Crespyl

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by Crespyl 10y ago
Tar is not a compressed format. This is why it's usually paired with gzip or xz.
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by Crespyl 10y ago
Unless I've misunderstood you, you seem to have a weirdly different view of the Gamergate fracas than I had. I thought the whole thing was a rejection of the attempt by members of the gaming media to paint "gaming" as some ex
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by Crespyl 10y ago
That seems technically over-complicated and personally dishonest... Why not simply set a hard time limit, and optionally enforce it with existing parental control software? Surely you don't need to deface a product to manipulate childr
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by Crespyl 10y ago
"High resolution" could mean any display >= 1080p or so, whatever size (6 inches, or 6 feet). DPI, being "dots per inch" relates to resolution for a given physical size, so a "low resolution" 720p display th
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by Crespyl 10y ago
The kdelibs situation has improved a lot in the last couple of years. The team has worked hard to split out the frameworks and libraries from the desktop and apps themselves, so now you only need like 1/5 the KDE desktop. It's wo
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by Crespyl 10y ago
The training and ability (or willingness) to appropriately handle secure/classified information and federal records is a good start.
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by Crespyl 10y ago
As a developer, using Windows for anything that isn't Visual Studio related can be kind of painful compared to Unix-family systems, especially in the open source world. Getting a decent command line, until very recently, required awkwa
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by Crespyl 10y ago
As long as we're posting code/golfing (and since I've been lots of file parsing lately and it's fresh): use std::io::prelude::*; use std::fs::File; fn main() { let mut s = String::new(); Fi
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by Crespyl 10y ago
At least in replacing the battery, the user is (theoretically) making an informed decision/calculated risk that is in their own hands. I suspect it's also a lot cheaper to recall/replace a handful of batteries than to recall&
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by Crespyl 10y ago
Guilty as charged. For those like me who're susceptible to software fences around unproductive behavior, HN has a useful "antiprocrastination" option available under your profile settings.
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by Crespyl 10y ago
There are a lot of projects that use github-pages for hosting the main site and documentation, as well as fairly tight links with continuous integration/release pipelines. I don't necessarily think this is a bad thing, but it is a
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by Crespyl 10y ago
I don't know of any parcels of land that are simultaneously in more than one zone, but I do know that (until recently?) Indiana used to change time zones from Eastern to Central instead of using DST.
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by Crespyl 10y ago
It's interesting to me that the Page Shot feature allows you to search your captured images by the text in the captured image. At first I assumed they must be doing some OCR, but then it occurred to me that, since it's a browser a
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by Crespyl 10y ago
> networking gear As someone unfamiliar with that domain, this just raises more questions for me. Is there some secondary layer of code-signing/validation that happens? Is the image host always within the local network and the con
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by Crespyl 10y ago
Well, there is /r/hackernews...
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by Crespyl 10y ago
Sooner or later your spec language is just English and you have to get the lawyers involved. ;)
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by Crespyl 10y ago
Care to elaborate on what you didn't like about S2? I enjoyed most of season 1, but started to get turned off by the philosophy/politics towards the end and kind of stopped paying attention. Now I'm seeing people say S2 is mo
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by Crespyl 10y ago
Is half a Beats just one Beat?
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by Crespyl 10y ago
I think it has to do with some kind of global locking/racing conditions. The current version of LastPass is a big culprit, I've had it lock up nightly for >30s some times. They have a beta version that is e10s compatible which
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by Crespyl 10y ago
From what I can see, AMP is really less about "here's some cool new tech", and more "here's a buzzword and some conventions" to encourage sites to write lighter-weight, better designed web pages (or versions of
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by Crespyl 10y ago
TBH, Considered Harmful has taken on such a tongue-in-cheek life of its own that I almost don't even mind it anymore.
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by Crespyl 10y ago
IIRC, Rust struct layout is undefined/unstable, unless you explicitly use the #repr(C) tag on the struct definition, in which case it behaves pretty much exactly like C. You can also specify that the struct be packed, with no paddin
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by Crespyl 10y ago
Arguably that makes him an even better choice for non-libertarians who are fed up with both of the major parties. I desperately want to see a third option on the debate stage.
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by Crespyl 10y ago
You would have destroyed information.
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by Crespyl 10y ago
Similar to why you would want to have both false and 0; it is possible to have a situation in which you wish to define something as explicitly being null. I do think it's a little weird, but it's useful to be able to say that &quo
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by Crespyl 10y ago
> unsettling slash dehumanizing As a tangent, it is fascinating to me that you would write out the "slash" instead of using the single character symbol. Watching the evolution of the thing-a/thing-b construct from a shorth
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by Crespyl 10y ago
So you can browse the web on your own terms. The power button only disables it for one site at a time (or even just a single page, if you Ctrl-click it).
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by Crespyl 10y ago
The image of Assange trapped in an out-of-gas diplomatic car, being towed behind a beat up truck driven by a very amused blue-collar driver on the way to the airport sounds rather like something from a Douglas Adams or Terry Pratchett novel
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by Crespyl 10y ago
It's just that it seems a bit unfair to decry (or place undue burdens upon) the vast majority of responsible alcohol drinkers because we've found a few people who have an unhealthy relationship with it. Recognizing potential dange
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by Crespyl 10y ago
We must pass a noble law...

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