Lex-2008

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1. 61.▲
   by Lex-2008 4y ago

   regarding multiple writes - I think hardest part would be to find an sqlite version where "read is a combination of all the files". Speaking of multiple writers, I've recently heard about "BEGIN CONCURRENT" feature
2. 62.▲
   by Lex-2008 4y ago

   re: backup SQL dumps instead of db files - indeed! In my small experiment (SQL databases in a browser profile, [1]), simple `sqlite3 "$file" .dump | gzip >"$file.sql.gz"` decreased size of files to be backed up about
3. 63.▲
   by Lex-2008 4y ago

   as sibling comment says, some numbers match those shown on https://www.nordpoolgroup.com/en/maps/#/nordic
4. 64.▲
   by Lex-2008 4y ago

   not OP, but I would start with filling disk space up to 100%, or creating zillions of empty files. In case of distributed filesystems - maybe removing one node (under heavy load preferably), or "cloning" nodes so they had same UUI
5. 65.▲
   by Lex-2008 4y ago

   Sounds reasonable, but what if I lost the private key? Speaking from personal experience: I received 7 emails from them, for various "tag" parts of my email (username+tag@server.example). Two of them - for when I was playing with
6. 66.▲
   by Lex-2008 4y ago

   re: someone was unable to get past that captcha - this reminded me a story I heard back in ICQ times about some human who couldn't pass anti-bot question: "What planet do we live on?"
7. 67.▲
   by Lex-2008 4y ago

   Nice! Also mentioned on reddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/itsaunixsystem/comments/amyahe/russ...
8. 68.▲
   by Lex-2008 4y ago

   For those who haven't seen or don't remember it - one time (please let me know if there were more) when Hacker Typer got on TV: "They wanted to show me making games on TV, I couldn't resist!" imgur: https:/&#x
9. 69.▲
   by Lex-2008 4y ago

   Not OP, but I remember reading an interesting article about issues that simple write() might face: https://danluu.com/deconstruct-files/ And here's what SQLite does to ensure that in case of application or compute
10. 70.▲
    by Lex-2008 4y ago

    is it only me or does this site works only over plaintext http, while you gave an https link?
11. 71.▲
    by Lex-2008 4y ago

    well, to be fair, https://zerossl.com/pricing/ has a "free" column :) On the other page, https://zerossl.com/features/acme/ it looks like free acme certificates can have a wildcard
12. 72.▲
    by Lex-2008 4y ago

    > Getting your computer to a usable or useful state without the help of another machine is something that we shouldn't have lost. I once saw (and used) a similar feature on Mac: pressing some key combination during boot allowed you
13. 73.▲
    by Lex-2008 4y ago

    re: whether the new version is actually an improvement - yes, I like new version more than the old one :) While I agree that in new design headers are more recognizable as clickable links, I still find "Read more" link being usefu
14. 74.▲
    by Lex-2008 4y ago

    Occasional gaming on my wife's work PC (in parallel as she's working there). VMWare can provide DirectX 11 support for guest OS, and there are many kinds of gaming-friendly remote desktop applications to play remotely from my Linu
15. 75.▲
    by Lex-2008 4y ago

    I'm not sure if your question is rhetoric, but somewhere I've read that some map providers show it depending on what country the user (website visitor) is in - so users in country A see the disputed territory as belonging to count
16. 76.▲
    by Lex-2008 4y ago

    oh wow, you don't even need to move your finger when entering digits - it's "one"s all along!
17. 77.▲
    by Lex-2008 4y ago

    Daniel Stenberg, developer of very popular opensource library/utility curl, once received a threatening email: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/02/19/i-will-slaughter-you/ SQLite developers wer
18. 78.▲
    by Lex-2008 4y ago

    same here, only with "email" field. For CSS-less humans, it even had a label: "please leave this field blank" :D
19. 79.▲
    by Lex-2008 5y ago

    re: Putin controlled Medvedev Well, some people say that under Medvedev Russia was a bit friendlier with USA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_reset I'm not sure that points highlighted in that article would
20. 80.▲
    by Lex-2008 5y ago

    I first parsed it as "21 years-old builds" and was wondering what kind of builds Chrome had 21 years ago. Then I did some math and realized Chrome is just 14 years old. And 21 years ago, Firefox was called Mozilla, and IE6 was jus
21. 81.▲
    by Lex-2008 5y ago

    Re: [citation needed]; > Gmail obvious spam still #1 in the quarantine folders.. -- Michael Peddemors, President/CEO LinuxMagic Inc. https://www.mail-archive.com/mailop@mailop.org/msg14526.html
22. 82.▲
    by Lex-2008 5y ago

    and in the "tiling WMs" camp there is subdivision into "dynamic" and "static" tiling window managers
23. 83.▲
    by Lex-2008 5y ago

    > HTTPS is automatic > Have you seen the little green locks on your browser? That means the site is safe and secure using HTTPS. It's gray. Not to be nitpicky - maybe it's just my OS theme (KDE Breeze Dark), but the HTTPS pa
24. 84.▲
    by Lex-2008 5y ago

    Sadly, that's yesterday news. See here: https://security.stackexchange.com/a/249484 > ... a newly discovered ransomware variant exhibits the ability to detect and compromise partitions (including hidden partiti
25. 85.▲
    by Lex-2008 5y ago

    do you mean you never received spam from @gmail.com? Lucky you!
26. 86.▲
    by Lex-2008 5y ago

    looks like geoIP database - for me it gives almost same data as https://www.ip2location.com/demo/
27. 87.▲
    by Lex-2008 5y ago

    Worth noting that at the same time, "they" weren't good enough at pushing new things that the same time. For example, all new compression methods work only over HTTPS (actually, this alone can be a reason to switch to HTTPS)
28. 88.▲
    by Lex-2008 5y ago

    > all of them will be mutually incompatible, with own programming languages and data formats. The future looks bleak. Server hardware had (still has somewhere): SPARC from Sun, PowerPC from IBM, HPPA from HP, etc... See for example list
29. 89.▲
    by Lex-2008 5y ago

    While I agree with you in general, I'd like to comment on > It's not like everyone's clamoring for their ad blockers to use less resource or for Chrome to be faster. some people do: https://news.ycombinator.co
30. 90.▲
    by Lex-2008 5y ago

    Not to criticize, but to clarify: > encrypted backups of the e-mails which I store in the cloud, the encryption key never leaves my device. Doesn't in mean that in (unlikely) case something happens to your device (like harddrive cra