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I was a dedicated Netscape user so it pains me to say it, but MSIE 6 was great when it launched, and Netscape was bloating up, unstable, and had its own range of proprietary extensions (anyone remember Netscape's DHTML...). MSIE 6&#x27
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I negotiated for a friend in a small ransomware case. They paid $2k. Yes, reputation is important, I did some research to check whether others had successfully negotiated. If you get a reputation for not delivering nobody will negotiate wit
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The "jack of all trades" in many companies may go by the name "System Engineer". If you are a jack of all trades that wants to be involved in management, the job title to pursue is Technical Program Manager.
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Pro-tip: if you work for one of the Big Tech companies there may be a spreadsheet somewhere where you add your email and get LWN access, which I assume also increases the amount of money they get paid.
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Microsoft has a tradition with these confusing backwards names. They used to have a product called Windows Services for UNIX [1] which was, you guessed it, UNIX Services for Windows: NFS, Telnet, cron, rsh, etc. [1] https://en.wi
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Rollbacks are easy and simple to do and "solve" a large number of problems and go a long way bisecting the problem. They are not expected to solve every problem.
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There's this older Sparkfun story. They had their multimeters seized for being yellow: https://www.sparkfun.com/news/1428
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No you can't. You can only see the domain during initial protocol setup.
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Isn't the sandboxing a good idea though? It feels that Linux got caught in the past and is actually one of the least secure OSes out there, and what keeps it safe is just its small desktop market share. Disclaimer: I never used snap an
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"I" don't put them anywhere, these categories are pre-existent. The WTO puts Burundi in a different list, of least developed countries.
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The World Trade Organization allows for asymmetrical relations like that for developing countries. Same reason why we don't demand a level playing field between sheep and wolves... China is a poor, third-world country.
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Historically programs are "rewritten" (really, adapted) all the time to support changes to the underlying system. E.g., read-ahead, mmap() support, fadvise() support, file locking, different file locking semantics and failure mode
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> robust, clear, well-tested, and easy to maintain systems I wonder if that's how the implementors of software that actually lasted for decades would describe their work or motivation. Does this describe Unix, for example? In partic
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That button to the right of the P that contains four different forms of dashes is... interesting. Even more if you consider that the minus sign there is not the character - that is used by every programming language.
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Brazilians are Latin and definitely not Hispanic. Latin is not a racial term (and that's why Brazilians tend to find the racialized term "Latino" as used in the US repellent), and has nothing to do with your appearance or gen
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I bet that more accounts and data have been lost to 2FA than have ever been saved by 2FA.
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So the way to get kids to like Math is by forcing them to learn... proofs? Not learning how it applies to the world and solves problems, but how it can be used to impress professors who care about rigor/pedantics? Math is dirty. Math w
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Software engineers do get that, they have been using vim, emacs for decades with few changes. Product designers on the other hand.
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Am I misremembering that RIP also added a very boring download step? Like if you play LORD for the first time you have to download a bunch of images that get cached locally. Then the sysop updates to a minor version and you have to download
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Finnegans Wake is probably the classical example. The latter books by William Gaddis also lose a lot (sometimes everything?) because they are so dependent on spoken American English. Cormac McCarthy is also sometimes hard to translate due t
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If you look at the spreadsheets you will see, for example, the 13th salary included as overhead. It's not overhead: it's part of employee income and goes directly in their pocket. The 95% figure is for hourly employees and counts
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> I think the way to prevent brain drain is not to impose restrictions on individual liberty but to compete better on the education/career market. Countries that are at the source of brain drains would typically like to do that but
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Emacs is more complex, and Emacs users do more in Emacs than just edit text. (think org-mode, debugger frontends, mail readers, etc.)
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They should have told you that they were charging less for cash.
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I have a cheap Surface that I bought at a promotion, with a pen. I can scribble/underline and it has a 3:2 screen ratio. With some discipline it is a dedicated device for a very specific kind of work (reading Math books and using LaTeX
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There are a few applications that use SQL databases as their save file format.
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Mathematica has that, though the math notation is more about display than input.
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In general it is fine to put whatever your job title is. If you are a Grand-Master Senior Foobar Engineer, that's fine. It's silly to use things like "Thinker, dreamer and entrepreneur". Most really great people I know o
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It's not necessary that the thing that replaces the Roman Empire is a new Roman Empire. It will be something different. Also if US strength depends on the loyalty of big capitalism then I have bad news to share.
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That's a bit like saying "Here we are in 1650 under an absolute monarchy. The people are the majority, they could topple our illegitimate hereditary government and make it a democracy, but they haven't done it yet because the

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