necheffa

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by necheffa 3mo ago
Usually the filesystem driver provides an API call that sets the appropriate data structures so that the directory entry table is preallocated. The ext-family filesystems provide the mklost+found command to tap into this call if you need to
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by necheffa 4mo ago
> My theory is if any child wants help with fine motor control the help is provided by a left hand to a left hand. Neither of my parents were left handed, and yet, here I am; despite attempts otherwise I might add.
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by necheffa 5mo ago
The economic motivation just simply isn't there. I'm sure we could cherry pick a few examples of companies where things like quality and security really are part of the culture, not just feel-good lip services. The reality is that
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by necheffa 7mo ago
Partially. Being gifted is special needs education. And the average K-12 in the US is not equipped to provide that for that special need, especially in a post No Child Left Behind era. A lot of adults conflate giftedness with maturity and e
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by necheffa 10mo ago
One man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist.
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by necheffa 1y ago
This is very much a big compromise where you decide for yourself that storage capacity and maybe throughput are more important than anything else. The md metadata is not adequately protected. Btrfs checksums can tell you when a file has gon
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by necheffa 1y ago
This is what LVM/btrfs/ZFS snapshots were invented for. Windows is using Volume Shadow Copies, which for the purposes of this discussion, you can think of as roughly equivalent.
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by necheffa 1y ago
> What slice of my mortality pie was radon before and after spending $5000? You'll never know. The same way people in the exclusion zone will never know if their thyroid cancer was always destined to be or if it really was related t
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by necheffa 1y ago
This will change starting with Trixie. Of course, I have always manually configured tmpfs for /tmp/ since Jessie as part of my post-install checklist.
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by necheffa 1y ago
> Why hire an intern or a recent college-grad when they lack both the expertise and experience to do what an AI could probably do? AI can barely provide the code for a simple linked list without dropping NULL pointer dereferences every o
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by necheffa 1y ago
> What an average person wants in their desktop is Windows - not Linux and certainly not some obscure independent distro. And this is still not a problem of that distro or Linux. The average person doesn't even want Windows. They wa
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by necheffa 1y ago
> You’re also at the mercy of the libraries you use, no? To a certain extent. No one says you must use the, presumably newer, version of a library using generics or even use libraries at all. Although for any non-trivial program this is
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by necheffa 1y ago
> GCC Go does not support generics, so it's currently not very useful. I don't think a single one of the Go programs I use (or have written) use generics. If generics is the only sticking point, then that doesn't seem to b
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by necheffa 1y ago
In general, no. Most of the coal companies went bust and the rights are owned by gas and/or fracking companies or consolidated by one of the surviving companies.
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by necheffa 2y ago
> Also 60fps is pretty low, certainly isn't "high fps" anyway Uhhhhhmmmmmm....what are you smoking? Almost no one is playing competitive shooters and such at 4k. For those games you play at 1080p and turn off lots of eye c
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by necheffa 2y ago
> These are the companies you want to be at IMHO. Provided the compensation is adequate, slow and stable > fast and pivot-y. Absolutely...not. Slow does not mean stable. Slow means the floor is rotting out from under you constantly. B
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by necheffa 2y ago
> I don’t think it’s fair to compare a workflow that is designed for sed/awk. If your position is that we should not be writing bash but instead Python, then yes, it is absolutely fair. > the benefit of which is that I can actual
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by necheffa 2y ago
I have not really been a fan of ChatGPT quality. But even if that were not an issue, it is kinda hard to ask ChatGPT to write a script and a test suite for something that falls under export control and/or ITAR, or even just plain old c
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by necheffa 2y ago
I have a lot of scripts that started as me automating/documenting a manual process I would have executed interactively. The script format is more amenable to putting up guardrails. A few even did get complex enough that I either rewrot
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by necheffa 2y ago
You forgot to point out all those "footguns" you avoided by writing in Python rather than bash...
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by necheffa 2y ago
That is fair... But if all I need to do is generate the report I proposed...why would I embed that in a Ruby script (or a Python script, or a Perl script, etc.) when I could just use a bash script?
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by necheffa 2y ago
I stopped caring about POSIX shell when I ported the last bit of software off HP-UX, Sun OS, and AIX at work. All compute nodes have been running Linux for a good long while now. What good is trading away the benefits of bash extensions jus
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by necheffa 2y ago
Yes. And it is only downhill from there. Now, show us `mycommand | sed 's/ugly/beautiful/g' | awk -F: '{print $2,$4}' 1> something.report 2> err.log` in Python.
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by necheffa 2y ago
If you just want to move some files around and do basic text substitution, turning to Python or another other "full fledged programming language" is a mistake. There is so much boiler plate involved just to do something simple lik
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by necheffa 2y ago
Embrace bash. Use it as your login shell. Use it as your scripting language. Double check your scripts with shellcheck.
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by necheffa 2y ago
> Strategies for attracting and retaining tech talent in a non-tech industry As someone who is a tech lead at a non-tech company that does software in house for a niche product in a niche market... You can either treat the software as a
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by necheffa 2y ago
Not sure. But I have recently discovered that some NVMe drives do support self-tests and I was able to start and monitor the test from smartmontools, may be worth looking in to an extended self test.
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by necheffa 2y ago
TVB specifically is exclusive to the i9 product line, but K SKUs in the i7 line have also experienced a heightened occurrence of stability issues. So you kind of have to go all in on Turbo boost 3.0 as the issue and then explain why the non
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by necheffa 2y ago
Is this just an informational statement or were you trying to highlight a perceived shortcoming of what I had said? If the latter, I am afraid I don't see the point you are hinting at and need more clarification.
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by necheffa 2y ago
It isn't "overclocking" if you conform to the Intel specification. What you are getting at is Turbo boost, which is not a new thing. We can split hairs over the incremental enhancements to Turbo boost over the years of course

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