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by jarfil 7y ago
If the content is ephemeral then it doesn't make sense to keep it on disk, and as long as Chrome doesn't lock the memory range, the OS will swap it to disk anyway if it needs the RAM for something else.
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by jarfil 7y ago
The biggest problem with parallel is not the implementation but the command line options specification. The shell has no generic way of defining multiple streams feeding multiple placeholders, so parallel ends up using its own syntax which
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by jarfil 7y ago
Nowadays Python is a good start, but you can't really go wrong with any of the most popular ones like Javascript, Java, C/C++ or C#.
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by jarfil 7y ago
Assuming that at some point people pass out (equivalent IQ=0), there will always be a moment when the effective IQ of any two people will match, no matter the initial IQ.
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by jarfil 7y ago
Anyone can learn to communicate in a simpler way, otherwise nobody would be able to train a dog. However doing so in most communications is not only tiring, but also has some pernicious psychological effects.
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by jarfil 7y ago
qmail
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by jarfil 7y ago
People need guns so the police gets trained to use deadly force anytime they feel "threatened".
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by jarfil 7y ago
Bitcoin has a Lightning Network which can work independently and only uses the main blockchain to settle disputes, so it could keep operating for as long as there was non-disputed capacity left in the isolated segment. Adding capacity would
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by jarfil 7y ago
With enough IoT, you may not be able to get electricity without the internet either.
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by jarfil 7y ago
Except that's false. Only RBI certified institutions are forbidden from trading in crypto, everyone else is free to do as they please.
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by jarfil 7y ago
Zero and several, respectively. It's still interesting to note that the Wikimedia Foundation is getting more cash in donations than it requires to operate. If it wasn't a non-profit, it would actually turn out a profit.
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by jarfil 7y ago
More likely it discourages others from contributing significantly. The PRs requiring copyright assignment end up being minor fixes, and anyone willing to develop a bigger functionality will just start their own project.
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by jarfil 7y ago
Altruistic FOSS works best when there are many more users than issues, ideally technical users capable of fixing them, so a fraction of the users can donate just a small amount of their time and get the project going. Alternatively, when so
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by jarfil 7y ago
That's why there are "non-free" repos. Not much of a problem, really.
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by jarfil 7y ago
Multiple pitches don't get averaged, it would sound like just a set of Cs. Could still be an interesting experiment, though.
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by jarfil 7y ago
> the national recidivism (repeat offender) rate is over 75%, the rate in Judge Cicconetti's court is just 10% Who knew that generic jail/prison punishments don't rehabilitate.
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by jarfil 7y ago
The problem lies in what question does it answer: * Does it exist (true) or not (false)? * Does it have a defined value (true) or not (false)? * Is it non-zero (true) or not non-zero (false)? * Does it have non-zero length (true) or not non
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by jarfil 7y ago
More like guns either kill people or look pretty on a wall; encryption not only can't kill people, it also prevents people from stealing. Even a nutjob armed with the latest encryption, still needs a gun to kill people.
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by jarfil 7y ago
Possibly the most useful part might be the patch to upstream pyfuse3 proposed by the author, and as a reference implementation for something similar that might be useful on itself.
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by jarfil 7y ago
The programmer's way would be to remember that 1.6 = (2^4)/10
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by jarfil 7y ago
> real life utilities Online services are not utilities, it's not like an ISP without competition in their area was to refuse them service. There are plenty of alternatives to CloudFlare, they're just usually not as cheap or ea
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by jarfil 7y ago
They have a kind of impossible task: to create an encryption standard that will resist attacks carried by supercomputers but will work on as cheap a piece of hardware as possible... and let's make it backwards compatible too. At some p
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by jarfil 7y ago
At some point there used to be electric typewriters with a 1 or 2 line buffer that they'd show on a black and white LCD. I don't know whether they had a spellchecker, but it wouldn't be hard to add one.
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by jarfil 7y ago
Or whether they have chairs capable of accomodating a 500lb employee.
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by jarfil 7y ago
I don't think the enclosure is strictly necessary for this to work. How much light from the object passes through the display, will depend on the switchable diffuser's transparency. The lower its transparency during the diffusing
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by jarfil 7y ago
1. Create a random web page with some random words. 2. Add a ToS notice stating that anyone downloading it now owes you $1000. 3. List every client IP in the logs and sue everyone even if you don't know who they belong to. 4. Profit?
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by jarfil 7y ago
The problem lies in people using background-image as the background of fluid design elements where it acts as an illustration with semantic content. Otherwise, it's OK to use as a decorative background. In the case of buttons, it might
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by jarfil 7y ago
How often do we play this same game, though? If a 1Km size asteroid seems to hit the Earth about once every 500,000 years, it would seem like they would pass this close to the Earth only once every 32,000 years or so. So either the 500Ky fi
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by jarfil 7y ago
Git provides forking/commit/etc. federation, and GitLab can automate some of that, but it doesn't have issue federation support.
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by jarfil 7y ago
Yes you can. Git doesn't require GitHub to work. Anything from setting up your own git servers, to committing to repos on shared drives, to sending patches through email, you can do without GitHub. This is not even about relying on a s

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