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by jedbrown 15y ago
The reason that a TV seemed attractive is that I could get a 46" TV for about the same price as a 27" monitor, thus letting me work from a step further from the display with similar perceived pixel/display size.
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by jedbrown 15y ago
One issue is that even if the password database is more secure than root access on the server, having the database at all means that it's possible to steal the entire thing in a small amount of time and in a way that may be difficult to d
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by jedbrown 15y ago
I want to put a display on the wall and stand five feet away with a keyboard and mouse while working (mostly Emacs, web browser, and reading pdfs). What should I check to determine whether a TV would work well in this configuration (without
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by jedbrown 15y ago
How do people try to justify storing passwords in recoverable form? So that they can remind users of the old password. How do they actually send the reminder? By email. But email is not secure, you should always assume that someone is eaves
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by jedbrown 15y ago
How about a discount for buying it in a way that costs the vendor less?
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by jedbrown 15y ago
It would have been nice if the submission title noted that this is from 2003.
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by jedbrown 15y ago
1. It doesn't seem to remember whether I have seen something before. I have over a hundred items per day in my feeds and I read them erratically, so I don't want to have to remember myself. 2. It would be nice to have a more integrated shar
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by jedbrown 15y ago
The matrix example is a particularly flattering one for C++, since a good matrix library in C++ will provide syntax that is quite close to the notation that one would use on paper for matrices. And it either (a) creates and destroys many
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by jedbrown 15y ago
Bjarne knows damn well that you can have a Matrix interface in C instead of "an array and a whole bunch of arrays". This is not a new concept. I would have hoped he was above spreading such disinformation.
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by jedbrown 15y ago
Go Daddy is totally insignificant in the scheme of things. The list of SOPO supporters is very deep and monopolizes many industries. Can you work out an effective boycott of all major record and movie producers, all major television network
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by jedbrown 15y ago
I flew with a 3-inch knife three times in the US and Europe last year without being noticed (accidentally packed when I was leaving home, wasn't checking a bag, so took my chances). A friend flew with a large aerosol can and a full box of l
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by jedbrown 15y ago
It's intended to be used with lists with different payloads, all "inheriting" fields from a standard list structure (usually another macro expansion).
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by jedbrown 15y ago
> almost all prevailing contemporary environments use virtual memory IBM's Compute Node Kernel (Blue Gene) uses offset-mapped memory (no TLB). This is great for reproducible performance (much less than 1% variability on thousands of cor
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by jedbrown 15y ago
I typically have Chromium, a urxvt running tmux with 5-15 "windows" (a couple of which go to remote machines), two workspaces of Emacs, and half a dozen open pdfs of journal articles that I may be looking back at. When debugging parallel jo
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by jedbrown 15y ago
With bash-4 or zsh wc -l **/*.java
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by jedbrown 15y ago
That has different semantics (it prints one line per file) and can have line length limitations. This has the same semantics as the parent's version, but without line length issues. find . -name \*.java -exec cat {} + | wc -l
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by jedbrown 15y ago
In 2002, my MasterCard check card was stolen and my bank account was cleaned out by the time I got down from my climb and discovered the theft. It took three weeks (including closing my original bank account and reopening with a different a
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by jedbrown 15y ago
It's easy to steal a card, but the card companies do pretty good fraud analysis and in any case, the card owner is never responsible for the fraudulent charges. Of course the cost of the fraud monitoring and insurance system are passed on t
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by jedbrown 15y ago
"Check cards", or whatever name is used for bank cards that you can use as a credit card (instead of only with a PIN) are unequivocally a worse deal for consumers. You don't get any of the benefits (cash back/miles, insurance, etc) and in t
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by jedbrown 15y ago
Oh, thanks.
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by jedbrown 15y ago
I want a share-to-G+ that does not involve a public +1. And I want G+ to manage "unread" status so that I don't see the same things over and over. And keybindings in G+. The social features of Reader were not great, but we had an active gro
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by jedbrown 15y ago
I have about 30 followers on Reader and I follow a similar number of people. We subscribe to feeds from a bunch of scientific journals and different sections of the arXiv. When we see a paper of interest (or a comically bad paper), we share
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by jedbrown 15y ago
http://notmuchmail.org/ is a good alternative to Sup, but neither of these are webmail.
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by jedbrown 15y ago
That is true on 64-bit Linux too, but on Windows64 sizeof(long)==4. See LP64 versus LLP64.
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by jedbrown 15y ago
The standard requires that "int" be able to represent from -32767 to +32767. Unless "byte" is redefined to contain a different number of bits, this means that sizeof(int) >= 2. Similarly, long has a range that requires at least 32 bits.
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by jedbrown 15y ago
Add to this: I can put it under version control, back it up meaningfully, and find out what a GUI control actually changed and revert it cleanly.
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by jedbrown 15y ago
Yes, unfortunately, it is almost more important to reject the bad papers. The good papers will be published regardless of the reviewer. It takes more work when I get a bad paper, especially when it comes from someone famous, because I have
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by jedbrown 15y ago
The EGU journals work this way. Official reviewers are assigned, but third parties can comment. An example submission http://www.the-cryosphere-discuss.net/5/1749/2011/tcd-5-1749...
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by jedbrown 15y ago
A lot of conventional journals have an open access option available to the author for a fee (usually for about $3000). What about offering a no-cost upgrade after reviewing some number of papers for the journal?
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by jedbrown 15y ago
Reviewers don't get to see the code and most don't have the time or inclination to reimplement based on what is described in the paper to check whether it tells the whole story or not. Yes, this is different from a theorem which should come

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