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It's just a shell prompt. There really won't be much in the way of bugs. And it's popular. Doing a quick scan of github issues, there's no shortage of questions where some other random plugin or weird terminal emulator has strange interactions. I think the author can be forgiven for not wanting to diagnose such combinations.

> If zsh has its completion fully configured by default, there will be no need for most people to turn knobs nor will it be a "half decent shell." It'll be the best shell, if it isn't already.

The curse of backward compatibility means that zsh does not break your setup or change things on you. And there are still developers left who bear the trauma from the one time that was tried back in the early-mid 90s in the 2.x version series. Sadly that means many new features remain inactive by default, especially anything written in shell-code like command-specific completions.

If you've only compared against zsh's out-of-the-box completion then you're comparing against the fully backward compatible with how things were in 1993 state. Turn on compinit, and a half-dozen styles to enable descriptions at the very least. The content of `StartupFiles/zshrc` from zsh sources is more than enough, no need for a bloated framework like oh-my-zsh.

I'd be rather skeptical about the "fix" of updating the completion cache once a day only. Enabling oh-my-zsh already runs `compinit` and it does so after changing the function path in `fpath`. By running it again with a different `fpath` you invalidate the previous cache - meaning it builds a fresh cache twice every time you start zsh. If you use a plugin framework that already runs compinit, simply don't run it again separately. And make sure that `compinit` is only run after the final plugin or whatever has finished changing `fpath`. If you get that right, you'll only ever need to regenerate the cache when something actually updates.

Has anyone actually got this llama stuff to be usable on even moderate hardware? I find it just crashes because it doesn't find enough RAM. I've got 2G of VRAM on an AMD graphics card and 16G of system RAM and that doesn't seem to be enough. The impression I got from reading up was that it worked for most Apple stuff because the memory is unified and other than that, you need very expensive Nvidia GPUs with lots of VRAM. Are there any affordable options?

This article implies that you have to use NAT with Wireguard which really isn't the case at all. Normal subnet routing works fine provided your destination hosts know to use the wireguard server as the gateway for the wireguard subnet. Just configuring a static route on the normal default router is generally enough. Certainly, there are cases where NAT is useful, for example I redirect attempts to use public DNS to my local DNS.

This really looks quite useful. Pity it doesn't do RSS feeds as that'd be an easier way to follow projects.

I've always found the fact that zsh copes with NUL characters in variables etc to be really useful. I can see why this approach makes sense for OpenBSD but they can't prevent NULs appearing in certain places like piped input.

When I was studying in the late 80s / early 90s, the text books contrasted the "old" waterfall approach with the more "modern" iterative approach. That was long before Agile or whatever had been invented and recognised that there needed to be a feedback loop.

Trying to promote agile/scrum/xp/whatever by attacking waterfall is a straw man argument in my view because it is not comparing against what came before. That's not to say that clueless managers don't still like to reinvent and impose what is essentially waterfall.

We use Oracle Linux where I work because we used to use Solaris. At one point it looked suspiciously like Redhat had explicitly removed support for some Oracle hardware from their kernel and the UEK saved us. Besides the kernel they also offer a few other extras and optional newer versions like dtrace, support for some extra filesystems and newer KVM. I get the impression that the fact that they're underdogs in the Linux market helps to keep them honest. Much of their key staff are clearly open source advocates even if Larry only cares about money. And while the Oracle support is not up to the standards of the old Sun support it really isn't a bad choice. And it'd be easy to switch away if we ever need to.

If you want to grant particular systemctl start/stops to normal users, that can be done with policykit,

You can do `zfs set copies=2` for a ZFS dataset if you think there's value in the extra copies. That's better than a copy of the file because with a single bad block, the checksum will fail and ZFS will retrieve the data from the good block and repair both files. In practice, using disk mirrors is better than setting the copies property.

My workplace has been using ZFS for years. I've yet to see an alternative come close to being compelling. We use OpenZFS on all our RHEL servers and even workstations with XFS for root partitions and smaller clients. Our primary file server is Solaris 11 but is coming to the end of its long life. The plan is to use FreeBSD on the replacement. ZFS has become so valuable to us that it alone can be a major factor in directing our other choices.

Is nice to see it advancing in useful ways. Hopefully this leads to offline dedup without the runtime memory costs.

Maybe salaries are crazy in Silicon Valley, but in Europe I really don't see this. I got a decent starting salary 25 years ago but having remained in a technical role I've never got more than minimal pay rises. I now earn way less than my contemporaries from University who went into other fields. And if I look around for job vacancies, they're never offering big money, certainly never close to 6 figures. Yet the perception in the wider public seems to be that CS professionals have loads of money even here.

Letters she sent were decoded at the time. The evidence leading to her being executed was largely based on that. It is a simple substitution cipher so vulnerable to letter frequency analysis. So the article title is either misunderstanding or click-bait. They do appear to have found previously lost letters which is very interesting. But deciphering them is easy.