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by limmeau 13y ago
I don't know whose thinking that is, but when I recommend against Truecrypt on Dropbox, it's because you can't auto-merge two diverging Truecrypt volumes even if the two changesets are unrelated.
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by limmeau 13y ago
Is "disturbed system" intentional? Nice term for a bunch of processes which are expected to die occasionally.
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by limmeau 13y ago
Emacs users can use wdired in a dired buffer instead. M-x wdired-change-to-wdired-mode (not to spoil the fun of creating a useful command-line tool with Issue9 ;)
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by limmeau 13y ago
The original rdiff-backup author went on to create duplicity. Maybe a big part of the rdiff-backup community has followed him? I'm using obnam now.
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by limmeau 13y ago
Apparently, this is part of an in-memory NoSQL database with Lua stored procedures, called Tarantool. Has anyone used that? http://www.tarantool.org/
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by limmeau 13y ago
I also use proportional fonts for Java to make the code look like it's taken from an algorithms textbook. Also, idiomatic Java as produced by IDEs usually doesn't align variables, so the code looks OK as long as the space characte
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by limmeau 13y ago
So signeds are better because they overflow differently? If you program C like there's no overflow, it doesn't matter much whether you mis-index the next array with 4294967295 or -1. There's no substitute for overflow-vigilan
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by limmeau 13y ago
Thanks for posting this. Do those Lua scripts run concurrently in any way?
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by limmeau 13y ago
Do you mean Corensic? Their homepage is now "under construction", according to Network Solutions.
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by limmeau 13y ago
frak seems to generate a regex that precisely only matches the input list of strings, no generalizations. So this seems not to be the tool to auto-create a .gitignore file...
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by limmeau 13y ago
This produces inputs to an arbitrary regex library. You could of course build a regex "(w1|w2|w3|...|wN)" for words w1...wN (assuming an efficient regex library) and save the hassle, but the frak output will hopefully be m
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by limmeau 13y ago
Compare this with the late PyS60, where you installed a little SIS on your phone, 2MB or so, and could then run simple Python scripts. Forwarding all incoming SMSs to another phone number was a six-liner or so. I've never used it to bu
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by limmeau 13y ago
Example: Visualization of 6 months of cell phone data retention of a German politician: http://www.zeit.de/datenschutz/malte-spitz-data-retention
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by limmeau 13y ago
"no one wants to physically plug a smartcard into a phone" SIM cards come to mind.
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by limmeau 13y ago
HN submissions can't have both text and a link.
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by limmeau 13y ago
MtGox at $90 and BTCe at $83. Easy arbitrage money? Probably not, but why not?
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by limmeau 13y ago
There's also www.quoka.de, a classified-ads site in Germany and Austria.
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by limmeau 13y ago
Advantage of writing it in C: You can prototype an example client of your runtime in C before your code generator is working.
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by limmeau 13y ago
According to http://xo-learning.org/family-oriented-xo-tablet-debuts-at-w... , this is essentially a 7" Android tablet with a separate educational UI with teaching programs. I wonder if that separate UI could be bundle
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by limmeau 13y ago
No, but maybe your Apple GeForce 5500 graphics drivers and the drivers for the ansible network haven't been backported, so you'd have to run headless and offline. Or in another layer of VM, or two if the VM's virtual hardware
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by limmeau 13y ago
That example still completely in the realm of software obsolescence. The LXC API may not be around in 2023's Linux kernels any more, just like Plex86 has been abandoned (and I doubt that Plex86 runs unchanged on a modern x86_64 machine
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by limmeau 13y ago
Pulling the long-time-portability lever one mark further, I suggest Bochs. It's slow because it doesn't use Qemu's dynamic recompilation, but on the other hand, that simplicity makes the job of future archaeologists easier.
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by limmeau 13y ago
However, I fear that a Docker container in 2023 will be as useful as a Plex86 VM image today...
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by limmeau 13y ago
My favourite is "toothbrush head".
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by limmeau 13y ago
I've never much read other fanfiction, and I don't mind the parody at all. Actually, it has kind of spoiled the plain HP for me because I just can't take their fixed gold-silver exchange rate seriously any more.
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by limmeau 13y ago
Next in series: convincing yourself that you're not one of those spammers everyone wants their daughter to not marry. Repeat after me: "I'm providing people with valuable information that is highly relevant to their purchasin
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by limmeau 13y ago
Thanks for sharing -- I love puzzles like that. Just curious: Were the lldb session snippets taken from the original debugger session? I keep getting weird looks when I use a command-line debugger just to have a transcript afterwards. (The
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by limmeau 13y ago
Intelligence people call reading the newspaper "OSINT", open source intelligence. They'll claim there's more to it than reading the paper, of course.
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by limmeau 13y ago
And still, Git, compared to most centralized VCSes, forces you to consciously design the versioning workflow. Where will the repositories be, who pushes where under what circumstances, what repo makes the golden releases, will you merge the
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by limmeau 13y ago
You don't really have to understand the data structures any more than in any other VCS . If you're on Subversion and ignore that the repo is basically a counted list of big file trees with properties on the nodes, you won't

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