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by nieve 12y ago
There are just two little config changes that obviously no-one would ever care about that make a lot of newer websites unusable: Setting a minimum font size and/or forcing your own default can cause text to pile up, grow to insane siz
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by nieve 12y ago
Having played WoW for years and gotten into just about every corner of the maps, almost all the undeveloped regions, and every Easter Egg area I heard about in Vanilla I have to say it was one of my favorite activities in the game and compl
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by nieve 12y ago
Only when using GNU rm and its descendents, as far as I know. FreeBSD and OS X's rm neither require that option nor support it. Unless you're asserting that psgbg has never used a system with BSD userland (which includes some ru
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by nieve 12y ago
There are two different ways to do this in Firefox with no addons or weird configs: Open Preferences->Search->One-click Search Engines, make sure google is checked, double-click "google" in the keyword column, change it to j
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by nieve 12y ago
Does that include the left pilot seat, the foam system, the bubble door, the bucket suspension system, or any of the other adaptions, plus getting it certified? The article specifies that some of the parts are surplus, but nothing in it sa
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by nieve 12y ago
Or perhaps we're seldom willing that level of resources without great pressures. Even the much lower current US expenditures on research have been shown to be hugely rewarding economically we've kept cutting them. Pressure induc
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by nieve 12y ago
Sadly the idea that some set of people won't have been dumb enough to make a fundamental security mistake is almost never useful. Security is too complex, people are too prone to overlooking aspects other than what they're workin
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by nieve 12y ago
Ah, it may have been related to this (though I believe it came after): "The decision comes as officials also announced Rothblatt will share the CEO mantle beginning Jan. 1 with Roger Jeffs, who joined United Therapeutics in 1998 and c
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by nieve 12y ago
Bad research by the reporter, from another Washington Post article: "That figured landed her the No. 1 spot on the Capital Business ranking of best compensated executives in the Washington region, and the No. 10 slot on a New York Tim
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by nieve 12y ago
It was a nightmare for me and several other local users on SuSE/openSUSE as well, so I think we're down to just Debian and Mandriva as major distros of that period that might not have had serious issues (Slackware was very conserv
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by nieve 12y ago
It doesn't mean he's wrong, but hyc_symas is the CTO of Symas who produce the Lightning memory-mapped database, so part of his business is in direct competition. He does dance around this a bit below, but I think how aggressively
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by nieve 12y ago
You're not just living in a dream world, you're using the phrase to excuse a snide strawman. The Linux kernel is 12-20 million lines of code depending on how you count it (and how far up the top end has gone recently). It is not
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by nieve 12y ago
I was one of those burned by Pulseaudio and the way Lenart basically dumped the project as soon as it got enough traction and before it was stable or truly functional. The design was, as you point out, very reminiscent of systemd - one gia
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by nieve 12y ago
openSUSE uses btrfs's copy-on-write behavior to allow rollbacks. Any time you use the package management system to change system state on a machine using btrfs the package manager actually snapshots the filesystem before (and I believ
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by nieve 12y ago
Thanks, I appreciate the clarification from you and vertex-four. I was indeed missing the ports part of what you were saying. I'm relatively comfortable with that since I'm not going to be using FreeBSD for any large-scale deplo
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by nieve 12y ago
I may be confused since I'm only now moving some servers to FreeBSD, but it sounds like you're suggesting freebsd-update brings in bleeding age, incompatible version if you want to get security fixes. Is that actually the case?
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by nieve 12y ago
That's an incredible book if you want to understand the core of the various BSD kernels (obviously it's best for FreeBSD). It's the latest descendant of "The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating System
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by nieve 12y ago
The older webOS devices are incredibly hackable on the software end compared to any other consumer electronics devices I've dealt with. Far more open than Android, much closer to an old-school Linux distro even then some desktop distr
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by nieve 12y ago
http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2014/2/16/a-case-for-upserts/ "There is an obvious question what happens if there are two unique constraints on a table, and the answer is quite simply that it breaks down in
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by nieve 12y ago
I've used PostgreSQL for 15 years and missed upsert/MERGE for all of them, but my understanding from previous research is that MySQL's is actually unreliable in the sense that it can violate ACID in some circumstances. This
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by nieve 12y ago
I'ts been said before, but there's a major issue with any program that depends on TSA officers' perception of people as liars or truthful: true positives are going to be swamped by officer bias. In lower-stakes situations st
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by nieve 12y ago
I agree completely, though I'd add that it's also unpleasant. There's a reason some browser and browser extensions try to help track down which tabs are producing audio. Perhaps GIFV or equivalent should be defined as either
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by nieve 12y ago
You're positing competence and or ethics when neither can be presumed. I can only wish they were safe assumptions. In fact in every layoff I've participated in (on either side) a reason for the layoff has been offered. In one ca
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by nieve 12y ago
Field replacement for oscilloscopes & some logic analyzer uses. Software Defined Radio host (the expansion card is in development). Hardware reverse engineering including bus-sniffing something while it's running. Feeding signal
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by nieve 12y ago
TXR looks rather like the CRM114 language that's been used to implement some rather amazingly accurate text classifiers (some better than most people on their own mail), though a bit less bizarre and I think more accessible: http:&#x2
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It's got a mass of relatively expensive hardware components that have (almost( never been included in a laptop form factor and certainly not together. Novena can replace quite a few expensive discrete tools and do it in something that
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by nieve 12y ago
I love Witch, but after upgrading to Mavericks I found that it was weirdly sluggish and tended to overshoot what I was aiming at. It also doesn't function with a lot of fullscreen apps (primarily games) and iBooks does ridiculous stuf
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by nieve 12y ago
You can have copyrighted files uploaded, I believe you can even share them with another account. What you can't do is get a public download link for a copyrighted file. I guess the latter cuts some of the motivation, but plenty of pe
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by nieve 12y ago
/snark I've certainly had PostgreSQL crash and all it took was someone in a Verizon datacenter accidentally yanking out the cables connecting the server to its RAID arrays. It even crashed a second time when someone "tripped
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by nieve 12y ago
I can vouch for the effect and it's far less subtle than I would have guessed. I expected transphobia plus sexism in the office, I got less of the former and far more blatant examples of the latter. I transitioned in the same job, re

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