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cat199··on Okta to Acquire Auth0 for $6.5B
but you will hear:

Sometimes they happen so a company can create synergies and improve the scope of their product offerings

cat199··on Okta to Acquire Auth0 for $6.5B
> market opportunity in authentication.

As in any publicly traded company - there are 2 markets at play - capital markets, and the market for the actual products

> The VC-backed industry is all about creating new opportunities (and by definition disrupting someone else's business), and recirculating investment money, improving our economy

2 words I don't see in this sentence are 'product' and 'customer'

cat199··on Elegant Bash Conditionals
why is printf preferable to echo here other than formatting?
cat199··on Beyond Meat signs global supply deals with McDonald’s, KFC and Pizza Hut
> Noöne

who is Noöne? never heard of them. Is that Greta Thunberg's more radical twin?

cat199··on Early Byzantine finds at the far ends of the world (2017)
Always find it interesting that Marco Polo, who 'discovered the east' in popular western culture, is a Venetian who's father set up shop in Constantinople soon after it was sacked by the venetians in the 4th crusade, but yet clear evidence of active trade routes like this clearly existed long before - seems like a pretty clear case of historical revisionism to me..
cat199··on The Bupstash Garbage Collector
> Aren’t backups usually just run relatively infrequently on a fixed, automated schedule?

not familiar with this system, but for large setups, having the maintenance operations block usage can reduce the backup window enough that it impacts your desired scheduling pattern

cat199··on Resolvd(8) – daemon to handle nameserver configuration
i get the sense (no direct insight other than following overall feature trajectory) that openbsd is going to gradually build up some level of quasi-SDN networking/vm clustering around virtual interfaces, VMM, pf/pfsync/ifstated, etc - if even some of this is correct, long run it probably makes sense to provide some kind of dynamic/api driven component in the system to support more flexible DNS functionality

again, just a hunch, but it helps me make sense of the world :)

cat199··on GameStop Is Happening Again
not necessarily - typical failed spin cycle usually tries spin+fud at level 10, when that fails, retrench to level 9, acknowledging some points with their own new spin and fake surprise at 'learning something new', lather, rinse, repeat. Same thing when you call out a compulsive liar in real life. I have 0% doubt that many of the comments in these threads are calling exactly this out.

update: literally 1st pair of comments i read in WSB on this one is:

"Lol Cramer is such a great actor. “What?! Seriously?!” What a douche"

"Is he okay? He was looking off camera so frequently I thought maybe they are holding his wife hostage there or something.

Cramer, buddy, blink twice if we should call the cops."

cat199··on Amazon Sends ‘Vote No’ Instructions to Unionizing Employees
> Amazingly enough

Not so amazing when you look at DNC backers, July 30, 1975, etc. More radical unions (e.g. IWW) tend to look at the 'mainstream' unions as 'bosses unions' or 'controlled opposition', and the more libertarian minded often similarly view the relationship between unions and capital as power plays by big corps to raise the 'free market' price of labor and consolidate power.

cat199··on The Framework Laptop
looks awesome!

but will take the opportunity to be a know it all critic from the peanut gallery to be annoyed by the schmarmy 'made with ♥' that i see on everything these days.. is anyone else as annoyed by this as I am? hmm...

wouldn't stop a potential purchase though. kudos!

cat199··on DigitalOcean S-1
another option is that one can also choose to be rich to gain access to more wealth:

https://www.investor.gov/introduction-investing/general-reso...

200k/yr for 2 yrs, or >1M net worth % price(house).

cat199··on An Introduction to Display Editing with Vi (1980)
not sure if originally released as such, but at one point, part of a larger collection:

https://docs.freebsd.org/44doc/

https://www.netbsd.org/docs/bsd/lite2/usd.html

(missing papers were redacted due to USL vs UCB suit; most are floating around the net if you google hard enough for them)

was also released in in spiral-bound print form through USENIX for at least 4.3BSD (and I think one or both of 4.2BSD or 4.4BSD).

if you see references to 'USD' or 'PSD' or 'SMM' in manual pages, they are referring to this.

shameless opportunity for a personal take:

Unix from v7-4.4BSD was always a self-contained and self-hosting source+binary+documentation collection with a common source lineage to bell labs and its surrounding culture; therefore opengroup certified posix is not unix, despite whatever copyright law might actually say.

cat199··on GameStop shares soar more than 100% amid executive shuffle
wallstreetbets has been feeling up to it irrespective, and the mgmt change was definitely noticed there way earlier than near-close/after-hours, which is when the last ~$150 of the current $180 ticker gained..
cat199··on Buttergate: Why are Canadians complaining about hard butter?
> All they have to do is point to the very low standards in the USA and say "if we let foreign dairy in, we'll be exposing Canadians to that".

