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ishtuon How work kills us

Point of government is not to give but, you know, to govern.

In communist countries millions of people were killed, so you probably should pick better examples.

ishtuon LibreOffice is now available for Haiku

>That said, what document viewer do I use when I want to read a PDF?

You should give Zathura a try :)

ishtuon Home and hotel – Switching from macOS to Ubuntu on a Dell XPS 13 laptop

>macOS is like a hotel. Everything is polished, designed and cared for.

well not anymore

ishtuon Belarus to create a regulatory environment for circulation of cryptocurrencies

No investor in their mind would believe this. Belarus needs structural reforms first.

ishtuon Things I Wish I'd Known Before Using Vagrant

Depends on case, for me NFS performance (MacOS as host, Linux as guest) is a major PITA and source of instability in vagrant dev setup.

ishtuon Bitcoin Pioneer Says New Coin to Work on Multiple Blockchains

divide and conquer that is

ishtuon Useful GCC warning options not enabled by -Wall -Wextra

Clang (since LLVM version 4.4) has flag -Weverything which really reports everything

https://www.bignerdranch.com/blog/a-bit-on-warnings/

ishtuon DuckDuckGo vs Google

Well, for such use cases Google is a better tool indeed. I personally know my neighborhood and never google what is down the street. And if I need dealership I will try to find it on car maker website which is easy to look up even using search engines from 2001.

ishtuon DuckDuckGo vs Google

Use search engine[1] that respects[2] your privacy

[1] https://www.ixquick.eu/ [2] https://www.ixquick.eu/eng/privacy-policy.html#hmb

ishtuon Hack – A typeface designed for source code

speaking of ligatures Iosevka and PragmataPro are my favorites (edit: spelling)

ishtuon Nginx Unit

>Build the foundation of your service mesh.

Not directly related as Unit seems to be advertised as app server primarily, but you can see quoted text on main page.

ishtuon Nginx Unit

I am surprised noone mentioned Kong [1] yet. It seems to implement most of stuff promised by Unit and it was around for a few years.

[1] https://getkong.org/

ishtuon Stuff Goes Bad: Erlang in Anger (2016)

Related: http://spawnedshelter.com/

ishtuon Alexandra Elbakyan Closed Sci-Hub for Russian Users

"to remove all barriers in the way of science" they say...

ishtuon The Marketing Behind MongoDB

Winner of what? https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mongodb-world-2017-lonely-sto...

ishtuon Designing Activity Feeds

>Feeds are a simple way to establish habits, growth and virality.

This is scary, isn't it?

ishtuon Psilocybin-assisted group therapy for demoralization in long-term AIDS survivors

I read it that way too. Maybe it should be of instead of for? Not a native speaker, just wondering.

ishtuon Node.js is forked to Ayo.js (pronounced like “IO”)

Make sure you use proper [1] CoC next time you start new project. Proper as in not easy to abuse for political reason or just because some SJW decided you are wrong.

[1] https://github.com/fantasylandinst/fcop

ishtuon Typing with pleasure, and low latency

>Regardless of keyboard type, key switches are mechanically imperfect and are subject to contact bounce — instead of a clean transition, the switch rapidly bounces between on and off states several times before settling. Bounce time depends on switch technology, for example, for Cherry MX switches bounce time is claimed to be less that 5 ms. Though exact probability distribution is unknown, basing on related empirical data, we can assume that average bounce time is about 1.5 ms.

This is amazing. I thought I knew everything about mech keyboards, but this opens new perspective.

ishtuon Krita Foundation in Trouble

Tried exactly same setup yesterday and was surprised how it just works.

ishtuon Introducing Bluetooth Mesh Networking

It was. You just don't know/remember.

ishtuon Welcoming Tech Talent from Around the World to France

Not sure about Booking, but at Catawiki (also NL-based) we are looking for Ruby developers willing to relocate.

Contact me via email in my profile if you are interested!

ishtuon The tragedy of 100% code coverage (2016)

>Testing is usually regarded as an important stage of the software development cycle. Testing will never be a substitute for reasoning. Testing may not be used as evidence of correctness for any but the most trivial of programs. Software engineers some times refer to "exhaustive" testing when in fact they mean "exhausting" testing. Tests are almost never exhaustive. Having lots of tests which give the right results may be reassuring but it can never be convincing. Rather than relying on testing we should be relying in reasoning. We should be relying on arguments which can convince the reader using logic. http://www.soc.napier.ac.uk/course-notes/sml/introfp.htm

ishtuon Shrinkray: Lightweight alternative to Electron

It is not lightweight, it just takes less disk space.

ishtuon TLS verification vulnerability in LibreSSL 2.5.1-2.5.3

MacOS ships OpenSSH linked against LibreSSL

ishtuon Toshiba warns it may not be able to continue as a going concern

@mods please replace Ability with Inability in title

ishtuon How setting the TZ environment variable avoids thousands of system calls

Unnecessary? I had a really bad experience with ancient skype version on modern Ubuntu desktop, and the fix for this was to set TZ environment variable to speedup first login/history fetch. Skype process was spending so much time doing useless work it was noticeable.

ishtuon MSSQL on Linux – the details

user space version of the NT kernel (known as NTUM - "user mode NT")

This is pretty neat. Wonder if people could use it to run other Windows stuff on Linux

Edit: formatting

ishtuon For software developers: how to find a job with relocation to Europe

As person who moved from Belarus to Netherlands, grass is definitely greener here.

ishtuon Understanding and Hardening Linux Containers [pdf]

"Containers are great. It's a shame Linux doesn't have any."