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by etatoby 9y ago
It remans a fact that the JSON spec does not limit the length of numbers, so there is no need for this kind of kludge. If Arango would just allow unlimited numbers in JSON data and sort them numerically, developers could use a different JSO
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by etatoby 9y ago
The day I can toss Tomcat to the bin and replace it with something written in C that allows zero-downtime restarts will be a fine day indeed.
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by etatoby 9y ago
So they deployed a bad config file to all nodes and restarted the service, which then failed to start. How is this specific to Nginx? This same mistake is possible with any other software ever written.
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by etatoby 9y ago
I didn't know SQLite was dynamically typed. That's a strange choice for a database, to say the least. I would look into Berkeley DB (BDB) which is one of the most widely-used embedded databases, albeit not a SQL-based one. Otherwi
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by etatoby 9y ago
Considering that they left the HAP flag in the open and even commented it in an XML file; considering how it does not disable all of ME, but only certain bits; and contrasting it with the otherwise inscrutable, encrypted, and tamper-proof n
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by etatoby 9y ago
ME itself was added for people with big money. I'm not an engineer experienced in this kind of work, but I fail to see how a company whose core business is manufacturing chips would develop an entire computer (comprising an x86 CPU, it
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by etatoby 9y ago
Iota?
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by etatoby 9y ago
Still, there is a fixed amount of hydro power available, short of building new dams. This puts Bitcoin's toll on fossil fuel. (If Bitcoin didn't exist, the hydro power would still be there and would be used for something else, the
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by etatoby 9y ago
Beware of using it for responsive icons. Popular browsers render SVG icons orders of magnitude slower than fonts, with the same vector content and scalability. I recently had to convert an entire UI from SVG icons to fonts + bitmaps because
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by etatoby 9y ago
One step closer to holograms.
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by etatoby 9y ago
As far as I know, nowadays there is a lot of high speed FPGA processing involved, therefore the line between software and hardware is blurred.
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by etatoby 9y ago
I have read the article and I still don't understand what was the purpose of such a project. What's wrong with ZIP or 7-Zip + AES encryption? Or GPG with a GUI? Or any other existing tool that's already stable and multi-platf
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by etatoby 9y ago
Unless you consider quantum effects, which are probably relevant in this situation, then it's an exponentially larger problem space.
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by etatoby 9y ago
Desu!!! (sorry, I had to)
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by etatoby 9y ago
Television standardized the language of nation-states. Now even the most backward of countrymen speaks or at least understands the common language used on TV, and the local inflections get less and less prominent with each passing generatio
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by etatoby 9y ago
This. In particular: what's the purpose of Esperanto now that anybody either speaks English or wishes they did and will make sure their children do?
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by etatoby 9y ago
One of the (many, many) reasons I ditched OS X after more than 10 years and went back to Linux and Windows, depending on the task at hand, is the removal of the colored Finder labels. What an inane reason, you may say. But IMHO it was one o
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by etatoby 9y ago
The random console popups give me the jeebies! I still don't know what causes them. Never had such things on older Windows/Lenovo machines.
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by etatoby 9y ago
Not if the entire App and Windows Store system is disabled per corporate policy and/or firewall.
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by etatoby 9y ago
it means that it is okay to legally forbid step by step debugging on your own computer. That it may not be legal to inspect code from another company, even if it runs on your computer. That whatever the code decides, must be observed by th
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by etatoby 9y ago
Wrong. The latter half should read: You have <this time> to fix the issue, or I <copy or trash> your database. Asking for extortion does not push them to fix their systems, only to pay you and/or find you.
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by etatoby 9y ago
That's yet another reason to run something like Qubes OS, split up your online presence into distinct "domains" and heavily firewall each domain, only connecting it through VPNs and/or Tor in most cases.
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by etatoby 9y ago
Yes, I was referring to Hetzner too.
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by etatoby 9y ago
I did mention that the part about drinking the blood might be an inaccuracy of the Vampire legend. It's obvious you can't just drink it.
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by etatoby 9y ago
I think older civilizations may have discovered something like this and put it into practice, giving rise to the myth of Vampires. The Vampires of lore are described as very old people who suck the blood of youngsters to stay alive. The par
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by etatoby 9y ago
Here are the factors that made OCaml my language of choice, after thousands of hours spent learning and using other languages. Strong typing with type inference makes it quick and easy to write code (no verbose declarations) that is safe
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by etatoby 9y ago
Have you tried the recent Linux subsystem for Windows, or Ubuntu for Windows? I have had a lot of success running various development tools in it. You can use pre-compiled Ubuntu binaries or compile your own stack, and it all runs at native
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by etatoby 9y ago
I would add that (forward) Algorithmic Differentiation is also very well-suited for differentiating algorithms (lol, you wouldn't say!) and not just pure mathematical formulas. For example, suppose you have an algorithm with loops, con
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by etatoby 9y ago
This is going to be extremely useful! I just recently settled on OCaml as my language of choice for most projects, after working with dozens of others, from C to Haskell. I was actually looking for a good numerical library, supporting compl
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by etatoby 9y ago
Notice that AD is a different technique than symbolic differentiation, which is what we do with pen and paper to compute a derivative. Wikipedia explains it properly, if a bit tersely: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto

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