we have generations of people who can&#
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by zlynx 9y ago
It happens all the time. Say that Adam handles technical support for some of your best customers, but he's out with pneumonia, or some other serious illness. He's not going to be responding to that urgent request for help with a n
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by zlynx 9y ago
The journalist probably didn't understand what they were saying. Maybe it is destroyed slowly enough that the reaction can complete first. Maybe the laser has different power levels. Have to go back to the source to find out for sure.
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by zlynx 9y ago
And the right answer is never "Disable SELinux"
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by zlynx 9y ago
So you don't want it to update while you're using it. And you don't want it to update when you're not using it. When, exactly, is it OK for it to update?
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by zlynx 9y ago
I don't understand why Microsoft went to so much effort to use two instructions to load a 32 bit value instead of placing it in RAM and loading it. Was the RAM load so much of a delay in the pipeline that this hack was worthwhile?
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by zlynx 9y ago
He missed all the history of ZFS too. Sun had actual customers with bit rot. Even though they were running systems with the highest types of server hardware Sun provided, they had invisible data errors which were only noticed when the files
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by zlynx 9y ago
I have been told that. But since this was for a server, I specifically chose Ryzen for ECC support, so my Ryzen system is running 2400 MHz ECC.
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by zlynx 9y ago
Everyone knows that Viziers always become evil. Or is that only Grand Viziers?
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by zlynx 9y ago
I like my Ryzen 1700X which I use as a home server. But after overclocking my 5960x runs most software faster. The Ryzen CPUs seem to have some kind of hard speed limit right around 4 GHz. My 5960x can go to 4.3 although I keep it at 4.1 no
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by zlynx 9y ago
It is super fast. A while ago when I went to the ER with a broken arm they gave me fentanyl as an injection. As I remember it, it took less than ten seconds to go from extreme pain to not caring.
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by zlynx 9y ago
Reminds me reading about Google's new translator. It apparently uses a unique internal language it developed during training. All the languages it knows go through this internal language / neural pattern. From what I recall readin
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by zlynx 9y ago
I run a 1700X with 32 GB ECC using Fedora 26 and it has been very stable. ASUS X370-PRO board. I build stuff with just the "-j" option (unlimited jobs) to Make all the time. Had a 75 load average the other day. Also Rust servo com
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by zlynx 9y ago
Anywhere with a lot of Gigabit Fiber installed, the congestion is _not_ at the edges. It's further in. If all of those installed Gigabit edges simultaneously used 1 Gbps download, it wouldn't happen. They'd get much less.
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by zlynx 9y ago
Still weird. My Netgear R7000 doesn't have a problem with Apple devices. It used to have an open root exploit (patched), but it never had an Apple problem. :-)
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by zlynx 9y ago
Right. Raising their pay wouldn't even help. Oh, it would help them but whatever place they manage to move into with their improved cash flow would displace someone else. Then those displaced people would have a sob story until they
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by zlynx 9y ago
Das Keyboard is my current favorite also. I have three.
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by zlynx 9y ago
Or in many cases, they leave out details that would show their proposed attack is completely impractical.
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by zlynx 9y ago
Only if you mostly have friends of one political kind, I think. I know that I get plenty of "fake news" links shared from all sides in my Facebook feed. Usually the article contents themselves are fine and quite reasonable, but th
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by zlynx 9y ago
The linked page does not actually answer the question. Instead we get a long bicycle analogy that does not really map to systemd in any way that I can tell. It would have been much more interesting to hear about what software had to be rewr

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