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by biot 10y ago
Why are modern text editors so slow? Here's an editor that I use from 1996 opening up a 1GB file of randomly generated bytes (dd if=/dev/urandom of=random_bytes.txt bs=64M count=16): http://i.imgur.com/BVln6Y2
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by biot 10y ago
At first, I thought you were being satirical in making a backhanded jab at the poor quality of documentation on Linux as compared to the excellent documentation in FreeBSD. But it seems that since you've already been through the pain o
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by biot 10y ago
I disagree. Moderation plus meta-moderation would work well for the singular task under discussion: putting shredded documents back together. And because there's no usernames or discussion involved (displaying "User happykitten92
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by biot 10y ago
It would have been interesting to add in a validation layer, letting the crowd evaluate each others moves, creating a virtual trust score for each player. Those with high trust scores get to meta-moderate others moves before those moves can
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by biot 10y ago
From the paper [0]: "Modified human fasting mimicking diet. A single cycle of the modified fasting mimicking diet consist of Day 1 – pre-fasting followed by Day 2-8 – very low calorie diet. Day 1-prefasting consists of an 800 kcal (abo
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by biot 10y ago
This is easy to do with Nagios and the check_http plugin, and Nagios is then your dashboard for not just SSL expiration but every other service you are (or should be) monitoring as well.
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by biot 10y ago
It's like using open source as the foundation of a billion dollar business. "Thank you very much, how much was that fantastically useful library again?" "Free." "Have a nice day."
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by biot 10y ago
On the same note, they can just construct <random chars>.user@mailhero.io and email sent there will be forwarded to you as if that's the custom email address you sent out.
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by biot 10y ago
Is she a teacher, doctor, outdoor enthusiast, or IT professional?
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by biot 10y ago
Perhaps you should say "Must be downloaded within 12 months; perpetual license lets you use them for as long as you want."
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by biot 10y ago
See this doc for details of how iOS lets apps request to be notified upon entering low power mode: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Perfor...
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by biot 10y ago
Downvoted (it's not as dim as before, so I take back the "oblivion" part): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11726714 And now I shall stop feeding the trolls.
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by biot 10y ago
The context was "you may change it", where "it" is the redirect from slow.com to something other than fast.com. But he wouldn't be changing any DNS entry as he's still resolving the hostname to the same IP addr
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by biot 10y ago
More food for thought: how many neurons + synapses can one model with that amount of RAM?
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by biot 10y ago
seedjackets, due to them being the only fruit that has its seeds on the outside.
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by biot 10y ago
A tad more complicated than C64 BASIC, but: http://www.templeos.org/ Terry Davis (creator) likens it to the C64, though you're writing in CPP/ASM: "The vision for TempleOS, however, is a modern, 64-bit
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by biot 10y ago
All six are shown on the home page, which is the link we are discussing here. In case it's not blindingly obvious, here's the first feature which Chrome has support for: https://blisk.io/#section-multiple-devices
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by biot 10y ago
The article doesn't claim that Google sold students' data. As is par for the course with Google, any data that Google processes is used to build up a profile of the user and then used to target advertising towards that user. The d
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by biot 10y ago
What are some examples of problems that are being snake-oiled that were already solved half a century ago?
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by biot 10y ago
GP asked how this system deals with Kafka's at least once semantics. Pointing out that Kafka has at least once semantics is redundant. What GP was asking: what happens if Kafka delivers the "item added" event twice, but the &
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by biot 10y ago
I just realized I botched the link. Corrected: http://www.amazon.com/Etekcity-Digital-Weight-Bathroom-Scale... Shows most recent verified purchases.
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by biot 10y ago
I was looking at bathroom scales recently and noticed this myself. Lots of five star reviews, many of which received the product free in exchange for a review. If you look deeper, most of these reviews are superficial. Adjust the review fil
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by biot 10y ago
I count six distinct features which Blisk advertises, of which Chrome has one.
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by biot 10y ago
To avoid confusion, I assume you mean "tenet" as in principle, not "tenant" as in "occupying someone else's property", which could get confusing when talking about containers, cloud computing, and using so
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by biot 10y ago
Peak use vs. average use. A dramatic spike in usage means you need to get power from somewhere (or put up with brownouts), and on occasion that means 50% comes from coal even if it's only for 30 minutes a few times a month.
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by biot 10y ago
Sure, but you're better off not using mystery meat links from Libya in the first place.
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by biot 10y ago
Make sure that junior programmer is a true Scotsman as well since they're more likely to have an apostrophe in their name.
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by biot 10y ago
Inexperienced programmers naively believe that about all string input, so the fact they believe it about names isn't particularly interesting.
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by biot 10y ago
If you click the timestamp (ie: " n minutes ago") on a dead post, you can vouch for it.
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by biot 10y ago
Give it another year and the new batch of hotshot developers will reinvent static typing and perhaps one or two other features from the 1970s, but it'll have some cool name and only implement 50% of the functionality.

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