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by ktpsns 7y ago
> JavaScript, captchas, and logins, are the main “gotchas” for text-based browsing, if the functionality of a site (or part of the site) relies on any of these then most likely it will not work. Really, there is no reason why a form shou
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by ktpsns 7y ago
I guess when the next Windows would include a novel FS, people would not care. After decades of experimenting (does anybody remember the fears of users when it was introduced that Longhorn deprecates the traditional filesystem for query-bas
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by ktpsns 7y ago
I did the same 2006 on a Pentium III. Bootstrapping (installing/compiling the main system) took roughly 48 hours. And ReiserFS was the FS of choice for the portage with its many small files. What has happened to the out of tree approac
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by ktpsns 7y ago
While your local law may give you some tools (thinking of the new European GDPR thingy), practically you cannot take influence of what is done with your data once you publish them/give them out of hand. Best you can do is counter misin
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by ktpsns 7y ago
This is something which baffles me as a +15yrs "linux guy" who thought to know what kind of ecosystem the big desktop OS brings: MS Windows is really rich in tooling, both in terms of desktop and command line tools. And there is s
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by ktpsns 7y ago
> It can be run as a COM file or put into a boot sector of a floppy disk to be run. Isn't "COM file" something specific to DOS? How does it differ from a machine binary file, i.e. what GCC (or a linker) would spit out of t
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by ktpsns 7y ago
This reminds me of the look of Blender's GUI, which is also OpenGL based.
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by ktpsns 7y ago
When I did 3D printing, I racked my brain how to render STL files to SVG. Blender (can import STL and) seems to be able to render to SVG with a plugin ( https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/23661/render-3d-..
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by ktpsns 7y ago
Wow, I find it very strange that public money is spent on ransom. If this amount of money that was given to robbers would have been spent in IT security, the town would have made a way better investment into its future. Hopefully they now s
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by ktpsns 7y ago
"Windows is a Linux distribution"? From my perception, it will merely play the role of an hypervisor, probably tightly coupled with Xorg and FS mount points, probably not. But Linux users need to choose a distribution, like Ubuntu
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by ktpsns 7y ago
Firefox refuses to connect to this HTTPS URL: SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG
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by ktpsns 7y ago
The HPC usage scenario is exactly the reason why I played with UML a few years ago. Many HPC clusters nowadays completely lock down the network and only allow in/outbound SSH connections to whitelisted IP networks. On the other hand, u
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by ktpsns 7y ago
I guess your question boils down how you deal with optionality of fields. If all columns are required, a single table is more clean. If columns are optional, it makes sense to have a separate table for it. Furthermore, as you name it, once
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by ktpsns 7y ago
I have good experience for two similar sized (even larger) institutes where I simply put a minimalistic issue tracker (Redmond, Trac, OTRS) behind an E-Mail Gateway. Since email is still dominant in the traditional world of academia, sticki
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by ktpsns 7y ago
This is really a bad comparison. The Pros for React are the virtual DOM? That's the same what Vue is doing. In fact Vue is more entry level friendly and the reason is that it can be plugged similar as jQuery could be back in the days,
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by ktpsns 7y ago
And many mobile apps do. In such cases, SQLite is merely used as a serialisation format for nonconcurrent applications (like JSON but better tailored to the relational needs). That's a huge productive "market" for SQLite. As
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by ktpsns 7y ago
I understand https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Don't_Do_This#Text_storage in a way that Postgres encourages users always to stick to the text type. Which is, from a non-DB-centric view, certainly the most conve
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by ktpsns 7y ago
Correct. Apple certainly "reused" the infrastructure they established with realtime facial recognition and manipulation, all encapsuled in ARKit ( https://developer.apple.com/augmented-reality/arkit/ ). Fu
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by ktpsns 7y ago
One regrets these setups when traveling frequently -- bad/unstable internet in trains, terminals, hotels can make this very uncomfortable. Then one ends in watching the offline stored videos because working is not possible. For a stati
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by ktpsns 7y ago
Super interesting feature, despite I find the name "Symbol" a bit unfortunate. Maybe should be called "unique identifier" or so.
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by ktpsns 7y ago
Concurrency for algorithms shall exploit the many core architecture of current CPUs or even explore many machines (nodes) available. Concurrency can be interpreted as a way of optimization, and one shall start with optimization only at the
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by ktpsns 7y ago
https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2463486 -- awww, why don't you computer scientists (also) upload your work on preprint servers such as the ArXiV? http://arxiv.org/ Thus it keeps hidden behind the p
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by ktpsns 7y ago
Second that. For the user, flash applets where super easy to block in general and to whitelist on pages where you wanted to use that particular flash application. Basically the same was true with Java. And for a certain extend JavaScript --
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by ktpsns 7y ago
I recently used Semantic-UI ( http://semantic-ui.com/ ) in a project. Semantic-UI is a web framework where "semantic" means there are human readable class names like <button class="minor red labeled but
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by ktpsns 7y ago
This happens when Software is forked and rebranded: People obviously don't understand any more the same origin. Both For browser and IceCat are Firefox, just with another name. They suffer from the same security problems. The switch
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by ktpsns 7y ago
The article is more about a clever phone answering machine, kind of a personal secretary which passed the caller. Seems to be useful for people getting a lot of phone spam or super many calls. I would rather require anybody to write a mail.
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by ktpsns 7y ago
TL,DR: systemd is evil, and there is a Debian distro with good old system5.
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by ktpsns 7y ago
Some people demonize languages for adding syntactic suggar, but I think this is what can make them really great. It raises the language (perl6 in this case) to a meta programming level. In a similiar way people refer to LISP as a meta progr
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by ktpsns 7y ago
I find your example actually being a counter-example. The comment should rather be at the top of the definition/implementation of is_legacy_user, so IDEs and users can read and extract it when neccessary (thinking of Javadoc/Pytho
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by ktpsns 7y ago
While I find your inlined example very bad to read, I think there are many attemps IDEs do for this. I remember some showing the function stub of a called function when moving the mouse on the call instruction. I also know multiple editors

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