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by darkr 11y ago
I find this helps a lot. Many a time I've been banging my head against a problem for hours, only to realise the solution later on when I'm cooking dinner or taking a shower.
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by darkr 11y ago
Not claiming to be a "highly productive person", but there are a few rules that I've learned along the way. These are true for me at least. 1) Context switching is expensive. Know your tools/language well, avoid interrup
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by darkr 11y ago
The email I just received said: > Within hours of the start of the intrusion, we were able to detect and remove the attacker, and shut down the attack.
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by darkr 11y ago
> singing a song he didn't want to sing The scripts are written by the cast & the script editor (Richard Porter). > made to drink profusely as part of a show stunt It's well known that Clarkson is a fan of the booze to t
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by darkr 11y ago
I must admit, I felt a pang of nostalgia seeing that domain name. Must have been nearly 15 years ago that we got our super-fast 64k connection with free ntlworld.com web hosting, and we could finally have always-on internet at home. Oh how
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John von Neumann(en.wikipedia.org)
20 points by darkr 11y ago|3 comments
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by darkr 11y ago
I was more impressed with the tracing through and commentary of individual commits from the present day through the various BSD incarnations and all the way back to 1979: Not the answer as such, but the explanation of.
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by darkr 11y ago
As a long-term resident of one of the most diverse boroughs in London, I can vouch for my own lack of desperation to deport immigrants, though I'm sure you can find the same xenophobic vocal minority that can find in most countries if
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by darkr 11y ago
Last I heard they had 6 million active users (vs 1 million in 2012).
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by darkr 11y ago
The problem with such thoroughly robust StackOverflow answers as this; when I stumble across one as I occasionally do, so taken aback am I by it's succinct completeness that it becomes irreversably embedded into my limited brain space.
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by darkr 11y ago
Really? Ireland has 13% of the population density of England, and around 1% of the population density of Greater London, both of which are keeping their heads above water just fine.
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by darkr 11y ago
I'm not sure which is better
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by darkr 11y ago
> There's got to be a psychological term for this. Belief.
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by darkr 11y ago
One of the reasons for ls having additional functionality, is that it is used in restricted shells - such as those used on rssh (SCP,SFTP, rsync and the like). There are no filtering utilities available in these shells: -rbash-3.2$ ls
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by darkr 11y ago
I think it's a way off that, so I took a look According to census.gov, the median net worth in 2011 for American is $68,828. Bill Gates net worth is $79.3b. A ps4 at launch was $399 Let's say a top-line swanky Rolex is $500k A ps4
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by darkr 11y ago
> Seems like these machines are kept very busy, which makes sense given their cost. Interestingly, many TBMs are left underground forever, as it's often more expensive to disassemble and remove them then to just abandon them.
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by darkr 11y ago
This is great news. I've been using goamz for some coreOS presence/sidekick containers, but found it quite lacking in quality, with a lot of missing functionality. The ability to build a container that clocks in at under 10MB (vs
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The Counted: People Killed by Police in the United States in 2015(theguardian.com)
6 points by darkr 11y ago|0 comments
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by darkr 11y ago
> Github is only a solution for software without meaningful binary assets where the user is expected to build the software himself and no community interaction beyond pull requests and issue reports is desired. GitHub Releases addresses
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by darkr 11y ago
> 4. Broken/Insecure - Debian Testing Often, testing gets security patches at the same time as stable + unstable (dependent on the scope of the issue). Sometimes it takes a few days for a package update to make it's way from un
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by darkr 12y ago
If you're using Xscreensaver instead of xlock: #!/usr/bin/env bash set -e while true; do sleep 20m xscreensaver-command -activate sleep 20s xscreensaver-command -deactivate
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by darkr 12y ago
They only launched support for within-region read replicas back in November > https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/rds-postgres-read-replicas/ Postgres is still comparatively new to AWS, whereas MySQL was one
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by darkr 12y ago
See also: http://5digits.org/pentadactyl/ "Pentadactyl was once called Vimperator, initially written by Martin Stubenschrott, then developed and maintained by Doug Kearns, Kris Maglione, and several other invaluab
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by darkr 12y ago
Same [subjective] experience here. Jessie has been mostly solid for me.
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by darkr 12y ago
Sky's filtering is now opt- out : > What we’re doing now is simply making sure that the automatic position of Sky Broadband Shield is the safest one for all – that’s ‘on’, unless customers choose otherwise. src: https://c
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by darkr 12y ago
As have I, ever since watching the insightful documentary 'Trading Places'.
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by darkr 12y ago
Apparently packages are built but currently awaiting signing + release. Hopefully within an hour or two they should hit the mirrors.
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by darkr 12y ago
This is basically the argument that Raymond Tallis[1] makes in his books. Whilst starting from an atheist/humanist origin, he posits that whilst science (in particular neuroscience) has brought humanity so far, the stockpile of knowled
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by darkr 12y ago
Depends where you are. Larger northern/coastal cities are often almost European, but elsewhere.. Subjectively speaking, I noticed two main issues: 1) Practical: cities/towns are often extremely spread out/car oriented, often
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by darkr 12y ago
AFAIK, theoretical dynamic range these days is something like 50-70db depending on the vinyl. ..But, as you said the actual dynamic range is down to the original source and the whims of the mastering engineer.

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