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cf100clunk

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About cf100clunk

A look in the mirror confirms I'm a greybeard:

career SunOS, Solaris, HP-UX, Apollo Domain, Linux system administrator, network administrator, instructor, dabbler in BSDs

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    Comment #49188156

    Don't look directly at them.

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    Comment #49188096

    No more relentless hourglass, no more endless toilet flush, no more spinning beach ball. May they all suffer endless guru meditation.

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    Comment #49156013

    Exactly, that's the main difference, that the electric is convenient but depends upon... mains electricity.

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    Comment #49145361

    I hasten to add that an old school manual pressure cooker can be used on natural gas, propane, and electric stoves, any camp stove, or over a fire. With a bit of lye added, it can …

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    Comment #48831880

    SFU's Burnaby campus was hugely present in the X-Files years shot in Canada. The brutalist architecture of Arthur Erickson and Geoffrey Massey lent itself perfectly to the scifi-no…

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    Comment #48831852

    I recall a character on an X-Files episode who called himself "Lord Kinbasket". Fun for anyone who knows of Kinbasket Lake in BC.

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    Comment #48748377

    That point-of-view doesn't soothe anyone alarmed by expansion of warrantless law enforcement surveillance.

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    Comment #48748170

    The concern is the sharing of such surveillance with law enforcement and other government agencies.

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    Comment #48748121

    There are ways to gently inform the person(s) of your discomfort. If communicated well, it can be settled. In one case I dealt with, body odour of someone on my team was causing an…

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    Comment #48618929

    Ya, but it still uses systemd, and the version is now 7.9.

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    Comment #48610438

    HEVC is provided by the official, licensed h265 standard. The open source ~HEVC-compliant codec library is x265 created by VideoLAN but was apparently not an option for Microsoft.

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    Comment #48610329

    > twosopbts.com I'm not getting DNS NX results.

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    Comment #48610229

    I believe his engine was considered to have thermodynamically adiabatic design goals.

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    Comment #48610114

    Perhaps they meant "The" as in "The one and only" Doctor Who Treats Patients With A Gaming Mouse?

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    Comment #48610094

    Similarly, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48608732

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    Comment #48609979

    The water source is also a factor if you're using a portable drum mixer. One batch from a well can be quite different from another batch from a treated water system or a running cr…