joshuata

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by joshuata 8y ago
Keep reading. The piece is satire.
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by joshuata 8y ago
A killer starting place for me would be FreeBSD builds to support FreeNAS.
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by joshuata 8y ago
I am glad that it is useful for you. It bugs me though that Twitter is trying to force everyone to use their service the same way. I want to use Twitter more like an RSS reader to catch interesting news stories and blog posts. The fact that
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by joshuata 8y ago
The one that kills me is "In case you missed it". I read my twitter chronologically, and removing tweets from that order in order to show them closer to the top (and therefore later) is the exact opposite of what I want.
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by joshuata 9y ago
(Diehard vim keybinding user, but editor/IDE nomad) For an expert, I'm not sure that there is anything that st3 has that cannot be achieved by the other two with a combination of plugins and customization. The biggest difference I
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by joshuata 9y ago
My biggest complaint is that albums I have added will occasionally be split, with one or two songs becoming the versions from a “best of” album, leaving two separate albums in my library. This randomly happens to 2-3 albums a month, and my
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by joshuata 9y ago
I wish this were true, but the amount of fake news spread by trusted news networks, such as newspapers spreading Russian propaganda bots, implies that education isn't sufficient. If a professional cannot discriminate between truth and
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by joshuata 9y ago
I’ve been using the wirecutter’s recommended mask for a while and it has been great. It has that same cupped shape that you describe.
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by joshuata 9y ago
I use a combination of blackout shades, Philips hue lights, and the Sleep cycle app on my phone. It starts the lights very dim and red at the beginning of a 20 minute wake up window, slowly brightens them, and then rings the alarm whenever
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by joshuata 9y ago
From what I understand, the only people that are charged access to the service are large organizations that want callbacks when new data that matches their users is entered. This seems like a very reasonable balance between making money to
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by joshuata 9y ago
He has written about that very problem here: https://www.troyhunt.com/the-ethics-of-running-a-data-breach...
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by joshuata 9y ago
I believe it is an appeal to nature rather than a naturalistic fallacy.
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by joshuata 9y ago
I have kept that setting for the last 3 years, but with iOS 11 it has been causing frame drops and glitchy-ness with the new iPad control center and multitasking setup.
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by joshuata 9y ago
I regularly have issues with gboard where it won't accept the first 5-10 keypresses when I open it. It's especially bad within Google's own apps.
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by joshuata 9y ago
Also, you have to design for performance. There are plenty of ways to architect code that lock you out from future optimizations. I agree that small optimizations such as different referencing techniques should be measured, but you should b
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by joshuata 9y ago
rr wouldn't help in this case. From the docs, it "emulates a single-core machine. So, parallel programs incur the slowdown of running on a single core." The skylake bug only occurred under heavily threaded loads.
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by joshuata 9y ago
I had an old 86 Honda CRX (two seater), and figured out how to fit my bass, amp, and two cellos. I'm pretty sure I couldn't do it again. The main trick, though, is to recline the passengers seat and sit the bass in it.
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by joshuata 9y ago
Yes, competitive SAT solvers are very complicated. However, they are not outside of most developers' abilities. During a verification course at my University we had to build a simple SAT solver. Most students were able to complete the
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by joshuata 9y ago
It is important that Plex comes in two parts: the server and the player. I would absolutely recommend Plex Media Server as a backend. It is very powerful and has great support by the community (see PlexPy). It makes it very easy to store al
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by joshuata 9y ago
Would it be possible to upload an extension for Opera? I believe the platform is essentially identical.
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by joshuata 9y ago
An interesting solution to this problem is verification witnesses[1]. A witness is a machine readable record of a verification task. Several different programs can read the witness and verify it independently. It is especially useful for co
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by joshuata 9y ago
My mistake. I was trying to point out that the OBD2 protocol is not inherently unsafe. I would love to see a new standard emerge for securely interacting with the various systems and processors in a car, but I'm not very hopeful given
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by joshuata 9y ago
OBD2 is incapable of doing any of those things. It is a diagnostic interface to read out information about important systems. There is a standard set of data streams, and vendors add customizations on top. So any OBD2 scanner should work on
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by joshuata 9y ago
A note about nix: I've found the language to be very obtuse and the documentation out of date and fragmented. However the worst sin has been the attitude of several community members: insulting new developers, ignoring valid questions,
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by joshuata 9y ago
Possibly, but types can encode far more than just the structure of data. Rust, for example, uses types to encode lifetime and ownership information. Haskell uses the IO monad to encapsulate non-determinism. Neither of those have equivalent
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by joshuata 9y ago
It might be able to, but there are no guarantees. That is the real benefit of strong and expressive type systems: It can prove properties of the program at compile time. An equivalent program could be written in c, brainf*ck, or even a Turi
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by joshuata 9y ago
Ripgrep only uses mmap() when it is searching very few files. For anything beyond that it uses intermediate buffers.
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by joshuata 9y ago
Absolutely use it for side projects! I have used it for a lot of small throw-away sites and loved every minute. It's up to you whether you trust it for large products, but so far it has been fairly magical for me.
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by joshuata 9y ago
Absolutely! I've tried so many other tools, but LaTexTools + Skim is so simple. It makes writing LaTex almost comfortable. (I love LaTex, but it is still one of the most frustrating pieces of software ever conceived.)
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by joshuata 10y ago
My worry is something like Verizon's "super-cookies"[1]. You can block requests to known tracking websites relatively effectively, but if tracking can be added outside your network there is no possible way to fight it. [1]:

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