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by ekimekim 10y ago
But once you have milliseconds, microseconds are nice to have... The linux kernel (and many other applications) solve this with a tuple of 64-bit ints (seconds, nanoseconds) where 0 <= nanoseconds <= 999999999. Compare this to simply
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by ekimekim 10y ago
I always read that as http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoodleIncident (a purposely dangling reference because the viewer's imagination is more effective than anything you can say)
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by ekimekim 10y ago
Can't speak to ecigs in particular, but most of the ads I've seen push addiction-combating substitutes like nicotine patches.
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Executive order requiring that for every one new regulation, two must be revoked(politico.com)
3 points by ekimekim 10y ago|0 comments
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by ekimekim 10y ago
I've had this experience too. I complained to the FCC about it, and for my efforts got a likely-cookie-cutter mail response from comcast explaining that they provide these "rare, important messages" "for my own good&quot
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by ekimekim 10y ago
Relevant quote from the article: "By polling four simulated multitap inputs at 300 times per frame using a method devised by p4plus2 (Jordan Potter), the TASBot team is able to effectively send data to the SNES at 1.15 Mbps" 1.15M
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by ekimekim 10y ago
(warning: armchair expert, I've just read a bunch of wikipedia pages) I believe there's still sources of systemic error that would affect all the signals similarly, such as atmospheric interference, so even taking (for example) th
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by ekimekim 10y ago
Fun story: when logjam broke, the company I was working for at the time immediately changed their SSL configs to require 2048-bit...then had to change it back the next day, because we had clients with ancient java versions that could only h
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by ekimekim 10y ago
Some extra info to save people digging through that whole thread: * The game developers have since released the content for all CPUs * The developers at reVive, which are normally focused on making the Vive work with Occulus exclusive title
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Single player horde mode locked to I7?(steamcommunity.com)
66 points by ekimekim 10y ago|24 comments
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by ekimekim 10y ago
In short, no, there is no risk. When we say a spacecraft is nuclear-powered, we're not actually referring to a reactor (with rare exceptions[1]), but instead to something called a Radioisotope Thermal Generator[2], or RTG for short. Ba
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by ekimekim 10y ago
Sounds like you're after the select() filter, which evaluates a boolean expression and passes the input to the output only if the expression is true. So your example would be something like: select(.request.headers|map(.[0] == "X-
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by ekimekim 10y ago
I was a masochist and hand-rolled incremental tar snapshots to Glacier using a cronjob. It works great for keeping price down, though I learnt the "lots of retrievals" lesson the hard way once I actually tried to retrieve my data.
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by ekimekim 10y ago
> The HA is a bit murky. I downed two of my three nodes and the cluster collapsed. Since Flynn runs on one machine I expected it to work I'd expect this is by design. In a 3-node system that takes CP out of the CAP theorem (consiste
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by ekimekim 10y ago
In my most recent job search, I drew from the Who's Hiring thread almost exclusively. I probably contacted about 10-15 companies, of which I heard back from about 5, did the full round of interviews from 2, and got hired.
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by ekimekim 10y ago
Sibling comments made the security argument at length, but I'll add another aspect: one of sovereignty. I'm displaying content on my screen. It's my screen, and my computer, and I don't see a difference between an ad blo
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by ekimekim 10y ago
> Serious question: why is it so hard for them to find the root cause of these issues? Biology is hard. Humans are really, really variable. Look through the comments on this page - you'll find people who couldn't keep down one
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by ekimekim 10y ago
These are escape sequences for non-printing characters. Well, the first two are. '\9' would most likely cause a compile error, since that format '\<digit>' is only defined for octal numbers, ie. digits 0-7. '\
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by ekimekim 10y ago
Surely it's not that hard to come up with a unique, memorable internal TLD? eg. the company name - "git.facebook", "foo.microsoft", "monitoring.dev.google"
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by ekimekim 10y ago
tip: you can use @{u} to refer to "the upstream of my current branch", ie. what you said but will work no matter what the remote is called.
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by ekimekim 10y ago
it's historical - python was originally conceived as a toy language for teaching, in which context being able to do x = input(), type 2, and get an integer, is a desirable property. Then we got stuck with it because backwards compatibi
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by ekimekim 10y ago
The user-provided data is arbitrary but not random. Certain keys like "name", "email", "browser", etc will show up very often, and might even be included automatically by the client-side libraries and therefore
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by ekimekim 10y ago
I find it shocking to realise, reading these comments, that the university is requiring you to buy these books in order to pass. I didn't buy a single textbook for my entire Maths/Comp Sci degree (only about 5 years ago, at Univ
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by ekimekim 10y ago
I don't understand the actual science well enough myself to explain, but my understanding is that there are lots of limits to do with optics, the behaviour of light over such distances, the wavelike nature of light, etc. See https:&#x
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by ekimekim 10y ago
a) A few years ago it was a sub 1% market share and no games bothered. Now it's a sub 5% (disclaimer: I'm making these numbers up) and i'd say approx 50% of indie games and 10% of AAA bother. We fight because we're slowl
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by ekimekim 10y ago
That doesn't help, they can read your DNS requests as they pass through. Unless you do as some others here suggested and use a full VPN.
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by ekimekim 10y ago
I want to call this out, because I feel it's a big issue we have as humans trying to engage in reasoned debate - the idea that an inconsistent or changing view is somehow "weak" or invalidates the argument. If someone is chan
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by ekimekim 10y ago
Lossless and lossy compression have different use cases. Hell, even different kinds of lossy compression could have different use cases, for example encoding for voice vs music. Though offhand I can't think of any lossy use-case which
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by ekimekim 10y ago
For the specific example, this is how I dealt with a situation in one service I wrote that takes an arbitrary user-controlled regex (for search). The program was written in python, and as it turns out the GIL prevents a thread from being ab
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by ekimekim 10y ago
I don't mind manufacturers making design decisions that, as a side effect, impact repairability (phones with removable batteries being the main example here). But it's another thing altogether to add tamper indicators, DRM, etc fo

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