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daxelrod
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Sure, they can't force you to do something, but they can make your entry dependent on your doing something, as long as you're not a citizen.
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When I tried this technique, all of the self-deception stressed me out to the point where I got nothing done. I feel like it probably works better for people only balancing a few tasks that aren't interrelated.
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Sure, but it also didn't save/restore any window or tab state at that time. All those features came later, so this represents a change in how things act between Safari versions.
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daxelrod
10y ago
At which point they may just ask you to type in your password yourself.
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daxelrod
10y ago
Ok, but you'll encounter similar git limitations with repos several orders of magnitude smaller than that too. All you need is several hundred engineers and your monorepo becomes unwieldy for git to handle.
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daxelrod
10y ago
Git Kraken has some neat ideas around dragging bits of the DAG around to manipulate them.
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Link to the man page, for those curious: http://man.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man3/...
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daxelrod
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Can you expand on what some of those things are, or link to something that does? It sounds like a great lesson for other distros.
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daxelrod
10y ago
I've always interpreted Newegg's name as a reference to defunct egghead.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egghead_Software .
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> Paint.net is the same rental model that Photoshop is now using We're talking about http://www.getpaint.net , right? This is proprietary desktop software, but as far as I can tell, it is gratis. (They do solicit donation
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Fog Creek's model tends to involve spinning off their runaway hits into separate companies. They've done this with StackOverflow and Trello. Trello has been an independent company since 2014. (Although I'm not sure what kind
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Discourse is primarily a better alternative to bulletin-board style forums. Here's their docs on embedding, which seems like it would make it act a little more like disqus. https://meta.discourse.org/t/embedding-di
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I generally expect to use a Mac for 4-5 years after I've purchased it. I've added memory to every Mac I've owned so far at some point in its lifecycle. I have a hard time believing that in 2021 16GB of RAM will still be suff
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For (3) check local independent repair shops. I know of several Apple-authorized repair shops that rent inexpensive loaners while they're working on your computer.
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Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife is one of the most engaging books I've read about mathematics. In its Amazon reviews, I also see The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero by Robert Kaplan recommended.
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I'm fine with my boss seeing what's on my screen because he has no expectation that it will be my editor 100% of the time. He doesn't go out of his way to look, but our desks are also positioned such that he's going to s
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10y ago
You can totally enable mouse selection if you like: set mouse=a set ttymouse=xterm2 You may have to enable your terminal's mouse support, if you're running Vim in a terminal.
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Note that gitlab.com runs on GitLab EE, their commercial product, which is not FOSS. This is why the GNU project hosts their own instance of GitLab CE for themselves.
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I didn't actually realize Peter Cushing was dead until after I saw the film. For me, it was the movement that felt unnatural. I think I would have been covinced by any single frame, they did a superb job on the modeling, texturing, and
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Those env vars should only be exposed to the same user. The same user can also usually attach a debugger and read the secrets from memory. (Of course, this is harder, so you may not want secrets in env vars anyway.) The unix permissions mod
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GitLab Inc is a US corporation: https://about.gitlab.com/2015/07/01/Operating-as-GitLab-Inc/ You might consider installing your own instance of GitLab hosted in a country that you prefer.
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My 2007 Toyota Matrix just has an analog fuel gauge that goes from Full to Empty with marks for each quarter. No gallons, no MPG calculations.
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There's the CMRA which adds cameras to an Apple Watch band: http://www.recode.net/2016/11/2/13489812/glide-camera-apple-...
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Yep! See GitHub's Spokes, née DGit. http://githubengineering.com/building-resilience-in-spokes/
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Think about it this way: your EE customers probably have the easier bare metal knowledge, but would be willing to pay for you to solve the distributed system problems for them :)
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> they should take a hard look at their application and see if they can architect it in a way that does not require a complex distributed filesystem to present a single mount that they can expose over NFS As someone who administers GitLa
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The best part is the linked article's Conclusion section. It includes such gems as "zero and one values represent a lower and higher voltage in the cable and in the sender or receiver. This is actually an analogue signal when we l
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Mea culpa. I could try to blame autocorrect, but the fault is entirely mine.
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I haven't read it, but "PGP: Source Code and Internals", by PGP's author Philip Zimmerman is worth a try. I've read his other book "Official PGP User's Guide" and learned quite a bit. https:/&#x
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It's slightly different because Google has not had a court find that they abused their monopoly position to push their own browser and crush competition. I am not suggesting that this current action violates the terms of Microsoft'
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