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by Nick_C 14y ago
Gee, you've triggered a memory for me too. I remember doing something very similar (1.38 was the trigger) around the same time. It probably writing floating point routines for processors that didn't have them, perhaps the Z-80.
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by Nick_C 14y ago
Most of the Linux distros I've used have the generic executable linked to a specific version: ls -l /usr/bin/python -> python2.6 If you need a specific version because of libraries or whatever, just use: #!/usr/bin/env python2.7
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by Nick_C 14y ago
> ... increases supply and thus reduces demand. Rarely. Usually, increasing supply reduces prices which increases demand. The economic term is elasticity.
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by Nick_C 14y ago
Agree completely. I skim the threads in each post now, which is a shame because I'm sure I miss some good points. To fix this, I would like to see threads bubble up to the top based on total karma score for the thread. Read the top half-d
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by Nick_C 14y ago
What do the -H and the -l options do? I've read the docs, but I still don't understand what/when they would be used for.
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by Nick_C 14y ago
> Wouldn't it make more sense to do `tail -n +1` Yes (or perhaps tail -n +0 as that is idiomatic, which makes it clear to anyone what you are intending).
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by Nick_C 14y ago
Currently there is no incentive for claimants not to spray out take-downs like a firehose. They need something to motivate them to take more care. Google should implement a cost for incorrect claims as an incentive for claimants to get it
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New computer memory material goes easy on the juice(theage.com.au)
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by Nick_C 14y ago
Because the vim macro changes all settings so it behaves just like less, including making the file effectively read-only, and without the overhead of loading all the plugins.
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by Nick_C 14y ago
re the decent player aspect: I've given up on Vimeo. I use Firefox with the usual privacy plugins: NoScript, RequestPolicy, AdBlockPlus, and Ghostery. No matter how I configure the settings, including disabling all of them, I can't get Vim
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by Nick_C 14y ago
Even my 85 year old mother knows that there is Apple and then there are others. She doesn't know what the difference is, but she knows that there is one.
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by Nick_C 14y ago
This is amazing serendipity. I was literally just then reading through python's curses docs when this post came through. Blessings will make my task a piece of cake. Thanks!
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by Nick_C 14y ago
Pretty much. However, I recently bought a few small and tiny VPSs and installed FreeBSD on some and Debian on others. For identical setups in terms of apps and daemons, FreeBSD is using only roughly 2/3rds the memory of Debian. So there is
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by Nick_C 14y ago
I loathe PHP's documentation. I've written elsewhere why, but it comes down to two factors: - The site's colour of orange on gray is impossible for a colour-blind person to read. - The comments are not authoritative, so you get
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by Nick_C 14y ago
I've been using spectrwm (www.spectrwm.org), which was called scrotwm, for a couple of years now. I switched from musca (Sean's previous wm), mainly because musca didn't handle full-screen apps very well. It has been pretty rock solid. I
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by Nick_C 14y ago
This. Opera has left a huge legacy of features that people take for granted nowadays: very low use of resources; using the URL box also as a search tool; editable search engines; tab and window sessions; savable sessions; more that I can'
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by Nick_C 14y ago
Same for me, but I do have my screen's brightness turned down so that white backgrounds don't glare. FWIW, I discovered the Firefox plug-in Tranquility recently. It is sort of a light-weight Readability. Although it has far fewer tweaks av
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by Nick_C 14y ago
Nice list. I add "Failure Is Not An Option" by Gene Kranz, flight director on both Apollo 11 and 13 and also in flight control from way back to the Mercury program. It's a nice history of manned space flight from the controllers' perspecti
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by Nick_C 14y ago
> Is Javascript really an issue in 2012? I mean, people can hardly use Twitter.com itself without JS turned on. Perhaps not twitter.com, but there are other ways to use twitter. (I use a command line python app (pytc).) So, it is quit
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by Nick_C 14y ago
Are you sure your browser or proxy is configured to use https? In my case, HTTP ://p0f.popcnt.org is correctly anonymised, while HTTPS ://p0f.popcnt.org is not and leaks my originating IP address. I was concerned, so I tried a bit of tro
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by Nick_C 14y ago
For a lighter weight (and easier to set up) forwarding proxy that can be easily configured as anonymous, try tinyproxy.
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by Nick_C 14y ago
> i tried keepass, but it doesn't really work well in linux, Try KeePassX http://www.keepassx.org/ which works really well in Linux. It even has a hot key to push username and password into the appropriate fields in the browser. I i
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by Nick_C 14y ago
Not all cron daemons. Vixie cron can do this, but Dillon's cron, which is a lightweight cron daemon with extra features, can't.
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by Nick_C 14y ago
Just to push it back a bit further, revolutionary France and particularly Napoleonic France established a country-wide system of mechanical telegraph stations. They especially wanted it to warn of British naval attacks, but also for any mi
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by Nick_C 14y ago
Are you allowed to sell the market (S&P say, using a 6 months futures contract) so that your only exposure is to the Homeway-S&P differential, not to the market in general?
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by Nick_C 14y ago
> Because it is neither rock-solid nor stable. It changes too much, too often, in an irregluar, unpredictable pattern Perhaps you are watching Ubuntu, which does do this. Others are rock-solid and super stable. Slackware comes to mind
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by Nick_C 14y ago
I wouldn't have called Brita low cost. Anything but. The reason they switched from the cylindrical refill to the rectangular one was to put an end to the cheap third-party cartridges, which had become endemic for the cylindrical ones. C
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by Nick_C 14y ago
I switched a few months ago and am pretty happy, once you find the right addons. The reason I switched was some niggling privacy concerns and then discovering that google-chrome won't allow Ghostery to block doubleclick. Firefox with: a
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by Nick_C 14y ago
Agreed. Plus leather lets your feet breath. Synthetics make my feet sweat.
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by Nick_C 14y ago
According to this from the FAA, they commonly approve flashing lights: http://transition.fcc.gov/mb/policy/dtv/lighting.html And this advisory (PDF, admittedly from the Alaskan office, but I doubt there is much variance), provides for fla

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