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CTRL+F protactinium Once again, nothing.

Well, the server was up, it was just returning HTTP 503...

have you tried mcedit? It's the editor mc (Midnight Commander, a Norton Commander clone) brings along, looks and feels like the old DOS editor, but has more features

Hi fellow yelling old man, would it be OK for me to steal your analogy? It's great! In the team I'm currently leading, we have made the same observation, with stuff getting more co…

What Andy giveth, Bill taketh away.

the idea sounds great, but there would have to be something in place to prevent it from degrading into a Wikipedia-style turf war, with people trying to protect "their" code agains…

we're storing 120M records a day in influx 1.8, offloading cold data to S3, all on a single m5.xlarge instance that runs other backend services on the side. Less than 400 bucks per…

If this is "just" sending keystrokes to notepad.exe, as in "ctrl-a, del, lots of keystrokes until one frame is done", then I'm actually more impressed by the speed keystrokes and r…

Worse is better. C and Unix were faster to implement new stuff as they were only 'good enough'. Lisp machines wanted to do everything 'right', right from the start, and were slower…

Seconding "Starting Forth" and "Thinking Forth". After that, Jonesforth ( https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/08/07/jonesforth-git-reposit... ) is an excellent example of Literal Progr…

Another big open source DB I'd like to hear about more often is Firebird ( https://firebirdsql.org/ ) which was forked from the Interbase code released by Borland (don't remember h…

Looks like they misconfigured a web interface that they can't reach anymore now that they're off the net. "anyone have a Cisco console cable lying around?"

Simple dynos can be replicated with Dokku and Ledokku as a GUI. Just get an Ubuntu VM on Digitalocean, Vultr or whatever, install and configure UFW, fail2ban and automatic security…

That's basically how C# came into being in the first place. Microsoft "bought" Anders Hejlsberg of Borland Delphi fame, and had him create a "better Java". And IMHO Visual J++ was …

It is. Software doesn't rust. My old copy of Office 2000 still works perfectly fine -- with Wine. Windows 2000 and Office 2000 were the last versions I bought. When M$ switched to …

As a concrete example, German programmer here. 16% of my income go to taxes, another 12% go to mandatory insurances (excluding healthcare), and about 6% go to health insurance. So …

that's one of the reasons I love Fossil so much. Way better backend than Git.

I've made the switch back to Redmine for my personal projects. By now it has full Markdown support for issues and wiki. Faster than Jira, and easier to use.

It's the PHP of business software. Powers half the market, but boy do mistakes cost you.

Not sure about other countries, but in Germany at least an AVAS (acoustic vehicle alerting system) must be installed in new electric cars and hybrids. My Zoe sounds like a spaceshi…

Have you tried soft line wrapping in GNU nano (M-S)? As long as you're running nano in an 80 column wide window, that should work fine.

Try Manjaro. It's based on Arch, but with a little more stable software, think Debian Testing instead of Sid. Simpler to install and works like a charm.

It just works, until PUSHing the member back fails. At least use RPOPLPUSH and a separate worker queue to make sure you don't accidentally drop packets. Don't get me wrong, I'm usi…

Go to /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ and have a look at 50unattended-upgrades and 10periodic. My 10periodic looks like this: APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists "1"; APT::Periodic::Download-…