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by dmm 9y ago
> But some tests, I have no idea what changed that made them break. Michael Feathers in "Working Effectively with Legacy Code" defines a unit test as a test with two qualities: 1. It runs fast (1ms is slow for a unit test) 2. H
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by dmm 9y ago
NoScript is what I've always used. It defaults all javascript to be off and you can enable it permanently or temporarily per domain.
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by dmm 9y ago
FWIW Clozure CL has a precise gc on x86/x64. The register usage is detailed here: https://ccl.clozure.com/docs/ccl.html#register-and-stack-usa...
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by dmm 9y ago
Debian ships Firefox ESR, which is supported for over a year and has a 12 week overlap with the next ESR release.
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by dmm 9y ago
My debian install automatically builds the zfs module during each kernel upgrade.
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by dmm 9y ago
The word pig comes from Old English, a germanic language spoken in England during the early middle ages. After William the Conqueror successfully invaded England in 1066 the language of upper classes of England became Anglo-Norman, an old f
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by dmm 9y ago
The CDDL release announcement[0] says: """ Thus, it is likely that files released under the CDDL will not be able to be combined with files released under the GPL to create a larger program. """ So the creators
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by dmm 9y ago
Cycling is dangerous because of cars striking and killing cyclists. Choosing to drive the mile to the grocery store is probably statistically safer but increasing the number of bikes on the road will make drivers more conscious of vulnerabl
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by dmm 9y ago
This guy seems to be mostly complaining about KYC requirements, which is not really related to bitcoin at all. Try to convert $100k in foreign currency and see what questions they ask.
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by dmm 9y ago
MD5 is fine for verifying a download is not corrupted, so that's probably the intended use.
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by dmm 9y ago
Spanish has two words for free: libre and gratis. Libre means freedom and gratis means at no cost. English is confusing because we use the same word for both meanings. Also, Beer is free at my house. Come over anytime!
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by dmm 9y ago
Debian's kernel is deblobbed and contains only free software. If you can find an example contrary to this, it is a bug. The poster on the thread you linked is making the argument that free software shouldn't be looking for non-fre
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by dmm 9y ago
Free Software means free as in speech not free as in beer.
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by dmm 9y ago
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=golang#GEO_MAP
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by dmm 9y ago
The earth's magnetic field plays an important role is protecting the surface from cosmic radiation. Maybe people will start to insist on ECC memory once cosmic rays start messing with their netflix.
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by dmm 9y ago
I run exim on Debian stable. I use greylistd for greylisting and dovecot for imap. I backup emails daily by taking a btrfs snapshot and rsyncing it to my home server, which I have a regular backup cycle for. If you were really worried you c
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by dmm 9y ago
FWIW, I've run my own mail server for 10 years and I hardly ever receive spam, maybe 1-2 a week. And I give out my email everywhere. The only spam mitigation I use is greylisting and blacklisting.
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by dmm 9y ago
Google Cache: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:XqXHF0...
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by dmm 9y ago
Non-mining nodes still enforce the consensus rules. Miners can't just decide to increase the block size or change the total # of bitcoin to 42 million.
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by dmm 9y ago
HN works great without js. This site I can't even click the links?
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by dmm 9y ago
That's an interesting position. This is definitely an area that needs more clarification. I do think that treating forks like income is the most conservative interpretation and the one least likely to result in trouble from the IRS.
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by dmm 9y ago
The site I linked argues not because unrealized gains occur when something you own goes up in value. But during a fork you are given (access to) something new.
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by dmm 9y ago
Some argue thinking of forks as a stock split is incorrect. """ Should it be treated as a split of BTC? That seems incorrect and complicated. If you half the value of your BTC holdings and sell them, you will incur more gains
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by dmm 9y ago
The tax situation is interesting. Many believe that you owe taxes as soon as the funds for a bitcon fork are available to you. For someone with bitcoin in a private wallet that's instantly. For someone with bitcoin in an exchange that&
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by dmm 9y ago
> require the user (or someone they trust) to be online in order to verify that they aren't being defrauded You're right but to clarify, the user getting online once a week or so is enough. They don't have to continuously
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by dmm 9y ago
USGS page for this quake: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us2000cmy3...
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by dmm 9y ago
The lightning network is(can be) trustless and decentralized. It uses time based transactions to transfer bitcoin. It does have complications though. If you send money with the LN you have to regularly(about once a week) connect and verify
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by dmm 9y ago
There are experimental lightning network nodes on mainnet now and the first transaction has been made: https://cointelegraph.com/news/lightning-networks-pizza-day-... Here's a map of the LN network. So far there a
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by dmm 9y ago
Maybe it will be true again someday... Here's a cool map of mainnet lightning network node: https://lnmainnet.gaben.win/
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by dmm 9y ago
I like that the article correctly points out that the problems with big blocks is bandwidth and validation time, not hard drive space as many others seem to focus on.

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