business sayd must do it by days, and that fight was way above my paygrade.
Sigh.
Always so tempting to implement it properly but make sure the demo happens during a 31-day month in a 365-day year :)
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business sayd must do it by days, and that fight was way above my paygrade.
Sigh.
Always so tempting to implement it properly but make sure the demo happens during a 31-day month in a 365-day year :)
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I've used that one too, only to see it spontaneously revert for no reason I could track down (I might well have been TRWTF). It was a while back and all I remember is the subsequent decision not to bother moving Windows out of its comfort zone again. Making Linux use a localtime hwclock instead has never caused me any trouble; in fact the installers for most modern distros will do that by default if they detect an existing Windows partition.
Assuming all installed systems have up-to-date tzdata, the only scenarios I can think of where a localtime hwclock could actually cause me grief involve physically moving to a new tz between OS shutdown and startup, or having daylight saving start between shutting down Linux and starting Windows (which will then start up timestamping files an hour too late, then step time backwards by an hour as soon as w32time contacts an ntp server).
Those are kind of rare, but since UTC hwclock would eliminate them altogether it's probably time I revisited making it work.
I've created a couple of standard timestamps for testing, including 'now', 'justNow' (five minutes ago), 'yesterday' (24 hours ago), 'nextMonth' (30 days from now), and 'whenPigsFly' (five years from now, because Oracle gets funny if you use dates later than 2031)
You should add timeImmemorial for completeness.
My point is that months after the user has given UAC the go-ahead to run an installer, quite possibly in the apparently normal course of installing something legitimate that's in everyday use and causing no problems, foistware that came bundled with that installer could do things requiring elevation without causing further UAC notifications - even if no malicious code at all has actually been running in the interim.
The idea that UAC can be relied on to pop up and stop random malware doing invasive things is simply wrong. It can't. It can block scripted drive-by installation attempts from web sites, but that's about it.
the radius of a spherical horizon upon absorbing 1 bit increases by less than the planck length. Huh?
Given that the spherical horizon in question belongs to a black hole, you're going to have to work pretty hard to convince me that the radius (as opposed to the area) has any physical meaning.
if you want to get hired by me it is!
I take it Jacob won't be getting a gig with you then?
in Jacob's case he is unqualified for a job in IT
But how could that be? He interviewed so well!
Unpossible, I think. There are always ways in which I'm going to be better off than you, and ways in which you're going to be better off than me; privilege is always circumstantial.
Best we can do, it seems to me, is remain aware that privilege is always a thing, and remind ourselves that when people whose lived experiences are worse than our own in some respect report what those experiences are like for them, often the best thing to do is just STFU and listen and learn - as opposed to "correcting" their point of view based on some kind of guesswork-based projection of our own lives into their circumstances.
The changes I would need to see in the world in order to believe that privilege was no longer a problem would need to involve both universal application of that principle, and a considerable blunting of the extent to which multiple forms of privilege occur in clusters.
It'd be really great if there were some way to broadcast a change to the current local timezone across a subnetwork, but I've never heard of any way to make an IP phone do that.
If the IP phones in question are capable of picking up tz info from DHCP per rfc4833, you could do it by rebooting network switches (probably worth deferring that reboot until none of the connected phones was in a call).
@another_sam said in Why is polygamy illegal?:
I don't intend to prove that, I never intended to prove that, and I don't know why you think I might try.
He doesn't. He's merely looking for an opportunity to run Standard Line #3, which goes like this: You can't prove your axioms, any more than I can prove mine. Therefore, your atheism rests on faith every bit as much as my theism does. Therefore, atheism is a religion. Therefore, nyah, nyah, nyah. QED.
Bear in mind that you're dealing here with the same clown who thinks that wheeling out this ecard
The big problem is downloads tend to randomly cut off and have to be restarted. Very annoying at times. I'm not quite sure where the problem is.
