nightfly

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571.
by nightfly 8y ago
Anyone know if Oracle still has anyone left working on Solaris at this point?
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by nightfly 8y ago
C/C++ and some ASM or fancy compiler intrinsics. You'll want to get familiar with SIMD programming on x86 and probably NEON for ARM stuff. Learn how different types of PCM audio are encoded if you don't already. Also, learn h
573.
by nightfly 8y ago
> can of New York style hotdogs I think they've already failed at being "New York style".
574.
by nightfly 8y ago
> Because why should I care for someone else's child and why should I shell out money because someone decided to have children even though they shouldn't have ? The worst part of this is it naturally encourages classism. Only w
575.
by nightfly 8y ago
I'm reasonably sure most "back" issues are more related to the muscles than the spine. (people /can/ have spine issues, I just don't think it's as common).
576.
by nightfly 8y ago
I've had the same problem... It's super frustrating because sometimes an image on Pinterest is _exactly_ what you're looking for, but you need the related context to actually use it...
577.
by nightfly 8y ago
That analogy works pretty good: For many people a scooter is all they need for day-to-day life, and when they need car they borrow/rent one.
578.
by nightfly 8y ago
Realistically it's all but impossible.
579.
by nightfly 8y ago
Would rather see gorilla marketing.
580.
by nightfly 8y ago
> Cars are less likely to stop when people of color step into intersections, a study says. https://www.npr.org/2017/02/15/515336658/researchers-examine...
581.
by nightfly 8y ago
I really hope hydrogen fuel cells take over at some point.
582.
by nightfly 8y ago
That is a perfectly reasonable description for a non-technical reader.
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by nightfly 8y ago
It's been rock-solid. Only time it hasn't worked for me was when I was on one public wifi that blocked most/all UDP traffic.
584.
by nightfly 8y ago
I watch lots of hobbyist how-to videos and the comments are usually pretty nice. At the very least they are some human engagement from the views to the author, without which making/posting videos would seem pretty lonely.
585.
by nightfly 8y ago
The actual problem is you can't atomically replace a directory with another one. You have to do tricks where you have a symlink to the real directory and atomically replace the symlink with a new symlink to the new directory. Another c
586.
by nightfly 8y ago
The change to /each/ file is atomic, but both updates /together/ aren't atomic.
587.
by nightfly 8y ago
Last time I looked, the hardware mitigations were almost exactly as expensive as the software ones.
588.
by nightfly 8y ago
I use Wireguard for a VPN I run at work and am very happy with it. But for a use like Netflix it doesn't really make a difference compared to any other VPN technology.
589.
by nightfly 8y ago
"The rest of the country" also includes places with extreme weather (mostly snow and ice) and unpaved rural and forest service roads. In 3-5 years I see self driving cars being able to handle maybe 10-20 percent of the roads most
590.
by nightfly 8y ago
For a reasonable vendor, a 3 year warranty is have a negligible cost. (~5-10% of the price of the system)
591.
by nightfly 8y ago
Especially in an era where our president refers to every negative article about him as "fake news".
592.
by nightfly 8y ago
I went in thinking this title had a literal meaning, not a metaphorical one.
593.
by nightfly 8y ago
My first thought when people bring up deleting things is backup tapes. Sure it might or might not be "deleted" from the live data set, but it's almost always gonna live on in backups for probably forever.
594.
by nightfly 8y ago
"To really achieve maximum results, we had to push our people hard so they were constantly out of their comfort zone." Sounds like a great way to increase burnout/turnover...
595.
by nightfly 8y ago
I've taken the strategy of emitting JSON, but accepting YAML input (maybe a restricted subset in cases where it's untrusted data). YAML can function as a super-set of JSON, so you can have comments in hand-written/modified da
596.
by nightfly 8y ago
One has high risk and high capital expenses, the other basically prints money by charging people for web-IRC.
597.
by nightfly 8y ago
Because they are stuck doing a stressful job with probably low pay or poor hours to make ends meet?
598.
by nightfly 8y ago
"Know what happens to most of the produce that's edible, has enough shape to survive in transit, but looks funny? IT GOES TO THE GROCERY STORES THAT POOR PEOPLE SHOP AT"
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by nightfly 8y ago
None of the techniques they used to come to their conclusion were groundbreaking or even surprising.
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by nightfly 8y ago
I have grand-fathered accounts for my custom domains from when it was free, but I still just forward and delegate to my free non GSuite personal gmail. If Google ever kills those I'm gonna just move the domains to a different mail prov

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