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It has been a known bug class for quite some time.

Jurors?

I'm saying that words have meanings and that it's important to be clear about what they are.

> that a majority voted for A majority of people who voted . Not a majority of eligible voters and certainly not a majority.

I was a happy perl user for a long time, probably until sometime in the early 2010s. I am a sysadmin and perl was a great tool for what I needed to do. Jim Weirich was a heavy perl…

> No Effect from Legalization: The rate of drivers who tested positive for THC did not change significantly before or after legalization (42.1% vs. 45.2%), indicating that legal st…

Did you get the data in the db from telcodata.us?

> Ask me how I know. What problems did you have that made you want to roll back the update?

The default configuration for tmpfs is to "only" use 50% of physical ram, which still isn't great, but it's something.

My experience as a long time Linux user (since 1997, so admittedly stuck with some bad habits from when things were actually hard to get working) has been that things are kind of c…

Wow, I thought for sure they would have retired it by now. I remember having a birthday party there when I was a kid (90 or 91?) and thinking that it was the coolest thing ever. It…

We use them for a few dozen domains. DNS only, though, and they are all set to auto-renew. I basically only have to interact with them when we need to make DNS changes. The web UI …

Sometimes you can be having a great day and bam, some small reminder of something you lost can send you in to tears. Grief isn't linear.

Why'd you leave the most notable one out of your list?

Is this not the same as the halting problem (genuinely asking)?

Back in ~2002 this was the case with cron. Found out the hard way when all the backup tapes we desperately needed were completely empty.

Does this kind of thing affect Hetzner IPs in their US datacenters?

The trailing comma thing gets me nearly every time I edit a json config file. I don't think json supports comments, which makes it a non-starter for a lot of folks.

I think the web interface for the gollum wiki (which used to power GitHub wikis, but I think they have diverged) supports org mode files. https://github.com/gollum/gollum

It seems like we've entered an era where not only are you paying for software with money, you're also paying for software with your data, privacy implications be damned. I would lo…

That change makes it no longer free/open source.

Does this work with podman or is it docker only?

> but often he had a reason for his abusiveness There is never, ever, under any circumstances, a reason to be abusive.

The first footnote says If you squint hard enough, you'll find that Firecracker does support dynamic memory management with a technique called ballooning. However, in practice, it'…