stormking

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by stormking 2mo ago
There was a Shareware tool called Executive that would manipulate task priorities to, amongst other things, prioritize the active application.
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by stormking 2mo ago
Yes, running software that is not authorized can get you fired.
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by stormking 2mo ago
Over the past 15 years, I worked for 4 different companies in 4 different industries and I never had any trouble getting Emacs approved. They were all rather smallish, always around 200 employees, though.
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by stormking 2mo ago
Emacs is a LISP refugee in Unixland. It doesn't follow the Unix philosophy, it follows the LISP philosophy. But it integrates. Forgot where I found this.
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by stormking 3mo ago
Someone else here already pointed out the problem with that approach: After the second or third candidate, the interviewer is very familiar with the problem and may become unfairly judgemental with later candidates if they don't immedi
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by stormking 4mo ago
Bullshit, and you know it.
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by stormking 9mo ago
And an unlimited life span.
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by stormking 10mo ago
How would you run a project like this? People come and go. People do a one-time contribution and then you never hear from them again. People work on a project for years and then just go silent. Honestly, credit where credit is due, but how
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by stormking 10mo ago
AmigaOS supported both. Each drive and in addition each medium had it's own name. If GAMEDISK was in floppy 0, you could reference it either as DF0: or as GAMEDISK: You could even reference media that was not loaded at the time (e.g. G
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by stormking 10mo ago
It has been completely playable for the past 10 years, what exactly are you missing?
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by stormking 10mo ago
Elegant, schmellegant. If you want your software to be usable in an enterprise environment, you have to support OIDC out of the box.
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by stormking 10mo ago
I love the ability to directly run docker containers. I think their approach to authentication / authorization is insane (not in a good way).
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by stormking 10mo ago
Besides VMs and LXC/Proxmox-style containers, it can also run docker containers out of the box.
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by stormking 10mo ago
It can do VMs, "system containers" like LXC and Docker/OCI-compatible application containers. There was a project to implement a dockcer-compose compatible "incus-compose" but unfortunately, it looks dead, right now
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by stormking 10mo ago
When you don't know who runs archive.is, you can also never know if he sold it to someone else (except if either party publically announces it).
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by stormking 1y ago
Gaza Health Ministry === Hamas. Stop spreading terrorist's propaganda.
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by stormking 1y ago
It is Hamas who does not allow free press in Gaza. Instead, their terrorists regularily dress up as "journalists".
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by stormking 1y ago
"Gaza officials" === Hamas
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by stormking 1y ago
That's because terrorist supporter's propaganda lies are anything but "Hacker News".
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by stormking 1y ago
You mean: It has never happened once, no matter how often tried. How many communist experiments, how many ruined lives will it take until you and your kind finally get it? But I know the answer already ...
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by stormking 1y ago
Capitalism can be inhumane, especially if it is not controlled by democracy. Communism is always inhumane. It cannot be established democratically, it cannot be run democratically. It will always end in misery, poverty and death.
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by stormking 1y ago
Proxmox supports ZFS and ZFS has disk encryption.
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by stormking 2y ago
You're mistaking introverts for autist. Introverts are not having any difficulties in social situations and they are not afraid of them. They'rte just not that interested.
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by stormking 2y ago
It's very simple: As an introvert, I'm neither afraid of nor bad at social situations. I'm just not (that) interested.
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by stormking 2y ago
A book that was even made into a TV miniseries does not fit my definition of "you may never heard of".
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by stormking 2y ago
I'm pretty sure giving notice works the same in Japan as everywhere else: You give notice. Your employer does not have to agree to it.
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by stormking 2y ago
A modern display engine.
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by stormking 2y ago
It was all pretty consistent and logical until the New Caprica story arc ended. After that, they went nuts.
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by stormking 2y ago
Both great authors, both nothing like Stephenson.
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by stormking 2y ago
> You can have a picture of you standing next to Kim Kardashian > and everybody will wonder if its actually you standing next > to her - or did you manipulate the photo? Most people would wonder who that woman is.

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