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by pjz 4y ago
Other things (besides time & current inside temp) that a thermostat could (should?) use: sunrise/sunset time, hourly weather forecast, current & projected house power usage, current & projected grid power usage Note that al
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by pjz 4y ago
Daily since Google Reader shut down, via self-hosted commafeed ( https://github.com/Athou/commafeed ).
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by pjz 4y ago
...and daemontools. and djbdns. He was quirky about licensing for a long time, but I think has gotten over that.
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by pjz 4y ago
I agree it's kind of odd that our dev process is essentially a sea of broken states with intermittent workingness (if you count by states, I mean). Version control commits are an attempt to hilight/preserve those working states.
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by pjz 5y ago
His twitter was active less than an hour ago: https://nitter.net/zverok
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by pjz 5y ago
>(Kibana is not supported with zinc. Zinc provides its own UI). 1. I was hoping for a drop-in replacement for Elasticsearch. A new/different API means Zinc can't leverage existing tools that use Elasticsearch. 2. I don't
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by pjz 5y ago
As far as I'm concerned, America's Test Kitchen is the gold standard, with Consumer Reports just a little behind them.
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by pjz 5y ago
Perl 4, 5, or 6? What's CPAN's dependency resolution like?
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by pjz 5y ago
HN has been around for at least 5 years, right? Probably some interesting stats on how many 'Show HN's are live, dead or decomposed. Live: updated in the last year Dead: not updated in the last year, but still available. Decomp
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by pjz 5y ago
Exactly: Any _individual_ change may or may not be good - but change _in general_ is good, because without it there's no chance of getting better. And any hope of improvement is infinitely better than no hope of improvement.
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by pjz 8y ago
...isn't that called a `try` block?
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by pjz 8y ago
...why does everyone forget that `getattr()` has an optional `default` argument? It's helpful for stuff like this.
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by pjz 8y ago
This is subtly incorrect. Correctly, it should be: libpaths = paths.split(":") if paths is not None else [] or else falsey values of paths (0, [], False) can still cause an error.
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by pjz 8y ago
http://www.bugseverywhere.org/
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by pjz 8y ago
This stuck out to me too. Fractals teach us that infinite length can be fitted into finite area, so I'm dubious about this claim. Though I guess if we're in the realm of physics, the Planck constant determines a kind of minimum
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by pjz 8y ago
I don't think his point is so much about the source as it is about updating N containers. For instance, say there's a known libssl bug. Can you tell how many of your containers are running that version of libssl? And how do the
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by pjz 10y ago
XF86Config is now Xorg and is only used in the rare cases (dealing with proprietary drivers or strange configurations, mostly) where you want to override the defaults. Most people don't have an Xorg.conf file anymore. For all that peo
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by pjz 10y ago
...fast, correct, cheap: pick two.
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by pjz 10y ago
Maybe durable goods should be taxed inversely based on the length of the warranty.
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by pjz 12y ago
See http://liquidfeedback.org/
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by pjz 12y ago
> Why would anyone prefer Python, given that there is a much faster, free alternative in Julia, which is just as easy a language to program in? Python also has a much more mature ecosystem (read: more pre-written libraries to do what you
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by pjz 12y ago
Your 'Less Performant' paragraph seems to misunderstand where the big CPU hit happens: It happens with database inserts (which require mining a valid nonce), not with verifies (which only require verifying that a transaction block