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by pp19dd 10y ago
Using screen in daemon mode. screen -dmS myservice /blah/start.sh Fit that line somewhere in a properly constructed init.d file and you're good to go. And if you need to execute a safe stop from that program through
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by pp19dd 10y ago
LabVIEW was eerily satisfying to write code in. Or at least some type of code in. Loops and logic blocks got a tiny bit weird, but overall you could do a lot with sub-vis. I find myself craving it even 15 years later.
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by pp19dd 10y ago
> These entities cannot continue to operate as both buyer and seller. There is an inherent conflict of interest when the entity that consults on how to solve a problem then also offers to sell you the solution. The government outlawed su
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Why the First Close-Up Image of Mars Was Hastily Painted in Pastels(motherboard.vice.com)
2 points by pp19dd 10y ago|0 comments
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Think you should identify this label better and once you do, you'll know if there's anything to correct. From a glance at this, I'm reading "toxic discussion" as relating to inter-department communication. You ment
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by pp19dd 10y ago
I share with others and recognize all the problems with atom. It's so incredibly slow on my strained workstation, especially with large files. And yet, same thing happened to me: it's become my default GUI editor.
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by pp19dd 10y ago
Alright that was actually funny and maybe useful to help detract from serious news. Now if it only had a googly eyes option.
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by pp19dd 11y ago
The part where the guy chuckles and says that some of us could recognize this problem as part of their employment application at Google was a bit disturbing. It sounded innocent, but, ominous really. Just assume for a second that I'm
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by pp19dd 11y ago
Erm, that's the manage posting link (with a secret edit key / password in the URL.)
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by pp19dd 11y ago
A legitimate firefox bug? Firefox did this for me too, so I started investigating the glitch. Chrome worked just fine. Overall, this sort of thing would happen to me occasionally (and my colleagues) with h.264 <video> elements: it&
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by pp19dd 11y ago
My opinion is that Microsoft is just acquiring an existing community set and tools that come with it. They're positioning themselves to be pertinent.
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by pp19dd 11y ago
An aspect to consider is that minecraft is a very social game. A game that draws the young, and spreads social development informally through interactions between kids. It's an afterschool chatroom of its day. It's a medium that d
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by pp19dd 11y ago
It's usually leaders in the industry that make good use of metrics, not followers. Reason being is that followers often try to emulate a process they have no working knowledge of, so their measurements and actionables become cosmetic.
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by pp19dd 11y ago
If you're into any electronics tinkering at all, a good way to get up to speed with assembly is to take a look at some microcontrollers, such as PIC and make some simple hardware projects happen. There are tons of project blueprints o
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by pp19dd 11y ago
Just for sake of some humor and perspective, compare the clickbaity stories you dislike to a police blotter story from print. One of my favorites from Baltimore is this one, in its entirety: "Someone entered the rear yard of a house i
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by pp19dd 11y ago
Just to point this out, traffic always drove shaping of journalism. That's exactly how beats are established and budgeted. For example, typical metro desk stories are always popular but not always overly staffed because the news pr
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by pp19dd 11y ago
> The write-up is in response to a question asking how long dams like the Hoover Dam, which is a large concrete dam, are designed to last. It wasn't suggesting that all dams are concrete. But the author mixes concrete dams with tail
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by pp19dd 11y ago
By last count (few years old), the number of dams was estimated at ~84,000 (not 76,000). Close, but that numerical discrepancy should point out one thing: it's an estimate. USACE maintains an authoritative database of dams in USA (an
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by pp19dd 11y ago
Think the closest you can get to that is the direct iframe at http://www.theatlantic.com/media/interactives/2015/11/colora... (leaflet page.)
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by pp19dd 11y ago
Still, didn't stop me from looking at these anagram combinations: http://wordsmith.org/anagram/anagram.cgi?anagram=abfdefghiij... abfdefghiijklmmnohpp Bank Dig He Jiff Hmm Plop "Jiff he dig bank
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by pp19dd 11y ago
Have you got some screenshots/videos to share of the car screen doing its thing? The Bloomberg video did a pretty good job, but, we're geeks and we need more of that stuff.
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Irradiated: The hidden legacy of 70 years of atomic weaponry(media.mcclatchydc.com)
25 points by pp19dd 11y ago|15 comments
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On that existential tangent, there are times I find it comforting that fools pay me to write code they want written. It's like ghostwriting: it pays the bills. You write a biography for any idiot the way they want it. The 'auth
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by pp19dd 11y ago
Set your coordinates to 0.5 positions instead of whole pixels and look at the differences. Like if you draw a line from 100,100 to 200,200 try 100.5,100.5 to 200.5,200.5 For a quick glance, take a look at this nasty ultra-dense rendering i
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by pp19dd 11y ago
Thanks for sharing that. I had seen the Klein bottles under his workshop video awhile back, but I had no idea how deep this rabbit hole went.
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by pp19dd 11y ago
Their choice of 'Old Persian cuneiform' is also ... weird. I don't know how to phrase it, but seems doubly misleading. The time period they're preferring by that choice is ~500-300 BCE, whereas my appeal of cuneiform is
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by pp19dd 11y ago
IMO, it's not writing that you're necessarily struggling with, but editing afterwards. Good writing is a process that includes time to think about that writing. The answer is to write a lot. After you go through a certain volume
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by pp19dd 11y ago
So I have a feeling that starting next month they're basically gimping their API on purpose to drive developers toward GNIP, which they bought last year for $134 million. Developers who can afford it anyway, because GNIP is not cheap.
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Yes, it really is important. I don't mean that in the sense that it's dehumanizing to replace a human being with a number and then round up or down, but in the sense of determining things like: are civilian casualties caused by Al
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by pp19dd 11y ago
It establishes him as a reliable source for verification of civilian casualties, even relied on and confirmed by the U.N. From the director of strategic communications, UNAMA: "Verification of civilian casualties is a painstaking, long

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