paulv

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by paulv 7d ago
It depends what the mural was of? If it was a pro KKK mural I would object. If it was some of the pictures in the article, that would be pretty sweet. If it was some of the other murals I've seen, I would be thrilled.
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by paulv 28d ago
Exactly. When doctors make mistakes, they can be held accountable -- their malpractice insurance rates go up, their licenses are subject to suspension or revocation, they can go to jail (eg if they are pill mills) or they/the practice
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by paulv 29d ago
I think the thought is that if they kill one guy who didn't vote for them, the rest of the guys who didn't vote for them will fall in line. They'd rather waste a bullet than lose institutional knowledge.
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by paulv 2mo ago
It has been a known bug class for quite some time.
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by paulv 6mo ago
Jurors?
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by paulv 6mo ago
I'm saying that words have meanings and that it's important to be clear about what they are.
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by paulv 6mo ago
> that a majority voted for A majority of people who voted . Not a majority of eligible voters and certainly not a majority.
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by paulv 10mo ago
I was a happy perl user for a long time, probably until sometime in the early 2010s. I am a sysadmin and perl was a great tool for what I needed to do. Jim Weirich was a heavy perl user for a long time, and we were both involved in the Cinc
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by paulv 1y ago
> No Effect from Legalization: The rate of drivers who tested positive for THC did not change significantly before or after legalization (42.1% vs. 45.2%), indicating that legal status did not influence the behavior of those who chose to
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by paulv 1y ago
Did you get the data in the db from telcodata.us?
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by paulv 1y ago
> Ask me how I know. What problems did you have that made you want to roll back the update?
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by paulv 1y ago
The default configuration for tmpfs is to "only" use 50% of physical ram, which still isn't great, but it's something.
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by paulv 1y ago
My experience as a long time Linux user (since 1997, so admittedly stuck with some bad habits from when things were actually hard to get working) has been that things are kind of confusing if you deviate from the golden path, but if you are
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by paulv 1y ago
Wow, I thought for sure they would have retired it by now. I remember having a birthday party there when I was a kid (90 or 91?) and thinking that it was the coolest thing ever. It made up for them not moving the planetarium from their old
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by paulv 1y ago
We use them for a few dozen domains. DNS only, though, and they are all set to auto-renew. I basically only have to interact with them when we need to make DNS changes. The web UI seems fine, especially in the advanced view, but our bigges
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by paulv 1y ago
Sometimes you can be having a great day and bam, some small reminder of something you lost can send you in to tears. Grief isn't linear.
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Update to Linux kernel could cut energy use in data centres by up to 30%(cs.uwaterloo.ca)
9 points by paulv 2y ago|1 comments
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by paulv 2y ago
Why'd you leave the most notable one out of your list?
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by paulv 2y ago
Is this not the same as the halting problem (genuinely asking)?
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by paulv 2y ago
Back in ~2002 this was the case with cron. Found out the hard way when all the backup tapes we desperately needed were completely empty.
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by paulv 2y ago
Does this kind of thing affect Hetzner IPs in their US datacenters?
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by paulv 2y ago
The trailing comma thing gets me nearly every time I edit a json config file. I don't think json supports comments, which makes it a non-starter for a lot of folks.
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by paulv 2y ago
I think the web interface for the gollum wiki (which used to power GitHub wikis, but I think they have diverged) supports org mode files. https://github.com/gollum/gollum
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by paulv 2y ago
It seems like we've entered an era where not only are you paying for software with money, you're also paying for software with your data, privacy implications be damned. I would love to see people picking f/oss instead.
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by paulv 2y ago
That change makes it no longer free/open source.
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by paulv 3y ago
Does this work with podman or is it docker only?
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by paulv 3y ago
> but often he had a reason for his abusiveness There is never, ever, under any circumstances, a reason to be abusive.
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by paulv 3y ago
The first footnote says If you squint hard enough, you'll find that Firecracker does support dynamic memory management with a technique called ballooning. However, in practice, it's not usable. To reclaim memory, you need to make
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by paulv 3y ago
Please don't presume to know what would or wouldn't make Aaron Swartz happy.
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by paulv 3y ago
Starbucks has way more unionized stores now than last year.

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