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by gxti 16y ago
> and switch sshd to a different port Big ups for this -- since moving SSH to port 8022 I get zero bruteforce attacks. Even blacklisting tools like fail2ban can't get that kind of result. Of course it can't be the only defense, but I've
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by gxti 16y ago
From what I remember of my OpenID provider search a few months ago, not all providers have chosen to support delegation. Google doesn't support it, but myOpenID does (I went with the latter, then never used it again). But it's not a "screw
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by gxti 16y ago
So what's the downside? You almost never get optimizations like this for free. The post hints that this is also good for server workloads, but what suffers? Realtime would, but realtime usually involves a different scheduler anyway.
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by gxti 16y ago
If you like his writing, see also "Three Worlds Collide": http://lesswrong.com/lw/y4/three_worlds_collide_08/
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by gxti 16y ago
There are also drag cues: drag to the top to maximize, to the left or right to maximize 100% vertically and 50% horizontally on the current screen, or when resizing a window drag to an edge to maximize in that dimension.
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by gxti 16y ago
Put differently, a 30mpg, 4500lb car gets 713e6 feet-pounds/gallon (30m/g * 5280f/m * 4500lb). A loaded crawler gets 756e6 feet-pounds/gallon (42fpg * 18e6 lb). Not so different after all! And the car looks much less attractive if you look
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by gxti 16y ago
The meta-analysis here in the comments is interesting. Considering grellas' comment is currently at the top, it seems many would agree with me.
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by gxti 16y ago
> It's also a little game theory There's certainly interesting game theory at work here, the problem is presenting Arrington's "play" as factual news. I would consider grellas' meta-analytical comment here to be HN material, while the T
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by gxti 16y ago
Anyone have a greasemonkey script to hide karma? I started writing one but got stuck on something simple. I'd like to no longer see the score at the top, because the instant HN loads my eyes gravitate towards that spot, looking for reassura
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by gxti 16y ago
It's interesting to see how people react to walls of text with significantly less critical thinking than they do to shorter posts. I will admit that I was briefly under his spell as well, mostly because reading it all is quite fatiguing. It
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by gxti 16y ago
You can buy a Dell R715 today with default configuration and 256GiB RAM for the low, low price of $26,231.
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by gxti 16y ago
There's actually no externally-visible long type at all in Python 3, it's all done transparently now. That said, I'm not using Python 3. The promoting behavior you speak of is how Python 2 works.
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by gxti 16y ago
Do you mean zoom, or changing font size? Because zoom scales everything , images included. Scaling affects only text, and ideally, things that are sized relative to the text (but not pixels).
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by gxti 16y ago
I agree that it's a sensible behavior -- I've always wondered why the 'px' unit even exists if it scales just like everything else. That said, what does the CSS standard say?
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by gxti 16y ago
I do wish there were a syntax for Decimal literals, e.g. 0.1D (analogous to 100L as long, etc.). Maybe I'll make it my weekend project even if I don't really expect it to be accepted into CPython proper.
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by gxti 16y ago
Apparently the business closes for 4 days on Christmas which counts against their vacation time. That might not be legal.
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by gxti 16y ago
On the other hand, as of this writing this complaint post has 131 points. That seems to suggest that more people are against the offer posts than for them. Curiously, the only post on the frontpage now with more posts is "Things Paul Graham
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by gxti 16y ago
No, the core of a stock exchange resides entirely in RAM. Everything is reset once a day (overnight for stocks, immediately after regular hours for futures), and brokerages are responsible for resubmitting long-lived "good 'til cancelled" o
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by gxti 16y ago
It's a very interesting situation because while it's clearly a "typical evil corporation" move, it's one that's objectively justifiable given the evidence. Because I am anti-putting-sugar-in-everything (HFCS or otherwise), I hope that this
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by gxti 16y ago
It irritates me to see the same rehashed blog posts submitted every week, decrying the reign of male terror while offering no new insight whatsoever. I crave insight. I want to see fresh theories on how entrenched social norms can be turn
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by gxti 16y ago
Forget the clever domain tricks, even just naming your company "craply" in the first place makes me get a little stabby. -ly, -ify, and any other clever lingual arrangements are going to be out of fashion in short order and you'll be the oh
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by gxti 16y ago
You're technically correct -- the best kind of correct. The first thing I thought about the headline as I clicked it was "that's a rather irresponsible thing to say" because it's generally impossible to prove that a given thing is impossibl
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by gxti 16y ago
It's the sites that shouldn't depend on JS that irritate me. Sites that load completely static content, dynamically. Newspapers where you get a blank layout instead of an article. They're more common than you think. I don't mind temporari
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by gxti 16y ago
Or perhaps they are less devoted than you to the church of HN. I'm flagging it, but not because I've seen it before (I have) but because of the hyperbolic title and writeup.
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by gxti 16y ago
Even though I currently live in a U.S. apartment where the main rooms have no light fixtures (though they do have switched outlets), past experience hasn't shown a trend of not having light fixtures. Additionally, newer construction seems
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by gxti 16y ago
I see one (shylion #4052, top row) that could work with a little lovin' but yeah, none of those compare in the slightest. Most of them look like people trolling for prize money -- I'm not familiar with the site but any place there is a prom
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by gxti 16y ago
This isn't the appropriate forum for such childishness. If you would like to compare and contrast historical police states, then by all means do so, but don't just put out the same trite "everything is ruined forever" bullshit.
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by gxti 16y ago
I'm not saying it didn't happen, just that it's not something that a "rational" algorithm would do, because the one that's taking liquidity is losing money. Unless they're profiting for reasons other than rebates, that is, which is another
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by gxti 16y ago
The last two points are pretty weak. A CNAME results in an extra round trip to the DNS server, even if it does reduce the packet size. What the author did not explain is that some DNS servers can preemptively send the reply to the CNAME tar
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by gxti 16y ago
And even if there were rebates (as there are on stocks) you can't make a profit just passing them back and forth because taking liquidity costs more than is rebated to the offerer. If liquidity hot potato were profitable then that would be

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