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by crzwdjk 10y ago
It works just like tar for the most part, so it extracts into whatever the current working directory happens to be. I'd just do (cd /other/dir; tarsnap -x -f whatever-archive).
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by crzwdjk 10y ago
This is already the approach taken with the operator overloading methods with single-method traits like Add, Sub, and so on. Arguably things like .abs() and .exp() also logically belong in the same category and therefore should be implement
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by crzwdjk 10y ago
You can just give a chroot. At a company I used to work for, our build system used a chroot with a bunch of rarely-changing binaries/headers that let us build binaries for old distros, and then the directory with the actual code you we
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by crzwdjk 10y ago
Also, by speeding, you are adding to the kinetic energy available to cause mayhem and destruction if you do screw up. And remember, kinetic energy is proportional to the square of speed, so going twice as fast means your car has 4 times mor
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by crzwdjk 10y ago
In California, the license plates stay with the car, and as people mentioned, there's a system to notify the DMV of ownership changes. Also, when you buy a new car, of course you have to register with the DMV and they mail you the new
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by crzwdjk 10y ago
One real issue with the nightly/stable split is that it hasn't been entirely clear when things will actually be making it into stable. I understand that software development is full of uncertainties and sometimes you just don&#x27
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by crzwdjk 10y ago
> Whereas other manufacturers keep dedicated GPU framebuffers powered up even when using integrated graphics (because the display is connected to the GPU), Apple connects the display to a custom multiplexer so the dedicated GPU can be co
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by crzwdjk 10y ago
The per-lot taxes you suggest are increasingly the way things are financed in California: it's called a parcel tax and when a city wants to raise money for schools and the like, it's one of their few options for passing a new tax,
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by crzwdjk 10y ago
It's actually some combination of Apple and NVIDIA drivers, but on OS X, unlike pretty much every other OS, Apple insists on owning the OpenGL entry points and doing a bunch of work in its own driver before calling down into the vendor
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by crzwdjk 10y ago
And of course Google and Facebook and the like don't really have a problem with rejecting 90% of qualified candidates, because "everyone" wants to work there and they have no shortage of qualified applicants. On the other han
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by crzwdjk 10y ago
For example, it is clearly easier to write a machine learning system to find interesting articles and highlight insightful commentary, compared to using something so crude as a group of people on a website collectively voting on which stori
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by crzwdjk 10y ago
It's annoying to sometimes have to introduce artificial blocks just to make the borrow-checker happy. It sounds like there's going to be some work done on non-lexical lifetimes though, which would solve the more annoying of these
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by crzwdjk 10y ago
The planes talk to each other and run a common protocol that tells the pilots what to do to resolve the conflict. The problem is when one of the pilots doesn't listen to the nice robot voice yelling at him to DESCEND NOW!...
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by crzwdjk 10y ago
Because in a 3-bit flash cell, there are on the order of 10 electrons separating one charge level from the next. If a couple too many decide to quantum-tunnel their way to freedom, the bits will flip.
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by crzwdjk 10y ago
I have. It is, as far as I know, pretty much impossible. You'd think they would want to enable customers to use more of their product.
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by crzwdjk 10y ago
Sounds like I was right to pass on the company that promised me "4000 options" and insisted that any details beyond that were strictly confidential and could under no circumstances be disclosed to any non-employees. It seemed espe
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by crzwdjk 10y ago
Not necessarily. It's entirely plausble that they set the price lower in order to boost the number of subscribers and thus their political constituency.
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by crzwdjk 10y ago
But are those UK or US gallons? Cars in the UK get 20% more miles per gallon simply because gallons in the UK are 20% bigger.
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by crzwdjk 10y ago
Unfortunately, Amtrak is desperately trying to give away its advantage on point 2. At many stations, passengers are not allowed to just wait on the platform and are instead funneled through a ticket check one at a time. This results in the
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by crzwdjk 10y ago
Rust actually does a bit of this internally in the form of the null pointer optimization. If you have an Option<&T> (or Option<*T>) value, it's actually stored as a single pointer-sized value, with None being represente
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by crzwdjk 10y ago
Nice article. I just had a similar experience: after a bunch of work building a product, I came to the realization that the problem I was trying to solve just wasn't urgent enough, and the organizations I was trying to sell to just did
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by crzwdjk 10y ago
As a fellow landlord, I agree that checks are a giant pain. I'm actually working on making a mini-SaaS just for myself to use, using Stripe to handle ACH payments.
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by crzwdjk 10y ago
This actually happened in St. Petersburg, when they ran into difficulties tunneling under the river on Line 2. They ended up going under the difficult section, and now there's a 6% downgrade on that section of the line, which is pretty
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by crzwdjk 10y ago
Plain old web forms are actually not so bad these days, since browsers are pretty good about keeping any entered text around if you accidentally hit the back button (or even if the browser or computer crashes). It's really the big fanc
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by crzwdjk 10y ago
Yep, delete button or else just use the default behavior of highlighting the full contents of the field to be changed. Mind you, these were dedicated machines that were specifically used for this one purpose and not something anyone would b
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by crzwdjk 10y ago
This is great news. For some use cases, backspace-as-back is a disaster waiting to happen, for example, in a complex web app used in some time-critical task and that requires occasional deleting of text but can lose state or take a while to
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by crzwdjk 10y ago
I believe the Lake St line was closed for 2 years in the 90s.
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by crzwdjk 10y ago
Do you actually need a compiler that runs on those exotic systems, or just one that targets them? Because Rust (thanks to LLVM) is a whole lot better at the latter than the former, and it might well be possible to build something for your o
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by crzwdjk 10y ago
So was the piloting profession (in part because many pilots were ex-military), and yet somehow, that culture was changed to one of standard procedures, checklists, and Crew Resource Management. I'm still hopeful that the same can happe
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by crzwdjk 10y ago
It would be helpful if you specified which Cambridge you're talking about. Looks like this one is Cambridge, MA (as opposed to UK).

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