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by idupree 13y ago
Some pay-as-you-go services are prepaid and thus don't have that problem (e.g. NearlyFreeSpeech.net, DiamondCard.us, I think Skype). I'm curious about collecting from postpaid customers too, both for pay-as-you-go and fixed per-month model
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by idupree 13y ago
It's not possible to upload files using FTP, if you care about preventing anonymous strangers from stealing your credentials and uploading their own files. (And yet, many people still run FTP servers in public that allow uploads, and others
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Active Soylent discussion forum(discourse.soylent.me)
2 points by idupree 13y ago|0 comments
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by idupree 13y ago
I tried Xdmx a few months ago. It failed pretty badly for me, so I blogged about it ( http://idupree.dreamwidth.org/2151.html ; choice quote: "Xdmx is broken in various different ways for various different people on the Web. Xdmx isn't v
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by idupree 13y ago
A couple years after 2007, it appears mtgox.com was being a fantasy game (possibly inspired by Magic The Gathering but not the same) http://web.archive.org/web/20090812073342/http://www.mtgox.c...
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by idupree 13y ago
Somebody made a CCAN that I found a while ago, though it is nowhere near CPAN yet. Thoughts? http://ccodearchive.net/
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by idupree 13y ago
The intro paragraph of that 2003 FAQ looks eerily like a comparison of smartphones/tablets to laptops might look today!
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by idupree 13y ago
Neither the airliners.net discussion nor the New York Times article seem to think this is a serious problem. example on airliners.net: "The cracks are on the outer glass surface, which is non-structural. The glass is used as a wear surface
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FAA Approves Boeing’s Battery Fix for 787(wired.com)
3 points by idupree 13y ago|2 comments
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by idupree 13y ago
To be clear: high power density, but similar energy density to current batteries.
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by idupree 14y ago
Y'know, That GCC is six years old.[1] Go, Rust, Dart and V8 didn't even exist when it was released. Maybe update that if anything? [1] http://gcc.gnu.org/releases.html
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by idupree 14y ago
https://www.rackspacecloud.com/ ...has a SSL error (for me right now - their certificate expired 2 days ago).
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by idupree 14y ago
I'd love to be able to upgrade my laptop RAM like that. Laptop CPU and motherboard manufacturers are still quite stingy about the maximum RAM they support. This limit is the only reason I had to buy a new laptop last year, and why I will
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by idupree 14y ago
It's largely practical; I like being able to discuss what I've done with people, including specifics. I make exceptions, but the amount of work that goes into writing a compiler is probably worth more than a certificate is to me. A compil
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by idupree 14y ago
(my tinfoil hat mode: I don't even have any important secrets but I believe in knowing how to protect them) Use /dev/urandom, not a website. Make sure you have configured your text editor not to automatically save any backup files, cut buf
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by idupree 14y ago
I was tempted until "We ask you to agree, when you start the course, to not release your toolchains source code anywhere but the cppgm site.". Interesting work I do not-for-pay I release as FOSS on github. They're worried about plagiarism
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by idupree 14y ago
In the heyday of that military funding, the military wanted the plutonium. Now the military mostly wants to get rid of plutonium because it is a liability if it gets into the wrong hands. Thorium reactors are one of the few ways to get ri
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by idupree 14y ago
There's also http://www.simon-listens.org/ . If you speak German there might be some info there that we couldn't read (some is in English, but I think the developers are mostly in Germany).
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by idupree 14y ago
I don't think this is quite the sort of answer you want: My sibling (using Debian Testing) had wrist RSI this summer and we tried to set up Simon Listens (the previous version; 0.4 looks from the release notes like it's improving). We are
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by idupree 14y ago
These are some of the reasons that discourage people I know: * Having to make a decision * Opportunity cost (doing this deal means not getting some other solar arrangement and means not getting next year's better technology) * "To qualify f
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by idupree 14y ago
I started using org-mode for text-based notes/todos recently, even though I wasn't an Emacs user.[1] Org-mode has its own website, and more well-documented features than most programs I use! ( http://orgmode.org/ , manual http://orgmode
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by idupree 14y ago
Counterfactuals are complicated, but I didn't realize how complicated until I wrote all this. The basics have already been invented for other reasons (internal combustion engine, battery, electric motor, etc) so any sort of car should work
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by idupree 14y ago
As a developer, I need to upload things. Is there a technical reason that modern cable-Internet bandwidth is asymmetric? My download rates are acceptable for me, and if the upload rates were the same I'd be happy.
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by idupree 14y ago
CloudFront offers HTTPS (on their domain). For low volume sites, paying for CloudFront is cheaper than paying at least $20/month for CloudFlare's HTTPS (which is also on their domain unless you pay $200/month). Note: For this CDN HTTPS to
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by idupree 14y ago
"Oh yeah, EVs have very little moving parts so they will last 2x or 3x as long as normal cars. Perhaps three or four decades or 500k miles." Do the batteries last that long? (They're about half the price of the car currently.) Last I knew,
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by idupree 14y ago
"It cannot contain profanity, pornography, or otherwise be abusive or offensive." -"2. Rules about Changing Jason’s Last Name", https://buymylastname.com/terms/
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by idupree 14y ago
Linux's disk caching is good enough that I haven't been able to observe a difference when I change bs= on Linux. But it certainly won't hurt.
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by idupree 14y ago
"While $HISTORY is great, it only retails a certain amount of data." Unless you have HISTSIZE=100000000; SAVEHIST=100000000 or some such nonsense ( -hides- ). Using Ctrl-R for history doesn't seem to be slowed down at all by my huge histfi
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by idupree 14y ago
The post measures $/kB, not $/(kB⋅m).
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by idupree 14y ago
You could return a proxy object that offers operator= et al, and an implicit conversion operator to T& or T const& that throws an exception if that key is not in the map. (I don't know if that would be better , since it's even more

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