lurkerperpetual

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by lurkerperpetual 16y ago
For those who care more about the underlying OS getting security updates for a long time, 8.04 is still the 'most supported' even if 2 years old. LTS releases have 5 years of updates for servers, so that means 2013. No other Ubuntu server r
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by lurkerperpetual 16y ago
A not ignored nerd is not a nerd. How about this idea: if such people would not be constantly derided and ignored they may be more socially successful, start spending more time with people with less potential and start lowering their own ex
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by lurkerperpetual 16y ago
By ideal world I meant 'a better internet user experience within the next a decade or two' not 'all people are intelligent' as you meant. In the latter we would not be crouching over a browser anyway but do more evolved stuff :) We do not t
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by lurkerperpetual 16y ago
Not only the http:// prefix but the whole idea of URL is a notion that should not be user-facing in an ideal world. Even the pretty REST ones are the internet equivalent of the command line voodoo many non-technical users just don't get a
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by lurkerperpetual 16y ago
controversial != awful
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by lurkerperpetual 17y ago
They have a syncdelay parameter which you can tweak to flush to disk as often as you want http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Durability+and+Repair
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by lurkerperpetual 17y ago
Here's a comparison http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Comparing+Mongo+DB+and+C...
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by lurkerperpetual 17y ago
Actually: How an Ubuntu script which is not meant to be run manually, temporarily had a bug that deleted the file system when using the development version of Ubuntu.
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by lurkerperpetual 17y ago
From the first paragraph it seems the author is angered he did not witness 'an unprovoked massacre of unarmed civilians'. I think that could have been rephrased much much better.
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by lurkerperpetual 17y ago
Linspire has stopped existing for quite some time now.
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by lurkerperpetual 17y ago
I usually append an extra character to the To: email address so it bounces in case I accidentally send it
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by lurkerperpetual 17y ago
having kids in the title makes the article much more click-worthy. You have to stand out somehow among all the other polyphasic sleep experiment blogs, right? Prepare for 'Two kids accepted to Y Combinator's funding program' articles in the
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by lurkerperpetual 17y ago
Would be nice to have a similar dashboard for each country in the world.
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by lurkerperpetual 17y ago
why would one need a new refrigerator??? Having hunger solved in the western world is vastly different from having it solved globally and even more different from not needing food at all. Not having plenty of food. Not needing food at all.
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by lurkerperpetual 17y ago
A very interesting topic for a study would be similarly testing groups of omnivores, vegetarians and vegans, to see if there are any detectable mental capacity differences. It should be less controversial than comparing the same between rac
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by lurkerperpetual 17y ago
Imagine for a moment that you do not need food, then see how many of the services you currently use you can do without as a consequence. Bankers? Really? What to use money for when nobody is anymore threatened by hunger. Even today you have
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by lurkerperpetual 17y ago
Having the tech available would indeed not prevent anyone from using the old ways. I wonder why not answer this to all proposals in this topic as those problems being solved would make people stop doing stuff the old way. Also you miss a hu
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by lurkerperpetual 17y ago
Sigh. It's not only and indeed not primarily about price. What about the effects on the environment of growing and transporting that rice? Also I sure would like to go on a hike in the mountains without needing to carry 25 Kg of food for a
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by lurkerperpetual 17y ago
Few voters will express their true preferences and will go instead with 'the lesser evil' when they fear their option will be in a small percentile and discarded. It is not unusual to have systems where 5% is required for a party to get int
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by lurkerperpetual 17y ago
I don't think low turnouts are the biggest problem with voting as it is done today. No use in having 99% participate if the process remains easily gameable, influenceable and opaque.
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by lurkerperpetual 17y ago
There are plenty of advances to be made for sure, there's not much science for it 'yet'. That is why I mentioned 'healty'. Not some super-food to get you through a short period of intense physical/mental/emotional effort, but something that
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by lurkerperpetual 17y ago
If not proper elections at least a whole population simulation before the polls. That way people could express their true preferences without fearing that their vote will not count if it goes to a fringe candidate and would reassure them th
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by lurkerperpetual 17y ago
That is a consequence of needing to eat, not that of needing to interact with others, and you do that because 'more important things' such as work prevents you from taking the time to talk. You could talk to those people face to face withou
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by lurkerperpetual 17y ago
"Deprecate the base of Maslow's pyramid" Inventing cheap and healthy concentrated 'food' that would allow people to eat once a month or even more rarely. Almost all other problems have a root in our needing to eat (work and cars, pollution,
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by lurkerperpetual 17y ago
the mongo shell above needs some Stop Eval/Reset button as it can get into a non-responsive state after a bad parse > db.scores.find({'sdf':) >> }) also no copy paste in the browser version AFAICT
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by lurkerperpetual 17y ago
Did the poster confuse the Elliot Associates with Ellison? :)
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by lurkerperpetual 17y ago
There is fun and exciting work to be done still. The fact that most of us chose to work on boring plumbing has little to do with programming having changed; it became a more diverse field a majority of which is 'commoditized'. So why compla
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by lurkerperpetual 17y ago
Re: 3. ... 'so publicly '.. You make it sound the problem is the publicity rather the act itself :) Actually it may be better in the long run for him it happened so publicly, or he may have reached new lows later on encouraged by early succ
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by lurkerperpetual 17y ago
according to various resources google.load() can do the work asynchronously so the whole page load will not be stalled by the <script> loading. Also you may want to load that .js only on demand not on page load. That said, IMHO most
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by lurkerperpetual 17y ago
By always framing such issues in this way (is a dolphin similar to us in some ways) we keep maintaining the age-old attitude that we should only care about those who are like us. If it has the tendency to run away if you try smacking it wit

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