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by arantius 13y ago
Sorry but .. "$0.02 cents"? Do you mean "$0.02", or "2 cents" or two hundredths of one cent, or something else? Is this Verizon writing? ( http://verizonmath.blogspot.com/2006/12/ver
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by arantius 13y ago
And before the injury: http://youtu.be/ajxYlACeb4w?t=37s
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by arantius 13y ago
I use the git CLI for most work; "git gui" for reviewing changes between writing them and committing them, especially for committing partial changes. Almost nothing else.
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by arantius 14y ago
> Is this premature optimisation? In this case, I feel that it is not. It's just using the right data set for the job. This is exactly the sort of thing that sets are for.
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by arantius 14y ago
Don't miss the critical detail: > 15) Flash the frost.img file from our download section to the phone: 'fastboot flash recovery frost.img'. For this command to work, the bootloader must be unlocked. You must leave your phone in a vulne
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FROST: Forensic Recovery Of Scrambled Telephones(www1.informatik.uni-erlangen.de)
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by arantius 14y ago
I saw this the other day and it was down. Now it's back up. Is this "legitimate"? The story ( http://www.diyphotography.net/download-adobe-cs2-for-free as best I can tell ) isn't clear.
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by arantius 14y ago
> This will only work if tinydns supports zone transfers (AXFR/IXFR), which as far as I can tell, it doesn't. http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/axfrdns.html It does. I'm doing this currently, I host primary DNS myself with tinydns, and the mak
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by arantius 14y ago
Best I can find is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug8jBO6QMaY which has the audio (low quality w/ buzzing noise), but video is just a blank green screen the whole time.
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by arantius 14y ago
> What percentage of employee-days at Google actually involve a nap? 1%? 0.01%? Is it any higher than the traditional comic practice of "curl up under your desk"? Complete anecdata but: I've seen people curled up on couches in the middl
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by arantius 14y ago
I believe they're all (most?) MJPEG: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_JPEG
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by arantius 14y ago
Or always available as a user script: https://arantius.com/misc/greasemonkey/hacker-news-comment-c... Also collapses by default threads below depth two.
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by arantius 14y ago
> github's issue tracker doesn't allow attachment, and thus it inadvertently promotes this "pull requests from out of nowhere" behavior. "Refs #XXX" in the description (PR or any commit) ?
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by arantius 14y ago
> It utterly destroys the direct manipulation illusion of the iPad. If you accept that a virtual keyboard is direct manipulation, can you accept that swiping the virtual keyboard is analogous to pressing the arrow keys on a physical key
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by arantius 14y ago
And what is your own time worth?
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by arantius 15y ago
I've occasionally discharged my NiMH batteries low enough that my LaCrosse charger decides it's a dead cell. But shorting the positive terminal with a working battery in the charger (for just a moment), or putting it in a simpler trickle c
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by arantius 15y ago
In late 2010 I bought "24 Centura AA LSD NiMH Rechargeable Batteries" from eBay (for $33, so just under $1.66 each) -- specifically the long-life kind, that was around when I heard of their existence. I've used them in remote controls that
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by arantius 15y ago
> This sounds airtight. The analogy with the physical safe is completely destroyed by True Crypt's hidden partitions. Because it's impossible for a safe to have an extra hidden compartment?
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by arantius 15y ago
Yes but for what combination of hardware and software?
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by arantius 15y ago
> This keeps all cookies separate Not flash "cookies". You only have one flash plugin that runs in every browser, and has one "cookie" store. (Not that I know if/whether FB abuses this, I don't even have an FB account. Just sayin'.)
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by arantius 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. I don't have a lot more to say. Seems to fit this situation perfectly well. Given (in hindsight) that they
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by arantius 15y ago
> Negatory. We need to improve our UI metaphors. In the case of finding something, holding down one key while pressing another has no parallel to real life searching. I rather strongly disagree. You're essentially saying: we should lim
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by arantius 15y ago
This is default behavior as of Firefox 4. When you launch a new browser, the (default) home page has a "restore last session" button.
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by arantius 15y ago
> Downtime in NYC from TWC is painful Really? I run nagios at home, and right now it says year-to-date I've had 28m 40s of downtime, for 99.988% uptime of my cable internet service (for the host monitoring my first-hop router). This i
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by arantius 15y ago
Because it's a good/easy way to insert the file name into the _middle_ of the statement. For example: find . -name "*.gif" -exec convert "{}" "{}.png" \; Will convert every GIF in the current directory (and its descendants) into a P
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by arantius 15y ago
I've used http://www.1and1.com/ for registration ($10/yr normal prices) for some time. The UI is awful, but aren't they all, and I basically never need to use it once it's set up, so it's OK by me. The commonly named alternatives seem (a
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by arantius 15y ago
> The moment that you store that URL in other service, a number of those tags become incorrect anyway (it is not an email anymore), and the stats you will get from it will be tainted. It sounds like you're probably misunderstanding the
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by arantius 15y ago
I enjoy my Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH . I had a WRT54G as well, but then I got an internet connection faster than it could handle (it became the bottleneck). Comes stock with (a modified version of) DD-WRT (and flashing your own is supported).
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by arantius 15y ago
Well now, that's anyone who currently has no employment, and is applying for a particular job ("actively looked for work"), isn't it?
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by arantius 15y ago
I've recently used angular (angularjs.org) and I found that it felt strange, so it took a steep learning curve, but though steep it was rather short, and at the top was bliss!

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