turtle_heck

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by turtle_heck 2y ago
My understanding is that there are not very many ex-Joyent folks at MNX.io, there's just a few, many more are at Oxide.
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by turtle_heck 2y ago
> for one would love to have people help me with the new Installer[0] and with the package Forge[1] Those repos really need some basic high-level information about what they are and how they work, the Forge doesn't even have a READM
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by turtle_heck 2y ago
> Joyent is still around They are but they're no longer contributing to illumos...
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by turtle_heck 2y ago
I agree SELinux is awesome. SELinux can be frustrating without the proper background about what it is, how it works, and how it helps you. There is a surprising amount of tooling for it actually.
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by turtle_heck 2y ago
Relevant: https://stopdisablingselinux.com/
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by turtle_heck 2y ago
Every RHEL server we ever provisioned (dev, testing, prod, vm, physical, etc) had it enabled, everyone who blindly disables it is lazy.
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by turtle_heck 2y ago
A lot of people disregard the creative aspect of programming, even if you're feeling great, some days creativity comes, some days it doesn't. In the company I work for, which is horribly ran, a lot of the projects I work on have a
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by turtle_heck 2y ago
> The HDMI Forum, a nonprofit corporation, is comprised of members whose primary interests are to further the development of HDMI technology. > AMD graphics card and Linux users are unable to leverage 4K@120Hz or 5K@240Hz via HDMI 2.1
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by turtle_heck 2y ago
This font is beautiful, thanks for sharing.
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by turtle_heck 2y ago
My company sells systems to DMVs, during some small talk one of the folks from the DMV said that they keep having retirees come back after retiring, the main reason: Healthcare. Working at the DMV is obviously a pretty easy job (compared to
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by turtle_heck 2y ago
> If they gave you too much info, you could bypass them and just apply directly to the job. This and I have done so on a few occasions too.
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by turtle_heck 2y ago
I did for a while in the 2010s but eventually found it too fragile and risky, started booting linux off a removable drive then eventually booting linux and just virtualizing windows, way less risky and I don't care about games so it wa
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by turtle_heck 2y ago
> Last 6 years at Google > no matter how well the interviews go I get rejection Wow... It used to be that having Google on your resume was the easy road to getting hired...
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by turtle_heck 2y ago
The end users of such cards are often not aware of the source, there's usually resellers that supply them who are always trying to save a buck here or there. We have customers who use smartcards and we often need to read or write to th
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by turtle_heck 2y ago
Weren't Oxide using CockroachDB?
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by turtle_heck 2y ago
> corporations are just really bad at building incentives for long-term thinking. Most corporations are really bad at long-term anything. CEOs want every quarter to be more profitable than the last, mostly everything else is irrelevant.
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by turtle_heck 2y ago
Was wondering this for OP as well, I've used a database as a queue for small projects in the past and it was fine.
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by turtle_heck 2y ago
I'm in the same boat. It's a hard adjustment because I used those side projects for learning new things, improving understanding of things I used at work and now that time has vaporized.
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by turtle_heck 2y ago
When using a struct, RustRover will offer to populate all the properties. VScode will auto complete them one at a time. I've only used this a couple of times but if you paste a block of JSON into a file it will offer to create a new st
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by turtle_heck 2y ago
That's because it kinda is a social network. You can "follow" people after all.
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by turtle_heck 2y ago
I was using (and paying for) Clion and using that Rust for quite a while, when RustRover came out I switched to it and stopped paying for Clion (There was no option to pay for RustRover) then randomly one day, a week or so ago, I could no l
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by turtle_heck 2y ago
At first I wondered: "What dystopian hellscape is this?" then I realized... this isn't _that_ different from a video game, just potentially more realistic. Still, I hate it.
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by turtle_heck 2y ago
> What the trans people I know want is to be recognized as having the gender that fits with them. You wouldn't call a cis woman a 'female' in normal conversation, so why call trans-women 'males' when there's
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by turtle_heck 2y ago
> * How should I rate myself? Here's a reference. 10 means you are the world expert, maybe invented the thing I just described. 9 means you literally wrote the book. 8 means...and so on. This is exactly what I'd do, ask what co
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by turtle_heck 2y ago
> "Further observations ruled out a collision in 2029, as well as in 2036 and 2068, though they will still be close encounters." Since we know it's going to come back around, couldn't we hit it with a couple of hydrog
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by turtle_heck 2y ago
> And the nagging everywhere. This. Oh my god this.
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by turtle_heck 2y ago
Wren looked interesting: https://wren.io/