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by forgotpwtomain 10y ago
Backups on a different drive. Having an SQLite database in your home directory isn't really going to help you there (I mean as far as: if only parts of the filesystem are corrupt and you have re-duplicate entries, your chances are bett
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by forgotpwtomain 10y ago
> The last few versions of MacOS have introduced random fires which burn down your .bash_history, leaving this occasional sad, sad result: $ wc -l .bash_history 0 I think there is some context missing here... Why is your .bash_history ge
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by forgotpwtomain 10y ago
> but no browser actually does this today, and the first part of the file gets sent down regardless. Are browsers really not doing this? My understanding was that just one round-trip was wasted for the client to send an RST_STREAM frame,
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by forgotpwtomain 10y ago
> False statements such as "81% of the Qur'an is about killing infidels!" and "The bible teaches only peace!" are commonly thrown around with little evidence to back them up. We must be engaged in conversations w
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by forgotpwtomain 10y ago
I don't think they are very similar texts at all, have you read both? The old testament is a compendium of an entire people's history over a significant period of time; with one of the primary themes being the this-worldly rewar
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by forgotpwtomain 10y ago
> Fact checking is one tool. Good thinking is another. The list is big and we need every single one of those things to stave off this pandemic. Which pandemic are you referring to exactly? Fake news, deceptive reporting, gossip, libel,
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by forgotpwtomain 10y ago
What's the reasoning behind altering the submission title? It is most definitely click-bait: To Be a Genius, Think Like a 94-Year-Old and was appropriately being flagged by users precisely for that. More so a single isolated case of
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by forgotpwtomain 10y ago
This is a bad slippery slope - it suggests that a 'little sponsored banner' (which google chooses) can waive the necessity of being diligent in thought.
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by forgotpwtomain 10y ago
Do you care about privacy and authentication when downloading react.js from a CDN?
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by forgotpwtomain 10y ago
This might have been mentioned somewhere else but - will browsers remove or make an exception instead of blocking mixed-content[0] when a sub-resource integrity check is present? I mean there really is no reason to be paying the TLS over-he
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by forgotpwtomain 10y ago
> I know people in the US aren't so fond of taxes... > all the money goes to three letter agencies, war mongering and violence... > The infrastructure (health care system, electric grid, education...) is in dire need of a rebo
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by forgotpwtomain 10y ago
Interesting that you brought that you should bring this up - reminded me to dig up this old Ken Thompson interview[0] (see the section starting at COMPUTER SCIENCE AND THE FUTURE) he talks about the increasing complexity and specialization
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by forgotpwtomain 10y ago
While OP's comment was unsubstantive, I do disagree with the 'divisive topic' label here: this topic is about as divisive as Lysenkoism[0], calling it 'divisive' gives the sense that there is a substantive conversat
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by forgotpwtomain 10y ago
> environment as well It's not going to do anything great for the environment and we've been over this on previous Tesla threads (years ago). Driving electric cars instead of hybrids in areas where the electricity is primarily
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by forgotpwtomain 10y ago
Do you happen to have the link to this blog handy? I'd be interested in reading it.
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by forgotpwtomain 10y ago
The late Gnome Shell is very similar, both in look and in RAM usage (1GB+).
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by forgotpwtomain 10y ago
I'm astounded by the amount of content on this site: http://www.filfre.net/sitemap/
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by forgotpwtomain 10y ago
> It is my understanding that the motivation in seeking out consensus algorithms with strong leaders (or equivalent) as opposed to horizontally weighted peer-to-peer ones is due to the performance penalty imposed by the latter in the gen
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by forgotpwtomain 10y ago
I didn't get anything out of this blog-post except a bunch of numbers based on the default parameters (such as leader election timeout) of various systems. Here is the link to the EPaxos paper it purports to discuss though: https:&#
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by forgotpwtomain 10y ago
> Posting on a social news site is a privilege, not a right. I certainly don't share the sentiment. There are lots of places I or other people can visit and post to, what makes this particular site commend value is precisely the c
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by forgotpwtomain 10y ago
Not updated on a daily basis, but always worth reading: http://antirez.com/ https://danluu.com/ http://ridiculousfish.com/blog/ https://rachelbythebay.com/
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by forgotpwtomain 10y ago
Why is it seemingly impossible to read a technical blog-post on a company-blog, without some seven-year-old-humor type meme mixed-in?
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by forgotpwtomain 10y ago
> seems they have trouble delivering it. More like seems it's not good for their core-business to deliver it?
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by forgotpwtomain 10y ago
Most of the Russian economy is based on exploiting (Gas, Oil, Steel etc.) and/or reliance (Metro, Railways, Housing, Water Treatment, Powerplants) on Soviet era infrastructure. The high levels of corruption in government and instabilit
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by forgotpwtomain 10y ago
> If I had been given access to an iPad at age 10, I would have been completely, endlessly obsessed with the possibilities of it... You could have very well made the rest of your point without the personal attack, which was quite unneces
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by forgotpwtomain 10y ago
You can send bitmessages that are entirely public as well see 'Chans'.
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by forgotpwtomain 10y ago
Why wouldn't they just embed the hash of the message, or even the hash of a chain of messages? (AFAIK people have been doing this for a while for other applications). There was a much more sensible attempt at this with bitmessage [0] b
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by forgotpwtomain 10y ago
> If you see iPads as a hindrance to education, you are a terrible teacher. Personal attacks are frowned upon here.
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by forgotpwtomain 10y ago
Have you tried the alternatives? They all suffer from various problems. e.g. I use fish but still write bash scripts for production systems - more so fish is perhaps too safe in being too close to POSIX for the improvements to make a great
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by forgotpwtomain 10y ago
> There's such a problem with immaturity in tech. It's frustrating because it creates barriers to learning from others. No self-respecting person is going to want to learn from someone who has a "holier than thou" or

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