Is your WAP dual-band? If so, giving its 2.4GHz and 5GHz radios different SSIDs can stop marginally-connected clients from trying to improve their error rate by flipping bands, which often goes poorly.
If it's single-band, but has auto channel selection turned on, try fixing it to one channel. In a room 2.5 walls away from the WAP I wouldn't be surprised to see channel-dependent standing wave patterns, causing the client to drop out whenever the WAP happens to switch to a channel that puts it in a dark spot.
All my Android phones suffer a common problem that doesn't have a clean solution, either: randomly, or maybe after connecting to a different wi-fi hotspot, they will be unable to connect again to the home router without rebooting said router. Two different Samsung models and an HTC. Damndest thing, and very annoying.
Android DHCP on Wifi is FUBAR. Give your home LAN an unusual private IP address range (mine is 192.168.119.0/24) and make sure you have plenty of DHCP leases in the pool, so that when Android decides randomly to re-use an IP address it might maybe have seen before, it will (a) not stomp some other device on your LAN and (b) probably end up with the address your LAN's DHCP server would give it if it asked.
@Intercourse said:
bring back the reign of the JVM, the one true god. Everything should be Java. Everything.
No, all hail the reign of LLVM IR, the one true god. Everything should be LLVM. Everything.
And of course when I say "Fuck off", it's not because I bear you ill will.
It's just that you're clearly one of those people who spends his life trying to get rid of red telephones. That apparently makes you incapable of formulating a coherent, non-fallacious argument.
You're so determined to be offended that I thought I'd make it easier for you.
So fuck off.
it watches folders for incoming files and runs a script that tells it what buttons to click in the UI
Not reading any more ewww ewwwwww ewwwwwwwwwww
@dkf said in Why is polygamy illegal?:
A badly chosen axiom would be something that lets you prove obviously crazy stuff, such as “2 + 2 = 5”.
Even under standard arithmetic definitions, two plus two does equal five, for larger values of two*. Which is, of course, why using floating-point arithmetic for financial calculations requires such extreme care as to be generally best avoided.
*anything >= 2.25 and < 2.5 will do
I'm not opposed to the entire concept of arranged marriage.
The point at issue is whether or not the concept of marriage ought properly to be frozen at one particular point in history - this one - never to be altered again. The arranged marriage and child marriage issues serve to illustrate that social norms concerning marriage have not in fact been frozen in this way before.
Your own personal opinions on arranged marriage and pedophilia do not alter the fact that both of those things have been integral parts of the institution of marriage in the past but are not so now. The obvious conclusion is that marriage is a far more fluid social construct than the opponents of marriage equality would have us all believe.
I am not in favor of redefining the religous/cultural concept.
How do you deal cognitively with the arranged marriage / marrying a twelve-year-old objection, then? Because that has certainly been part of the religious/cultural concept in past times. Are you suggesting that the religious/cultural view we have of marriage now is the one we ought properly to keep forever? If so, on what basis?
>delfinom:The thing I hate about PPAs is at some point they get abandoned, then over time you keep adding them. Then you finally look at your PPA list and just have a blob of them and don't know which to delete because there's no descriptive meta data and thus you must visit each site individually.
But it's a minor annoyance.What does this have to do with motorcycles?
LMGTFY.
PPA Announces Pilot Program for Scooter, Motorcycle Parking
"We do not feel this is a complete solution," the Coalition's statement
reads. "We look forward to working toward a solution that works for
everyone involved."
@Polygeekery The observation that finding matching socks in the wash basket is a sheer waste of time is not the same as a belief that socks must never be matched.
That said, it's not immediately obvious from Dawkins on socks which side of that line he comes down on.
WSUS, SCCM, Altiris
I netadmin a school with 6 virtual servers and 120 workstations; not really interested in going Full Enterprise.
scheduled tasks
I have one that shuts down any machines still powered up at 6pm.
centralized script that uses wake-on-lan
Can't really see the benefit in adding more potential failure modes.
