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by gioele 11y ago
In bigger cities like Rome it is not hard to tell which suburb you are from or you have spent your childhood in from your accent and choice of words. But then, isn't it the same with English in England? https://www.youtube.c
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I find the "Summary of international crypto controls" at http://www.cryptolaw.org/cls-sum.htm very informative. It shows that the _export_ controls have been in places for years and that is something that should w
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by gioele 11y ago
> Congratulations and thank you to the Fastmail team and people at Apple who made this happen. No, sincerely no, no congratulations. My congratulations will go to those who fight to have that new kind of notifications standardised in a R
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by gioele 11y ago
> IMAP "push" usually means the IDLE extension [...] > iOS Mail doesn't implement it, instead doing a poll every 15 minutes. However it also implements a separate push system which allows true push if the server support
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> Some still have too much debt compared to GDP Some countries never defaulted except during wars (Italy, France), other did (Germany: 1931, 1953) and have now a decent debt/GDP ratio. One can say much about Italian politics, but pa
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by gioele 11y ago
> "Disabling Java in your preferred browser is for now is a better option. Use a secondary browser with Java enabled to view sites you absolutely must visit and which require it." Do news sites say things like "Not using S
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"Pearls before swine". Australia could turn its curse (extremely high, equatorial-like solar irradiance [1]) into a bless, if only politics were not so short-sighted. [1] http://i0.wp.com/cleantechnica.com/fil
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by gioele 12y ago
I also have a folder called "passwords" (actually "pw") with thousands of passwords. The difference is that they are all encrypted with gpg (via my little pw utility [1]). [1] http://svario.it/pw
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How many languages can tell you that byte X of output has been generated from byte Y of input going though such and such steps? When programming in XSLT it is great to fire up a debugger (let's say oXygen), run your transformation, cli
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> tl;dr: Russian law enforcement required GitHub to block certain content in Russia. GitHub has complied and put up a list of the blocked URLs in this repo. I suppose we will soon learn what is the intersection of all free spech laws of
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> One of the things to like about Fossil is its concept of record immutability, that is, data is retained intact in the database even when superseded by a newer version. Fossil asserts a highly ethical position, that revising historical
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> In Canada we had a law called "The AutoPact" [1] which basically said that for every 3 cars that you sell in Canada, 1 must be built here. In our world of online services, how do you that? For every three subscriptions I sell
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> Kafka was known to laugh uncontrollably when reading his work aloud to friends. Does anybody know the source of this statement? I have read it for years and I always wondered where it comes from. Some interview with a friend of him? A
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Interesting, this is similar to the discussion going on for "int" in Rust (or the exact opposite, depending on how you view it). [1, 2] One the one hand "implicit int" are being phased out in favour of explicit int size.
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> Linux's extensive suite of automated tests (zero), What about LTP [1] and Autotest [2]? «Linux Test Project is a joint project started by SGI, OSDL and Bull developed and maintained by IBM, Cisco, Fujitsu, SUSE, Red Hat, Oracle an
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> But XML is not ridiculously complicated. The 1.0 specification http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/ is not very long. Also note that the XML 1.0 specification contains the specification of the data format and of a s
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by gioele 12y ago
For those who think Wikipedia is right in defending Wikipedia Zero, could you please elaborate on how this will not impact the adoption of any alternative encyclopaedic website?
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> FPGAs are legacy baggage in the same way that GPGPUs are. I hoped the author would expand on this point. It is also my impression that GPGPU are just "a hack": they should had been normal coprocessors to the main CPU, just li
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> make this take up half my screen space For what it's worth, in GNOME 3 and Unity (Ubuntu) moving a window to the left or right border will make that window half of the screen. Same with top and bottom border. Moving a window to on
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> Using either windows or linux, anything over about 105 dpi is too small and I need to get closer to the monitor than what is acceptable from an ergonomics stand point. I see this as a big failure of "modern" graphic systems.
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> The TI Calculator scene is one of these cool scenes that's both vibrant and well organized. This is what you get when you have a very stable reference hardware and software platform plus a continuous influx of new young users with
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> Why does crowdfunding science bother you? There is already a fair crowdfunding scheme for science called "taxes". I feel the increase of popularity of crowdfunding schemes for science or health care is detrimental to the caus
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> Just a comment though: not all citations are equal, so just counting them is quite a crude metric. For instance, a lot of citations in my field (theoretical CS) are "attribution citations" that point the reader to the origina
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> A lot of administration is still done on paper. Government organisations barely communicate, […] For every minor thing, you have to fill in a form. My impression is that Germany requires a lot of paperwork, but this paperwork is often
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> a good interpreter can get a large portion of the gains you'd get from a compiler. But there is a fundamental thing that a pure interpreter cannot avoid: compiling the source every time your application runs. This leads to long lo
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I loved bzr and I still think it should had become the current default vcs. The killer feature of bzr for me is that it is just a nice interface in front of a dozen different VCS data structures. Some of these were worse than the only one s
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> We need a new legal system for arbitrating disputes in technical disciplines overseen by a panel of technical experts. The good thing about non-technical courts is that they force the parties to explain what is at stake in terms that e
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Summary of international crypto controls(cryptolaw.org)
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> In closing, best make sure you're using OS X as a "Standard" User, not "Admin". In my experience, it's quite painless. It reminds me of the old suggestion given to Windows users and derided by OS X users.
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> how good is your last laptop - is it good enough? No, it is not. My last "perfect for the moment" laptop was the latest G3 iBook (late 2002). After that nothing as been "perfect" anymore. I went thought many "g

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