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by bionoid 7y ago
SQLite documentation covers this quite well, see "Database File Format" [0] or have a look at pager.c source code [1]. SQLite database is actually recommended by Library of Congress for archiving [2] 0: https://www.sql
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by bionoid 8y ago
Last I checked it appeared like Mailinator's POP3 support was completely removed, and API access requires a subscription. It was priced way above what I was willing to pay (I think $150/mo)
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by bionoid 8y ago
> They've totally broken "quarantined" subreddits as well. What really grinds my gears with this is the fact that you cannot see quarantined activity via the API. If you browse a user's overview on the website, you&#x
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by bionoid 8y ago
> Microsoft is getting the heat that Windows 10 is unstable Sorry for going off-topic on rant here, but yesterday I had a 3 months old win10 workstation refuse to start the built-in calculator app. It worked fine the evening before, and
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by bionoid 8y ago
No, unfortunately it was nowhere near good enough for that, it was just massacred to solve the problem.. Plus it was built on probably 20 patches from trac-hacks in the first place. Very hard to find the time to upstream something like that
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by bionoid 8y ago
> the mailing list has become much less hostile and more supportive then. Glad to hear that! Running an open project is hard. > [...] switched again (ClearSilver -> Genshi -> Jinja) Genshi was current when I used it; I wasn&#x27
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by bionoid 8y ago
First let me say that I haven't looked at Trac since I ditched it from production (prior to the Bloodhound incubator). So don't expect this to be fair criticism today. > It seems not that many people have enough time and long-t
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by bionoid 8y ago
Just out of random interest - does anyone know what happened to the Apache Bloodhound project [0], which was based on Trac? I was somewhat optimistic when it started.. let's be real, Trac has many serious shortcomings, but it's s
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by bionoid 8y ago
That's interesting, thanks. My cousin is a recovering heroin addict, and the mental impact is clear as day. I had not considered that long-term morphine use would be significantly different/better in that regard.
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by bionoid 8y ago
> Morphine is awesome and has as its only long term side effect constipation. Honest question.... Long-term morphine use will not dull the mind?
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by bionoid 8y ago
> I like Larry Wall solutions. Me too, historically anyway, but I'm not a fan of this half-way approach. Someone explicitly requested that Larry create an alias for the language [0]. > If another name is truly as superior as the
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by bionoid 8y ago
I don't follow p6 closely, I randomly catch up from time to time.. Maybe it's just me, but the naming seems to have gone out of hand? > Larry Wall has created a second name for the language, an alias or a "stage name"
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by bionoid 8y ago
Maybe it's due to my lack of interest in "devops", but I got nothing useful from browsing these slides whatsoever. It's just an advertisement for the company's tech, the "lessons learned" amount to soundbi
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by bionoid 8y ago
While we found Pandemic Legacy to be entertaining, anecdotally I do not know a single person that decided to purchase season two (and we won't be playing it either). The game is "play once", and you don't get a chance to
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by bionoid 8y ago
And where would you propose as an alternative, in terms of better rights to free speech than europe? Surely not the US? Right?
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by bionoid 8y ago
> Not to mention tea pots and cups. Oh absolutely, and let's not forget the middle between leaves and teaware: brewing technique. It's incredibly wide, ranging from decorative chaxi to "obviously bullshit" mid-air h
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by bionoid 8y ago
Tea is a very broad and interesting subject. Even if you ignore culture/history and just look at what you can buy today, and drink.. it's more than you can reach over. Climate/environment/elevation, species/cultiv
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by bionoid 8y ago
I heard Reddit was also added to China's blacklist recently, you have to wonder if that is directly connected to the change of ownership / reddit turning into a privacy black hole..
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by bionoid 8y ago
> Some of us live to hack, crack and diy. We are jealous of the right to repair, tinker and transform. Completely off topic, but here in Norway we also have a right to reverse-engineer software if the vendor can't or won't pr
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by bionoid 8y ago
/r/HailCorporate documents some of this type of activity on reddit, in case anyone is interested
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by bionoid 8y ago
> I don't think young people/teenagers use it as a "go to" (like I do). I was a bit surprised to hear advertising for "reddit the site" towards a younger audience.. but there was plenty of it during the re
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by bionoid 8y ago
> Even when guns are involved (e.g. suspect holding a gun or a knife), European police is usually able to defuse the situation better and not shoot to kill. As a counterexample, Eric Torrell was recently shot to death by Swedish police [
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by bionoid 8y ago
> I'd like to see a serious investigation and discussion around the recommendation engines [...] Something is seriously wrong with youtube's algorithm I had a pretty surreal experience last year. My youtube use is almost exclus
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by bionoid 8y ago
My favourite tool for dealing with third-party apps is Bulk Crap Uninstaller [0][1] by Klocman Software (Apache license). The real question is how can you disable Microsoft apps if you don't want them? For example, disable Cortana on a
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by bionoid 8y ago
I don't have anything particularly insightful to add, but perhaps search the archives of /r/AcademicBiblical and /r/AskBibleScholars for some perspectives (or submit the question). There is an interesting lecture se
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by bionoid 8y ago
> This seems to be really common practice in modern software > development, and it sucks. I recently deployed an upgrade of an "enterprise-type" jboss application, and it failed. The log file was literally 200kb of stack tr
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by bionoid 8y ago
Unforunately no real information is available, the most recent update is the May progress report [0]. The 500 version is due for release before the standalone, and for the standalone they need to finish implementing the graphics/audio
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by bionoid 8y ago
The author obtains a legit free ticket from the organizers, which is pretty cool. I worked with conferences for a decade and as far as I can recall we never did this. Back in the days, there was another way to access expensive conferences w
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by bionoid 8y ago
Weird, I landed on "The First Year of Liberapay" [0], not sure if the link was edited or I somehow misclicked.. Edit: my bad, I opened the link from a comment.. [0] https://medium.com/liberapay-blog/the-firs
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by bionoid 8y ago
Edit: Strike this, I opened two tabs and read the wrong one :) The article is dated February 2017, I didn't notice before "In 2017 we’re going to keep improving Liberapay." near the end. According to their frontpage today, 46

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