@djls45 said in Why is polygamy illegal?:
this Doubter has some concept of "myself". And it also has some ideas about things besides itself, which it terms, "others". And the argument continues from there to rebuild all of reality.
For me, the most interesting parts of that sequence are the ones that get completely glossed over: the nature of "things" as separable units of reasoning. When we bundle some particular subset of undifferentiated existence and call it a "thing", we're actually doing something rather more complicated than it appears to be. I'm quite interested in the way we draw conceptual boundaries around things, which is why I raised the "same flame" question earlier in this thread.
Thingifying existence is useful in that it enables us to reason about things and their relationships in ways that have explanatory and therefore predictive power, but it's by no means the only useful mode of experiencing it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyyjU8fzEYU#t=18s&end=18m43s
I don't even know what "chrooted" means, except it's funny to say.
Chrooting is all kinds of fscked up.
I'd agree with that, and note in passing that the disease is common to demagogues of all political persuasions. Personally I find it more distressing when done by people whose fundamental positions I have more sympathy with, which is why I've always been somewhat surprised to find you so eager to tip this particular bucket on leftists specifically.
Apple controls both sides of the ball in that case, so they can pretty much well test the living daylights out of their drivers, at least for important parts.
Testing unimportant parts, of course, is left to third parties.
"fuck history or any concerns about whether changing things is a good idea or the idea of unintended consequences, let's just change things."
Straw man fallacy. Next?
@dkf said in Why is polygamy illegal?:
In particular, there's no debate if there's no other-than-self to debate with
Dubious. I argue with myself all the time.
@blakeyrat said:
Because seriously, ANYTHING that can scroll a webpage, if you tap it as lightly as possible, BAM the thing is gone forever.
That's so responsive!
"FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUU"And that's why I'm a pedantic dickweed about gerbilbytes.
Likewise. It's also why I choose to blame MS, who lied about the size of the file by pretending that a gigabyte is something other than 1,000,000,000 bytes, rather than drive manufacturers who have already copped quite enough stick from clueless wankers with too much time on their hands.
Binary sizings really are more natural and convenient for measuring certain classes of computer internals, and before the standardization of the binary prefixes there was reason to allow the existing SI prefix meanings to be bent somewhat for use as internal computer industry jargon. Since? Not so much.
It must be remembered that Donald Knuth, who objected to the binary prefixes as "funny sounding", was himself the inventor of the potrzebie system of weights and measures and is in any case a very skillful troll.
@Zoidberg, what's wrong with accalia? She's red as a ripe tomato!
MIPS assembly gives me the same reaction as x86
...which goes to show that you just haven't looked closely enough at x86.
Don't.
Well, not unless pain is your thing. Needing to pay attention to the pipeline makes MIPS a little tricky, but it's otherwise a really clean architecture. x86? NOT.
Shouldn't that be gibihertz?
What makes you think so?
Also, the board does have the claimed amount of RAM (and more besides). I'm not going to give grief to equipment manufacturers who spec their capacities conservatively.
audio support on Linux is a mess
Nature of the bazaar (oh fuck off, Discourse multi-reply nag toasters)
Now only if I could remove all these useless icons and move Refresh out of the address bar
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/classicthemerestorer/
and make it run less like an ass...
Mozilla continues to blame extensions for that.
I get a bit worried about Xfce, the desktop environment I jumped to after having GNOME 3 imposed on me unexpectedly by a careless aptitude full-upgrade
, being based on GTK. The core components are still GTK2, but the Xfce devs have never given any hint at all of having even the slightest interest in moving to any non-GTK toolkit. Which is a shame, because GTK was
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeg3ZPEm9Ns#t=17s
and is getting worse, not better.
If Xfce goes down a GTK{3,4,5,6,7...} rabbit hole I'll probably jump to LXQt.
is it possible to use a tinier, more unreadable font?
Hold down the Ctrl key, spin the mouse wheel, and you can make it as tiny and unreadable as your little heart desires.
