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by penguindev 12y ago
It subtracts value from the site. It's getting really, really old. Critical thought doesn't seem welcome here.
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by penguindev 12y ago
Downvoters: do you have a problem with anyone having a different opinion?
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by penguindev 12y ago
A bit OT from your question, but I've had an organic lawn the last 3-4 years (in Illinois), and while it's certainly debatable if tall organic grass 'crowds out dandelions' or not, I've been quite happy with the nat
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by penguindev 12y ago
I also like how bringing the RAM up works: it starts with getting the south bridge running, then querying the RAM SPD for timings (via the south bridge smbus), and then programs the northbridge with the right timing information. Wow.
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by penguindev 12y ago
The writing is amazing. I had a turbo-XT back in the day, so parts 1 and 2 really bring you back if you were of that age. Part 3: "Running C code is a bit more difficult. The problem is that the code generated by any standard C compil
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by penguindev 12y ago
The point is not that you can't outweigh all the 'bad indicators' by 'good indicators' that you, personally, weight more highly. If you want to make that argument, great. He said 'by nearly all indicators&#x2
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by penguindev 12y ago
Great link. It's annoyed me to no end that people think they can 'feed the world' with just 'one more [dangerous and unsustainable] science hack'. (Hint: the world will find a way to get hungrier)
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by penguindev 12y ago
Yeah, because human labor is so important these days, compared to having more resources per capita, and robots/technology. /sarc.
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by penguindev 12y ago
Surely the moral thing to do is develop non-polluting energy sources before bringing more people into the world? Fix the problem ourselves and not make it our kids' problem?
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by penguindev 12y ago
Thanks. I agree that maybe, if you balance out the total good vs total bad, you could make an argument that world-wide things are, on net, better, depending how sanguine you are about population growth/totals. But the way he makes th
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by penguindev 12y ago
It starts out with "By almost any measure, the world is better than it has ever been." sorry, that's just bullshit. "Melinda and I are struck by how many people think the world is getting worse." Gee. Must be nice
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by penguindev 12y ago
Yes, it's unclear why they are pretending it was unclear :-)
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by penguindev 12y ago
As if the hardware / software stack you'd 'host it yourself on' is secure?
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by penguindev 12y ago
I see what you mean. But, at this point I'm not really interested in dicking around with it any more :-)
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by penguindev 12y ago
where does it say VPC only?
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by penguindev 12y ago
$51 is only the up front fee. It's $77 for the year, plus you need an EBS volume - say $6 for a magnetic disk 10 GB EBS, or $12 for an SSD.
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by penguindev 12y ago
Yep. Heart attacks, perpetual 'diabetes treatment', borrowing a million (or a trillion) dollars you can't pay back and spending it, promising unrealistic pension benefits, and depleting natural resources (wood, water, energy
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by penguindev 12y ago
Yes, that's standard deployment practice, but unfortunately with appcache, nothing links index.html to any specific version of the manifest. You can't even query it to see what version of the manifest you have. So you can end up
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The HTML5 appcache is the New Bootloader(kjpgit.github.io)
29 points by penguindev 12y ago|15 comments
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Appreciating Mud(kjpgit.github.io)
2 points by penguindev 12y ago|0 comments
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by penguindev 12y ago
EBS is still pretty poor for IOPS, even using SSDs. (It's network attached storage, after all). RDS also uses EBS instead of native DB replication, so expect a huge slowdown from native. If you wanted real IO speed, run two postgres
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by penguindev 12y ago
Is there more than way to attack level 3? SPOILER: I used the " html += "<img src='/static/level3/cloud" + num + ".jpg' />"; " untrusted injection, but after reading t
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by penguindev 12y ago
Right. Even Unreal had software rendering (and looked damn good - water, sky, fog).
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by penguindev 12y ago
Before. http://www.census.gov/prod/techdoc/cps/cpsmar12.pdf "Data on consumer income collected in the CPS by the Census Bureau cover money income received (exclusive of certain money receipts such as c
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by penguindev 12y ago
When I saw this chart, the one mitigating thing I thought of was company provided health insurance. Surely that makes up for some of the lost salary? Alas, when I checked wikipedia, employer provided health insurance expanded dramatically
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The long, agonizing decline of the U.S. economy, in one chart(knowmore.washingtonpost.com)
1 points by penguindev 12y ago|4 comments
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by penguindev 12y ago
I hope you find some reason to live on this planet [does not have to be your day job]. I also thought about your 'dysfunctional == competitive advantage' question. I watched an hour long talk by John Wooden [it's on netflix
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by penguindev 12y ago
I like all your points, but option 2 is very intriguing. I've never had the time for that, given I use all my mental and physical capacities for my day job. So I'm conflicted; I just don't think I'd have enough time to
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by penguindev 12y ago
Just first ask yourself if the next person to work on this code will appreciate the 'new features' you used.
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by penguindev 12y ago
I'd agree that design and building are separate tasks and they can easily become too complex for one person, so it's best if it's divided. As long as someone 'owns' the design (for good and bad), it's less fru

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