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by jks 9y ago
It could just check if the POSIX_ME_HARDER environment variable is defined. http://wiki.wlug.org.nz/POSIX_ME_HARDER
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by jks 9y ago
You may not get the full wattage through a dongle. For example, the Satechi adapter with pass-through charging (recommended by The Wirecutter at https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-usb-c-adapters-cables... ) is limit
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by jks 10y ago
Here's a thoughtful critique of asyncio, posted some time ago on Hacker News: http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2016/10/30/i-dont-understand-asyncio... Yes, attrs seems like a good solution for plain-old-data clas
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by jks 10y ago
Arrow and function keys are mapped to escape sequences, so if you use vi over a slow or unreliable connection your arrow keys could randomly get interpreted as escape followed by some commands.
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by jks 10y ago
There is (was) a decent search feature: https://web.archive.org/web/20160405154751/http://search.gma...
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by jks 10y ago
In https://web.archive.org/web/20160708085949/http://gmane.org/... (in the section titled "A Statement") Lars wrote he wouldn't "use any of the contents of the Gmane news spool f
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LLVM apt repository switched off due to excessive traffic(thread.gmane.org)
1 points by jks 10y ago|0 comments
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by jks 10y ago
If you know that the strings are stored in the same table, couldn't you subtract from each pointer a pointer to the beginning of the table and hash the resulting offsets?
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by jks 10y ago
This will be the default in Matplotlib 2.0, and a beta was just tagged: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.matplotlib.announ...
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by jks 11y ago
It cannot be implemented everywhere. Sweden now needs to import trash to power its district heating, see e.g. http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/3/27/sweden-wants...
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Helsinki police fine Uber drivers(yle.fi)
2 points by jks 11y ago|0 comments
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by jks 11y ago
Here's how that might happen: http://mailinator.blogspot.com/2011/05/how-to-get-gmailcom-b...
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by jks 11y ago
Yes: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-smart-stats/
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by jks 12y ago
Not a native speaker either, but "will" vs "shall" is awfully complicated, at least if you try to speak Southern English: http://www.bartleby.com/116/213.html For practical international usage, I wa
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by jks 12y ago
According to http://stackoverflow.com/a/1573715 the IEEE-754 committee decided to make NaN != NaN in order for programmers to have a simple way of detecting NaN before there was a standardized isnan function or macro.
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by jks 12y ago
Show me a video of that half-hour conference presentation, and it takes me half an hour. Give me a well-written report with the same ideas, and I'm done in ten minutes, and understand the ideas at least as well as if I had watched the
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by jks 12y ago
Yes. This is sometimes called The Strong Law of Small Numbers, see e.g. http://mathworld.wolfram.com/StrongLawofSmallNumbers.html and https://www.maa.org/sites/default/files/pdf/upload_li
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by jks 13y ago
Somewhat roguelike, but since it was played on a teletype, you have a separate "look around" command that prints out a section of the map (line 06390). The undocumented command 10 (line 10730) prints the whole map, and another und
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by jks 13y ago
Well, yeah, it's the Helsinki Regional Transport Authority getting around another branch of government (it's the ELY-keskus that gives out taxi permits, part of the state instead of the city). I agree that there is no way this can
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by jks 13y ago
I live in Helsinki and have tried this service a couple of times. Every time I have had the whole van for myself, except once there was a journalist doing a story on the fancy new service. It's not really fair to compare the price to a
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Clojure style: accessing maps and records(techblog.zenrobotics.com)
1 points by jks 13y ago|0 comments
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Need An Artificially Intelligent Robotic System For Sorting Trash?(techcrunch.com)
2 points by jks 13y ago|0 comments
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by jks 15y ago
There's http://www.peerageofscience.org/ which is trying to fix the problem of peer-review quality and speed: instead of submitting to a sequence of journals and waiting for reviews from each one before you can submit to the next one, you
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by jks 15y ago
One thing that many commentators seem to ignore is what exactly the PISA tests measure. For example, the PISA math problems ( http://www.pisa.oecd.org/dataoecd/38/51/33707192.pdf ) are very specifically meant to assess how well students can
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by jks 15y ago
I have a static IP, and I'm pretty sure that no-one at my home has downloaded the tv episode this service mentions. It's of course not entirely impossible that someone has hacked my wifi router, but I think that is less probable than it is
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by jks 15y ago
Part of Langner's point is that if you can insert code into the PLC, which Stuxnet shows you how to do, you don't need any insider information to create a damaging payload. Just stop the PLC from running after a given date, or for thirty se
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by jks 15y ago
They're also telling me to "[w]atch a live Google+ hangout with will.i.am". Does this mean they are loosening up their real name policy?