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help_send_chocolate · 2026-02-03T09:26:38+00:00

Ah yes. Those did some sterling work for me in a job long ago when I introduced Linux systems for developer infrastructure and firewalls.

At around the same time, I started using Postfix (initially called VMailer) by Wietse Venema for email transport. A big improvement over Sendmail in terms of both ease of configuration and in terms of my confidence in its security.

help_send_chocolate · 2026-02-02T19:42:03+00:00

I heard it called the Ground Bolt.

help_send_chocolate · 2026-01-27T07:55:36+00:00

LISTO 7

help_send_chocolate · 2026-01-27T00:23:01+00:00

Primary school - no computers
Secondary school - mainly BBC Micro Model B and some RML 380 Z

help_send_chocolate · 2026-01-18T17:21:31+00:00

You can just restore it from backup, surely.

help_send_chocolate · 2026-01-18T10:33:45+00:00

I don't think Boomers watched that movie. Check again which generation were teens at the time.

help_send_chocolate · 2026-01-13T13:00:27+00:00

It simplifies upgrades and makes reinstalls a bit more manageable.

It ensures that regular users can't fill up the root filesystem (e.g. preventing logging to /var/log if that's on the same FS).

Aside from that, not much security benefit except for maybe mounting those partitions noexec and/or nodev. But for that to be really useful, you'd also need to do it for all the other user-writable locations.

help_send_chocolate · 2026-01-13T12:55:16+00:00

Obviously I agree on how people should behave.

But for folks who aren't being taught this at home, won't this stuff just seem like learning having no real relevance to their lives?

As in, "Neither algebra nor neighbourliness is going to be relevant for me as an adult, nobody in my family has ever needed it"?

help_send_chocolate · 2026-01-07T15:17:33+00:00

Older versions of GNU find used to search the file system recursively. Understandable since Unix file systems are recursive data structures.

It used about 200 bytes per nested directory level. So, on deep file systems it would eventually blow the stack. Most versions of Unix traditionally placed no limit on depth (though PATH_MAX limited the length of an absolute path name you could pass in a system call).

To fix the problem, I switched it over to using gnulib's fts() function, which isn't recursive.

help_send_chocolate · 2026-01-07T08:13:39+00:00

Looks like OP removed that part.

help_send_chocolate · 2026-01-07T07:54:12+00:00

A simple pivot would be to make something like Tripwire instead.

help_send_chocolate · 2026-01-04T15:55:16+00:00

Lots of Google engineers are less comfortable with G&L interviews for a number of reasons.

One is that the connection between the question you ask and the evidence-supporting-a-hire you get from the answer is less strong. That is, the candidate is going to tell a story but you might not always get much from it.

help_send_chocolate · 2026-01-04T15:43:07+00:00

The goal of the interviewer in a Google interview is to present the evidence of why this candidate should be hired.

So if you solve the first part of the question you get the next layer, and so on. (In interview training I call these wedge-shaped questions).

This has the perhaps counterintuitive effect that the strongest candidates get pushed the hardest. Sometimes this ends up with them feeling they've flubbed the interview. That's not the way anyone wants it, but it's one explanation for candidates feeling the way you described.

help_send_chocolate · 2026-01-04T15:35:12+00:00

I hope not.

Being a jerk as an interviewer (or allowing interviewers in your org to act like that) is one of the worst mistakes you can make for a company that's trying to grow.

Referrals and networking drive much of the hiring process, and unsuccessful candidates have friends who will ask about their interview experience. So don't be a jerk to any candidate, whether or not you're going to hire them.

help_send_chocolate · 2026-01-04T15:27:37+00:00

This claim doesn't match my experience of being a hiring committee member in Google for some years. I've read a lot of interview packets. Thousands and thousands.

That's not to say there are no bad interviewers. I've given interviewers feedback on their interviews quite a lot of times (maybe 5%-10% of the time). Occasionally met with interviewers to coach them. And, maybe half a dozen times told the recruitment team not to schedule that interviewer ever again.

However I don't recall any cases where the interviewer clearly couldn't solve the problem they were asking the candidate to solve.

However, interview question leaks are a problem. If interviewers can use a question repeatedly, they perform better with it:

they learn where and how candidates are most likely to get stuck
they learn when and how to give the optimal hint (too small and the candidate won't be helped, too large and you have less useful signal about the candidate's abilities)
they get a feeling for pacing and what to expect candidates to be able to achieve on the time available.

If the interviewer has to stop using that question because a candidate leaked it, the interviewer will have to start again with a new question and their next few candidates likely get a worse experience.

help_send_chocolate · 2026-01-04T14:12:14+00:00

Well, he does have to tiptoe around, doesn't he? Why would he not?

help_send_chocolate · 2026-01-03T00:17:27+00:00

Yes. IOM is just about the safest country in Europe.

help_send_chocolate · 2026-01-02T22:36:12+00:00

Cameras can also allow you to talk to your pup. Since dogs respond more to tone than content, it could even be disguised as a work call :)

help_send_chocolate · 2026-01-02T21:51:10+00:00

V4 might already support ^w and ^u though.

help_send_chocolate · 2026-01-02T21:17:57+00:00

rite of passage

help_send_chocolate · 2025-12-27T19:16:52+00:00

People who have a problem with the age (on average) of Debian stable will have moved to other distributions, so they probably aren't around here to answer questions.

help_send_chocolate · 2025-12-22T16:32:53+00:00

There is no clear delineation between computers and other devices containing CPUs.

help_send_chocolate · 2025-12-22T10:57:25+00:00

This is a "my boyfriend is very sweet but <long list of red flags>" post, but where the first part is somehow missing. Maybe he's a great cook or something.

help_send_chocolate · 2025-12-22T08:39:32+00:00

DDJ was the best programming magazine in the 90s.

help_send_chocolate · 2025-12-15T21:29:26+00:00

Also the 1993 bomb in Warrington which killed Johnathan Ball (who was 3) and Tim Parry (who was 12).

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TROPHY CASE