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by gioele 8y ago
Read newest to oldest; act upon/replay from oldest to newest.
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by gioele 8y ago
> Italy 0.5% Yet Italy was home to Tinet, part of Tiscali and the largest IPv6 network of the world until 2009. More saddening than bizarre.
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by gioele 9y ago
For years I refrained from doing a post like this because I feared (and still fear) that somebody at Google will notice what is going on and shut the old APIs down. "What? server XYZ still works!? Mel was supposed to turn it off in 201
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by gioele 9y ago
Finally David Thorne will be able to get its spider back: http://www.27bslash6.com/overdue.html
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by gioele 9y ago
> Unfortunately, European politicians apply precautionary principle also to cases where an overwhelming majority of scientist think that, for example, GMO crops are safe. I seriously would like to see that majority of scientists live pat
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by gioele 9y ago
> $0 is the winning price. The weird (and pleasant) thing here is that the $0 price is backed not by a shady business, but by a non-profit [1] that hires a stellar team of TLS/DNS/Internet experts that does most of its job open
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by gioele 9y ago
> Open Firmware, also known as IEEE-1275, has issues in that it is an interpreted, stack-based byte-code. Very few programmers are facile in Forth programming And ACPI is based on an interpreted, non stack-based bytecode, AML. [1] There
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by gioele 9y ago
The sad truth (and missing detail) is that most EU countries already have national laws that allow extra-judicial bodies request ISPs to block websites at the DNS/IP level with minimal oversight. A DB of such requests, limited to Italy
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by gioele 9y ago
> So the moment I realised someone produce a laptop that wasn't from Apple, yet had very similar physical attributes (albeit smaller), which would also give me a way to escape MacOS and run Linux as a first-class OS, I jumped on boa
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by gioele 9y ago
> If you’re the kind of programmer who is likely to find compiler errors, you probably know who you are. I'm one of those that routinely find a bug in a library during the very first use of its API. Every "quick weekend project
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by gioele 9y ago
> I'm convinced that typography is an exact science Kerning and metrics are, for example, two parts of typography that lend themselves to formalization and automation. See for example the great results of Igino Marino's ikern:
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by gioele 9y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15400217 > I understand the ISA is open source, but SiFive does appear to be selling their IP. > > https://dev.sifive.com/coreplex-risc-v-i
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Art project: Einstein and Freud’s letters on “Why War?” – 85th anniversary(preining.info)
2 points by gioele 9y ago|0 comments
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by gioele 9y ago
> U54-MC Coreplex IP is the world’s first RISC-V based 64-bit quad-core application processor, supporting full-featured operating systems such as Linux. Isn't the (still in draft state) Privileged ISA needed to implement a UNIX-like
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by gioele 9y ago
For 99% of the use cases moreutils' parallel (AKA Tollef parallel) is an equal, or even better, alternative. "Interesting" thread from 2012 about replacing moreutils' parallel with GNU parallel in Debian: https:/&#
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by gioele 9y ago
So, what you want is a 2014 Samsung Gear S: http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_gear_s-6620.php * Independent GSM * GPS * Bluetooth Basically an internet-connected computer with a 2" screen.
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by gioele 9y ago
> Now compare that to regulated intersections, which come at a price of potentially longer delays of course, but in return have much lower mental tax on drivers. Regular intersections with or without traffic lamps have a measurably highe
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by gioele 9y ago
Check out pw, my alternative to pass, designed because of the reason you mentioned: I don't want my password manager to leak the list of services I use. https://github.com/gioele/pw In pw each password database is
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by gioele 9y ago
You may want to check out the good ol' DDD: https://www.gnu.org/software/ddd/
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by gioele 9y ago
Unrelated: since when has this picture of Bologna become a new lenna.jpg? I think I have already seen it in a couple of recent posts about image compression. (Fits perfectly the definition of Baader-Meinhof phenomenon [1].) [1] https:&#x2
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by gioele 9y ago
> It sounds like a lot of us have been making password managers recently. Here's one I made a few days ago: > https://github.com/ojensen5115/pw/ I made one as well. Same name, totally different philosop
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USB-C for Engineers, Part 3(reclaimerlabs.com)
3 points by gioele 10y ago|0 comments
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by gioele 10y ago
A more UNIXy question is: why isn't there a generic tool that do nice and slick TUIs (textual user interfaces) so that htop, ntop, iotop, ctop and so on can all be implemented on top of it?
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by gioele 10y ago
Inspired by the Daniel Pennac's novels? https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saga_Malauss%C3%A8ne
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by gioele 10y ago
> Part of Github's secret sauce: Web source tree browsing that's front and center, that's relatively decent, Plus decent rendering of README.md at the same base URL. You get a decent homepage for your project by just pushi
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by gioele 10y ago
There are plenty of sources for acts (many national and supra-national services [1]) and for US case law (Google Scholar). The _text_ of law alone is worthless. In very few cases you should search for keywords. The unsolved problem is that
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by gioele 10y ago
Unexpected Risks Found in Editing Binary Code to Fix Bugs in Legacy Codebase. Genetic engineering has exactly the same problems that modifying binary-only code. After some very complex observation of the system you may spot the point that i
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by gioele 10y ago
> an HP spin-off (Agilent) In my mind Agilent/Keysight is the real HP and the current HP just a PC-related spin-off.
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by gioele 10y ago
> Sure, and I said relatively unchanged compared to bzr. Looking up in bzr, the ondisk format changed several times in incompatible ways. But bzr always had the ability to read and write repositories written using older formats. Each on-
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by gioele 10y ago
> I find this experiment a bit strange/disturbing, avoiding political subjects is a way of putting the head in the sand. I wonder why it is called an experiment at all. In the end this just the mods upholding the part of HN guidelin

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