HackerTrans
TopNewTrendsCommentsPastAskShowJobs

murphyslaw

58 karmajoined 8 anni fa
About 50 I guess

comments

murphyslaw
·4 giorni fa·discuss
I don't know if the one you're talking about is one of these, but in the many years I worked at Cisco they seemed to buy a company every few weeks. Many of them had decent products which Cisco then meticulously destroyed. Luckily there was always kit to preserve for future generations, which I dutifully stacked in my attic.
murphyslaw
·4 giorni fa·discuss
Proctologist General's warning: DO NOT PLACE IN RESTROOM.
murphyslaw
·4 giorni fa·discuss
If the end product is something like La Sagrada Familia, I'll pass.
murphyslaw
·19 giorni fa·discuss
Thank you for this tidbit of information!
murphyslaw
·21 giorni fa·discuss
I never take public transport because the noises drive me crazy. Earbuds help, but not enough to make it bearable.
murphyslaw
·mese scorso·discuss
You used to be able to add your own words to spellcheckers, somehow that went out the window. I rarely see the option for it on a red-lined word now in the context menu, and when it does adding the word seems to make no difference at all.
murphyslaw
·mese scorso·discuss
Shouldn't it be possible to simply state in the contract to use that tool only? I've had good success with that in my coding.
murphyslaw
·4 mesi fa·discuss
I believe that the biggest problem in the US is the constitution. It's next to impossible to change so the only way to fix it is replacing it entirely with a new one. But good luck with that...
murphyslaw
·4 mesi fa·discuss
You can pipe the fd directly:

# echo 1 >&2 2>| echo
murphyslaw
·4 mesi fa·discuss
O'Reilly's Essential System Administration [1], I never do a job interview without it.

[1]: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/essential-system-admini...
murphyslaw
·4 mesi fa·discuss
It always exists on any Unix system. Even a busybox root environment. Why do you want to save a few bytes to compromise portability?
murphyslaw
·4 mesi fa·discuss
> You can use /dev/stdin, /dev/stdout, /dev/stderr in most cases

Never ever write code that assumes this. These dev shorthands are Linux specific, and you'll even need a certain minimum Linux version.

I cringe at the amount of shell scripts that assume bash is the system interpreter, and not sh or ksh.

Always assume sh, it's the most portable.

Linux != Unix.
murphyslaw
·5 mesi fa·discuss
Older people like me could say that the Internet was a fun place until AOL came along.

IMO we're going to just have to deal with AI, like it or not.
murphyslaw
·5 mesi fa·discuss
I used all of these as a kid, and they were the precursor to my C64 and C128. The TI 99/4A was the first real computer I ever used - real in the sense that it had a keyboard!
murphyslaw
·5 mesi fa·discuss
Just an assumption here, but the project appears to be about the methodology to verify the install. Who holds the keys is an entirely different matter.
murphyslaw
·8 mesi fa·discuss
All of it is built from source, it's just that the current build process is not easy to audit. The build by definition needs to happen on multiple platforms or cross compiled, a root cert needs to be setup in the windows installer at boot time, and so on.

I agree that this is not an ideal way to boot an ISO, but the general public is unlikely to ever need a multiboot USB stick. I like this project enough to perhaps contribute.
murphyslaw
·10 mesi fa·discuss
The author is specifically talking about Raspberry Pi upstreaming changes. Isn't that about as close as you will get to a general purpose SoC?