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by gioele 11y ago
I prefer git init && git commit --allow-empty -m "$(basename (readlink -f .))"
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by gioele 11y ago
> JSON has become the go-to schemaless format between languages, despite being verbose and having problems with typing. Transit aims to be a general-purpose successor to JSON here. XML has become the go-to schemaless format between langu
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by gioele 11y ago
> Are we talking about classic incinerators (simply burn stuff) or plasma arc (gasification)incinerators? In 2015 "incinerator" means classic burners. Plasma gasification is practically unused: there are less that 10 plasma gas
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by gioele 11y ago
> The point was that landfills and incinerators work pretty well and that there's no rational justification to eliminate them. Incinerators have well known carcinogenic effects. Landfills can easily pollute the nearby fields and wat
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by gioele 11y ago
Librem 13 and Librem 15v2 [1] are one blob away from being FSF-certifiable. And they are brand new hardware. [1] https://puri.sm/
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by gioele 11y ago
Second Wiio's law [1]: «If a message can be interpreted in several ways, it will be interpreted in a manner that maximizes the damage.» [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiio%27s_laws
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by gioele 11y ago
> > select fullpath, bytes from files order by bytes desc limit 5; > This is better. Here it is in bash: > find / -type f -exec stat -c '%s %n' {} \; | sort -nr | head -n 5 This is also a nice example of the b
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by gioele 11y ago
> there's always a fallback if you lose all the copies of your key: you pay a locksmith to come pick the lock and rekey it. In the digital world you have Shamir's Secret Sharing. Generate a non-encrypting, non-signing, decode-o
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by gioele 11y ago
> In English contractions like that are rare and sound weird when pronounced, English does exactly the same: "3-year mandatory contract" is pronounced as a single word. It is just a matter of writing convention. «English word c
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by gioele 11y ago
> 2. Lazy loading: I am not sure if Chrome has it or not but FF doesn't load a tab content until I switch to it. This is usually transparent to me. Except when I am on a train and realize that all the tabs I have opened in the back
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by gioele 11y ago
They have these things called "proofs": http://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/25851/correctnes... Jokes aside, there are two ways out: huge simulators or writing very very simple code that matches
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by gioele 11y ago
> at that time Tcl was indeed quite unique and one of the easiest to embed Could you please explain why some languages are better at being "embedded and/or extended"? Why would Guile be simpler to embed than Ruby?
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by gioele 11y ago
Can we please use this as the new basic stylesheet that is used in browsers like Firefox and Chrome? Who decided that those ugly default stylesheets must be be applied to unstyled documents? Why cannot unstyled document be nice by default?
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by gioele 11y ago
One can create a fully offline version of github fork using https://github.com/joeyh/github-backup + https://gist.github.com/piscisaureus/3342247 ("Checkout github pull requests locally"
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by gioele 11y ago
> What you do on the public streets is presumably something you don't mind the people seeing. The law of certain countries disagree with your. A simple example that applies to the Italian law and to almost all continental EU countri
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by gioele 11y ago
Just by reading the title I thought that finally somebody has been able to put in good prose what I have been thinking for years: the push towards more secure systems will kill scripting. Can you script copy and paste or move the cursor? It
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by gioele 11y ago
Will the main requirement of the tender be being at least X% more accurate than the current provider? Or will it just be a matter of who will offer the cheapest service?
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by gioele 11y ago
I think tcl/tk was the very first scripting language for the web. In 1992, with the release of tkWWW, it was possible to use tcl/tk to script HTML pages. [1] > The Tk browser has the following advantages. > 2. More important
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by gioele 11y ago
> And the settlement reached was around 0.0086 DuPont's yearly revenue to be provided for education, water treatment facilities and medical expenses of the class action members. > Is that really going to deter them from doing it
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by gioele 11y ago
In my past studies of documents-as-they-were-in-another-point-in-time I understood that the best way to deal with time-related information is to store all the context that you have. In this case * store the appointment date and place as a s
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by gioele 11y ago
> Languages like German and Japanese have markings on nouns that convey the role each noun plays within the sentence, allowing them to have freer word order than English. Since when has German a freer word order than English? German has
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by gioele 11y ago
> The main premise for worry comes from waves of destitute migrants overwhelming the infrastructure and natural carrying capacity of rich cities and dragging them down I always wondered: are the people in the US asking for the establishm
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by gioele 11y ago
> This is also handy if you're security conscious and like to use a different private/public key pair for each host you have an account with! This is a tiny tutorial I wrote ages ago: http://retrieve.tumblr.com&#x2F
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by gioele 11y ago
In the first comparison I see that the shadows in the picture generated by Hyperion are way too fuzzy compared to the reference photo. Is this a problem of the technique or just the result of the way in which lightning and polygons have bee
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by gioele 11y ago
It seems to work flawlessly with Ghostery.
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by gioele 11y ago
Because it is not a table, it displays in a tabular fashion (for certain user agents). I always failed to understand what is hard about the _being_ something vs _being displayed_ as something. I have met so many smart people just failin
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by gioele 11y ago
WHOIS is usually useful in these cases: $ whois projecteuler.net | grep -i email Registrar Abuse Contact Email: support@domainbox.com Registrant Email: projecteuler.net@... Admin Email: projecteuler.net@... Tech Email:
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by gioele 11y ago
USENET (the network) may be dying but NNTP is still going strong as a better interface to mailing lists. See for example http://gmane.org/ or the new GNU Mailman 3 gateway. I am now subscribed to maybe 2 mailing lists, the
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by gioele 11y ago
> Etherum allows you to treat digital entities as if they are physical. I.e. it creates scarcity in an otherwise abundant digital universe. I always hoped I could see a post-scarcity physical world in my lifetime. Now you are telling me
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by gioele 11y ago
> county and cities are buying up the old office parks and even strip malls to convert them into government buildings. Most are ideally located as well as being offered up for sale cheaply. The point of the grandparent comment is that th

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