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by p-e-w 5y ago
"High-speed internet is as essential as water and electricity" No it's not. Without water, people die in a matter of days. Without electricity, many households can neither cook nor heat their homes (and of course cannot acces
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So that's about 1500 pages of source code for each of the two modules. That's incredibly small, it would literally fit into a thick book. It's often claimed that a modern car contains more program code than early spacecraft
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Their queries (such as "best food for reticulated python") are unlikely to have results from "python.org", so such rules would not affect them.
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How would such "pressure" look in practice? Seems to me that every industry on the planet is at Google's mercy, not the other way round.
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by p-e-w 5y ago
I don't understand why search engines don't fight SEO spam using simple, hardcoded rules for specific keywords. Surely, something like "if the search string contains the word 'python', rank results from 'python
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`reset` won't work if you have used the escape sequence that disables raw mode, at which point the shell won't be able to process keyboard input anymore and you simply cannot issue commands. I'm not aware of any method for fi
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ANSI escape sequences are a standard . Relying on that standard isn't sloppy, any more than relying on any other standard. Terminfo is today basically a hack to work around the problem that some uncommon sequences differ between termi
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And if you want to play around with escape sequences from your shell, you can do so using `echo -e "\e[1A..."` in most shells (the `-e` flag enables backslash interpretation, while `\e` stands for the ESC character, alias `\033`).
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To brute-force a specific 64-bit ID, sure. But if your only requirement is that the ID consist of two random characters, then a run of one character, then a run of another character, the time can be cut dramatically, since there are tens