vmlinuz

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by vmlinuz 11mo ago
I remember it well - thank you!
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by vmlinuz 1y ago
We all know the Daniel Radcliffe story, right? (He performed The Elements from memory on a UK talk show, which was allegedly what got him hired to play Weird Al in his 'biopic' - https://youtu.be/rSAaiYKF0cs?si=MRb
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by vmlinuz 3y ago
It's obviously a slightly different combination of technologies, but I've been using NFS over wireguard pretty happily for a while...
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by vmlinuz 3y ago
I still do. It still does...
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by vmlinuz 3y ago
Very sad news - been using vim for decades, still use it every day as pretty much all of my colleagues use VSCode... I met him briefly at FOSDEM 20+ years ago, will have to see if I can find the photo I took of him looking slightly bemused
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by vmlinuz 3y ago
This article is a masterpiece of deadpan Nordic understatement! Also a good read...
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by vmlinuz 4y ago
Location: Leeds, UK Remote: Happily Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, Django, Flask, Linux, shell, HTML/CSS/JS, SQL, PHP, etc. Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vmlinuz/ Email: richard@vmli
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by vmlinuz 4y ago
That's exactly what happened to me during lockdown - hired at a bank on a fixed-term contract, purely by phone interview. When I started, they required me to work on-site because I wasn't permanent staff and therefore had to be su
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by vmlinuz 4y ago
And why exactly should we listen to a German when it comes to these things?
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by vmlinuz 4y ago
SEEKING WORK | HONG KONG (currently) | REMOTE LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vmlinuz/ Experienced engineer, originally from the UK, worked on a large variety of different products at different levels of tec
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by vmlinuz 5y ago
I'm quite surprised to see that OpenServer is still on that list, and Solaris isn't ...
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by vmlinuz 5y ago
While technically my first Linux was a generic boot/root floppy pair in late 1995, my first distro was Slackware in 1996. I've used Red Hat, SuSE, OSX, Solaris, Unixware and (rarely) Windows since then - but last night I updated m
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by vmlinuz 5y ago
Location: Hong Kong Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No (possibly yes, in the medium-to-long term) Technologies: Python (10+ years), Django/Flask, SQL, Linux (25+ years), bash, HTML, etc. Resume: https://www.linkedin.com&#x2
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by vmlinuz 5y ago
Thanks for this - I've been using it for a while for my and my parents' personal domains and it's been pretty much flawless!
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by vmlinuz 5y ago
This kind of post is somewhere between depressing and surreal to me. I live a long way outside the US - UTC+8 - and these sort of numbers are utterly unreal for most of the world. In my recent experience, pre-, during- and 'post-'
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by vmlinuz 5y ago
Location: Hong Kong Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No (possibly yes, in the medium-to-long term) Technologies: Python (10+ years), Django/Flask, SQL, Linux (25+ years), bash, HTML, etc. Resume: https://www.linkedin.com&#x2
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by vmlinuz 5y ago
I'm a Brit - got a grad job at SCO in 1998, then moved to Sun in 2000 when SCO imploded, then decided to emigrate when Sun started imploding in 2005. I was initially planning to move to Israel - I'm Jewish, so don't need a v
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by vmlinuz 5y ago
I know it sounds like a broken MP3, but I don't see "support for Linux on non-servers" on that list of improvements - apparently because they still think only Linux users have large hard drives...
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by vmlinuz 5y ago
Ok, so I'm going to hijack this slightly... I'm an elderly (mid-40s) non-USian techie, and I've never done Instagram. On Facebook I mostly follow people I've largely lost touch with in real life (particular these past co
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by vmlinuz 6y ago
Of course there are specific niches, but it's pretty easy to answer in general: 'actual professionals' need some combination of two criteria - capacity and reliability/durability/usability. A device which can handle
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by vmlinuz 6y ago
Many, many years ago, I used a custom build of Plucker to build an offline reader for the schedule of a large conference in the UK - to the point of rebuilding the schduule file daily to include updates, and using an old laptop with an ir
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by vmlinuz 6y ago
I started a 6 month contract at A Large Enterprise about 7 weeks ago and it's been intensely wierd. My team is split over two sites (same timezone, different countries) and every single member of the team - including someone who starte
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by vmlinuz 6y ago
To be clear, TikTok and WeChat are quite different 'threats', both real, but it's not clear how dangerous: TikTok is aimed at a wide market, and it's a content app - there are two worries with it, data and influence. If
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by vmlinuz 6y ago
D'oh! I did notice the typo after I'd posted it, but it was too late to do anything about it. Thanks tyrankh and dang :D
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by vmlinuz 6y ago
I can recommend everyone look at this jobs page, even if you're not interested in applying, for sheer style points!
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by vmlinuz 6y ago
"[T]his role will start as a fully remote position, but will likely convert to an onsite role in NYC at a yet-to-be-determined date in the future."
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by vmlinuz 6y ago
Location: Hong Kong (UK citizen, HK Permanent Resident, English-speaking) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Primary: Linux/Unix, Python, Django, PHP. Secondary: SQL, git, AWS, JavaScript, Android, shell, HTML, C. Tertia
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by vmlinuz 6y ago
So I'm not going to get into an argument, just make three basic points to reply here: Hong Kong did not always belong to China, and was not leased to the UK - part of Hong Kong's area (the New Territories) was leased, but Kowloo
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by vmlinuz 6y ago
Also, uh, it's a pun on haystack... as DHH pointed out somewhere in the thread.
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by vmlinuz 6y ago
> I had an interview once with a team that was all remote and the person on the other end had literally just crawled out of bed a few minutes earlier Earlier this year, I had an interview with a fairly serious company which shall not be

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