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by hackbinary 5y ago
Hot patching (kpatch) wasn't GE until earlier this year on Ubuntu.
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by hackbinary 5y ago
While having a long uptime sounds cool it is a signal that you don't patch that often. Maybe you patch your other stuff, but I would bet on even odds that you don't. So then that is the rest of the stack, eg systemd which has some
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by hackbinary 5y ago
I don't thing that is true. The client obtains the network prefix from the RA, and then the client tries to generate unique host address. "" The IPv6 stateless autoconfiguration mechanism requires no manual configuration o
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by hackbinary 5y ago
Are you on hyperoptic?
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by hackbinary 5y ago
Do you not patch your kernel?
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by hackbinary 5y ago
I would counter that this software was created and maintained on your own time, in which case that at the very least you are entitled for consideration for your work and efforts. Employment tribunals and courts take a dim view of wage theft
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by hackbinary 5y ago
He quit so he could have better management run the company he owns and so he can enjoy his money. His move is the ultimate founder/rich playboy move. Maybe he will buy that magazine.
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by hackbinary 5y ago
>> We could remove all duplication by grouping the code like this instead: 1. It seems to me that you refactored the code in the wrong dimension. I would have abstracted out a template shape object. 2. Are you not using a pull reques
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by hackbinary 5y ago
It seems to me that many of the problems associated with spaces in filenames are due the OS assuming that a space signals the end of a command or filename. Maybe we ought have to a different character signify the end of a name? Or signfiy
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by hackbinary 5y ago
>> It reminds me of British customer service. If you haven't lived in the UK you might not be familiar with the phenomenon of a checkout person being surly. They clearly don't want to be scanning your groceries or engaging i
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by hackbinary 5y ago
>> I'll stop short of giving a recommendation or using the word "should" ... I beleive the word you are looking for is "ought". :)
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by hackbinary 5y ago
Or Python, or tcl, or (eeek) Perl, or JavaScript. Or anything that can handle integers and floating point calculations natively.
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by hackbinary 5y ago
This is what we call shifting the the goalposts and tu quoque fallacious attacks. Just because I have erred in the past does not mean I cannot suggest to you to improve your outputs. Or, I have had learnings previously, and I am simply tryi
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by hackbinary 5y ago
Protip: while you made a great comment, ND people like me, and even most NT people have diffivulty ingesting walls of text like what you just wrote. Please, therefore, breakup your text into paragraphs every 3 sentences. It does wonders fo
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by hackbinary 5y ago
We used to call "reactionary" content sensationalism, and that type of content has always been predicated on fallacious arguments, but especially appeals to emotion. Facebook's algorithms seems very good at dectecting and pus
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by hackbinary 5y ago
Well, 2021 might be the year of the Linux Desktop afterall.
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by hackbinary 5y ago
This article sets up a strawman argument and then attempts whataboutry to prove her thesis. She is neither an expert in the philosophy of science, philosophy, or any of the fields she is critiquing. She also fails represent what science act
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by hackbinary 5y ago
If you are looking to dip your toe in and have a tinker with BSD, FreeBSD is probably the best place to start because it has spread of compatibility. But if you are looking for more focused projects, then Dragonfly for best out of box deskt
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by hackbinary 5y ago
The proper term is "conspiracy fantasy".
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by hackbinary 5y ago
I remember coming across Treehouse a year or two ago. It just seemed a bit desperate, and I moved on. I am not surprised they are having troubles.
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by hackbinary 5y ago
Almost no vaccines are sterilising and that is a very high threshold to meet. Polio and measles vaccines are not even sterilising. It is much more realistic to achieve herd immunity with vaccines than it is to create a sterilising vaccine.
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by hackbinary 5y ago
Highway are a poor analogy for information broadcast systems in general. Highways are closer to a one to one transmission system rathe than a broadcast system of one to many.
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by hackbinary 5y ago
FreeBSD underpins a fair number of commercial producers. Junos from Juniper perhaps being the most famous. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_products_based_on_Fr...
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by hackbinary 5y ago
If Google, or CF, or whoever are fronting illegal activity with their services, they are absolutely responsible for damages the party they are proxying. Platforms must be responsible for the content they are hosting, broadcasting, and publi
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by hackbinary 5y ago
There is a difference between dehumanising people and making them feel worthless and negotiating in good faith, and then reneging on agreements.
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by hackbinary 5y ago
Yeah, I get that. But also, there is no end in the claim of how hard the Range Rover driving, fee (private) school paying, huge farm house owning farmers in the UK have it. The vitriol that was extended by a couple of the associates (middl
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by hackbinary 5y ago
Yes, I think so. I believe it is Cat and Rio Tinto have some form of arrangement at one of RT's mines in Aus. The dump trucks are driverless and run from RT's HQ elsewhere. Cutting out intermediataries is what cloud computing is
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by hackbinary 5y ago
Farmers do not want to pay for anything. My dealings with people in the farming community is that completely devalue everything around as a négociation tactic. They do not want to pay anymore than they have to for anything. In general, I
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by hackbinary 5y ago
Pentobarbital, aka Euthasol, aka bluejuice, is a barbiturate and is what is commonly used for small animal euthanasia. Europe imposed strict export controls on it and other drugs in 2014, but I don't think vetinary supply has been affe
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by hackbinary 5y ago
And now we have MS Flow. And other "codeless" programming tools.

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