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by muxator 7y ago
Shouldn't "monarchy" be compared to "democracy" instead of "capitalism"? The economic model pertains to a whole different plane, isn't it?
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by muxator 7y ago
> An artificial satellite also crosses the field of view Can anyone give some hints on how to spot it? Maye it is really evident, but I was not able to identify it.
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by muxator 7y ago
Thanks for this explanation and for the link. Once younlook at the ad-driven economy from this point of view, it becomes harder to be condescending.
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by muxator 7y ago
Can someone please give some context on that video? Who's the boy? What is everyone doing? The video is creepy.
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by muxator 7y ago
Naptha is the name of a character in Thomas Mann's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magic_Mountain
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by muxator 7y ago
> def tail(job_id, info): > logs = os.path.join(cfg("builds.sr.ht::worker", "buildlogs"), str(job_id)) Depending on where your job_id comes from, you may want to ensure "logs" variable still ends up po
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by muxator 7y ago
Kudos for numsum! After so many years using Linux, I still missed that one. Thanks!
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by muxator 7y ago
I have been using mercurial for more than a decade now. I just install hg-git, work on my local mercurial repo, push & pull to git, without any friction with anyone in my team. Mercurial simply stayed my secret tool for version control,
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by muxator 7y ago
To put this in context: together with the advertising clutter, a lot of artistic graffitis were taken down in the process.
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Tardigrades crash-landed on the Moon and probably survived(arstechnica.com)
8 points by muxator 7y ago|1 comments
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by muxator 7y ago
> also looks like android 9+ has integrated scanner I made the decision of not installing play services or emulation layers on my phone, and I can confirm a bunch of low-key apps do not work because of this. That functionality is now con
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Internet group brands Mozilla “internet villain” for supporting DNS privacy(techcrunch.com)
125 points by muxator 7y ago|41 comments
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by muxator 7y ago
An application requiring sticky session sounds like an architecture smell to me. It works, and you can get a long way with it, but a system that relies on requests always being served by the same server sounds a bad idea to me. What if that
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by muxator 7y ago
Whatsapp web does not show the authentication QR code if resistFingerprinting is on. This is annoying at minimum. I would happily use another IM, but the bad thing about network effect is that one would need to convince everyone else to mak
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by muxator 7y ago
> [...] an SFC is critical to the efficiency of multi-dimensional indexes [...] Apart from spatial databases, could anyone give some examples about advanced applications of Space Filling Curves for indexing?
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by muxator 7y ago
Out of curiosity: did you ever tried using Yalp store for downloading the apk from the store? Would it be useful for you?
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by muxator 7y ago
Or publish the APIs for at least allowing a third-party implementation?
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by muxator 7y ago
> youtube play in the background on the phone There are simpler ways :)
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by muxator 7y ago
The MSDN CDs where an endless source of amusement. The reference manuals were very good and search actually worked well. Did not feel crippled at all.
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by muxator 7y ago
Which sometimes is not bad at all. Ever tried to ctrl-click an interface element (a navigation button, a menu) because you want to open its view in a new window? A lot of (admittedly badly coded) "modern" web apps ignore basic web
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by muxator 7y ago
Yes, it has now been replaced by Gitaly: https://about.gitlab.com/2018/09/12/the-road-to-gitaly-1-0/
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Introduction to Transaction Isolation Levels(dbmsmusings.blogspot.com)
2 points by muxator 7y ago|0 comments
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by muxator 7y ago
So true. I live a mercurial life, in a git world. Thanks to hg-git, it is easy to use it and just treat the remote git repository as a black box. After having rewritten history locally (with Mercurial this is easy, powerful, safe and with a
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by muxator 7y ago
Etherpad has been open source since 2009, when it was bought by Google and immediately re-licensed. It stayed open source ever since. It was written in a mix of Scala & JS. Etherpad Lite ( https://github.com/ether/et
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by muxator 7y ago
Maybe minor nuisance (probably major for some): with privacy.resistfingerprinting, Wastsapp web does not even allow authentication.
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by muxator 7y ago
Is this really your day-to-day way of browsing the internet? Like if you were web scraping all the time? If so, I want to shake your hand, sir.
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by muxator 7y ago
Btrfs is actively developed, and stable for the cases indicated in https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Status . The mailing list gives interesting insights on what the developers are working on.
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by muxator 7y ago
Thank you very much for the material!
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by muxator 7y ago
Do you happen to have any pointers about this? I would be very interested.
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by muxator 7y ago
> The government initially released the document in a PDF format which renders it like an image, impossible to search. When PDF files are uploaded to the Archive, we automatically run them through an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) p

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