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by joosters 7y ago
It's another crime committed by a scummy (is there any other kind?) blockchain company, naturally.
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by joosters 7y ago
Yeah, I agree, it makes sense to target the legibility at small sizes, given the expected use as a coding font - rather than a 500pt poster printout on a classroom wall! I wonder, is there any tool that measures the similarity of letters &#
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by joosters 7y ago
> Citation needed. I don't believe I've ever heard of someone being charged with perjury for signing an IRS document that wasn't true You could look for some perjury charges if you disbelieve.
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by joosters 7y ago
Oddly, this monospace version has a different style 'a', instead of the 'hand-written' original, which is unfortunate. I understood that one of the benefits of the original comic sans was that each letter was designed ex
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by joosters 7y ago
It also seems exceptionally risky to grab a price off some random website and then trade blindly on another. Shouldn't you be getting the prices from the market you are actually trading in?
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A History of Visa(minesafetydisclosures.com)
324 points by joosters 7y ago|88 comments
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by joosters 7y ago
Surely your phone is still repeatedly in touch with Google servers because you've got all that Google software on there. Just because you haven't signed in with a google account doesn't mean Google don't know who you are
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by joosters 7y ago
Same experience here, Primark clothes are always dirt cheap but the quality varies wildly. As I can't tell the difference, I have T-shirts from there that have practically self-destructed after one wash, and others that have kept good
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by joosters 7y ago
Bad idea. If you did that you could end up paying back the money twice, once for your own payment and another for paypal's own refund.
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by joosters 7y ago
It's also possible that they might be including perl's startup time in that measurement? Their comments about 'parallelising' 'by using ampersand' make me concerned about the methodology involved.
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by joosters 7y ago
There's no need to call Protonmail idiots in order to put across your views on the subject, keep it civil. Plus, it makes your argument look weak if you have to resort to name-calling.
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by joosters 7y ago
n.b. turning over-commit off comes with its own set of problems, such as causing programs to fail long before all memory has really been exhausted. For example, fork() will have to ensure that there is enough memory for a complete copy of t
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by joosters 7y ago
Plus, you can do all the graceful malloc() failure handling that you want, but if the kernel hasn't got overcommit disabled, then your program can still exit uncleanly when you later on try to use some malloc()d memory that was overcom
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by joosters 7y ago
Another scenario, leave it in an isolated hut. If I get a signal, someone is close to the hut. You could do that already with a device, just by making an app that listens for Bluetooth or WiFi traffic. You’d also be able to grab MAC addre
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by joosters 7y ago
Why don’t they just default to not writing core dumps, and forcing the sysadmin to explicitly enable them when debugging an app? This setup seems like the worst of both worlds. Core dumps get written but now probably lack the information cr
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by joosters 7y ago
Did you mean https://defundcrypto.org/ ?
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by joosters 7y ago
For a start, they aren't trying to live in those large swathes of water, they're trying to reach somewhere else to live. Turning up at a border waving a US flag but having no valid US passport won't get you in...
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by joosters 7y ago
I don't think the epoll/kqueue version ever got an official release :( The syscall reduction was pretty extreme, even down to keeping a shared-memory copy of time() to share across processes. IIRC that was only a benefit for HP-UX
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by joosters 7y ago
Keep-alive is a win in most situations, but especially so in any kind of benchmarking, since it's very easy to hit bottlenecks in opening/accepting new connections, e.g. running out of ports. If you are opening and closing thous
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Secret Spectacles(bbc.co.uk)
52 points by joosters 7y ago|3 comments
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by joosters 7y ago
Mine finally is :) I got a shock when I first saw that link on HN, it motivated me to finally purge my email archives on gmail. The purchases didn't disappear immediately, but they do seem to have finally gone now.
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by joosters 7y ago
I have that turned on and I still didn't get my bookmarks. Hopefully my empty bookmarks folder in Safari Preview didn't get synced across all my devices before I fixed it...
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by joosters 7y ago
I found a way of importing bookmarks: Run 'normal' Safari and preview Safari at the same time, 'view bookmarks' in both, and then dragging the favorites top level across from old to new app worked!
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by joosters 7y ago
I have no problem about people selling books. Put free snippets of the book (or the whole thing) online, or don't. Either is fine. But putting the text online and making it hard to read is just stupid.
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by joosters 7y ago
An obvious improvement would be to show the actual text of the book on the web pages, instead of showing gobbledygook and then (eventually) triggering a pointless animation that converts the mess into the real words. It's user-hostile,
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by joosters 7y ago
They don't make it easy to switch to the preview. None of my Safari settings seem to have been imported, all my bookmarks are gone and the 'import bookmarks from Firefox' doesn't work either :(
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by joosters 7y ago
How does this manage to connect the real world to a blockchain? The fundamental problem with the promises of insurance/bonds/stocks/whatever on a blockchain is that it doesn't matter what the blockchain says, people&#x27
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by joosters 7y ago
I have horrible memories of time spent tracking down other test failures caused by helper programs not shutting down cleanly, and causing obscure bugs in later tests. e.g. a test failing because it couldn’t bind to port 443, because an earl
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by joosters 7y ago
Nope, this was on a variety of unix systems, but no Windows code at that point. We used some RSA libraries for crypto primitives and hardware acceleration, with a lot of custom in-house code (BigInts and other math routines). There was no O
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by joosters 7y ago
There are so many other possible factors: timings, interactions with other processes, memory allocations, network conditions, etc. A random seed is just one of several non-deterministic factors that could have been the cause.

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