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by joaomsa 9y ago
If you're into history/philosophy, can't recommend enough: - The History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps [1] Manages to truly live up to its name while remaining very approachable to someone not very familiar with philosophy.
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Lastpass RCE vulnerability(twitter.com)
4 points by joaomsa 10y ago|0 comments
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by joaomsa 10y ago
That need has been met by the x32 ABI for some time now, it combines some of the best parts of the x86_64 arch with the lower memory consumption of 32bit (still limited to 4gb max memory though) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by joaomsa 10y ago
I keep a bunch of small scripts for common tasks like deleting or aggregating keys maching certain criteria. I wish redis offered a mechanism to save and call these scripts from the server, akin to the usual database functions and stored pr
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Leonard Cohen Has Died(rollingstone.com)
978 points by joaomsa 10y ago|140 comments
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by joaomsa 10y ago
Can you interpolate table and column names? Those usually aren't amenable to change in prepared statements
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Ubuntu 14.04/16.04 vs. Ubuntu Bash on Windows 10 Anniversary Performance(phoronix.com)
5 points by joaomsa 10y ago|0 comments
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by joaomsa 10y ago
Was in the same corporate boat as you a while back. The FoxyProxy addon [1] is much more flexible, I recommend you switch to that since it enables quick toggling between the IE proxy and your configured ones. [1] https://addons.m
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by joaomsa 10y ago
Looking at https://areweslimyet.com it looks like memory consumption has been on a slight upward trend. Are these tests conducted with e10s or should we expect a massive increase? As one of those pathological users that often ke
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Firefox 48 for Developers(developer.mozilla.org)
1 points by joaomsa 10y ago|0 comments
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by joaomsa 10y ago
Monaco doesn't have alternate keybinding modes like vim or emacs that ace has.
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by joaomsa 10y ago
On the topic of tiling WMs, any promising Wayland compatible ones?
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by joaomsa 11y ago
Does neovim have session persistence for those embedded terminals? Can you share a session with other people as easily for pair programming/debugging? I'm not familiar with neovim's terminal emulator. What happens when I pres
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by joaomsa 11y ago
Given the much smaller carbon footprint and empathetic connection humans have with bugs, I wonder how most vegans/vegetarians feel about incorporating it into their diets. Seems like an amazing source of complete protein and B12 vitami
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by joaomsa 11y ago
I really liked the comment on the linked nymag article. > Alan Turing demonstrated (discovered?) that information processing (computation) is necessarily universal. That is, no matter the physical configuration of the computational mediu
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Telegram gains over 500.000 users from Brazil within the last three hours(twitter.com)
7 points by joaomsa 11y ago|2 comments
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by joaomsa 11y ago
"Why not mitigate that increased salt consumption, and its attendant health hazards, by presenting the soup in a blue container, a color that Spence has shown can make food seem significantly saltier" Maybe Campbell's should
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by joaomsa 11y ago
Reminds of http://knsv.github.io/mermaid/flowchart.html Both could use better node layout engines and support for DOT syntax or might be easier to adapt graphviz with Emscripten.
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by joaomsa 11y ago
The article's point is that generalizations about GMd foods are ignorant and each case needs to be evaluated on it's own merits and dangers. It's very well sourced (though it does occasionally fall prey into cherry picking) t
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by joaomsa 12y ago
I quit smoking roughly 3 months ago, since I missed being able to run and not desire death afterwards. Could already feel big difference with improved sleep after just 1 week of quitting, with sense of taste and smell also noticeably improv
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by joaomsa 12y ago
I'm very interested in the Messenger App platform, integrating rich media into chat is the reason I hacked a client side Messenger chat bot a while ago. https://github.com/joaomsa/botman Much faster to transmit in
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by joaomsa 12y ago
Use the -p (--patch) flag, it works wonderfully for selectively marking blocks for staging (git add -p), and selectively checking out changed files with (git checkout -p).
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by joaomsa 12y ago
My main gripe with tesseract is how convoluted and lacking in documentation the training procedure is, which is critical to getting better results. I'll be sure to check out ocropus.
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All about Angular 2.0(eisenbergeffect.bluespire.com)
1 points by joaomsa 12y ago|0 comments
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Servo is much faster compared to Gecko [pdf](events.linuxfoundation.org)
10 points by joaomsa 12y ago|1 comments
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by joaomsa 12y ago
Exactly the same reason why I stick with Dropbox Even saying that I'm still occasionally let down by how much of a power drain it is. Even wrote a utility to manage it (shameless plug) https://github.com/joaomsa/po
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Show HN: Facebook chat bot, botman(github.com)
1 points by joaomsa 12y ago|0 comments
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by joaomsa 12y ago
Since no aliasing is applied (at least on Firefox), these transforms endup looking terrible and illegible.
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by joaomsa 12y ago
Really dislike software with configuration baked into the code, every key binding and experiment requires recompilation which prevents managing it sanely through a package manager. I get the appeal of "minimal" in this case, but i
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by joaomsa 12y ago
Anybody explain how this works? Looks like it injects the Dropbox executable's lstat and open syscalls

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