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by apk17 9y ago
> Well, to nitpick, the reason anyone becomes professional is to make money, kind of by definition. The definition only includes the making money part, not the reason. Many people do take money for what they do simply so they can do it f
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by apk17 9y ago
Mine is called cdx and includes 'env' functionality and a bit more. ( https://github.com/apk/c-utils/blob/master/aenv.c )
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by apk17 9y ago
I still wonder why `cd` doesn't have a form `cd dir command...`, as in `cd dir tar xf -`.
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by apk17 10y ago
In this day and age it's not that fun anymore. You need to prepare what to do when there is a lot less snow around.
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by apk17 10y ago
'mesh network' popped up here exactly because we want to avoid the fat links in that mesh. And getting substantial data (including transit) routed through a heap of wifi devices in a city isn't easy. To the next city - hard.
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by apk17 10y ago
Disabling 3rd party cookies breaks functionality, e.g. tweetdeck.
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by apk17 10y ago
They could tell local authorities; this usually gets things done. Unless, of cource, $activity isn't even illegal in that other country.
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by apk17 10y ago
> This is not about the government ... "removing news articles that are politically unacceptable". That's actually part of the problem. The government should close down illegal establishments, and not just be blocking acce
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by apk17 10y ago
I doubt that. With 6502 you have so much byte fiddling to do; x86 (or 6809) is much easier once you need more than 8 bit pointers. (I probably still have a turing-complete set of Z80 opcodes in my head.)
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by apk17 10y ago
Correct - but the starting point here was already 'take this path', not 'go to that location on the grass'. Come to think about it - even 'just park somewhere' is remarkably complicated. I don't quite unde
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by apk17 10y ago
I doubt that. Cars are, besides being a transportation means, also a moving trunk, and that makes them non-interchangable to a degree.
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by apk17 10y ago
Not that people actually driving cars off the road are capable of this now. I'd often wish for a remote control when parking in constricted spaces.
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by apk17 10y ago
Depending on the context, 'turn the wheel left two degrees' can be a non-rampant, a very rampant, or a rampage-compensating action.
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by apk17 10y ago
The last two sentences seem contradictory. If the system cannot detect by itself when it is safe to be used, the driver will as well have to react when it becomes unsafe to use?
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by apk17 10y ago
Ruby takes the seed for rand() from /dev/urandom, according to doc. That's good enough for a single use.
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by apk17 10y ago
ruby -e 'rand(34*10).to_s(34)' I prefer not to have to use the shift key in passwords, and the 34 instead of 36 ([0-9a-z]) solves my german/us layout problem in a very golfy way.
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by apk17 10y ago
You make the modifications and store those hashes as well. Can't have a new 'similar' algo for past pws, obviously.
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by apk17 10y ago
The blue light were brighter - they have a mechanism different from the old LEDs that is much more efficient. I guess the designers just dropped in the blue leds, and voilá, terrible bright lights. The other colors later followed suit - the
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by apk17 10y ago
I wish. Flashlights tend to have all sorts of strange UIs, just like television firmware are just exploring the possible ways of being annoying. None of mine have both a way of getting full power fast /and/ deterministically turni
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by apk17 10y ago
I don't understand the general use of PWM anyway - you want to use switching regulators anyway, and it is actually slightly easier to do (almost) constant current than PWM. And PWM lighting is annoying in a lot of ways.
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by apk17 10y ago
> It's so naturally a two-case problem that I'd be really surprised if anyone came up with the one-case answer first. [Raises hand] I always did it Linus' way in C (way before him); I don't remember if I ever had the
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by apk17 10y ago
'cleverness for its own sake' often makes it into standard practice later. And I seriously fail to see the 'for its own sake' here. This cleverness reduces the number of moving parts, does the 'dont repeat yourself&
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by apk17 10y ago
In the original pascal pointers/refs came only out of new (AFAIR), you couldn't point into structures or to local variables. That makes this trick impossible. 'Modern' 'pascals' were different.
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by apk17 10y ago
Actually, I find the double pointer version easier to understand, and incidentally it is also the way always wrote this in C. And I pitied the pascal programmers who had to use the original version. 'Simplify so a fool can understand y
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by apk17 10y ago
Even 'dumb pipes' aren't equivalent. Here it's either IPv4 only (telekom.de), CG NAT IPv4 plus IPv6 (Kabel), or the small ISP I'm with (/28 static IPv4, /48 IPv6).
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by apk17 10y ago
Since 9/11 the US already states very explicitly that it doesn't want me as a visitor - I'm not going to go through the (visa) hoops they hold up to me. It was actually administratively much easier to cross the iron curtain
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by apk17 10y ago
According to a journalist who gave a talk here (Stuttgart, Germany) last week, there is a speed radar and license plate scanner at the local NSA installation, and going by too slow gets you on the 'suspicious people' list.
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by apk17 10y ago
In mine, not quite. All forms of merges are simple: resolve, add, commit. Inside a rebase I find it harder to memorize whether I need to to the add and/or commit or rebase --continue does it for me. And conflicts from 'stash pop&#
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by apk17 10y ago
... and having commits that are not referenced by any branch. And (c) lose the entire subtree the repo is in.
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by apk17 10y ago
Yes, git-svn is probably the reason why the mutiny didn't happen yet in some departments. You can identify their users by having several SVN commits in as many seconds. (I used git in an cvs-to-svn migration, and stayed since.)

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