krylon

78 ms·

871.
by krylon 8y ago
In Fred Moody's "I Sing The Body Electronic"[0], there is a passage where the author gets to read such postmortem documents and is surprised by the brutal honesty, but does not give any quotes. Now I see what he meant. [0] wh
872.
by krylon 8y ago
Merry Christmas! 2018 was kind of mixed bag for me, but the good parts were really good, so I am not going to complain, but look forward to a new year full of the usual surprises and craziness.
873.
by krylon 8y ago
> Of course I don't expect that you're in a position to choose a computer. It's a little funny and a little sad, but this is as true today as it was back then, but for different reasons.
874.
by krylon 8y ago
Did you maybe mean to reply to some other comment? But just to be clear, I have nothing bad to say about Mister Dillon. I hope my comment did not give you the impression I did.
875.
by krylon 8y ago
Also, the developers' attitude. First of all, when somebody reports a bug, they do not try to argue that it is not really a bug or something like that, they fix it. And then, they look through their entire code base to see if that ki
876.
by krylon 8y ago
Thanks, I did not know that.
877.
by krylon 8y ago
SQLite is used on many platforms, built using many compilers. All of those compilers might have bugs themselves (who am I kidding? They do ), something verification cannot account for.
878.
by krylon 8y ago
As opposed to C/C++ compilers being built in C/C++? EDIT: Try to build NetBSD for some esoteric platform from the comfort of your desktop machine. Remember to pick up your jaw from the floow when you're done. ;-) My point is,
879.
by krylon 8y ago
With WhatsApp, end-to-end encryption is used by everybody , even though most people probably do not realize it. EDIT: Okay, that came out more snarky than I wanted it to. On the one hand, you are right, of course: Provide a secure, encrypt
880.
by krylon 8y ago
> Hence, "If you live in a one-party state." I am sorry. In Germany, there is no such thing as a "one-party state". :-| > People are reporting that Oracle is taking IP addresses of people who access the extensions
881.
by krylon 8y ago
Do not take this the wrong way, but I am always a little confused about people feeling about the whole planet-dwarf_planet thing so strongly. Pluto is still out there, just as it was a hundred years ago, when nobody knew it existed. And jus
882.
by krylon 8y ago
In Germany, it is illegal to record phone conversations without the consents of the other party. Also, I don't think Oracle is going to sue over something like this. They really seem not to care. But they could change their mind tomorr
883.
by krylon 8y ago
I vaguely recall that this was discussed here on HN a while ago and somebody who had actually tried to buy the necessary license reported that Oracle would not sell them the license; IIRC, the sales person told them to "just use it, we
884.
by krylon 8y ago
Every time you start a sandbox, it is a fresh environment, so you cannot persist browser history, bookmarks, etc. That may be exactly what you want, but it might come as a rude surprise otherwise.
885.
by krylon 8y ago
Hell really doth have fury like God scorned?
886.
by krylon 8y ago
Based on my personal experiences, cannabis, LSD, and mushrooms are far less destructive than alcohol, which is perfectly legal in many countries. Of course, one can easily destroy one's life with those "soft" drugs. Many pe
887.
by krylon 8y ago
AFAIK, countries that have tried loosening the laws on drugs have made good experiences. You would save a lot of money on law enforcement, plus you could tax drugs the way alcohol and tobacco are taxed now. With all that money, you could
888.
by krylon 8y ago
In Ada, you can define integer types that only accept a given range of values.
889.
by krylon 8y ago
Maybe my standards are just very low, but I have had a fairly consistent experience of getting decent second infusions out of fairly pedestrian teas. Maybe the timing has an impact on this, I rarely let my tea sit for more than 60-90 second
890.
by krylon 8y ago
At work, we had a mail loop once; a girl from accounting had ordered toner for our printers last thing before she went on vacation and enabled an auto reply on her mailbox. Five minutes after she left the office, the order confirmation arri
891.
by krylon 8y ago
FWIW, I just upgraded my VPS today, using freebsd-update(8), worked like a charm.
892.
by krylon 8y ago
> I wonder, does this make reusing teabags a good idea, as well? For green tea and Oolong, I don't see why that should not work. I have not seen Oolong in bags, though, and green tea in bags is fairly rare in Germany. But it should
893.
by krylon 8y ago
Green tea can be infused several times. Usually, the caffeine is pretty much gone after the first round. Plus, with some teas, the finer nuances of taste only come out in the third or fourth infusion. So if you want caffeine-free tea, you c
894.
by krylon 8y ago
Just to be sure, I just asked bing.com for "duck". I never, ever, EVER use bing, so unless they get their search results from someone else, they should be relatively unbiased. Once more, duckduckgo.com comes up as the first resu
895.
by krylon 8y ago
When I ask Google for "duck", duckduckgo is literally the first hit. My experience may be biased, because I am from Germany, but outside of English speaking countries, they should do just fine.
896.
by krylon 8y ago
ddg.gg is still easier (and for some reason more fun) to type. It might sound silly, but that's what won me over in the beginning.
897.
by krylon 8y ago
I was half joking. When I first got to know FreeBSD, the way to upgrade was to rebuild from source and then perform all kind of magic incantations to merge the new configuration files and whatnot. freebsd-update(8) has made this whole exper
898.
by krylon 8y ago
Aawww, I just upgraded my home server from 11.1 to 11.2, now I have to do it again ? Fortunately, upgrading FreeBSD is a lot more convenient these days than it used to be.
899.
by krylon 8y ago
Cannot watch from Germany. :(
900.
by krylon 8y ago
There is a fork, VeraCrypt - https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/Home.html

More ›