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by karlding 7y ago
You might be interested in BikeshedDB [0]. [0] https://github.com/tbg/bikesheddb
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Google Messages trick enables RCS on any Android phone and carrier(9to5google.com)
2 points by karlding 7y ago|1 comments
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by karlding 7y ago
> This also means that everyone get the same tools (same version, same bugs). Everywhere I've worked solved this by having the toolchain available via a network share that you would mount/copy, or checked into p4 so that everyo
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by karlding 7y ago
Quote from the linked website: > Thursday, April 7, 2005 > 4:12:44 PM EDT > Mark Zuckerberg starts a conversation with Aaron Greenspan on AIM > > [...] > ThinkComp: i don't care who wrote it > ThinkComp: or where
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by karlding 7y ago
According to the article, Uber ATG (the self-driving division) isn't affected. > The freeze does not apply to Uber's autonomous vehicle and freight-shipping divisions.
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by karlding 7y ago
As a data point, the University of Waterloo releases data about hourly earnings for students enrolled in the co-op program. The first co-op term for students in Mathematics (the faculty Computer Science is under) is typically taken after co
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by karlding 7y ago
If you're interested in reading more, there's a student's write-up of the course here: * Impressions [0] * Optimizing The Kernel [1] * The 72-hour bug [2] * Train Tracking [3] Notably, QNX started as a CS 452 project. I'
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The Business Executive's Guide to Kubernetes(blog.jessfraz.com)
45 points by karlding 7y ago|0 comments
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by karlding 7y ago
It's poking fun at how there's a new flavour of JavaScript framework seemingly every week: Angular, React, Vue, Mithril, etc. Each one has a killer feature or some new spin on how to write your JavaScript code. The word "vani
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by karlding 7y ago
If you frequent small (generally Asian) restaurants, it's quite common to see signs saying they only accept cash in Vancouver. Otherwise, if they take credit, they may attempt to incentivize paying with cash via discounts.
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by karlding 7y ago
HN discussion about the 0-day [0]. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20008313
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by karlding 7y ago
There isn't any steganography (at least for the flag that I found). They have a bot that actually "reads" your post, which you can verify for yourself. This is alluded to in the message that you get when submitting a post: &g
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by karlding 7y ago
Threads as first class citizens is something that Zulip [0] focuses on, which makes it much easier to have multiple conversations within the same space. It also makes it easier to ignore any conversations you don't care about. This avo
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by karlding 7y ago
I believe they have migrated most (if not all) of their storage off AWS to their own infrastructure [0]. [0] https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/15/why-dropbox-decided-to-dro...
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by karlding 7y ago
You mentioned EV certificates, but are those actually still meaningful? Troy Hunt wrote a series of articles [0][1][2] about the perceived value of Extended Validation certificates, and concluded that they were essentially useless. Does any
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by karlding 7y ago
I don't work as an SRE, but isn't that covered by providing engineers physical access to secure facilities in the absolute worst case? The article states: > The defense in depth philosophy means we have robust backup plans for
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by karlding 7y ago
> For example: It seems ridiculous now, but at one point authors were significantly squeezed by commercial distros offering support and feature work directly to customers for their packages. Something similar was discussed a few weeks ag
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by karlding 7y ago
Maybe you should use BikeshedDB [0] instead? [0] https://github.com/tschottdorf/bikesheddb
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by karlding 7y ago
What if you simply worked on the AST/token level and converted that into pseudocode, assuming you either annotated your functions with a description or named them following some sort of convention? Then you could write your code and th
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by karlding 7y ago
18650 describes the form factor of the cell (18 mm in diameter and 65 mm in height), much like you have AAA batteries.
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by karlding 8y ago
According to Apple's MacBook Pro marketing page [0], their SSD supports sequential read speeds of up to 3.2GB/s. So this isn't as far-fetched as you imply, even if we're discounting other factors like the filesystem cach
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by karlding 8y ago
> Their self driving tech is built on top of Baidu's open source platform and another open source platform with only 1 year of development with a huge team. A recipe for disaster. I assume you're talking about Apollo [0]. Out o
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by karlding 8y ago
Isn't that situation only possible if config.push is set to matching? As far as I know, it's been set to simple by default since Git 2.0 [0]. [0] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#Documentation/git-conf
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by karlding 8y ago
Yeah, there's quite a few companies that are working on a similar product, including PlayStation Now (Sony) [0], GeForce Now (NVIDIA) [1], and Shadow [2]. [0] https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/explore/playstat
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by karlding 8y ago
For what it's worth, North recently laid off 150 of their employees [0] and the Canadian government is pulling their 18 million investment [1] in the company. There's some discussion about this on the /r/uwaterloo subred
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by karlding 8y ago
The Chromecast Audio also supports Optical Out via TOSLINK, allowing you to bypass the built-in DAC and use your own, if you so desire.
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by karlding 8y ago
Sounds like what you want is fuzzy searching (say fzf [0]) over autocomplete suggestion results. You could type the prefix, and then fuzzy search by typing the suffix to get your desired word (while letting autocomplete fill in the middle o
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by karlding 8y ago
This [0] one about Twitter? Not a security breach, but users' passwords were being written to a log file before hashing. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16989534
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by karlding 9y ago
On bash, this assumes that $HISTCONTROL is set to ignoreboth [0]. This is in the default ~/.bashrc on Ubuntu, but I can't speak about other distros. I don't use zsh, but I believe the equivalent is $HIST_IGNORE_SPACE [1]. [0]
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by karlding 9y ago
Peter Buhr also teaches CS 343: Concurrent and Parallel Programming [0] at the University of Waterloo in a dialect of C++ that he has been working on [1], called uC++ [2]. [0] https://www.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~cs343/

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