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by bjackman 10y ago
Also in applications with Prologue interpreters: you can express patch submitability predicates in Prolog for the Gerrit code review system. Lets you automate arbitrary boring code submission prerequisite checks (e.g. "you must have a
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by bjackman 10y ago
There's a Martial epigram (can't find it) that goes something like : You shave your head to conceal your baldness, But how will you conceal your impotency?
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by bjackman 10y ago
Re odd video game stats: I've always wondered if you added up all the rotation of your body in your life, would you find that on aggregate you have rotated clockwise or anticlockwise, or neither (give or take a few thousand degrees)? W
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by bjackman 10y ago
Yeah I stopped when I cut it very short then never started again when it grew back. My hair doesn't get greasy any more but after a while my scalp feels dirty (like if you don't wash behind your ears) so I use shampoo then. Would
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Ask HN: Does anyone record data about their lifestyle?
2 points by bjackman 10y ago|6 comments
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by bjackman 10y ago
Overall I agree with your sentiment but it's not just a case of "releasing your drivers" but also of getting it accepted by maintainers. If you don't have an awareness of this process from the beginning of your developme
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Phantom Island(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by bjackman 10y ago|1 comments
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by bjackman 10y ago
Proteins don't get absorbed via the gut, they get broken down, the components get absorbed, and they get rebuilt.
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by bjackman 10y ago
This would be great if you lived on a boat, then you could have a wifi router on the shore/marina with signal directed at your boat.
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by bjackman 10y ago
I agree that typedefs are clearer for this but usually you don't have a choice and neither does the reviewer. E.g. coding style for Linux essentially says no typedefs. On the upside I have worked on projects were it's required.
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by bjackman 10y ago
> The government has recommended removing the Buddhist manji symbol from maps aimed at foreigners, for example, for fear of unintended associations with the Nazi swastika. Does anyone else think this is a shame? When I've been to As
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by bjackman 10y ago
I previously submitted this at [1] but somehow bozwangled the URL and didn't notice. Hope a re-submission is OK. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13363806#13363898
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The Porcupine Attack: investigating millions of junk requests(blog.cloudflare.com)
5 points by bjackman 10y ago|1 comments
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by bjackman 10y ago
Oops. Can't see an obvious way to fix it. If nobody else has submitted it by tomorrow I'll do another submission.
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The Porcupine Attack: investigating millions of junk requests(cloudflare.com)
7 points by bjackman 10y ago|2 comments
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by bjackman 10y ago
For me the insecurity isn't even the worst thing about curl | sh. I like package managers, and I tolerate tarballs, because I know what they do and how to reverse it. I care about the organisation of my filesystem and suspect that the
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by bjackman 10y ago
That is true but the risk of backdoored updates by state actors is a reasonable price to pay for security fixes to avoid every device being a node on a script kiddie enormous bothnet, or a WiFi ingress point, IMO. If the software is broken
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by bjackman 10y ago
You make good points but as I understand it, Switzerland has a relatively direct form of democracy and already runs referenda very often. > what does it matter if someone breaks one election? You can just run the next one fine This assum
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by bjackman 10y ago
There is a reset button if you click the upward-pointing arrow at the bottom of the playfield then the "play" icon. Also loved this game. Found it challenging - seems like a good starting point is to find the nodes with the least
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by bjackman 10y ago
At my workplace we hire a company to do occasional phishing attacks on employees. If you get got (I have been got) you are briefly made to feel foolish and have to do a training course. They release stats and like you I was surprised how fe
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by bjackman 10y ago
I'm not very networking-wise, got a question: is the "local machine" alwyas a well-defined thing? I'm thinking about stuff like where hosts are transparently distributed. Maybe there are systems out there that take advan
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by bjackman 10y ago
Hm, I didn't know that. It's mildly funny, because the company that owns Sprint (Softbank, who recently bought ARM) also owns Yahoo Japan.
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by bjackman 10y ago
What's the difference between this and 'git commit --amend'?
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by bjackman 10y ago
It's also worth noting that kratom is hard to really abuse; the effects are very mild - you can't call it a "high" - and if you try to take a bigger dose, you just feel nauseous.
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by bjackman 10y ago
Main takeaway from this: Facebook know much less about me than I thought. Maybe the whole online advertising industry is an emperor's-new-clothes situation. My favourite bands appear to be Blaise Matuidi (who is a footballer - I don&#x
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by bjackman 10y ago
My favourite thing about it is that there was no header email (usually [PATCH 0/n] is just text with an overview of the following patches. Then any top-level discussion (I.e. "NAK: octal is more readable") takes place in repl
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by bjackman 10y ago
In the kernel, the proper practice for sweeping changes like this is one commit per subsystem.
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by bjackman 10y ago
Alternatively, would be fun to get the OS to lie about the USB device ID. This would definitely be possible on Linux (probably with a kernel module, but perhaps you'd have to modify the USB core) but no idea how flexible Windows is on
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by bjackman 10y ago
Amazing! Douglas Hofstadter's "Goedel, Escher, Bach" introduces a formal system called Typogenetics designed to resemble the system of RNA and DNA and its replication. He poses the question of the shortest psuedo-RNA chain th
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by bjackman 10y ago
> You can use tools like PerfMon to view logged information about your game, like how much working set it was using or how much disk I/O it did. But there is one specific thing that directly accessing Event Tracing gives you that yo

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