cmhamill

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   PostgreSQL Worst Practices(slideshare.net)

   4 points by cmhamill 10y ago|0 comments
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   by cmhamill 10y ago

   You're probably correct, though subjectively I didn't start feeling like something was amiss until Mac OS 9, perhaps as early as 8.5. I think OS X, as the child of NeXTSTEP and Mac OS, ended up somehow less than the sum of its p
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   by cmhamill 10y ago

   I honestly can't tell if this is profound satire or contentless nonsense. Without knowing, it's impossible to discuss this.
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   by cmhamill 10y ago

   I actually think the DNS binary protocol is a rather well-designed one, but others might disagree.
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   by cmhamill 10y ago

   I'm partial to including the `www` prefix, but most of the reasons are aesthetic and not technical. The summaries for each side: http://www.yes-www.org http://no-www.org
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   by cmhamill 10y ago

   This would help immensely with converting our development process to use Docker. My hub ID is cmhamill.
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   by cmhamill 11y ago

   The issue here is actually bricking the device. It's not your standard "do we let people hang themselves or limit the user's capabilities" debate. A filesystem is a perfectly reasonable way to implement access to the E
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   by cmhamill 11y ago

   I assume folks using a smartcard for their everyday encryption are safe from these kinds of attack? Can anyone confirm that?
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   by cmhamill 11y ago

   If you're expecting trouble from state actors, then yes, you may want to consider other options.
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    by cmhamill 11y ago

    kernelconcepts.de sells them and ships to the U.S.
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    by cmhamill 12y ago

    Location: Connecticut, intent to relocate to Los Angeles in the near-ish future Remote: yes (or LA) Willing to relocate: yes if to LA, no otherwise Technologies: Unix administration, Salt Stack, Ansible, Apache, Nginx, Python, Perl, Ruby, G
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    by cmhamill 12y ago

    So, the question that jumps to mind reading this is: At what point do we acknowledge that we're re-inventing Plan 9 poorly? I don't mean to be glib (well, maybe a little), but all of this (with some exceptions — zones and jails, m
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    by cmhamill 12y ago

    For some definition of "his basic thesis" meaning "radical misrepresentation of his basic thesis," sure. Whether you like the ideology behind the forces at work in the American South or not, the real effect of these poli
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    The New Racism: This is How the Civil Rights Movement Ends(newrepublic.com)

    6 points by cmhamill 12y ago|2 comments
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    by cmhamill 12y ago

    Does anyone have any idea why Linux has a distinction between /dev/random and /dev/urandom? Legacy adherence to some defunct interface? Ignorance on the part of kernel devs (seems unlikely)?
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    by cmhamill 12y ago

    Not entirely on-topic, but the mention of the various language "stacks" at the beginning of the article reminded me of something I've been wondering. Why does the de facto standard for web apps in Go-land seem to be using the
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    by cmhamill 12y ago

    To put it more bluntly: I think it's reasonable to argue that Wikipedia is the single most important product of the Internet to date.
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    by cmhamill 12y ago

    Would you folks ever consider releasing a non-omnibus package? I'm averse to packages which include their own dependencies, but have developers who would benefit greatly from GitLab otherwise.
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    by cmhamill 12y ago

    Wesleyan has no hard-and-fast gen ed requirements, which makes this easier to pull off for students. Some majors do require them for Honors, though.
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    Dune, as an Allegory for Windows and Linux(michaeldehaan.net)

    1 points by cmhamill 12y ago|0 comments
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    by cmhamill 12y ago

    I asserted nothing of the sort.
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    by cmhamill 12y ago

    Some very strange reactions in this thread. The idea that this somehow validates the notion that Eich's politics don't affect Mozilla as a workplace seems particularly bizarre, to me. My read on this is that there are employees at
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    by cmhamill 13y ago

    My knee-jerk inclination to this post is to yell, "oh holy hell, yes!" That said, and as others in this thread have noted, there are actually two use cases that need to be satisfied. 1. Here, you've got a base system, and you
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    by cmhamill 13y ago

    Does anyone know if there's any similar ability in Perl 5?
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    by cmhamill 13y ago

    I can't really speak to the programming part of it (but it almost certainly has a lot to do with Perl), but this article has a pretty, um, interesting conception of what makes something postmodern. The basic idea is that modernism is t
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    by cmhamill 13y ago

    Luckily, djb's opinions seem to usually be right!
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    by cmhamill 13y ago

    The "OpenSSL Cookbook" book you get when you sign up for notifications about the book at this site[1] is very good. Written by the guy behind SSLLabs, if I recall correctly. [1] https://www.feistyduck.com/books&#x
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    by cmhamill 13y ago

    Ahh, this is different. I'll admit to thinking it's strange, but not insane. Sorry for the quick judgment.
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    by cmhamill 13y ago

    Do you make API calls, or just grab web pages? I've noticed the Google APIs seem to occasionally return errors for no apparent reason. You could try double-trying in your Nagios check. It's also complicated by Google's infra
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    by cmhamill 13y ago

    Any resources on best practices for a bastion host?