Walf

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by Walf 9y ago
What I want to know is why the 'trasher' was looking directly for so many different files. Could it not parse some output of finding/listing existing files to look for its targets?
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by Walf 9y ago
Just don't let anyone mount with noatime, for performance. I found that little gem on a drive where paring down to used content would have been very helpful.
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by Walf 9y ago
Non-facebook mirror https://youtu.be/LSKFRuWuRKo
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by Walf 9y ago
If you thought Juicero was a good idea, you may be a wanker.
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by Walf 10y ago
What happens when some oldie replies "Sorry, I'd love to say yes but Wilbur's having his heart surgery that weekend."?
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by Walf 10y ago
Surely there's some way to detect when a script touches far too many APIs such as setting several font families in succession. Then pause execution, warn the user about potential fingerprinting, and either disable script or blackhole i
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by Walf 10y ago
No, you actually have to display the content inside a pane of a common size because there are many ways to get screen size indirectly from content that's occupying it. Think responsive mode of developer tools.
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by Walf 10y ago
Network-level means no easy opt-out on a per-site basis. You cannot choose to support certain sites or view occasional sites that, understandably detect ad-blocking.
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by Walf 10y ago
It doesn't matter how the updates to libraries are done, people don't update because it means API changes and testing your code to see what broke and fix it. Most clients do not understand, let alone want to pay for that kind of m
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by Walf 10y ago
And if it doesn't idle enough, we'll make it .
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by Walf 10y ago
If only there was a way not to have to rely on editors all behaving the same with leading spaces. Oh wait, there is a way: indent with tabs.
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by Walf 10y ago
It's a series of tubes. They can't stay filled up with nostalgia forever.
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by Walf 10y ago
>environment was not that much different than today Okay, mate.
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by Walf 10y ago
No, I'm highlighting that nicky0's phrasing over-generalises.
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by Walf 10y ago
So it could all have been avoided if they'd made it unnecessary to identify oneself and paired app with toy via decent public key encrypted communications. I think the toy is a good idea, it just had a shit implementation.
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by Walf 10y ago
It's not that the specific, individual people were different, it's that their environment was. From that arose patterns of group behaviour that have left us with oceans filling up with plastic, and absurd wealth disparity. It&#x27
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by Walf 10y ago
*of the worst of technically literate humanity.
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by Walf 10y ago
I've met her a few times. There is nothing remotely threatening about her. Pull your heads out of of your arses, America.
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by Walf 10y ago
Curse your lack of downvote buttons, HN.
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by Walf 10y ago
I read the title and instantly thought "Please be PewDiePie. Please be PewDiePie."
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by Walf 10y ago
It doesn't work on everybody, though. Friend witnessed someone asking for a "pack o' dyin' Bryans, thanks." http://imgur.com/HNDvjAJ
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by Walf 10y ago
Why tabs are clearly superior: http://lea.verou.me/2012/01/why-tabs-are-clearly-superior/
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by Walf 10y ago
But why do people think it can project dark ?! I understand the dimly lit room demo video, where the ML graphics are all brighter than the environment, but how can you make dark whaleskin over light timber flooring by adding light ?
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by Walf 10y ago
Isn't this a problem with the archiving logic? Why on Earth would one apply robots.txt rules retroactively?
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by Walf 10y ago
Bingo. Everything I remember reading about robots.txt strongly emphasised that it's not a way to hide content – in case one's reasoning skills are lacking – and that it's main use is to prevent irrelevant or infinite content
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by Walf 10y ago
Have you ever worked with Magento? With 1.8+ I found customisation very tedious and unpleasant, documentation virtually non-existent, 3rd party code unreliable, and CMS functionality lacking. Perhaps it's come a long way since then but
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by Walf 10y ago
Not for Vim users, that's for sure.
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by Walf 10y ago
Not really; on-site is their machine, off-site is yours.
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by Walf 10y ago
Well at least now I know why they've held back so many useful icons from the free version. This one's a classic: https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/1958
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by Walf 10y ago
Well they probably do crack the tiniest bit of rare pepe on their rare pasta. (Pepe is Italian for pepper.)

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