Don't know about the standards - wouldn't be surprised that they are lower - but I don't recall hearing much if anything about safety issues at any kind of frequency - so what would they be 'exposing' people to??

cat199··on RaSCSI: A virtual SCSI device emulator that runs on a Raspberry Pi
serious question: if this lets you connect physical devices, how is it 'virtual' and an 'emulator'? seems like an HBA to me...
cat199··on In the ’80s, she was a video game pioneer. Today, no one can find her
clearly the women choosing to do this are simply not 'woke' enough, and OP knows better, obviously
cat199··on Gitlab 13.9
good point on individual users -

using the multiuser support for automation sub-accounts ("service accounts") would be one thing; general 'separation of concerns' for higher security isolation (gitolite runs under a separate SSH account that can only run gitolite), has some hooks for offering read-only pull support using the git protocol pretty transparently.

but yes, i suppose pure single user it's not the hugest advantage.

cat199··on Tree-sitter: an incremental parsing system for programming tools
if your mute is on, accompanying audio states:

"You've all seen syntax coloring, right? That's something we put in our text editors to make it easier for kindergardeners to do programming"

:)

cat199··on A love letter to ISC bind
related question - anyone have any nice view-aware ways to deal with zone data? (and ideally, have some API and manage DHCP as well?) hacking together some scripts to export from a database, but would be nicer to use someone elses already-maintained hacked up scripts :)
cat199··on Gitlab 13.9
> bare-git is fine if you don't need any web presence.

cgit or gitweb can be nice additions to bare git for simple repository browsing without the full 'project managment' aspects that gitlab/gitea/redmine etc. add

cat199··on Gitlab 13.9
to note, gitolite provides a very simple addition to the 'simple git server over ssh' scenario without much hassle, might be worth looking into for this use case
cat199··on Twitter locks out Irish Bishop after he criticized euthanasia
document the filtering/ranking widgets and give the users their own knobs to control them.
cat199··on OpenBSD boots multi-user on Apple M1 hardware
Have you actually used OpenBSD?

Agree available drivers/applications might be less than a mainstream linux, but for what is there, things work completely solidly and require basically negative fiddling

cat199··on F’: Flight Software and Embedded Systems Framework
> Probably once people have decades of experience with it and know every single trap or quirk perfectly.

people were writing mission-critical C++ when C++ was new / only a few years old; with this in mind, rust is probably good to go with sufficient application/system testing

that said, since C++ & associated tooling exists, there is more of an opportunity cost since, in the context of today, there are more alternatives that could be considered

cat199··on Airbnb will build a new tech hub in Atlanta
> I always wondered why the ATL tech scene was 'underdeveloped' compared to comparable sized cities like Seattle and Austin

No insight on Atlanta or Seattle, but Austin has had tech longer than people like to think (IBM/Freescale, UT Austin+TI Partnerships, etc), and also got on the 'hype train' early by rebranding SXSW from pure music/entertainment into 'SXSW Interactive' quite a while back (early 2000s if I'm not mistaken), so you have lots of west coast tech/media/vc 'influencers' heading there on a yearly basis getting schmoozed heavy

cat199··on Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cuts the hash rate of RTX-3060 in half
> This just seems like a feeble gesture at appeasing gamers.

Color me cynical, but this seems like a strong gesture at increasing margins on GPU computing by upselling using cryptocurrency and gamers as PR pawns/scapegoats

if Nvidia is selling more cards than they can produce/distribute at desired target prices they should produce more cards and improve their distribution networks..

cat199··on VSI OpenVMS v9.0-G Released (x86 port)
> If you're mostly interested in hardware support and raw performance, I think Linux has "done it".

There's alot of room for adjustments/experimentation within the posix-like OS space; Linux is not always the best vehicle for this experimentation (witness various threading/ipc/scheduling differences with others, security protections, etc. that a) exist and/or b) have been imported/emulated in Linux )

cat199··on 'Sexual favours were the norm in music industry'
Don't know why they picked a headline that buried the other big point of the article - "Mafia 'owned' pop stars"

This is a huge thing hugely related to the rest of the 'industry culture' being talked about.

cat199··on What went wrong with the Texas power grid?
Strangely, the TX grid also wasn't impacted the multiple times that CA couldn't manage it's own portion of the western grid...
cat199··on What went wrong with the Texas power grid?
> Running your own grid seems cool Texas style, until you have a regional problem and have no where to turn.

This cuts both ways, and most of the rest country is often a benefactor - many US/NA companies (and I'm assuming govt/military) have a 3rd DR location on the TX grid precisely because it provides an additional point of redundancy. TX also wasn't impacted by CA mismanagement of it's grid, for example..

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