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by mdavidn 8y ago
Factorio, a recent relatively popular indie game, was developed on Allegro.
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by mdavidn 8y ago
I'm confused by your comment. Session stores seem like the easiest storage to scale horizontally. The workload is just a distributed hash, _maybe_ with atomic updates. "Three nines" durability over one day is perfectly accept
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by mdavidn 8y ago
“When you sign into Gmail, you also sign into Chrome.” How does this feature “obviously” imply that Chrome must recreate tracking cookies? My expetation would be that, after deleting all cookies, I’m signed into the browser but not Gmail.
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by mdavidn 8y ago
Yes, it's a joke. The problem of multi-user devices has already been solved, and in a manner that works for all applications and sites, not just Google's. In other words, the given motivation for this change rings hollow.
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by mdavidn 8y ago
Lead generation.
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by mdavidn 9y ago
Pedestrians do not always have the right of way. However, drivers must avoid collisions with pedestrians, even when the vehicle has right of way. Here's the relevant vehicle code in Arizona: https://www.azleg.gov/ars&#x
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by mdavidn 9y ago
Tesla owners using the Autopilot feature on the freeway is far more likely than you being extraterrestrial.
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by mdavidn 9y ago
In California. Most of my POS transactions use Apple Pay. It's much faster than the chip. Of the businesses I visit routinely, I only pull out my wallet at restaurants, Target, and one of three local grocers.
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by mdavidn 9y ago
The kernel maps itself into the address space of each process as an optimization to increase the performance of system calls. So yes, it is possible.
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by mdavidn 9y ago
Not without sending every user's equifax.com cookies to that outside agency's servers.
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by mdavidn 9y ago
The same thing happened in JetBrains IDEs until about a year ago. I remember having to save my XML bomb unit test in a *.txt file to avoid freezing my IDE.
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by mdavidn 9y ago
Like prh8, I too use FastMail. I trust the FastMail team, but a custom domain means I can switch e-mail providers without changing my e-mail address.
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by mdavidn 9y ago
Agreed. I'm surprised Factorio hasn't surfaced more frequently on HN. The game's automation play is just as addictive and creative, and it runs on Mac and Linux.
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by mdavidn 9y ago
Oh, you're paying for Gmail. Just not in upfront dollars like with Fastmail.
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by mdavidn 9y ago
> I'm still waiting for the big one that makes me quit using Uber though. The app stopped working for me. That got me to install Lyft. Then I wondered why I hadn't earlier. Around the time Uber started tracking users _after_ a
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by mdavidn 10y ago
`dig NS $domain` Query for the root domain, without any subdomains like www. That is, you need to check the "zone apex," the shortest name purchased from a registrar and potentially delegated to Dyn. Look for dynect.net in the lis
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by mdavidn 10y ago
This suggests Tesla stores a recording of every driver's traffic violations. Have they received any subpoenas for that data?
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by mdavidn 10y ago
Not for sites using TLS. The only option for secure sites would be a CDN. That is, an HTTP cache in a relationship with the content publisher rather than the subscriber.
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by mdavidn 11y ago
Here's ground video from last year with the boostback burn. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EXPH4iI6FM&t=2m50s
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by mdavidn 11y ago
No. Among other things, Docker depends on the namespace flags to clone(2), which the Windows mapping layer surely does not support. http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/clone.2.html
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by mdavidn 11y ago
A note on your edit: The difference you observed is not because of du. Your node_modules really does take 673 MB on disk. File systems divide the disk into segments, confusingly also called blocks. Only one file may occupy a block. On my Ma
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by mdavidn 11y ago
In simple mode, Closure Compiler would rename the local variable "prop" but not alter the properties. In advanced mode, Closure Compiler would globally rename properties and statically eliminate dead code. In your example, it woul
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by mdavidn 11y ago
I think b) is true only because JavaScript tooling cannot perform dead code elimination. Other languages have big grab-bag utility libraries like lodash that don't hinder performance because a linker or runtime can avoid loading unused
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by mdavidn 11y ago
Using this approach, a badly written prefetch add-on might automatically vote on everything. Any request that modifies server-side state really should use POST or PUT (or, at the very least, append a CSRF token in JavaScript). I eventually
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by mdavidn 11y ago
All iOS software updates, even the normal ones, bear a digital signature that incorporates the device's UDID. The bulk of the software update is the same for all devices, but Apple must generate a new signature for each device using Ap
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by mdavidn 11y ago
It's a public accounting of everyone's keys. All participants can review the blockchain to confirm the accuracy of their own public key. Three-letter agencies can't fork the blockchain and replace a key from the perspective o
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by mdavidn 11y ago
Interesting how the industry has come full circle. Static linking and dead code elimination is a problem we solved in the 1970s for compiled languages. Has the time come to adopt a proper linker for the web? Google's Closure Compiler h
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by mdavidn 11y ago
Same was true of Java. Sun called it the "AWT event dispatch thread." Any process that does computation or blocks on IO should run in a separate thread and periodically post updates to the UI via an event queue. https:/&#x2F
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by mdavidn 11y ago
Fastmail and Gmail support a local suffix of the form yourname+amazon@gmail.com. That's a plus character between the local name and local suffix. If you use a password manager, you can replace a predictable suffix like "amazon&quo
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by mdavidn 11y ago
The process model is a sandbox. Every process runs as if alone, with seemingly continuous processor time and memory addresses starting at zero. The ailments you described are all system calls, special access granted by the kernel. So the pr

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