SignalsFromBob

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by SignalsFromBob 1y ago
Yes, although resources might be a better word than tools in that case. If I'm at the library and I'm asking the librarian to help me locate some information, they are definitely an educated resource that I'm using. The same
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by SignalsFromBob 1y ago
The author is making the same mistake that they're claiming other news outlets have made. They're placing too much responsibility on the AI chatbot rather than the end-user. The problem that needs correcting is educating the end-u
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by SignalsFromBob 1y ago
This is why I dislike the word "hallucination" when AI outputs something strange. It anthropomorphizes the program. It's not a hallucination. It's an error.
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by SignalsFromBob 5y ago
Use pkill.
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by SignalsFromBob 7y ago
I hope you cut that client lose. If they'll do something like that on the POC they'll do it on the big contract and in numerous other ways. You'll have to double-check everything with a client like that and not be able to t
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by SignalsFromBob 7y ago
Google Maps was also an acquisition. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Maps#Acquisitions
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by SignalsFromBob 7y ago
I feel that we've done ourselves a disservice by referring to them as ad blockers rather than content blockers or, better yet, virus blockers. With malicious ads being the primary vector for compromising a person's computer, calli
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by SignalsFromBob 7y ago
> The ZFS on Linux project gets around this restriction by running ZFS in user space ZFS on Linux is a kernel module. You may be thinking of ZFS-FUSE which runs in user space using FUSE, but I'm not sure if it's being maintaine
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by SignalsFromBob 7y ago
Yes, it's normal. Just people scanning for SSH ports to attack. What I did was take the IANA IPv4 address space list[1] and add firewall rules to drop packets to port 22 coming from /8's that I would never connect from. I&#x2
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by SignalsFromBob 7y ago
I appreciate all you do as a moderator to fend off obvious trolls and griefers. I'm sure it must be a thankless job. However, I feel that your comment is not helpful or constructive. People have legitimate reasons for not wanting to cr
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by SignalsFromBob 7y ago
Please forgive the off topic question, but why is your user name on hacker news shown in color? I've never seen that before.
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by SignalsFromBob 7y ago
Sure it is. Quiesce your application, take a snapshot, then resume application. Then you can back up the snapshot. The alternative can be a lengthy downtime for your application.
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by SignalsFromBob 7y ago
Are hardware RNGs, such as the ones that plug into a USB port, of any value when the RNG in Linux is good enough for generating GPG keys? I'm wondering what the use case is for people that buy them.
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by SignalsFromBob 7y ago
Instagram is another site with this problem. Someone supplied my email address when creating an account in late 2018. I only know this because I started receiving emails to confirm my email address. Then I started to get a bunch of emails t
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by SignalsFromBob 7y ago
They aren't that great for books anymore, either. They've starting shipping books in a padded envelope that don't do much to protect the book. I've ordered a number of books that have arrived all beat up. Not a big deal
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by SignalsFromBob 7y ago
> Is it worthwhile to 'counterfeit' cat food? Let me direct you to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Chinese_milk_scandal . If people are willing to poison milk with melanine to make a dollar, why wouldn&#
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by SignalsFromBob 7y ago
This has changed. It's hard to tell they're fake. For example, each reload of https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ produces a new computer-generated image of a person.
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by SignalsFromBob 7y ago
I suspect that someone, or a group of people, will step up to unofficially maintain Python 2 for the foreseeable future. It's clear that there are a lot of people using it that either can't easily migrate or are unwilling to do so
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by SignalsFromBob 7y ago
My employer has Chrome configured to prevent installation of extensions.
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by SignalsFromBob 7y ago
I look forward to the day that society treats combating noise pollution with the same level of seriousness as combating other types of pollution. It appears that day is still far off.
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by SignalsFromBob 7y ago
Then the people that downvoted should provide a correction. I still don't know what IC is supposed to stand for. I'm assuming it's not integrated circuit which is what I think about when I see IC.
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by SignalsFromBob 7y ago
That web page's color choices have made it very difficult to read. I don't know who thought putting light grey text on white was a good idea. I had to copy and paste the text to a text editor in order to read it.
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by SignalsFromBob 7y ago
This reminds me of ClusterSSH, although I think I would rather use ClusterSSH since it will tile a bunch of xterms across all of my monitors and let me point to click to address just one if needed. But, still, this is pretty cool.
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by SignalsFromBob 7y ago
Wait, what? There are ads in the OS? That's insane.
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by SignalsFromBob 7y ago
ABCs? I don't understand. What does that mean?
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by SignalsFromBob 7y ago
Don't forget about your local library. I subscribe to Netflix, but I watch more movies and shows that I get on DVD and bluray from my library than I watch stuff on Netflix.
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by SignalsFromBob 7y ago
> As an ansible user, I hate YAML and its broken parsers with a passion Could you elaborate on this? I use Ansible daily and I've never had a problem with YAML once I took some time to understand it. What do you mean by broken parse
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by SignalsFromBob 7y ago
> DDL spec decides that it has label that evaluates a command This is simply wrong. There is nothing in the spec stating that.
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by SignalsFromBob 7y ago
That's because there's nothing in the spec stating anything about execution. The parent is simply incorrect. That's why they haven't responded.
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by SignalsFromBob 7y ago
We use Dokuwiki at work. It's simple to set up, needing only PHP and a web server, and integrating logins with active directory is easy. No need for a RDBMS. We also have some plugins like Bureaucracy (for creating forms), Include (to

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