exarch

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by exarch 11y ago
"Weaponized marijuana" is neither a weapon nor marijuana.
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by exarch 11y ago
"But the industry sure wants to convince us that scalability is the most important property of infrastructure, because then they can sell us complicated tech we don't need and support contracts to help us use it." And lets no
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by exarch 11y ago
It should be convincing, because the test specifies a time limit in the range of a couple of minutes.
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by exarch 11y ago
What salient factors distinguish a cable company from a "mere" streaming video service? Demand programming? Nope. Time shifting? Nope. Advertisement? Nope. Other than the literal media the data flows over, what is the legally mean
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by exarch 11y ago
The (scientist approved) test for determining basic matter phases is very rudimentary. Put the object/quantity in question in a can. Does it fill the whole space of the can, no matter what size can you use? Then it's a gas. Does i
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by exarch 11y ago
This is what happens when dev teams hate ops teams. Troubleshooting a production bug without a terminal is a recipe for lengthy outages.
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by exarch 11y ago
Amazingly few discotheques provide jukeboxes.
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by exarch 11y ago
Not if the only measure of interest used is literally self-reporting a binary "interested/not interested", like it is here. This is deceptioneering through statistics.
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by exarch 11y ago
>the correlation between the mix of men and women in a career with the self-reported interest in that career is 0.56 Low quality research detected. Self-reported interest in a trendy subject is a poor way to evaluate genuine dedicated in
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by exarch 11y ago
something something coming to your town
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by exarch 11y ago
>For some reason when we apply the same principle to being respectful to people who don't want to relive a trauma they themselves lived, it's ridiculous. Part of the ridiculousness is that although it's relatively easy to
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by exarch 11y ago
What a bunch of colonialist garbage. You're probably Israeli, right? "Rational nations"? Get real. No nations are rational. Nations are driven by political systems that are driven by the emotions of the populations of those p
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by exarch 11y ago
>Because it's how 99% of websites get their funding, allowing them to survive. So then, I'll unblock ads to help companies survive just as soon as those companies start giving me money to help me survive.
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by exarch 11y ago
Not when the people who design the things are being paid to make them not-nice.
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by exarch 12y ago
I won't pardon that, because it shows your bad priorities of style over substance. That kind of flawed reasoning has too many negative consequences for me to merely overlook. Sorry.
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by exarch 12y ago
Whether or not a message is perceived as rude is irrelevant and a matter of selfishness. Whether or not it is true is what you should concern yourself with if you mean to get things done.
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by exarch 12y ago
>FWIW this is the talk that got them (Ben Nagy and The Grugq) thrown out of Kiwicon See, fuck this. We are all fucked if style begins to trump substance in infosec, like it has in most everything else. Fucking marketing turds. The Grugq
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by exarch 12y ago
>Though I don’t consider it legally practicable, as a moral matter I’d be fine if every such man were thrown in prison for life. I was with the author right up until this. Mr. Aaronson here declares that, were it legally practicable, he
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by exarch 12y ago
What offended about his post, out of curiosity? The Rube Goldberg analogy (I found that rather apt), or the "Professor Lucifer Butts" aspect of it (which I'll also confess to finding not the least apropos nickname for a certa
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by exarch 12y ago
>You don't have to like it, you don't have to eat it but they're free in their choice just as you are free to build something else. And I'm also free to correctly identify that their poor leadership decisions are ruin
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by exarch 12y ago
>I'm not disputing that there certainly are problems in systemd, but as a package I still think that systemd does more things "better" than sysvinit than it does things worse. The community seems pretty evenly split on thi
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by exarch 12y ago
Safe, but seems like it's solving a problem that doesn't really exist, or at least exists as a mosquito not warranting a bazooka swat.
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by exarch 12y ago
True, I was wrong here.
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by exarch 12y ago
>better than sysvinit Better in some ways, worse in others. If systemd were unequivocally better in all areas, nobody would be complaining. By saying what you said, you're subtly but deliberately telling every one of those people th
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by exarch 12y ago
>If you ever have written a /etc/init.d script for a python non-daemoning script running in a virtualenv, or something to the same effect, you'd notice the improvement over SysV init scripts. These are solved problems. You
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by exarch 12y ago
Oh shit, let me go recompile my chargen and telnet servers then. We stopped using inetd for reasons. Modern services don't work this way, nor should they.
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by exarch 12y ago
They don't buffer into /dev/null... until you fill the buffer. And the purpose of systemd, as near as I can tell, appears to be making my system into a Windows box, complete with binlogs.
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by exarch 12y ago
>the result of the vote is a clear majority of Debian developers saying "no more politics on this init topic" No, it's a thin majority of devs saying, "lets not make a decision of any kind, so please continue fighting
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by exarch 12y ago
<i>Socket activation</i> Because minimal boot time is way more important than predictable, repeatable functionality. It's totally cool if some other daemon lies about whether or not my service is actually listening whi
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by exarch 12y ago
Why make apples and oranges comparisons to the kernel? It isn't that hard to replace sysvinit. Why should sysvinit's replacement regress in this area?

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