spauldo

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by spauldo 7d ago
In my case, it's literally free money. I travel a lot for work. I pay for everything with my card, and I'm reimbursed by the company. I rack up points, and whenever I travel for pleasure or as an independent contractor, hotels are
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by spauldo 7d ago
DMV is a state level agency and varies a lot depending on where you are. It's partially privatized here in Oklahoma and mostly painless (you only need the actual DMV for driver's tests, CDL background checks, etc.) but when I live
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by spauldo 9d ago
FreeBSD does, but I haven't tried it. It has its own chapter in the handbook. No idea about the others. I rarely need to run Windows binaries so I'm not the best person to ask.
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by spauldo 10d ago
Depends on what you need. Software compatibility is mostly good, as long as it doesn't have a dependency on systemd or some other Linux-specific feature. Driver support varies, but FreeBSD in particular is pretty decent there. FreeBSD
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by spauldo 1mo ago
If a nation state actor is out to get you, then your cybersecurity is meaningless anyway.
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by spauldo 1mo ago
The term "PLC" is a lot more specific than "computer with some GPIO ports." No one that works with PLCs would consider a Raspberry Pi to be one. These things are walled gardens. You never see the operating system. You ca
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by spauldo 1mo ago
A microcontroller based solution is rarely a good replacement for a PLC. You can find integrators willing to come out and troubleshoot your device in the field a lot more easily than embedded progammers and vendor support is usually excelle
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by spauldo 2mo ago
The first line of text on their homepage? But I don't see anything wrong with OpenBSD saying they focus on security when it's well documented that they do, in fact, focus heavily on security.
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by spauldo 2mo ago
I ran it diskless for years with read-only NFS mounts. Set up syslog and a pflog daemon to send logs elsewhere, and you don't need write access most of the time.
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by spauldo 2mo ago
I'll add another recommendation for Scheme. The concepts in SICP map very well into Scheme, whereas I can only imagine them being awkward and non-idiomatic in JS. There's lots of passing around first class functions and use of rec
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by spauldo 2mo ago
Because a lot of people aren't libertarians?
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by spauldo 2mo ago
I agree that the characterization was uncalled for in the post you replied to. But I don't agree with your statement that most people who generally oppose regulation have good reasons for doing so. Conservative media outlets have pushe
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by spauldo 3mo ago
I swear if Sun Microsystems was still around, their machines would still ship with 8-bit pseudocolor and you'd have to pay an extra $3k for 24-bit.
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by spauldo 4mo ago
Yep. I can do basic plumbing, but I haven't touched it since I started making enough money to pay a plumber to do it for me. Plumbers are worth every dollar they charge if it means I don't have to spend two hours under a sink curs
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by spauldo 4mo ago
It's really no different than every other BSD utility (and SysV utility, if you're running one of those) being different than the GNU ones. We've coped with it for fifty years at this point.
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by spauldo 4mo ago
I don't have much to disagree with there, only that any survey answer is the difference between complex things is going to be simplified. I'm thumb typing here and no one's paying me to write a book. I will defend my "he
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by spauldo 4mo ago
Well it 40 below and I don't give a...
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by spauldo 4mo ago
FreeBSD is a heavier, more capable system, suitable for large servers. It's got its own virtualization platform (bhyve), an LXC-ish container system (jails), native ZFS, dtrace, Linux emulation, and a bunch more. It makes for a decent
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by spauldo 4mo ago
I had the opposite food experience in the EU, but I'll admit my experience is mostly Spain. In the US there's usually a good variety of food from all different cultures available. When I spent two months in Spain, I got really, re
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by spauldo 4mo ago
I seem to remember Iceland was looking hard into hydrogen for their fishing fleets. They have to import Diesel fuel but they've got geothermal running out of their ears. I haven't checked to see how that went, but it sounded like
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by spauldo 4mo ago
I pay DigitalOcean $6/mo for a VM that started out as just that - a bare repo and ssh. If it was available at the time, I'd probably have paid $10 for the same if I didn't have to set up and administer the thing. I lost inter
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by spauldo 4mo ago
Only certain types of contractors, and likely only in the short term. Military contractors do well when the military has widespread support from the voters. Congresscritters will happily approve tax dollars going to the military industrial
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by spauldo 4mo ago
The carriage return and linefeed combo are the commands to move to the next line of a teletype. Other commands might (in theory) be used for this purpose on other devices. These are implementation details. Text inside a computer doesn'
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by spauldo 4mo ago
The American suburbs are full of houses with attached garages, so I'm hardly alone in this.
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by spauldo 4mo ago
He's got that Venezuelan woman's Nobel too, doesn't he?
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by spauldo 4mo ago
Unless you travel a lot and live in hotels for months at a time, like I do. Granted, that's not horribly common but there are still legitimate reasons to want an ICE.
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by spauldo 4mo ago
I would. Why wouldn't I? I park my car in an attached garage. If I had an EV or PHEV, I'd walk right past the charger on my way to the door into the house. I don't like standing around at the gas station waiting on the tank t
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by spauldo 5mo ago
Whether he believed in it or not, he passed rigorous physical tests for the Navy and NASA. They don't let just any slob be a fighter pilot, much less a test pilot or astronaut. If you don't have good cardiovascular fitness, you ca
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by spauldo 5mo ago
There were effectively no free compilers in the 80s. If you had an expensive UNIX workstation it might come with one, but everyone in the micro world had to pay. Or they wrote in Assembly or a BASIC interpreter. Granted, some were pretty ch
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by spauldo 5mo ago
I dunno, given the reputation we Americans have as tourists, it'd be nice to point out good ol' Alex and say, "hey, it could be worse!"

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