duozerk

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by duozerk 9y ago
I wonder how freezing the sponge for 24+ hours would compare.
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by duozerk 9y ago
> why does an IV bag cost $500? It doesn't outside of the US.
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by duozerk 9y ago
> both Netflix and Amazon allow you to download content for offline viewing these days In both cases sadly still with DRM; beyond the ideological stuff I'd love to be able to download a file and play it with the player I like, or to
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by duozerk 9y ago
There's a pretty good (and, in contrast to most such lists, independent from any provider) comparison of VPN services here: https://thatoneprivacysite.net/vpn-comparison-chart/
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by duozerk 9y ago
That's indeed far better; specifically, Firefox ESR with all the calling-home features disabled in about:config and noscript with no whitelist on top of it. Ideally you'd make sure the one responsible for going through tor isn&#x
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by duozerk 9y ago
You're right of course; and actually I believe the kernel will simply provide as many bytes as the read() requested; so the speed should mostly depend on how you access /dev/zero. IE, the user above was using cat and I thin
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by duozerk 9y ago
I believe /dev/zero writes data one byte at a time; that's likely the reason why. [edit] That's actually inaccurate (and badly expressed), see comments below.
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by duozerk 9y ago
> Just like votes, more money = more protection. That's what I find strange with the often-seen "well, just vote with your wallet" argument when a company screws up; it's almost literally the definition of an oligarch
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by duozerk 9y ago
For json parsing, I really like JSMN ( https://github.com/zserge/jsmn/ ). It doesn't allocate memory, has a simple and easy to use API, and is pretty fast.
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by duozerk 9y ago
You can simulate a browser and act as if you're a normal, browser using customer. Encapsulate it and you've got an "API"; though it'll be a bit painful as a lot of banks' web backends are fucked up and you&#x27
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by duozerk 9y ago
That seems highly unprofessional. I won't even ls into users' directories without their express permission.
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by duozerk 9y ago
Or you can simply implement it so that when your code runs it first checks that the stored procedures exist and have the same definition as the one stored in the source code; and to drop/recreate them if that's not the case. In wh
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by duozerk 10y ago
> has always enjoyed the reputation of being the most bulletproof distro if you could afford it. I've always heard that said about Debian more than about Red Hat (though Red Hat certainly is pretty stable). Red Hat has a lot more su
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by duozerk 10y ago
Redhat's code is Free software, actually. The page you link simply says they don't follow the free software distribution guidelines (and thus are not endorsed by the FSF/GNU project) because they also allow non-free software
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by duozerk 10y ago
I believe the browser is one of the few applications that already take this into account, fortunately. Clipboard access from Javascript is secure, for example.
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by duozerk 10y ago
Because you usually don't have control over that. On lots of system, any application that can display an UI can access the current clipboard's contents.
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by duozerk 10y ago
> all bitcoin did was create a massive market for sha1 asics A massive market for SHA256(SHA256(value)) asics, actually; so no, they can hardly be used for anything other than bitcoin mining.
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by duozerk 10y ago
I got this vision of horror based on a poorly drawn snail: https://i.imgur.com/N1UBn2G.png The fact that the source didn't include any active pixels at the top (compared to the result) seems a bit weird though.
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by duozerk 10y ago
Indeed, but the comment you're responding to was tongue-in-cheek, specifically suggesting that Trump being positive of a stock is a negative indicator for it.
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by duozerk 10y ago
No, they meant LSD due to Timothy Leary (even if LSD was initially synthetized in Switzerland); that's the joke.
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by duozerk 10y ago
What an extremely toxic comment.
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by duozerk 10y ago
Not the person you're responding to but being convinced that modern civilization is doomed - even if you're convinced it'll collapse during your own lifetime - doesn't preclude you from enjoying all of its benefits (like
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by duozerk 10y ago
I believe he's saying that gaming on Linux today goes far beyond Wine, given numerous high profile games have been ported to Linux recently (in a large part thanks to Unity and Valve's Steam OS push).
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by duozerk 10y ago
Indeed; thanks. In my defense, there was a time where both of those roughly meant the same thing ;-)
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by duozerk 10y ago
It's also a godsend for gaming on Linux. As long as you take a peek at the wine appdb page for the game you're trying to run beforehand, they usually work great and with pretty good performances. Though granted the games I play te
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by duozerk 10y ago
> We have ships nearing the end of our galaxy and sending data back While that certainly would be awesome, I'm pretty sure you meant "solar system".
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by duozerk 10y ago
Hmm, you could well be right and I simply didn't watch the right videos.
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by duozerk 10y ago
I have never seen any ad on youtube; are they really integrated into the video itself ? from the fact that I never saw any either in the browser (with ublock origin) or through youtube-dl, I kinda just assumed they were distinct videos play
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by duozerk 10y ago
See also the awesome youtube-dl script: https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/ - especially useful for videos you plan to watch more than once. It also handles far more than just youtube, despite the name.
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by duozerk 10y ago
Emacs user here, I think I never use escape; I use C-g to cancel a command.

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