Nick_C

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by Nick_C 13y ago
Just to note for existing Vista users, junctions are in Vista and junction points are even in XP (from Windows 2000).
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by Nick_C 13y ago
Does it run on Linux? There doesn't seem to be any mention of that on the downloads page.
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by Nick_C 13y ago
When I was a kid growing up, it was common to see vehicles from the outback with a square water bag suspended from a frame in front of the grill. The bag was canvas and leaked slightly--enough to keep the outside moist so that the contents
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by Nick_C 13y ago
> things remain classified...because they make someone look bad I thought this was a felony in the US. (I wish it was in Australia.)
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by Nick_C 13y ago
> Our girl cat was a killing machine Very true. The female is the real hunter and the one to get if you are after a mouser. The male likes to lie in the sun, much like its owner.
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by Nick_C 13y ago
If you use splits a lot, you might be interested in the Golden Ratio plugin. It resizes the active window to be about (user-definable) two-thirds of the screen. So you jump between windows and get max screen space for the one you're work
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by Nick_C 13y ago
> if you forget to also configure ip6tables Yeah, I've never understood that. I get that ping and traceroute have their own IPv6 versions, but that's sort of understandable (maybe). A firewall, though, is a firewall, it shouldn't matte
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by Nick_C 13y ago
Yes, including REPLs that use readline. Those that don't you can use rlwrap.
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by Nick_C 13y ago
> PS/2 to USB CONVERTER Thank you so much for this information. I've actually got an old M model with a DIN plug. It's got coffee stains, cigarette burns (a different era from when you could smoke in the office!) and general grime al
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by Nick_C 14y ago
Page has gone or been removed. Here is google's cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:4oX9yz4...
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by Nick_C 14y ago
And a way to search for only non-VEVO videos. (I hate the VEVO player.) In Firefox, click the Searchbar drop-down "Manage Search Engines", and then the link "Get more search engines". Find and install the YouTube search engine. Now edit th
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by Nick_C 14y ago
> Real time Wow. That is super-impressive.
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by Nick_C 14y ago
That is pretty amazing. I don't know the demo scene. Is it real-time or does the 4k do rendering that is viewed with a movie player?
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by Nick_C 14y ago
Some Linuxes. Slackware doesn't use it. I think Debian Stable still does. AKAICT, most people hate it.
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by Nick_C 14y ago
My particular pet peeve is not being able to replay a cutscene. "Wait, what did he say, I couldn't hear it." Or the phone rang and I got distracted. And it turns out to be an important plot detail that I missed. Aargh.
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by Nick_C 14y ago
> Scala... REPL starts up pretty slow. I wonder if your setup is faulty. My Scala REPL takes a couple of seconds to start. Admittedly longer than Python's, but not enough to worry about it. I'm on an old clunker laptop too. Also, you
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by Nick_C 14y ago
> Just piling redundancy on your stack doesn't make it more reliable. Yeah, in a sense it actually makes it less reliable as far as mean-time-between-failures go. As an example, the rate of engine failure in twin-engine planes is great
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by Nick_C 14y ago
No I haven't. Thanks for the reference, I'll look for him next time I'm at the library.
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by Nick_C 14y ago
> the gnu libc still didn't have it for stupid bikeshed reasons Yep, still doesn't. Not so much for bikeshed reasons, but more for the Gnu people's stupid NIH reasons. OpenBSD offered it to them, reply was along the lines of "we don't
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by Nick_C 14y ago
Totally agree. Last year I decided to give Bank's non sci-fi a go. He draws such great characters. Espedair Street was my favourite, but The Steep Approach to Garbadale and Complicity were also great. Complicity is a really good
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by Nick_C 14y ago
Unless you've swapped CapsLock for Esc. Then it's easy as pie. In ~/.Xmodmap: ! Swap Caps Lock with Esc remove Lock = Caps_Lock keysym Escape = Caps_Lock keysym Caps_Lock = Escape add Lock = Caps_Lock
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by Nick_C 14y ago
The HBR article is about a team of managers reporting to their boss, middle and senior management. At that level, they are presumed to have some sort of ability to effect change and hence have empowerment. They are also expected to step u
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by Nick_C 14y ago
> Linux's libc is the slowest with normal maths functions Do you happen to remember which one? There have been a few "sporks" of glibc in the last few years and, if memory serves me correctly, Debian now use eglibc. I think the sporks
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by Nick_C 14y ago
Snap, me too. It's a great course run by Dan Grossman (who pops up on HN occasionally). I signed up to learn functional programming and have learnt a lot.
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by Nick_C 14y ago
I also change the prompt colour according to server. I can tell at a glance which machine I'm on (plus the hostname of course). It means having a slightly difference .bashrc for each machine, but it's trivial.
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by Nick_C 14y ago
The aviation industry is the same. Most aviation authorities around the world have a no-fault reporting system so that fixes can get implemented without pilots worrying about losing their job.
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by Nick_C 14y ago
And the Gundo plugin extends that even more with a history graph and preview pane that shows diffs. A must-have plugin for me.
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by Nick_C 14y ago
As well as the other reasons given here, the cost of conversion is much higher than you might otherwise think. Especially for banks, you have to prove that the new software meets with compliance regulations, not only for the financial re
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by Nick_C 14y ago
Anyone know its apparent magnitude? I can't find anything in my usual sources and google isn't helping.
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by Nick_C 14y ago
This might be quicker than firing up a shell script: > lc /dir" will count the number of files in /dir find /dir -type f -maxdepth 1 | wc -l > and "lc /dir/*" will count the files in subdirectories of /dir. find /dir -typ

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