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Do it! Want to buy some pens?

Biggest smile I've had all day... Thank you!

I run FreeNAS (FreeBSD based) on HP Microservers. ECC RAM, 4 drive bays, ... The older Gen8 boxes Just Work. With FreeBSD, the newer Gen10 boxes would hang the first time you boot,…

Me too. Taught myself C with that! This generation, CPM support and everything: https://archive.org/details/dr_dobbs_journal_vol_09/page/n33...

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> I've found it to be incredibly reliable and low overhead. (I'm a bit confused which of tinc and zerotier in the parent post you're referring to....) By "it", you mean tinc , corr…

> Databases are made to execute queries, not to install them. But being able to freely/quicly stand up database servers and quickly create/drop databases makes development and test…

[Spack]( https://spack.io ) uses patchelf and additional tooling to relocate it's binary packages to other paths. It generally works, although one has to special case things that b…

> But most importantly, all builds are completely reproducible. This is only true if the commands that the recipe executes are reproducible. If someone's pulling packages from PyPi…

gitlab-ci requires GitLab, doesn't it? This doesn't, so it's an option for other settings.

+1 for pinboard!

Along side all of the more serious bits of the story and comments.... I love the fact that the monkey is subtly giving the photographer the finger....

This is a collection of math and programming resources collected by some education-centric folks who have done several year-abroad trips over the years with their kids.

Also not OP, but I really like FreeNAS running on an HP Microserver. The older Gen8 boxes Just Work. The newer Gen10 boxes hang the first time you boot, you need to pause it and se…

[edit, of course moments after posting this I found this link https://www.rsync.net/products/zfsintro.html in the Arstechnica article. Still can't find it linked from the site thou…

For FreeBSD users, it's available from ports: https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/sanoid/ (I'm the port maintainer, open to improvements)

I've used nvie-like gitflow strategies without significant issues. One of the things that I like about the strategy is that it works well for code-like things and for things like h…

> [...] easy is confused with being simple [...] The first half of Rich Hickey's "Simple Made Easy" presentation does a great job of defining easy/hard and simple/complex axes and …

> Go just hides the complexity from initial inspection. If you (parent, other readers) haven't seen it, Rob Pike's "Simplicity is complicated" is a good discussion of just this poi…

I was curious about what was going on in that image, turns out that it's a "semi-submersible heavy lift ship" wrapped around another ship (an FPSO?) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B…

I’m looking for a lawyer to help evaluate and tune-up a job offer (at the intersection of tech and biotech, in California, but hopefully the question is generally interesting). I’d…

Is your second recommendation "Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion" or "Influence: Science and Practice" (both have Robert B. Cialdini as authors)?

Go Programming Blueprints is from 2015, have you had any issues with it feeling out of date?

[edit: fixed links] This was discussed recently on the go-nuts mailing list: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/golang-nuts/u-L7PRa2Z-w/kfUS... There was also discussion around an ear…