foohbarbaz

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by foohbarbaz 12y ago
From a developer standpoint. I could get a minimal output via a serial port with a few lines of assembly on a bare hardware. USB requires a lot more work and on Windows the API is atrocious. On Linux the API (libusb) quite a bit nicer, but
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by foohbarbaz 12y ago
What an ugly mess! Somewhat related: I am amazed now much gossiping goes on in an entirely male work group behind other people's backs. Males are definitely worse than females in that regard. I would not be surpised if allegations were
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by foohbarbaz 12y ago
"The soldier's lot": http://militera.lib.ru/research/suvorov12/07.html is spot on! Been there.
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by foohbarbaz 12y ago
BTW, speaking of unintended consequences: I just love how on some interstates they put up bright orange lights right near an exit and a tight curve afterwards. So, you are doing 84mph (speed limit being 75) and go from relatively bright lit
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by foohbarbaz 12y ago
I drive a lot at night on I-70 between Denver and Green River. Visibility of the road is a big issue in the areas of tight curves. When I used to have an older car with weaker headlights having to step on brakes abruptly for not being able
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by foohbarbaz 13y ago
Everything you said is very general. The article in question talks about "Linux servers" (or that's what I read). Speaking of those, could you explain specifically, what is the point of a wholesale update, as opposed to what
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by foohbarbaz 13y ago
It's very naive to think that you can protect a box from somebody with a local shell. Never worked.
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by foohbarbaz 13y ago
Of course it's a bad idea to make unnecessary system changes (install patches) that bring system to essentially unknown state that nobody ever tested (the order and set of patches installed over your specific OS configuration). You onl
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by foohbarbaz 13y ago
Of course I can and will keep up with every vulnerability for every service that is running and facing the Internet. I do not accept the risk of waiting for some vendor to release a patch. If there's a hole, read the report, determine
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by foohbarbaz 13y ago
I am running a box built with Fedora Core 4 (2007 vintage). Never patch any systems. Why would I? If I am running a service facing the internet, it's custom built and patches would do it no good. Why would I wait for vendor to release
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by foohbarbaz 13y ago
"Our" affair is over? Gee, too bad my household does not know it yet and a 2 year old laptop has been demoted to kids machine for playing Minecraft... _Our_ love affair with a PC is over. Likely will never buy again.
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by foohbarbaz 13y ago
In practical sense .NET does not exist outside of Microsoft world. Most of those who mention Mon have never used it (or non-MS environments for that matter). Don't waste time on "Microsoft-Java". Either learn Java, or better
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by foohbarbaz 13y ago
No, unless you want to shut yourself out of non-Miscrosoft ecosystem. Considering that learning a language is a long term investment and MS's star is waning, it's probably not a good idea.
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by foohbarbaz 13y ago
Having spent 15 years in the US (I am Russian), now I am somewhat shocked when I don't get a smile from a cashier in a store in, say, Billings, MT. Navajos, who don't make eye contact or smile either also take some getting used to
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by foohbarbaz 13y ago
Russians also like to dress in black or grey. I once was looking at a picture of a group of Russian mountaineers on the summit of a Mexican volcano and realized, that there was not a single red or yellow article of clothing, all black. I do
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by foohbarbaz 13y ago
There's one fatal problem with .NET platform: it only (usefully) available for Windows. Who can afford to ignore other platforms these days? Windows, especially on the server side is on the decline. In mobile it never took off. The res
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by foohbarbaz 13y ago
The morons in IT department in my current company have accomplished an amazing feat with the host names. We have one host name that I have been using for 2 years almost every day and I still have not memorized it! I am having to cut and pas
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by foohbarbaz 13y ago
These new USGS GeoPDF quads are awesome, but... useless. Most of them do not have trails, secondary (dirt) roads and even forest coverage. These new Colorado sets apparently have trails in national forests, but a sample I looked at (Longs P
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by foohbarbaz 13y ago
No problem for me: one beer either puts me to sleep or gives me sinus headache. Don't understand what people like about alcohol. It's a pretty primitive drug too. Such a simple and small molecule, might just as well sniff glue, it
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by foohbarbaz 13y ago
Have a friend who lived in Texas for a while. Came back hating it. Said weather is pretty bad and there's no outdoors. The only thing going for outdoors is caving (normally we do hiking, mountaineering, climbing, kayaking, canyoneering, etc
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by foohbarbaz 13y ago
This is a move in the right direction: === On NixOS, you do not need to be root to install software. In addition to the system-wide ‘profile’ (set of installed packages), all user have their own profile in which they can install packages. N
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by foohbarbaz 13y ago
I am not sure I am super excited about Java the language increasing in size. As in, the size of the body of knowledge that need to be committed to one's head to comprehend and write the code. I am actually quite opposed to the syntax sugar
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by foohbarbaz 13y ago
Speaking of C#, it's missing one critical for me feature: it does not run on the platforms I am (or my employer is) using. There are some attempts like Mono, but in practical sense it does not. That is sort of a no go right there.
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by foohbarbaz 13y ago
I like my checked exceptions. I like knowing what might go wrong with a call and I like being forced by compiler to handle it. True that in typical chaos that reigns in code written by a disjointed group of people it ends up being Exception
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by foohbarbaz 14y ago
Like
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by foohbarbaz 14y ago
I said it once and will say again: these off color jokes between _some_ males tend not to happen when there's not a woman in earshot. So, yes, I suspect strongly there was a good reason for Adria Richards to be offended. The firing by her c
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by foohbarbaz 14y ago
Huh? WTF? My impression is that inappropriate jokes were specifically targeted at a woman seated nearby. In an all male company (of 13-year old youths) it just does not happen. The people that did this deserved to be reminded that it was no
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by foohbarbaz 14y ago
When I was a teenager I worked in a kitchen. A few times. Worst. Thing. Ever. 20 hour day, 4 hours of sleep, then a day off (regular work). Then another shift, sometimes. Back breaking. Absolutely worst. Still wonder how people do that. Shu
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by foohbarbaz 14y ago
It's more secure because you don't have to delegate admin access to random people to install the software. Any of these "RAT kits", I guarantee you, requires admin access to the system at one point or another, be it during the install, by e
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by foohbarbaz 14y ago
The reasoning is simple: if no random third parties ever get full control of your machine, than most likely the OS is going to stay intact (with the exception of possible local privilege escalation exploits). If the OS is intact, the job of

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