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by jedbrown 13y ago
Stapler is an alternative to pdftk with much lighter dependencies. https://github.com/hellerbarde/stapler
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by jedbrown 13y ago
""" The majority of passengers who replied to the Safety Board’s questionnaire were carrying at least one piece of carry-on luggage. Only 25 passengers (6 percent) reported having no bags with them in the cabin. Of the 419 pa
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by jedbrown 13y ago
The passengers exiting with wheeled luggage are a much bigger problem.
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by jedbrown 13y ago
One can say the same thing about the likelihood of terrorism impacting any given person, yet that has captured the imagination of the public.
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by jedbrown 13y ago
I attended the Chicago event. There were a couple hundred people, short speeches for maybe half an hour in Daley Plaza, then walking a few blocks to Millennium Park (several chants, of which "NSA has TMI" was the most enthusiastic
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by jedbrown 13y ago
I do some email using my phone when on the go, and although I'd like a better sync experience, it's not a showstopper. OfflineIMAP (buggy as hell, but works) can sync unread and flagged/starred status, which is the most impo
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by jedbrown 13y ago
Almost nobody in my division has clearance. As it turns out, assembling non-classified information from various openly published sources can create something that is classified, so we are expected to get review before starting research on s
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by jedbrown 13y ago
The statement isn't so much that employees can't read the news source, but that government computers/network/etc must only interact with classified information via proper mechanisms. I work at a DOE lab and they request
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by jedbrown 13y ago
I highly recommend Paul McKenney's blog series on this topic: http://paulmck.livejournal.com/tag/transactional%20memory%20...
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by jedbrown 13y ago
"In light of the recent leaks about the NSA's illegal spying, I've decided to go back to using M-x spook output in my email signatures." http://lwn.net/Articles/554941/
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by jedbrown 13y ago
Apple refused to update to any GPL-3 software, including GCC and GDB. Clang/LLVM is great, but it's not a complete replacement given that it's lacking commonly-needed things like OpenMP, thread-local storage, Fortran, and ot
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by jedbrown 13y ago
Does this imply that a personalized canary similar to [1] asserting that no information had been disclosed effectively makes it possible for a company to notify a user promptly (by discontinuing the daily canary)? Or would the court rule th
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by jedbrown 13y ago
The "yottabyte" estimate is absurd, but individual scientific computing centers have about half an exabyte of storage, so the NSA wouldn't have the slightest trouble storing a few exabytes (some GBs per person per year). In c
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by jedbrown 13y ago
But the choice needs to be free, not coerced. Programs like Global Entry, TSA Pre, and CLEAR are examples of (minor) coercion, inconveniencing those who do not sign up.
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by jedbrown 13y ago
purpose-built linux distro That seems to be the intent of Tails [1]; see also [2]. [1] https://tails.boum.org [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5838140
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by jedbrown 13y ago
"designed to be a primary storage resource capable of storing data on the scale of yottabytes" That's more than 1000x the total annual internet traffic. With a budget of a few billion USD, a yottabyte is several orders of magnitude beyon
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by jedbrown 13y ago
Many cross-platform libraries are written in C. Microsoft's terrible support for C causes those projects a significant amount of pain. If the upstream library developers don't have time/interest to restrict their dialect to avoid various C
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by jedbrown 13y ago
I use 'synclient PalmDetect=1 PalmMinWidth=3', otherwise I bump it with my palms. The touchpad works fine, though I still use an external mouse at home and work. I've been pretty happy with the screen. I can see some edge-bleed on early in
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by jedbrown 13y ago
Asus Zenbook UX-32VD, upgraded to 10GB of memory ($30) and swapped the disk for a 256 GB SSD. It had a suspend issue at first (late 2012), but a kernel upgrade fixed it. SSD helps battery life--up to 6 hours at low load. There is some conv
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by jedbrown 13y ago
The black hats exist either way because there is a lucrative market. If there is no incentive for white hats, they just won't play the game. It's not that they'll "turn into black hats", but the effect for Facebook and their users is pretty
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by jedbrown 13y ago
Oh, I thought you meant updating the pull request by force-pushing on their branch. Your solution is racy, thus only acceptable for projects small enough that the likelihood of someone pulling during that window is sufficiently low.
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by jedbrown 13y ago
Only works when you have push access to the repository that is the source of the PR. Normally maintainers don't have access to the repositories for all contributors.
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by jedbrown 13y ago
It's easy for the original author to make changes to the PR, but not easy for the maintainer or a third party to make changes. The micro-pedantry associated with spelling errors, tweaking commit messages, and trivial spacing/formatting is
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by jedbrown 13y ago
If you edit commits in the branch, then yes, it appears as declined in the UI, which looks hostile when they are notified. I write a friendly message every time I do this, but it sucks to have to give that explanation and the UI metadata is
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by jedbrown 13y ago
$ git fetch url-or-remote their-branch-name:my/better-branch-name $ git checkout my/better-branch-name $ hack, commit, etc
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by jedbrown 13y ago
The hosting sites need to start providing a way for a maintainer to update or supersede a PR, as well as a way to track prior versions of commits in a PR after the PR has been updated post-review.
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by jedbrown 13y ago
I think email is a better forum if everyone involved is disciplined about factoring commits well, writing good messages, using an email client that formats properly, and is fluent with the tools. PRs are more intuitive, more tolerant of
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by jedbrown 13y ago
You can delete commits from Hg using 'strip' (enabled via the 'mq' extension). But this is strict deletion (as opposed to marking it for gc after a grace period) and you can't push an "unreference this commit", so you need admin access on t
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by jedbrown 13y ago
Your citation is comparing the "dumb http" protocol, which was replaced several years ago with the smart http protocol in git-1.7. Dumb http was only ever provided as a method of last resort. The git:// and ssh protocols have always been fa
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by jedbrown 13y ago
This line is comparing integers, not strings. Qid is a structure containing path and vers fields: path is guaranteed to be unique among all path names cur- rently on the file server, and vers changes each tim

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