mrighele

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by mrighele 9y ago
There are a number of old software that won't work on modern versions of Windows and old versions are no longer maintained. Even "offline" use, e.g. in VirtualBox with no network access can be problematic; for example my XP i
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by mrighele 9y ago
I didn't know about that, thanks for sharing.
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by mrighele 9y ago
My approach for a JS framework or library is that the time I can hope it will be maintained for is at most the time that it has already been maintained. This way, depending on how long my project is supposed to be supported I can make a rea
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by mrighele 9y ago
> In fact, I'm considering eschewing all front-end dependencies for my next prototype - ES6 has far better support in modern browsers than I recall, as do the more recent CSS capabilities like flexbox. This is something I have be
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by mrighele 9y ago
In Italy math is considered generally part of science. In fact here at the universities math is part of "Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences Faculty" (roughly translated). I am a bit surprised of the distinction; the term
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by mrighele 9y ago
Let's not forget the apps that store locally hundreds of megabytes of cached data (one of the reasons I removed the Facebook app) and those that refuse to store images and videos on an external SD card (WhatsApp)
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by mrighele 9y ago
My guess is that when you are that much poor, you don't just buy the chance of winning, but also a little amount of hope that helps to get through the dull (or even awful) life. Even if you don't win you get something back for th
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by mrighele 9y ago
Interestingly, this is not what happens in ZFS [1] (unless the defaults have changed since a few years ago): If you accept the mathematical claim that a secure hash like SHA256 has only a 2\^-256 probability of producing the same
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by mrighele 9y ago
deduplication doesn't have necessarily to be expensive; HAMMER (the first version, not HAMMER2) has offline deduplication that is usually scheduled to run at night. This allows regular use to be quite performant and with a low memory f
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by mrighele 9y ago
If someone doesn't want to handle his own email server, a simpler alternative is to buy email services for a domain you own; it will be easier to change provider if needed since, unlike a @gmail.com address, you won't need to chan
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by mrighele 9y ago
I think that the first lesson that he should learn is the need for regular backups. In fact, I am not even sure he meant to use git ("I hadn't commited any of them to any repository"). If it that's the case, I would unde
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by mrighele 9y ago
> My words were "scams are hard to detect" and I stand by them. Amazon had nothing to detect here. The author did all the job and provided all the evidence. What was required by Amazon was to acknowledge the facts. If the peopl
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by mrighele 9y ago
No heavy JS framework sucking the battery dry, no full screen ads, no annoying popovers, no scrolljacking, no requests for notification, no newsletter subscription. A collection of the worst of the current web would be much worse.
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by mrighele 9y ago
I think about it in a different way. The fact that a certain amount of BTC is also the same amount of BCC is tied to a specific way of owning bitcoins (i.e. "physical" bitcoins in a wallet). But when you buy a certain amount of BT
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by mrighele 9y ago
Because Verizon's users are already footing the whole bill. If anything, the bill should be split between the end user and Google.
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by mrighele 9y ago
The original title is "Wisconsin Company To Implant Microchips In Employees", which is different from the current "Wisconsin Company To Offer To Implant Microchips In Employees". The difference is not so subtle; atfirst
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by mrighele 9y ago
Some time ago Wikipedia has been banned in Turkey because the government didn't like a couple of pages about its involvement in the Syria civil war. (I don't have references handy but you can find easily with Google) In the past c
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by mrighele 9y ago
> not to mention make graphics more stable (at least, given FOSS-friendly graphics hardware). I hope you're not thinking about Intel integrated graphics :-). I had a terrible experience with stock drivers in Ubuntu LTS (both current
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by mrighele 9y ago
The main problem with PulseAudio is that it "just works" for the majority of users, but then it fails randomly, unpredictably, unrepeatably and with no indication of what is going wrong, and most of the time you get a "uh, wo
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by mrighele 9y ago
Your reasoning can be applied to a regular job: if I am tired I make more mistakes and every mistake has a cost. If the cost of mistakes made during the extra hours exceed the value of the job done, those extra hours didn't produce any
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by mrighele 9y ago
Could it be that democracy that people born in the '30s experienced (or at least perceived) was different from the one experienced by millennials ?
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by mrighele 9y ago
I would say it depends on the kind of lokum you eat. Even in Turkey itself you can find different kinds of very varying quality. My idea of lokum was what I would find in shops in Istanbul; lovely, though in my opinion a bit too jelly-ish.
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by mrighele 9y ago
I tried to install Xp in a VM a few weeks ago to see if I could run a few old games. The iso I had was for XP Sp2, and I couldn't find a download link for the Sp3 installer on the whole Microsoft site. Links from search engines become
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by mrighele 9y ago
> That is a very anti-consumer way of looking at it. Storage, especially for businesses, is not like a gym membership. > These bait and switch tactics are harmful for the consumer as well as the industry itself. The point of the compa
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by mrighele 9y ago
> The ugly fact is the Unlimited Amazon Drive has been abused by media pirates and data-hoarders to store up to 20TB Somebody on reddit bragged about reaching more than 1PB [0] > Of course, I agree that you shouldn't call somethi
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by mrighele 9y ago
From a cursory read from the specs [1] I can see the following (Chapter 7.2): > Finally, note that it is an application decision which algorithms may > be used in a given context. Even if a JWT can be successfully > validated, unl
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by mrighele 9y ago
In some way he addresses that towards the end: > It's important to note that my experiment is not JWT. > When you reduce JWT to a thing that is secure, > you give up the "algorithm agility" that is a proud part >
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by mrighele 10y ago
You can tell zfs to store N copies of the files (you do it at file system level, but it doesn't have to be for the whole disk) instead of one, so you can recover from bit rot even with a single disk. At least in theory, I have never tr
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by mrighele 10y ago
This is a regular issue in Italy, also in smaller towns. Any kind of construction job involving excavation may end up unearthing something deemed interesting by the relevant authorities.Thanks to our traditionally slow bureaucracy, this mea
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by mrighele 10y ago
An alternative is to cache request at the web server level so that successive requests will not be more heavy than serving static page. Caching just for a few seconds (some people call it microcaching [1]) will let your blog survive without

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