In my case, it's literally free money. I travel a lot for work. I pay for everything with my card, and I'm reimbursed by the company. I rack up points, and whenever I travel for pleasure or as an independent contractor,…
DMV is a state level agency and varies a lot depending on where you are. It's partially privatized here in Oklahoma and mostly painless (you only need the actual DMV for driver's tests, CDL background checks, etc.) but…
FreeBSD does, but I haven't tried it. It has its own chapter in the handbook. No idea about the others. I rarely need to run Windows binaries so I'm not the best person to ask.
Depends on what you need. Software compatibility is mostly good, as long as it doesn't have a dependency on systemd or some other Linux-specific feature. Driver support varies, but FreeBSD in particular is pretty decent…
If a nation state actor is out to get you, then your cybersecurity is meaningless anyway.
The term "PLC" is a lot more specific than "computer with some GPIO ports." No one that works with PLCs would consider a Raspberry Pi to be one. These things are walled gardens. You never see the operating system. You…
A microcontroller based solution is rarely a good replacement for a PLC. You can find integrators willing to come out and troubleshoot your device in the field a lot more easily than embedded progammers and vendor…
The first line of text on their homepage? But I don't see anything wrong with OpenBSD saying they focus on security when it's well documented that they do, in fact, focus heavily on security.
I ran it diskless for years with read-only NFS mounts. Set up syslog and a pflog daemon to send logs elsewhere, and you don't need write access most of the time.
I'll add another recommendation for Scheme. The concepts in SICP map very well into Scheme, whereas I can only imagine them being awkward and non-idiomatic in JS. There's lots of passing around first class functions and…
Because a lot of people aren't libertarians?
I agree that the characterization was uncalled for in the post you replied to. But I don't agree with your statement that most people who generally oppose regulation have good reasons for doing so. Conservative media…
I swear if Sun Microsystems was still around, their machines would still ship with 8-bit pseudocolor and you'd have to pay an extra $3k for 24-bit.
Yep. I can do basic plumbing, but I haven't touched it since I started making enough money to pay a plumber to do it for me. Plumbers are worth every dollar they charge if it means I don't have to spend two hours under…
It's really no different than every other BSD utility (and SysV utility, if you're running one of those) being different than the GNU ones. We've coped with it for fifty years at this point.
I don't have much to disagree with there, only that any survey answer is the difference between complex things is going to be simplified. I'm thumb typing here and no one's paying me to write a book. I will defend my…
Well it 40 below and I don't give a...
FreeBSD is a heavier, more capable system, suitable for large servers. It's got its own virtualization platform (bhyve), an LXC-ish container system (jails), native ZFS, dtrace, Linux emulation, and a bunch more. It…
I had the opposite food experience in the EU, but I'll admit my experience is mostly Spain. In the US there's usually a good variety of food from all different cultures available. When I spent two months in Spain, I got…
I seem to remember Iceland was looking hard into hydrogen for their fishing fleets. They have to import Diesel fuel but they've got geothermal running out of their ears. I haven't checked to see how that went, but it…
I pay DigitalOcean $6/mo for a VM that started out as just that - a bare repo and ssh. If it was available at the time, I'd probably have paid $10 for the same if I didn't have to set up and administer the thing. I lost…
Only certain types of contractors, and likely only in the short term. Military contractors do well when the military has widespread support from the voters. Congresscritters will happily approve tax dollars going to the…
The carriage return and linefeed combo are the commands to move to the next line of a teletype. Other commands might (in theory) be used for this purpose on other devices. These are implementation details. Text inside a…
The American suburbs are full of houses with attached garages, so I'm hardly alone in this.
He's got that Venezuelan woman's Nobel too, doesn't he?
In my case, it's literally free money. I travel a lot for work. I pay for everything with my card, and I'm reimbursed by the company. I rack up points, and whenever I travel for pleasure or as an independent contractor,…
DMV is a state level agency and varies a lot depending on where you are. It's partially privatized here in Oklahoma and mostly painless (you only need the actual DMV for driver's tests, CDL background checks, etc.) but…
FreeBSD does, but I haven't tried it. It has its own chapter in the handbook. No idea about the others. I rarely need to run Windows binaries so I'm not the best person to ask.
Depends on what you need. Software compatibility is mostly good, as long as it doesn't have a dependency on systemd or some other Linux-specific feature. Driver support varies, but FreeBSD in particular is pretty decent…
If a nation state actor is out to get you, then your cybersecurity is meaningless anyway.
The term "PLC" is a lot more specific than "computer with some GPIO ports." No one that works with PLCs would consider a Raspberry Pi to be one. These things are walled gardens. You never see the operating system. You…
A microcontroller based solution is rarely a good replacement for a PLC. You can find integrators willing to come out and troubleshoot your device in the field a lot more easily than embedded progammers and vendor…
The first line of text on their homepage? But I don't see anything wrong with OpenBSD saying they focus on security when it's well documented that they do, in fact, focus heavily on security.
I ran it diskless for years with read-only NFS mounts. Set up syslog and a pflog daemon to send logs elsewhere, and you don't need write access most of the time.
I'll add another recommendation for Scheme. The concepts in SICP map very well into Scheme, whereas I can only imagine them being awkward and non-idiomatic in JS. There's lots of passing around first class functions and…
Because a lot of people aren't libertarians?
I agree that the characterization was uncalled for in the post you replied to. But I don't agree with your statement that most people who generally oppose regulation have good reasons for doing so. Conservative media…
I swear if Sun Microsystems was still around, their machines would still ship with 8-bit pseudocolor and you'd have to pay an extra $3k for 24-bit.
Yep. I can do basic plumbing, but I haven't touched it since I started making enough money to pay a plumber to do it for me. Plumbers are worth every dollar they charge if it means I don't have to spend two hours under…
It's really no different than every other BSD utility (and SysV utility, if you're running one of those) being different than the GNU ones. We've coped with it for fifty years at this point.
I don't have much to disagree with there, only that any survey answer is the difference between complex things is going to be simplified. I'm thumb typing here and no one's paying me to write a book. I will defend my…
Well it 40 below and I don't give a...
FreeBSD is a heavier, more capable system, suitable for large servers. It's got its own virtualization platform (bhyve), an LXC-ish container system (jails), native ZFS, dtrace, Linux emulation, and a bunch more. It…
I had the opposite food experience in the EU, but I'll admit my experience is mostly Spain. In the US there's usually a good variety of food from all different cultures available. When I spent two months in Spain, I got…
I seem to remember Iceland was looking hard into hydrogen for their fishing fleets. They have to import Diesel fuel but they've got geothermal running out of their ears. I haven't checked to see how that went, but it…
I pay DigitalOcean $6/mo for a VM that started out as just that - a bare repo and ssh. If it was available at the time, I'd probably have paid $10 for the same if I didn't have to set up and administer the thing. I lost…
Only certain types of contractors, and likely only in the short term. Military contractors do well when the military has widespread support from the voters. Congresscritters will happily approve tax dollars going to the…
The carriage return and linefeed combo are the commands to move to the next line of a teletype. Other commands might (in theory) be used for this purpose on other devices. These are implementation details. Text inside a…
The American suburbs are full of houses with attached garages, so I'm hardly alone in this.
He's got that Venezuelan woman's Nobel too, doesn't he?