murphyslaw

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by murphyslaw 2mo ago
Isn't the fact that you now know that the conjecture is false a huge help? At least it will help convince people to look at the conjecture more closely, no?
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by murphyslaw 2mo ago
BBC iPlayer is not available outside the UK.
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by murphyslaw 2mo ago
I don't know if the one you're talking about is one of these, but in the many years I worked at Cisco they seemed to buy a company every few weeks. Many of them had decent products which Cisco then meticulously destroyed. Luckily
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by murphyslaw 2mo ago
Proctologist General's warning: DO NOT PLACE IN RESTROOM.
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by murphyslaw 2mo ago
If the end product is something like La Sagrada Familia, I'll pass.
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by murphyslaw 3mo ago
Thank you for this tidbit of information!
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by murphyslaw 3mo ago
I never take public transport because the noises drive me crazy. Earbuds help, but not enough to make it bearable.
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by murphyslaw 4mo ago
You used to be able to add your own words to spellcheckers, somehow that went out the window. I rarely see the option for it on a red-lined word now in the context menu, and when it does adding the word seems to make no difference at all.
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by murphyslaw 4mo ago
Shouldn't it be possible to simply state in the contract to use that tool only? I've had good success with that in my coding.
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by murphyslaw 7mo ago
I believe that the biggest problem in the US is the constitution. It's next to impossible to change so the only way to fix it is replacing it entirely with a new one. But good luck with that...
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by murphyslaw 7mo ago
You can pipe the fd directly: # echo 1 >&2 2>| echo
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by murphyslaw 7mo ago
O'Reilly's Essential System Administration [1], I never do a job interview without it. [1]: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/essential-system-admini...
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by murphyslaw 7mo ago
It always exists on any Unix system. Even a busybox root environment. Why do you want to save a few bytes to compromise portability?
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by murphyslaw 7mo ago
> You can use /dev/stdin, /dev/stdout, /dev/stderr in most cases Never ever write code that assumes this. These dev shorthands are Linux specific, and you'll even need a certain minimum Linux version. I
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by murphyslaw 7mo ago
Older people like me could say that the Internet was a fun place until AOL came along. IMO we're going to just have to deal with AI, like it or not.
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by murphyslaw 8mo ago
I used all of these as a kid, and they were the precursor to my C64 and C128. The TI 99/4A was the first real computer I ever used - real in the sense that it had a keyboard!
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by murphyslaw 8mo ago
Just an assumption here, but the project appears to be about the methodology to verify the install. Who holds the keys is an entirely different matter.
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by murphyslaw 11mo ago
All of it is built from source, it's just that the current build process is not easy to audit. The build by definition needs to happen on multiple platforms or cross compiled, a root cert needs to be setup in the windows installer at b
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by murphyslaw 1y ago
The author is specifically talking about Raspberry Pi upstreaming changes. Isn't that about as close as you will get to a general purpose SoC?
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by murphyslaw 2y ago
I "own" Finale and the Garritan instrument package, which cost me around $600 on a student license. I remember having to guide my music composition teacher through installing his MIDI interface which connects his keyboard to Final
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by murphyslaw 3y ago
Are you sure you want any of those on a public network anyway? If they're not firewalled right now then you're already in trouble.
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by murphyslaw 3y ago
Christ, 850000 cores!
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by murphyslaw 3y ago
About the job offers: at Cisco they have (or had) only 6 months to fill a "req", i.e. the permission to hire someone. If not filled by then the req got taken away. So what you do is, you find someone, then open the req, then wait
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by murphyslaw 3y ago
I've worn them for period style music and dance performances. I'd rather kill myself than wear those all day!
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by murphyslaw 3y ago
I was part of a conspiracy to commit massive credit card fraud as a minor (thankfully all no longer relevant). I was given AT&T calling card numbers which were pilfered right from the USPS to use to connect to US BBSes to download hacke
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by murphyslaw 3y ago
Everyone I know in Belgium/The Netherlands/... uses Whatsapp. It's even got into the language: "to app someone", i.e. "iemand appen".
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by murphyslaw 3y ago
Given that this is meant to be poetic it is likely that a Roman would have said it in Greek, which was considered a more "cultured" language than mere boorish Latin.
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by murphyslaw 3y ago
What I found really strange when I went there for a few weeks, was that the entire network ground to a halt before midnight. And this for a city of 25 million people. Which I guess is why I found people sleeping in their suits near Shinjuku
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by murphyslaw 3y ago
In Europe it's fairly common to find wine in 3L boxes. The quality varies, but the same is true for the ones you find in bottles. Supermarkets also buy and bottle their own wines so you often find the same wine in both bottles and boxe
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by murphyslaw 3y ago
df just uses C library calls which use system calls. If you're going to implement something like this then ffs do it right. I don't know the "easy" way to fix this, but in any case if something is supposed to be transpar

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