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by zorked 8y ago
As you can run Nix on top of any Linux system you can use it wherever you want it. Some time ago I was having a dependency-hell problem with a C++ program that used particular library versions which were available in Fedora (dev machine) bu
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by zorked 8y ago
"Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit" is the reason why I work with computers nowadays. I don't even work in security - this is the article that made me realise computers are full of wonder.
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by zorked 8y ago
I don't think they use anything in common. Try to set your locale to "C" as otherwise string comparisons will do extra work handling your locale's notions of equivalent characters.
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by zorked 8y ago
Amen to that. And it's not just cab drivers. Their culture explains a lot about the state of things in the city/state.
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by zorked 8y ago
That doesn't mean you can't use Wikipedia's content in other ways, nor does it make it immoral to do so. I found this page which gives an overview of what's ok to do with their content. Mirroring is literally the first e
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by zorked 8y ago
> How exactly do you expect wikipedia to survive if no one ever has to actually go there Did they start running ads or something?
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by zorked 8y ago
Exactly. The deal wasn't static: people got their freedom back when they showed they were worthy of it. The aftermath was that a few people left the company for better jobs after we shipped (unavoidable, some had set their minds even b
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by zorked 8y ago
At a previous company, I joined a team that had to deliver something a year before I joined. All previous teams assembled to deliver that had failed and had been fired. That the company didn't have that feature was deeply embarrassing,
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by zorked 8y ago
Maybe I am prejudiced but I have the feeling that mainframes get sold to shops with a lot of money based on the salesman's skills and, well, I wouldn't be surprised if there was a kickback here and there, to oil the old engine. No
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by zorked 8y ago
I posted something but don't have the time to double-check the math. I suggest you do your own calculations. In particular do not count income (13th salary, food tickets, travel reimbursements, etc.) as though it was taxes.
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by zorked 8y ago
The 13th salary exists in other countries too (example: Switzerland). It's a dumb thing to complain about because you have to be able to pay an employee's yearly salary in a year. It's not a surprise. It comes every December.
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by zorked 8y ago
I believe you mean "classism".
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by zorked 8y ago
I have heard the argument that regular users often believe that copying and pasting passwords makes them immune to keylogging, so allowing that will cause some of them to keep a copy of their password on a plaintext file on their desktop wh
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by zorked 8y ago
I'm a foreig parent in Switzerland and have been put through several hours of being told that Gymnasium is not the only way. I think foreign parents in particular are concerned that their kids are being trapped by a complicated system
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by zorked 8y ago
Keeping a copy of the journal in the Keybase filesystem (or Keybase git) could be a good/easy/safe way to do it.
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by zorked 8y ago
Was labour ever scarce? Was work ever an inalienable form of wealth? Why did half the world go through communist revolutions, is that because workers were too wealthy?
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by zorked 8y ago
If you have malware on the PC you can still be MITM'd when you actually, say, access your bank.
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by zorked 8y ago
> SOme people are really precious about their shitty code and can't take criticism, esepcially in small companies. It's very easy to criticize, often not easy to understand the situation where the bad code was written. Maybe th
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by zorked 8y ago
Mine isn't that different and I worked for two of the Big 4.
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Or Switzerland.
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by zorked 8y ago
FWIW I now checked and I could remove SMS without tricks. It definitely forced me to set that up first.
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by zorked 8y ago
Same problem I had. I got a bunch of keys, and everything I actually want to U2F does not support it. Sure - Google, Github, Fastmail. But nothing financial. Not even the more startupy stuff like TransferWise and Revolut. Fastmail forced me
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by zorked 8y ago
And nothing of value was lost.
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by zorked 8y ago
(This was in the 80s/early 90s so none of the mechanisms are needed anymore) The urgency of payment was handled implicitly by the banks. Salary payment was traditionally done using checks (back in those times, later bank transfer) wher
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by zorked 8y ago
Oh, for sure. Inflation was the result of the government failing to manage its debt. Institutions, businesses and the law still existed. Even the mechanisms for coping with hyperinflation were market innovations (like incredibly fast bankin
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by zorked 8y ago
I grew up in Brazil in the 80's. There was hyper inflation, though not quite up to the 1M percent level that Venezuela is facing. (1M percent is a collapse, something else entirely) Coping mechanisms: - Money in saving accounts gets in
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by zorked 8y ago
It's very much a thing in the traditional corporate world.
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by zorked 8y ago
There's a sysctl: vm.overcommit_memory=2 What most people don't realize is that you will get more OOMs if you disable overcommit.
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by zorked 8y ago
If this makes surveillance more visible it's already a huge societal win.
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IIRC Fidonet had a real name policy.

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