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by cpcallen 10y ago
I am amazed that it is 2016 and people talk about sub-second page loading times as if it is an accomplishment to be proud of. That it is an accomplishment of a sort (in contrast to the depressing reality of bloated websites everywhere) show
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by cpcallen 10y ago
Curiously enough, that ratio is about the same as it was with my first laptop and 10baseT vs 802.11b...
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by cpcallen 10y ago
Oh no, not just on setuid root binary, no: several more too, plus a setgid procview one for good measure: $ ls -l /Library/DropboxHelperTools/Dropbox_u501 total 328 drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 136 4 Apr 17
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by cpcallen 10y ago
Yikes!: $ ls -l /Library/DropboxHelperTools/ total 1492 -r-s--x--x 1 root wheel 1523840 31 Aug 18:22 DropboxHelperInstaller* drwxr-xr-x 12 root wheel 408 31 Aug 18:22 Dropbox_u501/
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by cpcallen 10y ago
Oh! And here all this time I've been thinking they just never actually launched the feature.
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by cpcallen 10y ago
I have seen this story posted and discussed in several locations. It boggles my mind that everyone is talking about DNS filtering and/or browser security models, when it's painfully obvious that the actual problem is the fact tha
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by cpcallen 10y ago
Oh god, what is with wretched gradients? OS X has become an angry fruit salad, and now this. Fortunately I've never seen the appeal of Instagram, and uBlock Origin does a great job of making sure I never see social media buttons, so
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by cpcallen 11y ago
> Well, the company behind the Freedom 251 says it isn't subsidised and they use "economics of scale". Sounds legit ;-) They might be losing money on every sale, but they'll make it up on volume...
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by cpcallen 11y ago
I'm curious about the "two phase immersion cooling technology". So, they're putting the circuit boards into some kind of liquid, and the waste heat from the boards is causing that liquid to boil? What kind of liquid ar
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by cpcallen 11y ago
This includes breaking updates to the Steam client itself - which stopped working on 10.6.8 in November. I can roll back to an earlier version, but it immediately auto-updates to the latest version. So now I can't update any of the ga
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by cpcallen 11y ago
The trend of choosing minimalist styling over usability has been obvious for some time. Apple is one of the worst offenders - particularly in light of their previous commitment to usability - but sadly not the only one. My personal pet pee
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by cpcallen 11y ago
This is the first part of Evan's story on SoundCloud. These and many more recordings also available as .mp3 and .flac from http://www.evan-doorbell.com/
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How I Became a Phone Phreak, part 1(soundcloud.com)
2 points by cpcallen 11y ago|1 comments
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by cpcallen 11y ago
Not even in Chrome: I just see the whole distorted image. Even tried disabling various extensions that might be interfering, but to no avail.
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by cpcallen 11y ago
My favourite is the "Looney Tunes Approach" at Portsmouth NH (KPSM): ITAWT, ITAWA, PUDYE, TTATT and IDEED.
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by cpcallen 12y ago
This is amusing but not really new. When I worked as a site reliability engineer for Google here in London, I would get ads on Facebook reading "Come and work for Facebook as an SRE in London". I was always amused by the specific
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by cpcallen 12y ago
> you can assess the road yourself and hop off (and on if you just miss it) Unless it's evening, or there's a staff shortage, or it's being run on one of several routes which now never have a second staff member and hence
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by cpcallen 12y ago
Neuro-linguistic programming. (Except obviously not.)
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by cpcallen 12y ago
On my MacBook Pro (2.66GHz i7, early 2010), just starting Chrome causes the graphics to switch from the integrated Intel HD Graphics to the NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M, which incurs a substantial battery life penalty. (I discovered this quite by
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by cpcallen 12y ago
I gave up on Citymapper a while ago. Now I remember why. Here's how I use Google Maps: As I am putting on my shoes to go out the door, I look at the event I'm going to in Google Calendar. I click through to the location in Maps,
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by cpcallen 13y ago
By chance I happened to meet Captain Jerry Roberts while looking for a room some years ago: their garden (basement) flat in Pimlico had a spare room in what had originally been a cellar under the pavement (sidewalk) in front of the house, w
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by cpcallen 13y ago
It appears that the author makes a mistake in his attempts to simplify the problem, because although he is correct that he only needs to look at points on the edges, he goes on to suggest that he is looking only at corners of the polygon, a