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  • PSA about abuse of cat(1) command. Don't abuse cats

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  • Huh, I actually forgot cat is used to join several files together. Last time I needed to concatenate two files, I did

     
        
{ cat file1 ; cat file2 ; } > output

    But the most valid case is when I want to unpack .gz or .xz archive but do not want to delete the original file, as xz -d will do by default. So I naturally do

     
        
cat input.img.xz | xz -d > output.img

    I've heard rumours that xz has a special option to not delete the original file, but I know no one brave enough to search through the xz manpage.

  • Microsoft’s Secure Boot has been broken for a decade and no one noticed until now

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  • You simply sign a corporate contract and pay a corporate fee, and MICROS~1 will sign any shitty broken and backdoored bootloader that you send to them with zero quality control, and it was like that with Windows drivers for years.

  • Decoy Font

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  • Sappy roban

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  • I guess you just need to know the right people. The whiteboard interview process has been broken for many years, yet no one wants to fix it, because it favors companies and gives recruiters plausible deniability. For me it was either getting hired on the spot after submitting CV and meeting the project manager, or rounds of useless interviews with 100% rejection at the end.

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  • You'll be a middle software developer in six months, switching jobs at this point will get your salary increase by 30%

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  • I guess it depends on the location. In Ukraine you could probably change jobs every six months and still have people wishing to hire you.

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  • The education can be very hit or miss. The best way to learn is to work on an actual embedded project, as a junior or whatever, but you need to have at least some skill, so - hobby projects.

    Universities with CS programs tend to teach generic programming and algorithms, but no skills how to assemble your own robot. If you choose some practical courses in a trade school it would be better, but again, many commercial courses stop being useful after first two months, because teaching people is less profitable than actually working, so the teachers do it by the book.

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  • I've never met a poor embedded software developer, it's an awesome choice if you have skills for it.Especially if you can solder and use multimeter even on a beginner level, and a special bonus if you can design circuit boards. These skills need sonething around one-two weeks to get to a basic level.

  • It's just C with two plus signs, how hard could it be?

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  • More like garbage dispenser.

    Pro C++ coders don't use delete, they call abort()

  • Have you ever been disappointed with Linux?

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  • I mean, yes it can, but installing any packages won't work. Every binary that you wish to run on Android 10 or higher must be included inside the app, so apt naturally fails, and compiling your code inside Termux will also fail.

  • Opinionated and Easy Pi.dev Configuration

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  • But does it support SPI on Pi 5? Does it run on OrangePi or NanoPi?

  • Have you ever been disappointed with Linux?

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  • Yeah I can, but soon I won't, because Google will block all apps not installed from Play Store, and Termux cannot be compiled for new Android versions because of Android 'security'

  • Have you ever been disappointed with Linux?

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  • Available only on select Pixel phones, and the virtualization API that makes it possible is available only to preinstalled system apps.

    So no, you cannot install Ubuntu image onto your Samsung phone, you specifically need to buy the newest Pixel.

  • Have you ever been disappointed with Linux?

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  • I am deeply disappointed in the Android flavor of Linux. 17 years of development, and your phone still does not have a terminal app built into the OS.

  • Microsoft Needs Windows Lite, No telemetry, no spying, no ads, no AI, no .NET, to retain gamers and developers

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  • It does run many Windows applications using Wine, although not all of them.

  • Microsoft Needs Windows Lite, No telemetry, no spying, no ads, no AI, no .NET, to retain gamers and developers

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  • If there was a viable Windows Lite

    But there is, and it's called Linux Mint.

  • xkcd #3266: Holes

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  • Rest of your lake, rest of your salt, it's all down below.

  • xkcd #3266: Holes

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  • How did this happen? We need to rename the place immediately!

  • ISO Insensitive?

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  • Justice for the 5.25" floppy disk! It had an actual hole inside, which would fit your finger! You could see it's a disk and not a weird shaped square box, and you could hear it's rotating.

  • ISO Insensitive?

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  • That corner cutout is grossly exagerrated. In the actual floppy disk (which is also not floppy anymore) the cutout is tiny.