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You can also opt back into the working time directive.

COBOL, Assembler, and FORTRAN are actually kind of cool.

The irony is that Caldera linux bought Sanra Cruz Operation, then Caldera changed its name to SCO.

Then SCO got greedy and tried to charge for royalties from IBM and Novell. They both said no, we'll see you in court.

I'm not sure if groklaw is still around, but that was a really good resource.

Ansible was designed to be agnostic in this regard. Most Ansible plugins in the unix world are written in sh or Python, and in the Windows world in PowerShell. But you can use anything you want.

This is also part of Ansible's philosophy: to be agentless and as thin as possible.

Puppet and chef are significantly more complex, and historically required remote agents on the hosts they managed.

On the threads about Progress buying chef and VMware buying Saltstack, it was pretty clear that the sentiment of the community was that things have moved passed chef and puppet to Ansible and Terraform.

If they have it. They can delete your data.

I think you're looking at this from a consumerism point of view.

The US started a huge build up of arms. eg missiles and destroyers specifically, but also the US had significant advances with tank and aircraft weaponry.

The US consumerist system had a positive feedback into the US industrial military complex where advances in manufacturing and information technology lead to huge efficiency gains for arms production even though Western arms production supply chains almost completely isolated.

So, the US had a massive technology and manufacturing advantage, then the US tanked world oil prices and other commodities that the USSR required from world markets. Significantly the USSR was buying more grain and food from the world market, so while the USSR was able to keep up with technology, it was not able to keep up with efficiency gains that the US was realising.

Corruption was also a huge problem for the USSR, and it still is to this day in Russia.

The Americans bankrupted the USSR on multiple fronts. Capital allocation is a capitalist system notion, but, more generally, the US was able to allocate deploy its available resources in a way that out-competed the USSR. The USA was able to organise its society and economy in a more efficient and productive way than the USSR, and that is a Macro Economic argument.

Until the 80's the USA had second most equitable distribution of wealth next to the USSR. The USA imposed significant taxes on everybody up to a marginal rate of 80%. If you want to "Make America Great Again", you need to restore taxation to the levels seen between 1945 and 1981; maybe even to the end of the 80's. American government funding through the DARPA project lead to numerous technological advances that most people, worldwide, now depend upon.

Uhm, no. No single factor, but the USA going into an arms race with the USSR combined with the USA in association with Saudia Arabia tanking world oil prices played significant roles in the demise of the USSR and the Eastern Bloc.

Healthcare seems like it is a pretty big problem in the USA. The USA spends ~20% of GDP on healthcare, while the other advanced economies spend around 10%.

For whatever reason, American love to malign things as socialist, and confuse communist totalitarian with socialism.

Because the way MySQL does other things seems has been troublesome. IIRC, MySQL essentially generates incremented integer table and column ids, so rebuilding tables relationships meant that you had to manually regenerate the table schema, then update all the old table files with the new table and column ids which were incremented on from what they were previously.

With Postgres, you can just drop the binary table data files in, restart the database and pg rebuilds the indexes and relationships.

From a quick google, it now looks like MySQL is now more robust in this regard.

Healthcare is actually a macro economic industry that Americans have been fooled in to believing that it is micro economic.

The USA spends 20% of GDP on healthcare. All other advanced economies spend about 10%.

Or, you know, vote in a government that will do single payer insurance.

That depends on perspective. If you are a professional programmer using JetBrains tools as daily drivers then I think think £100 over the InteliJ price is pretty reasonable to get access to their entire library of tools.

Consultants make at £400 day here, dotnet devs usually more.

If you are a hobbiest, it's cheaper.

And the costs decrease each year.

If you are saying £100, then it sounds like it would offer you money for value, so it's probably not for you.

I learned the semi hard way on PoC system where the Mysql index corrupted.

I was lucky and could simply redeploy my application, but I have never used Mysql since.

I read somewhere previously that the USA (and Canada) largely prioritise (bulk) freight over passenger travel when considering rail transport. Freight trains are given priority over passenger trains, when passenger trains having to wait for, yield to, and let freight ahead of then.

Further the tracks in NA are designed to carry weight rather than for speed. The design considerations are quite different.

Nice life hack. Settings the background image to a cheetsheet of commands that you want to learn. Love it. Thank you for the suggestion. :)

But if your buying the full version, then the full library is only another £100 to begin with.

Cheaper for personal use, and free for students.

https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/buy/#commercial?billing=yearl...

Technically it is the X Window System. :)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System

Why do you watch the BBC? Maybe it is better if you are not in the UK, but it is heavily biased towards the Westminster government, and does not give a fair picture of and to Welsh, Scottish, and (Northern) Irish concerns.

I agree that it is less bad than Fox and other Murdoch media.

What's not to understand?

The answers for access and Oracle are both brilliant and true.

Also reminded me of the awesome list of awesome lists:

https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome

This article reminded me of this site:

http://howfuckedismydatabase.com/

The terminal bell is completely abused, and as irritating as heck.

I turn it off as soon as I can upon installation of any distribution.

Uhm, I think the British won the "complainer" trophy with our lame ass brexit project. In fact, now the Scots are complaining about England (& Wales) winning the complaint trophy, that they themselves will likely win the complaint contest in 2021. (Please note I support Scots independence, and Scots complaints with the UK are also long standing and well founded.)

I enjoyed the theory and problems much more than doing "experiments" in high school and university.

In fact, I loathed the lab components. I always felt they were highly contrived, and offered little value beyond having to learn the structure of writing out a formal lab.

I get that experimentation and laboratory work is a vital part of science. I just appreciated the problem solving components more.

Run a browser in a VM with a hardened kernel?

Or can a properly designed attack break out of the VM and hardened kernel?

Almost certainly what you can fix and release in an hour has higher priority than something that is going to take a month, for example.

I have had quite a bit of success in having the technical teams assess the length of time a fix or a feature takes to do, but letting the stakeholders determine the relative priority.

I have seen requests and suggestions go from completely critical when requested, but when estimated at a couple of work then broken down into multiple much easier and clearer tasks when the stakeholders are included in the prioritisation discussion.

My experience is that stakeholders much prefer having things turned around quickly and they will what they can to optimise for things that are quickly and easily deliverable.

A super interesting piece of history is how the British ended up selling their Rolls Royce jet engines to the Soviets.

https://www.wearethemighty.com/history/ussr-won-jet-engine-b...

There is significant regulation for prepay of things in many jurisdictions. Eg gift cards, and it is likely that the cloud businesses do not want to enter that mine field.

Yes some of them have gift card programs already, but they probably don't want expanded regulations to contend with large sums of money.

From Dave's current site:

http://daveshea.com/projects/zen/

Gawd. Teams is so rubbish compared to Slack: - team channels are stuck in their own area away from DM and ad hoc group chats - content seems to disappear - downloading files, and in particular pictures, and then finding what it has been named and where it went is a nightmare.