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by k_sze 8y ago
You can clone the repo, audit the code, then host it yourself if you want to: https://github.com/electronicwhisper/recursive-drawing/tree/...
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by k_sze 8y ago
You'd be amazed at the percentage of people who fail this test. I can't say I have interviewed many people, but even seeing one or two people fail this test for a technical role is mind-boggling.
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by k_sze 8y ago
You only need take a look at what's happening to human-rights lawyers and the victims of the melamine-contaminated infant formula scandal in China.
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by k_sze 8y ago
For me, a major pain point about IRC is that I, as a user, need to use a bouncer in order to not miss messages. And even then, you still risk missing some messages if the bouncer needs to disconnect from the IRC server (e.g. due to update
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by k_sze 8y ago
I don’t miss Facebook. I just weaned myself off Facebook about a week or two ago. I realised that I needed to get off Facebook because it made me feel depressed. When I was on Facebook, I would look at the feed and become poignantly aware o
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by k_sze 8y ago
What do “strong” and “neutral” mean in this context?
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by k_sze 8y ago
Maybe legal executives who have studied enough law but not entered the Bar (on purpose?).
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by k_sze 8y ago
The release was after Windows 95, but I thought they had those modern OS features already working long before that?
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by k_sze 8y ago
BeOS, a modern operating system that supported SMP, preemptive multitasking, and a journaling file system waaaaay before Windows 95 was even released.
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by k_sze 8y ago
Are we talking about “Google” Google or “Alphabet” Google?
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by k_sze 8y ago
I wonder if it can be simulated in Universe Sandbox (2).
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by k_sze 8y ago
They should ask Her Majesty the Queen to remove the cross on her crown first.
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by k_sze 8y ago
From practical and philosophical points of view, if the container and its cargo are stuck at the bottom of the sea forever, is it really a problem? Of course, I'm aware that random man-made things polluting the oceans is a bad thing
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by k_sze 8y ago
Well, software folklore seems to say that COBOL graybeards get paid A LOT.
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by k_sze 8y ago
It’s called “infectious dose”, and it’s largely about probabilities. See this question that I asked a while ago (and associated answers) on Biology SE: https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/5442/are-all-kno..
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by k_sze 8y ago
Agreed. Anybody who has read Neil Postman and Aldus Huxley will probably agree, too. In fact, I suspect that even Hacker News and this very story itself (now I'm getting meta) are mostly the same: interesting, but often doesn't ha
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by k_sze 8y ago
Oh, so you mean that on 32-bit Windows, processes (can) have an address space that is smaller than the sum of physical RAM + page file? I didn't know that. It makes sense then.
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by k_sze 8y ago
In Chinese we have a saying: 「只許州官放火，不許百姓點燈。」 "Only state officials are allowed to commit arson; the populace is not allowed to light a lamp ." "lamp" as in "oil lamp" or "candle" in general.
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by k_sze 8y ago
I see. That starts to make sense if you explain it that way. Users who don't think about the multiprocessing model will just see fewer dead tabs when a FF process crashes, and that could feel like "fewer crashes".
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by k_sze 8y ago
I don't quite understand how that can be possible. At the end of the day, you're still aiming to load, in FF 66, just as many tabs as in FF pre-66. FF's total memory usage should be about the same whether you're using 4
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by k_sze 8y ago
That would mean smaller impact per crash, not fewer crashes though.
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by k_sze 8y ago
Thanks! While that post addresses the reason why we can double the number of processes, I think I'm still missing the reason why we should double the number of processes (aside from performance reasons). I mean, the release notes m
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by k_sze 8y ago
I won't be surprised if at some point we'll have Force Touch Bar.
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by k_sze 8y ago
This bit is also somewhat surprising/interesting: > Improved performance and reduced crash rates by [doubling web content loading processes from 4 to 8 [1] From personal experience, I believe that things usually get more buggy, not
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by k_sze 8y ago
Not sure if the tab search is entirely new or simply made more accessible in FF 66, but it certainly seems to make the All Tabs Helper add-on mostly obsolete for me now.
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by k_sze 8y ago
I haven’t gone to pull numbers from previous studies yet, but this somehow sounds more convoluted and at the same time less effective than using neutered mosquitoes to decimate the population. Do we know whether humans are the only feeding
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by k_sze 8y ago
I have nasal allergy. Sometimes the allergy manifests itself persistently, but as soon as I put on a surgical mask, the runny nose and irritation just stops completely.
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by k_sze 8y ago
Could this be an effect of the Google filter bubble? What if you open an incognito session, disable tracking, and try searching on Google again?
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by k_sze 8y ago
There’s maybe a billion-dollar opportunity there: maybe someone could invent a hybrid screen that switches from (O)LED to e-ink mode under bright lighting conditions.
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by k_sze 8y ago
What happens if you have your Steam profile on multiple machines and you need to change/reset the password?

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