Erwin

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by Erwin 14y ago
So why wasn't there violent armed response to the American concentration camps back then? Presumably you were at least as well armed. What kind of event would it take for you to take up arms against the government now? And whom exactly will
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by Erwin 14y ago
If you are compressing a single large file, you may find "pigz" of interest -- it's a gzip that uses multiple threads pretty well.
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by Erwin 14y ago
Forum 2000 was hilarious -- virtual replicates of famous people (from Ayn Rand to Socrates) supposedly answered everyday questions poised by visitors (what really happened was that the questions were distributed to and answered by CMU colle
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by Erwin 14y ago
"Alternative" is an understatement. ZFS's block-level deduping and compression are great and they were here years ago. It's disappointing the licensing problems cannot be solved -- great as it is, I cannot really use it until it's a support
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by Erwin 14y ago
Using "ondemand" rather than "performance" can do quite a bit for your interactive performance as well. With "ondemand" your CPU runs at half speed until you've stressed it for a bit. So if say, switching to another desktop takes 0.1 cpu se
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by Erwin 14y ago
You missed this gem: "becoming an Argentina for disgraced technical managers" which I suppose implies that Google's evil managers are like hunted Nazi war criminals, and Google is shielding them from international justice (their war crime b
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by Erwin 14y ago
I don't know the details of the email SLA, but for infrastructure: power, networking etc. on our hosted Rackspace servers, we have a 100% SLA. And it's not a lame prorated thing: they pay 5% of the monthly cost back for 30 hours of downtime
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by Erwin 14y ago
With threaded Apache (mpm_worker), I have a huge keepalive set. It's great for an ajax-heavy site, especially when it's all behind SSL. Using a CustomLog I log total request time, from connection time to the request has been served (conditi
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by Erwin 14y ago
Do you similarly oppose all luxury brands? There's no quality difference between a $5000 LV handbag and a good $100 one exception fashion, trends and branding. Once you get past about €100/bottle, quality of wine making process rarely incre
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by Erwin 14y ago
So what unpredictable performance characteristics do CL & Haskell exhibit, that languages like Java or Erlang do not? Consider Neo4J, Cassandra, CouchDB, Riak, Voldemort, all major players in the current NoSQL world. All use Java &
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by Erwin 14y ago
This is Ubuntu 12.04 using the integrated graphics in the Intel i7 CPU/chipset. Never seen quite that effect before however.
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by Erwin 14y ago
Interesting that despite having what looks to me like Haskell and CL expertise, Slava's RethinkDB (various article describe as a "founder") seems to be written in C++. What do Haskell or CL implementation lack to be competitive with good ol
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by Erwin 14y ago
I'm seeing trails on Chrome 23. They go away if I switch tabs and return. So it's not specific to Firefox at least.
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by Erwin 14y ago
An updated bleak vision of the future can be found in the 2nd episode of the British series "Black Mirror": in a world where the only currency is a Facebook virtual currency you can use to buy extra items for your avatars, skipping commerci
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by Erwin 14y ago
Humanity as a database: after infiltrating a religious order mandate arranged marriages encoding your input data in predicted genetic mutations of offspring. Ensure the religious order is hermetic so no outside data appears and that its tea
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by Erwin 14y ago
The Compose key in in X11 does the same, but globally. I think it's not bound by default; I have it on the right extra Windows key. Compose, then 1 then ^ generates a super-scripted ¹. /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose has a list, m
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by Erwin 14y ago
A poor student here has offered something similar: you pay for the food, he'll come cook for you, if he can join you for dinner. He got thousands of requests (see http://politiken.dk/indland/ECE1778538/halvfattig-tilbyder-a... ) Someone h
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by Erwin 14y ago
Gmail (possibly Hotmail) put a little lock icon next to DKIM authenticated email from some senders, such as eBay & PayPal and outright reject unauthenticated emails from such domains. They've flaunted this feature in the past So if an a
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by Erwin 14y ago
I'd be curious about the practical durability. EBS claims a failure rate of 0.5% per 20 GB per year as per http://aws.amazon.com/ebs/ -- I wonder how an e.g. 200 GB volume on RS would be provisioned (how many drives are involved?). The ch
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by Erwin 14y ago
If you are using Google Apps for your domain (at least the Business version -- maybe the free one too), you can setup a private Google group and CC it to store such information and make it accessible and searchable to others using your Goog
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by Erwin 14y ago
I've settled for http://hckrnews.com/ as the HN filtering site -- you can switch between Top 10 / Top 20 and for extreme procrastination, "Top 50%". With a Chrome extensions you can also track # of comments since you last time read them,
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by Erwin 14y ago
Well, why should an RSS reader be a program be part of core Chrome, if a mail reader isn't? Google likes to push their cloud services after all. I use an addon that notifies me if there's an RSS feed on a page -- I can click on it to add th
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by Erwin 14y ago
This may be of some interest to you: http://lfw.org/python/rxb.py -- it hasn't caught on since 1996 though. I've seen some swear to OMeta which is the parser used in the VPRI "simple OS" product, powerful enough to implement a bare-bones
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by Erwin 14y ago
That was good. Also, "Deep C Secrets": http://www.amazon.com/Expert-Programming-Peter-van-Linden/dp...
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by Erwin 14y ago
Personally I was so low down in D I also had neuropathic symptoms -- like your hand or parts of face falling asleep, light-headedness and muscle twitches and tremors. That all went even after some D vitamin injections.
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by Erwin 14y ago
errno is generally defined to be a macro like: ( errno_location()), at least when you use the -pthread option with gcc. The odd constructoin (the function returning an int which is dereferenced) allows the errno macro to work as an "lvalue
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by Erwin 14y ago
The dk zone still has an A record (as one of the few?), so http://dk./ is a working web site name (though it redirects the the longer official Danish NIC).
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by Erwin 14y ago
That's nice for your personal files -- is there something similarly simple with an escrow option? I.e. Bob encrypted a bunch of critical files and left the company. While I don't want someone that hacks into the server to be able to decrypt
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by Erwin 14y ago
IntelliJ's Python module (Pycharm) does a as decent job as you might expect based on code and your type annotations (i.e. if your docstring says that foobar is a BlahManager, it will complete foobar methods based on that and warn you if you
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by Erwin 14y ago
Cute hack, remindining me of "Defender of the Favicon": http://www.p01.org/releases/DEFENDER_of_the_favicon/ Which is a JS version of Defender that displays wherever your browser displays the sites favorite icon.

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