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by gxti 16y ago
It's the "man" section. According to "man man", 2 is the section for system calls. Often you'll have manpages for the same name under different sections, for example sync(1) is a command while sync(2) a system call (which, unsurprisingly, t
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by gxti 16y ago
Good, because it's an experimental filesystem. Don't write it off completely though, because all of those (except for "cache layer" -- wtf does that even mean?) are planned.
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by gxti 16y ago
Another reason that computerized trading (and speculative trading as well) is theoretically good for the market is that it makes prices more informative. If a trader or computer can successfully predict how a price will move based only on p
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by gxti 16y ago
I know what you mean, I have one of Lian Li's "mini fridge" cases because it has a ludicrous number of HD bays. But I also have an Antec p182, and it's frickin awesome: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811129... (slig
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by gxti 16y ago
Absolutely. My brain must just not be wired right to appreciate Apple's designs because I think MacBooks aren't all that pretty. I liked the look of the iPhone when it first came out because the rest of the cellphone market was hideous, but
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by gxti 16y ago
> so you can appreciate the percentage increase by eye. Not quite what you asked for, but Settings -> Vertical Scale -> Logarithmic -- one pixel is the same percentage change no matter the absolute price.
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by gxti 16y ago
The third clause was removed in 1999, although apparently some software is still using the 4-clause form. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses
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by gxti 16y ago
OK, so who didn't get 100%?
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by gxti 16y ago
> It's not like your brain just deletes entire memories; your brain simply does not work that way. A brain, like any arrangement of atoms, can only hold so many bits of information. The more you cram in there the more degraded older and
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by gxti 16y ago
This is just one datapoint of course, but I tried this last night and actually woke up at sunrise... then ruined it by going back to sleep for another hour. Looking forward to trying this out for the rest of the week.
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by gxti 16y ago
Buy enough RAM to fit the entire dataset in memory and any database will scream.
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by gxti 16y ago
If the Secret Service is relying on the EFF to figure out which printers don't have tracking dots then they might as well just give up and go home.
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by gxti 16y ago
There are certainly huge roadblocks to a market as liquid as gasoline (ahem) but the first step is getting the prices out in the open. "Unlimited" doesn't have a price tag because there's no way of knowing exactly when they'll cut you off,