@flabdablet said in Why is polygamy illegal?:
There is simply no justification for putting a mental finger on any particular aspect of experience and deciding that this is the foundation upon which all else must rest.
That said, it seems likely to me that the first distinction many of us would make happens when we're tiny infants, and is between self and environment: this moves about in a somewhat controllable way, but that generally stays much the same.
I'm fairly convinced at this point that generalizing that particular act of distinction-making is probably foundational to logic for most of us.
the major hassle is dealing with log rotation
Meh again. ls -rt /var/log/syslog* | xargs zcat | grep blah | less gets the job done, and even if I'm working on a box where I don't have that defined as gl() it takes less time to type than to get Event Viewer up and wait for it to sort itself out.
@Intercourse said:
That little anecdote illustrates how Windows chokes with long uptimes and also just how damned incompetent some sysadmins are.
I used to have a scheduled task on both the school servers (Windows Server 2003) to reboot them every night at 2:30am, which I added because without it they used to get really, really slow or even lock up completely after four or five days. No idea why.
That task is gone now because I've since p2v'd both those boxes and the host takes them down every 24 hours to snapshot itself and back everything up, so they're getting regular reboots without needing to do it themselves.
management doesn't give a fsck when the admin tells them that the application is utter garbage
One of the main things that makes me like my present job as much as I do is that when I tell our principal that crap is crap, he believes me and doesn't buy it.
Useful renewables (longshot stuff)
Much less long than many people still believe. Quite probably available significantly faster and cheaper than new nukes.
[quote=rmi.org]The key barrier to success is not inadequate technologies but tardy adoption. The rate of implementation required to reach Reinventing Fire’s ambitious goals is challenging but manageable—just as it was in 1977–85, when the U.S. cut its oil intensity at an average rate of 5.2%/y. Our analysis assumes that on average, the entire United States will ramp up over decades to the rates of efficiency and renewables adoption that the most attentive states have already achieved. Whatever exists is possible. What’s needed is a coherent and compelling vision, leadership at all levels (but not necessarily from Congress, whose action is not actually required for Reinventing Fire), and the courage to capture the opportunities now before each of us. Their value, feasibility, and practical uptake can thrive in our immensely diverse and politically fractious society if we focus on outcomes, not motives—if we simply do what makes sense and makes money, without having to agree on why it’s important.[/quote](emphasis mine)
we are radioactive people who eat radioactive food, breathe radioactive air, and walk around in radioactive buildings, every single day of our lives
half baked goggle box do gooders telling everybody it's bad for you... pernicious nonsense!
How much high-quality Chinese stuff do you have?
I don't have trouble with Chinese gear. Most of it Just Works. Even the stuff not rebadged and supported by non-Chinese vendors is almost always OK these days.
China is an industrial dystopia run by self-serving totalitarian pricks who would find themselves completely at home in the C suite of any major multinational corporation, but the stuff coming out of there is simply not rubbish any more.
When I was a little kid, "Made in Japan" was adult-code for cheap shoddy plastic crap and "Made in China" was scarcely ever seen. Ten years ago, "Made in China" was code for cheap shoddy knock-off electronics. Not any more. Things change.
I suspect that on an evolutionary scale, most mutations are not caused by radiation, though I could be wrong.
More of the variation that drives evolution is down to sex than mutation in any case.
You said Chinese products have gotten significantly better.
I did say that. I said it in the context of a discussion on solar PV, and what I had in my mind at the time I said it was Chinese electronics.
I pointed out a place that's not true.
Yes, you pointed to one particular brand of carpenter's and mechanic's tools whose quality has allegedly declined since manufacture was offshored. Not at all sure what relevance that has in a discussion on solar PV.
With your latest post, are you now saying that in this one area, they are improving?
Anybody unaware of the steady improvement in the quality of Chinese electronics over the last twenty years has simply not been paying attention.
Because I find that pretty unlikley.
I find it pretty unlikely you've been paying attention.