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by nieve 6y ago
It's not a favorite book and sometimes it's far too heavy-handed, but I wouldn't say that it's completely non-sarcastic. It's mostly pro-military, but there's some definite ambivalence about what that means in
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by nieve 6y ago
Having seen parts of the original Names Database code my only objection to DuckDuckGo is that somehow it might have been contagious and infected DDG when Gabriel Weinberg launched the latter. This seems unlikely, but it was the most unfortu
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by nieve 6y ago
From related portions of the economy: given the growing use of debtor's prisons, predatory loans, and coercive tactics including armed repossession & bounty hunting dependent on an exploitive for-profit bond regime? Yes. These are
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by nieve 6y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20200701160058/https://techcrunc... I find the Resurrect Pages firefox extension very useful for a lot of paywalls.
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by nieve 6y ago
Is Pijul still corrupting repositories? Not many months ago the answer on here from devs was that despite the confident assertions about its advantages it's not actually ready for production and it was your problem if it lost code. I w
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by nieve 6y ago
Well yes, America's "invasion" was a muddle of confused goals & retaliation while Russias "annexation" was conquest. You're quite right that they're different. One does massive incompetent damage while
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by nieve 6y ago
It's a positive for security, but unless you're going through Let's Encrypt it adds another entity that you have to disclose PII to simply to host your own blog or side project.
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by nieve 6y ago
Cat-5 can definitely do it if you're unlucky about cable orientation and length. Years ago I worked in an office one story underground and the whole thing had a cable run along a single wall with drops. One day we got a nearby strike a
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by nieve 6y ago
That is the single worst looking syntax I have ever seen. How did they manage to do any significant amount of development instead of just bug hunting? IDE support?
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by nieve 6y ago
It's more like going after people who make waterboarding kits and run logistics for kidnappings. Anti-DRM and p2p software aren't usually associated with aiding & abetting torture and murder of dissidents and journalists. Fram
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by nieve 6y ago
I'm somewhat confused by this rhetorical question since the microcode of processor is vastly different than the userspace & kernel of Mac OS. Running an OS bare metal versus in a VM on top of Mac OS are different across a wide arr
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by nieve 6y ago
I'm getting it on the first page as well, but I think you're missing some chronological logic: at the time they created the ad they couldn't possibly be seeing their own ad as the first results.
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by nieve 6y ago
This was mentioned in the original article.
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by nieve 6y ago
NOAA has a supercomputing center in Boulder, CO that has produced some analysis of this, but if memory serves they also have to deal with some low intensity radiation from the Flatirons formation they're up by. Get enough computers wit
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by nieve 6y ago
The main thing I noticed was that it's trying to push farther back in time for hardware support. The article has a genuine point that some older distributions can't be installed at all now due to online dependencies and many more
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by nieve 6y ago
I doubt that Ubuntu moving to having Chrome being a snap is a good sign for them doing the right thing with a custom Chromium.
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by nieve 6y ago
> However, for the browsers that we have now, bookmarks are much better for organization than tabs By "browsers we have now" you clearly mean "Chrome, the only browser I care about". Firefox can handle literally thous
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by nieve 6y ago
The Chibitronics kits are great for kids or really anyone who wants to play with laying out circuits and components by hand. I'm not sure there's anything else in the space, but they're pretty reasonably priced: https:/
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by nieve 6y ago
If "lost a lot of money" means that they made a large investment that isn't paid off by just the first couple of months of the first generation there's no surprise there and their management would have been expecting it.
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by nieve 6y ago
One important note: make sure you carefully consider using atomic renames and such for manipulating the files! Overwrite in place is a great way to end up with a corrupted item if something goes desperately wrong and you're not protect
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by nieve 6y ago
I don't think anyone posted about their particular system, but it's not unknown now. If you google "filesystem as a database" there are some relevant hits. One super simple and probably not ideal, but at least balanced v
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by nieve 6y ago
Unfortunately eToys imploded a couple of years later (2001) and there were only a few people involved at that stage so it's possible none of them are in the industry anymore. You might start by looking at email servers, I believe there
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by nieve 6y ago
If memory serves the original EToys.com code treated the filesystem as tree-structured database using atomic operations (though no transactions). It worked just fine, then the rewrite with an RDBMS that should have been stabler and faster r
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by nieve 6y ago
You definitely have a windows problem! Do you end up using large numbers of desktops as topic workspaces for them?
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by nieve 6y ago
For finding things I just use search in Power Tabs. Filtering down usually leaves me with a list I can scan through quickly. When it comes time to clean up I cheat by using that as well - filter my tab list, then select individual or groups
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by nieve 6y ago
Don't feel too bad about your tab hoarding, I'm at 3 windows with 4630 tabs and I'm pretty sure I'm closer to a stress test than a user. Chrome can't function with 1/20th of mine and Firefox runs smooth and fas
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by nieve 6y ago
I seem to recall that Newt Gingrich & company were convinced that the market was being unfairly stymied in providing maps, so they worked pretty hard to choke off funding and narrow the mission of the USGS. There's been far too sma
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by nieve 6y ago
Didn't they bring in a new management team from the for-profit world who talked up expanding into major new roles? If your leaders have a mindset shaped by puffing up stock prices every quarter you tend to be interested in big, sweepin
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by nieve 6y ago
ICANN is incorporated in California, has their headquarters there, and does significant business. Any of the three would be sufficient, but the incorporation was called out.
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by nieve 6y ago
I eventually gave up without finding the issue, but somewhere deep inside one version of the Sphinx full text search software was a bug that would sometimes switch query got what result set. It only happened sometimes when queries were with

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