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Isn't the fact that you now know that the conjecture is false a huge help? At least it will help convince people to look at the conjecture more closely, no?

BBC iPlayer is not available outside the UK.

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…

Proctologist General's warning: DO NOT PLACE IN RESTROOM.

If the end product is something like La Sagrada Familia, I'll pass.

Thank you for this tidbit of information!

I never take public transport because the noises drive me crazy. Earbuds help, but not enough to make it bearable.

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 i…

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.

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…

You can pipe the fd directly: # echo 1 >&2 2>| echo

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...

It always exists on any Unix system. Even a busybox root environment. Why do you want to save a few bytes to compromise portability?

> 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 mi…

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.

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!

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.

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 ro…

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?

I "own" Finale and the Garritan instrument package, which cost me around $600 on a student license. I remember having to guide my music composition teacher through installing his M…

Are you sure you want any of those on a public network anyway? If they're not firewalled right now then you're already in trouble.

Christ, 850000 cores!

About the job offers: at Cisco they have (or had) only 6 months to fill a "req", i.e. the permission to hire someone. If not filled by then the req got taken away. So what you do i…

I've worn them for period style music and dance performances. I'd rather kill myself than wear those all day!

I was part of a conspiracy to commit massive credit card fraud as a minor (thankfully all no longer relevant). I was given AT&T calling card numbers which were pilfered right from …