I actually had to look it up when writing that post, I think I searched for "garden gate lock" at first :)

Offering a crate as a safe and cosy space to relax, sleep, etc. is recommended by the RSPCA (and the Dog Trust, Battersea, and many more).

In normal use it's fitted with a small mattress, vet bed, toys (that I didn't show because I didn't make those myself).

A standard poodle. In that picture he hadn't had his first trim yet, so he's showing gloriously fluffy puppy hair

Since I have a few pictures and you're asking nicely 😃 I opened another post: https://programming.dev/post/25943048

The second thing I mentionned were some shelves that had to fit in a very specific spot, but I don't have pictures to hand

As a beginner who mostly learned from the University of YouTube, I hear you, it was more involved and messier work than I thought it'd be

We're a couple months later, I ended up doing a second small project, this time I used half tung oil half orang oil, and adjusted my technique: wiped with a clean rag after application, and I think the room was warmer them last time.

Got better results, more even and it didn't take 2+ weeks for the first coat to cure (more like a few days).

Thanks for the advice 🙂

By "Syslog-ng Engineer" do they mean a C systems programmer who can fix bugs and add features to syslog? that's a rather different role from being an admin; even if, depending on the size of the operation, it make sense to give both roles to the same person

Besides Journal not being available on non-Linux, there are a could of reasons for using syslog: it can log to a remote server for instance. Journal does have a remote logging capability, but at best you have to run two log sinks in parallel, at worse it's a non starter because everything that's not a Linux box (network routers, VMware hosts, IDS appliances) can't speak to it

Another is fine filing and retention. With syslog you can say things like "log NOTICE and above from daemon XYZ to XYZ.log and keep 30 days worth; log everything including DEBUG to XYZ-debug.log, keep no more than 10MB". With Journal you rotate the entire log or nothing, at least last I looked I couldnt find anything finer. There are namespaces, but that doesn't compowe, the application needs to know which log goes into which namespace

There was a discussion of pathlib a few days ago: https://programming.dev/post/21864360

Scapy is another library where they redefined / to layer packets, such that you can write:

IP(dst="172.23.34.45") / UDP() / DNS(…)

Then Scapy has magic so that on serialisation, the UDP layer knows defaults to dport=53 if the upper layer is DNS, and it can access the lower layer to compute its checksum.

And don't forget that strings have a custom % (as in modulo) operator for formatting:

"Hello %s" %(username)

Of course in modern Python, f-strings will almost always be more convenient

I can’t remember if threads are core bound or not.

On Linux, by default they're not. getcpu(2) says:

   The getcpu() system call identifies the processor and node on which the
   calling thread or process is currently running and writes them into the
   integers pointed to by the cpu and node arguments.  ...

   The  information  placed in cpu is guaranteed to be current only at the
   time of the  call:  unless  the  CPU  affinity  has  been  fixed  using
   sched_setaffinity(2),  the  kernel  might  change  the CPU at any time.
   (Normally this does not happen because the scheduler tries to  minimize
   movements  between  CPUs  to keep caches hot, but it is possible.)  The
   caller must allow for the possibility that the information returned  in
   cpu and node is no longer current by the time the call returns.

There's been a few of those in the UK; this article quotes "><SCRIPT SRC=https://mjt.xss.ht/> LTD and ; DROP TABLE “COMPANIES”;-- LTD.

CVS is the authoritative repository of code, and they recommend to users to use that or reposync (built atop of CVS) to keep their system updated.

There is also a GitHub mirror , and got is an OpenBSD project, and I suspect a number of devs use one of those for local work until it's time to push the changes to the authoritative tree.

Justification I've heard is that if one part of the couple is managing the other, or is promoted after the relationship started, then:

• there is a power imbalance in the couple, possibly one is coercing the other (« I can't leave him/her, they'll make my worklife hell / get me fired »);
• there is a risk the manager will promote their partner even if their job performance doesn't warrant it

Companies will want to both avoid this sort of things, and avoid being seen to enable this sort of things. They might want to move one of the parties to a different department so that the higher up one doesn't make promotion decisions for the other.

I've once worked at a company that wanted to know about relationships between their employees and suppliers/customers' employees, again because that might enable situations where a supplier / customer is treater favourably because of personal relationships

And Fabrice Bellard, the original author of ffmpeg, went on to create qemu which pretty much made open-source virtualization possible. Also TCC (even if I don't think that one is widely used), he established a world record for computing decimals of Pi using a single machine that had ~2000× less FLOPS than the previous record, and so much more...

Just under half of the Internet: https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html