alcari

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by alcari 13y ago
It means you get a POSIX interface without GNU- and Linux-specific extensions or the GPL.
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by alcari 13y ago
That reminds me of Vigil[0], a Python-derived language that defends supreme moral vigilance. [0] https://github.com/munificent/vigil
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by alcari 13y ago
> However, the fact that they just threw up their hands and declared that the problem is insolvable shows that our school system is failing the next generation of entrepreneurs. No, that would've been a great outcome in comparison.
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by alcari 13y ago
Segmented sleep and biphasic sleep are distinct terms with very different meanings in this context [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyphasic_sleep#Claimed_sleep...
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by alcari 13y ago
The fact that somebody's built it does not imply that it's generally needed, or even useful.
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by alcari 13y ago
It's not really optimized. The list comprehension's body gets executed in series, and even if it were threaded, the GIL would forcibly serialize the thread execution while breaking all the code out there that expects in-order proc
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by alcari 13y ago
> just a quarter of the $105 a month she was promised, about $0.84 a day. It really bugs me when reporters use inconsistent units to exaggerate a point. Yes, the pay difference is horrible, but it sounds almost as bad when you say $25.20
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by alcari 13y ago
Accidental time travel of my entire house, yes. I really should copy it over to my laptop, as that's a fair bit more likely to be useful if I end up in the past without a source of electricity.
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by alcari 13y ago
The term you're looking for is tautology, not 'null statement'.
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by alcari 13y ago
/b/'s vote manipulation lead to the selection of moot as most influential person, which is clearly correct, as moot's users influenced the voting process to ensure it.
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by alcari 13y ago
This is only part of why my local file server has a recent wikipedia dump.
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by alcari 13y ago
But why do we need special Ripple servers at all? Couldn't the system have been designed with a larger collection of nodes in mind and simply done without XRP?
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by alcari 13y ago
SSL needs to be stripped from the stream at the end point to allow the application to process the data received. If the endpoint is a human reader, there's no way to man-in-the-middle the message.
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by alcari 13y ago
Repeat several times to become a much better programmer, but possibly lose the humbleness.
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by alcari 13y ago
It seems to me that FABIO could be massively improved upon by offloading the computation to a remote (cloud?) server, allowing the date to continue until screams of pleasure are recorded. Additionally, the robot self destruct seems like ove
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by alcari 13y ago
It looks like a drop-in replacement for boto's S3 interface, so if you're already using that, you can probably just change the imports to refer to MimicDB.
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by alcari 13y ago
> then vilifying the counter attacks that end up hurting civilians Attacking civilian targets is wrong regardless of which side is doing it. Having previously engaged in the same behavior does not make the act any less wrong, or the vili
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by alcari 13y ago
It's a search box that many people will use exclusively to search for _local_ content. Why should Amazon know what programs and files I'm using?
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by alcari 13y ago
I found myself doing ~45 wpm in this, but in a normal typing test I do ~80 wpm. The non-linear word list is definitely lowering speed.
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by alcari 13y ago
Willingness to use it doesn't affect how free (as in beer) it is. It does affect how free (as in speech) it is, but that's not what the grandparent was arguing, and there's a huge difference between the two.
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by alcari 13y ago
No, PHP minor versions are not necessarily compatible with each other. When I worked in web hosting, we had to deal with quite a few issues resulting from changes between 5.2 and 5.3, and later 5.3 and 5.4. At least Python has a sane versio
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by alcari 13y ago
Read the article again. That's not the Forum, that's the VTM Group, which handles their marketing and legal concerns. The USB Implementers Forum itself didn't make a statement.
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by alcari 13y ago
That sounds like a great use for Bokodes[1] rather than QR codes. Bokodes can display different information depending on the angle they're viewed at. [1]: http://web.media.mit.edu/~ankit/bokode/
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by alcari 13y ago
"Thermal power" is a rather misleading term. It refers to power generation by steam turbines, but doesn't describe the heat source. Nuclear power plants and solar thermal electric plants are "thermal power", but don
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by alcari 13y ago
I see it fine with JS disabled in Firefox 23.
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by alcari 13y ago
I was referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supremacy_Clause
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by alcari 13y ago
Take a few moments to read [1]. It should answer your question. [1]: http://what-if.xkcd.com/8/
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by alcari 13y ago
With their same logic, your software based CSPRNG isn't safe, and your browser isn't safe, and your full disk encryption isn't safe and all it requires is the trivial feat of being able to run arbitrary code as arbitrary user
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by alcari 13y ago
If our SIGINT collecting organizations can't do it without breaking the most important laws of our country, yes.
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by alcari 13y ago
In case you hadn't heard, much of "Anonymous" has been related in name only.

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