EdiX

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by EdiX 15y ago
I'm reading it and I'm not logged in. I think I remember this is a bug in google groups, it will ask you to log in if you have an old google cookie, it used to happen to me too a year ago, try to delete your google cookies.
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by EdiX 15y ago
It seems that the benefit of a git-backed blog is that you learn to use git.
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by EdiX 15y ago
Umh... I always hide the line numbers column. Why is it useful?
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by EdiX 15y ago
This is a myth. First of all there is no standard and Google has no way of knowing if a website's implementation of hashbang URLs behaves in the expected manner, or not. https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/
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by EdiX 15y ago
Who gets to collect the tax?
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by EdiX 15y ago
Once someone who worked at cuil told me their index got corrupted the day before launch was scheduled.
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by EdiX 15y ago
It's implemented with an ugly hack in bash. I'd rather use netcat.
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by EdiX 15y ago
The description of lumbago (low back pain) is mastectomy: http://symcat.com/conditions/lumbago
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by EdiX 15y ago
Why would anyone expect anything but talk about the language forth in comp.lang.forth? And this isn't the first time the blog tries to make possibly valid points through a bunch of bad examples, the most prominent example being "Free your t
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Foxconn hacked by Swagg Security(h-online.com)
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Sending SCSI/ATA commands to HDs in Python (under Linux)(codingrelic.geekhold.com)
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NGINX Launches Commercial Support for Open-Source Web Server(eweek.com)
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Satellite phone encryption cracked(h-online.com)
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Trustwave issued a man-in-the-middle certificate(h-online.com)
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by EdiX 15y ago
> Actually now that I think about it, UTF-16 probably makes sense for non-Latin languages It actually doesn't because of all the HTML tags being ASCII.
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by EdiX 15y ago
I'm not an expert in plan9 stuff but I think each process sees its own version of some parts of the file system (IIRC mounts are also process specific), so, maybe those commands would only apply to the current process.
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by EdiX 15y ago
In the USA health insurance terminology "out-of-pocket" refers to what you have to pay for some procedure in addition to what you normally pay for insurance coverage. With the insurance I had when I was in the USA a visit to the GP would be
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by EdiX 15y ago
Using C to call the shell to write a character to a file to drive a motor. Amazing.
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by EdiX 15y ago
I recently turned showdead on, most hellbanned users I find in the comments I can't understand why they were hellbanned looking at their post history. I can only imagine it was for flagging the wrong thing, or being part of a voting ring bu
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by EdiX 15y ago
The Free Software Foundation, among other things, sponsors some "political" campaigns against DRM and software patents.
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by EdiX 15y ago
It was killed by Google Docs: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2011/05/how-google-docs-kil... short version: google engineers have fast wifi everywhere they go, synchronizing to the hd looks pointless to them.
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by EdiX 15y ago
They did, eventually, with dmix.
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by EdiX 15y ago
> " or playing audio on a remote computer over the internet". > > I thought thats the point of pulseaudio and really wanted to try it. AFAIK (but I wasn't using linux at the time) the point of pulseaudio was that it was very eas
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by EdiX 15y ago
ALSA already is the better sound system as long as you don't need all your applications to have one extra redundant volume control or playing audio on a remote computer over the internet. However de-pulsifying a linux install correctly isn'
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by EdiX 15y ago
> You guys need to understand that you're the Western precedence society. Correlation is not causation. It's just that the same lobbies at work there are at work here too. Democracy is dead.
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by EdiX 15y ago
> Google, Facebook, and Topcoder have systems to deal with it but ai-class.org does not. How do you know this?
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by EdiX 15y ago
I doubt it, I got the letter but my quizzes scores are rather mediocre.
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by EdiX 15y ago
> The Plan9 grep deals with Unicode correctly and is very, very fast. Claiming that >> dealing with Unicode correctly is a very expensive business > is plain FUD. If you think this is true you don't know unicode enough. I do
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by EdiX 15y ago
> UTF-8 regular expression matching shouldn't be different from ASCII at all, as far as I can tell. Not really. First the '.' operator needs to work differently. This can be still done fast, but if you actually want to claim unicode sup
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by EdiX 15y ago
> This is not really a 2000x performance "win", this is GNU grep(1) being so bad at dealing with UTF-8 to the point of being basically unusable. > > The PoSix locale system is a nightmare, but the implementation in GNU coreutils

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