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by delsarto 2y ago
See also VMware Workstation Shifting from Proprietary Code to Using Upstream KVM ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42013032 ) which I'm sure plays into this too ... A while ago (like ~10 years ago) VMWare workstatio
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by delsarto 2y ago
My washing machine door works like that; BigClive has a great teardown which was quite helpful to explain to me why I couldn’t open the door! https://youtu.be/PIm7q_U3UEM?si=K6wUtHJe2Jm8tW6M
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by delsarto 2y ago
Without giving too much away, you would probably enjoy “Artemis” by Andy Weir.
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by delsarto 2y ago
Check out Mars Guy https://youtube.com/@marsguy?si=AFAci3mConZv1L5- Dr. Steve Ruff. Excellent videos from an expert, but one terrific thing is the use of common objects (like mars guy cutout) that gives you some better per
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75K loyal Redditors can snag shares before Reddit goes public(arstechnica.com)
5 points by delsarto 3y ago|1 comments
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by delsarto 3y ago
One of the most interesting parts of OpenDev is that the infrastructure that builds and deploys all the OpenDev services is open. Anyone can propose changes to practically all of the infrastructure via the https://opendev.org&#x2
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Attribution Armored Code(joeyh.name)
1 points by delsarto 3y ago|0 comments
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by delsarto 3y ago
One interesting tidbit about "My Favorite Things" is that it came out several years before the movie [1]. So it was a Broadway hit, but not yet at the universally-known level the movie propelled it to. [1] https://twit
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by delsarto 3y ago
It's not exactly what you're saying but https://keyoxide.org/ Is all the best ideas of keybase. Basically if you trust someone has control over multiple different accounts you can also trust their pgp key.
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by delsarto 3y ago
They also make good tankers when your refuelers strike https://australianaviation.com.au/2023/03/qantas-uses-a380-f...
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Elon Musk Painted over the ‘W’ on the Twitter HQ Sign, Which Now Reads Titter(gizmodo.com)
11 points by delsarto 3y ago|4 comments
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Whistleblower threatening to sue ChatGPT for falsely claiming he was a criminal(crikey.com.au)
13 points by delsarto 3y ago|1 comments
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by delsarto 4y ago
The reverse engineering is certainly interesting, but the article headline seems like a bit of a beat-up since the app has a built in checker where you can scan the QR code shown and validate the details independently (the article does say
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by delsarto 4y ago
I am dating myself but I'm old enough to have watched the Simpsons episode where this word was invented in its first airing. Maybe it is a word now, I mean it's no more or less ridiculous than other words, which somebody just mad
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by delsarto 4y ago
I feel like title doesn't really focus on the specific behaviour change (not operating in a non-owned directories) that will be affecting a lot of CI/CD, which is what I was interesting in seeing discussion on.
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Git security vulnerability announced(github.blog)
549 points by delsarto 4y ago|273 comments
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by delsarto 5y ago
If, like me, your knowledge of Constantinople is limited to the They Might Be Giants song, an excellent light-ish read (as much as 100s of years of Byzantine, as in the ridiculously complex, history can be) is Ghost Empire by Richard Fidler
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Meeting Mike Burrows - Guido van Rossum(neopythonic.blogspot.com)
2 points by delsarto 5y ago|0 comments
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by delsarto 5y ago
In Australia, it's not just little side roads that run by school entrances that have this rule; the school zone thing applies even on fairly major free-flowing roads. Two examples I can think of are https://www.google.com&#
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by delsarto 5y ago
As the parent poster well knows (as they invented it) the trick here is that you write your jobs to install from a checkout the CI system does for you. https://opendev.org/opendev/system-config/src/commit&#x2F
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by delsarto 5y ago
In my help desk days I took a call from an irate person ranting about how we were telling her to "get a male sex change". Eventually I figured out she had become upset with "msexchange" showing up in the address!
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by delsarto 5y ago
In a big picture sense they've managed to reverse engineer this from a message of "quit" (i.e. do not ingest anything, which is what basically all health-based quit campaigns are about) to "stop smoking" where their
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by delsarto 5y ago
John Safran has just released a book Puff Piece about the incredible way Philip Morris has rebranded as a "health enterprise" and released the "heatstick" with their "vaping" IQOS platform (quotes are intention
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by delsarto 5y ago
NIDA (Australia's, and one of the world's best acting schools) actually run a course "Influential Women" [1] that focuses on vocal presence for women in corporate environments. [1] https://www.corporate.nida.e
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by delsarto 5y ago
In the demo video on https://openai.com/blog/openai-codex/#spacegame it seems like it goes and does an image search for a picture of an asteroid, and them embeds without attribution a direct link to a image hosted
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by delsarto 5y ago
8 I would say is a bit early, there is some pretty gory scenes, and adult themes like "working girls" you might not want to be explaining in detail. I would say 10-12, mine is in the middle. Although I had to laugh at https:&#x2
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by delsarto 5y ago
I've been rewatching the X-Files with my kid on Disney+ and, wow, the restoration is amazing. It looks wonderful in 4K. It has brought new life for me as I originally watched it on an analogue broadcast or VHS recording of! Weirdly t
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by delsarto 5y ago
I wrote a thesis on this in 2008 (Transparent large-page support for Itanium Linux https://ts.data61.csiro.au/publications/theses_public/08/Wie... ) and Matthew Wilcox was already involved in the area then. I
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by delsarto 5y ago
Sad to see something implode that has been taken for granted for literally decades. Shows that we should never forget someone is paying for the electricity in the background and finding ways to provide open infrastructure to our projects i
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Fosshost takes donations and partners with Freenode(fosshost.org)
3 points by delsarto 5y ago|0 comments

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