premchai21

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by premchai21 15y ago
MIME multipart is pretty good in and of itself, and in particular can represent a larger space of content types well. I'm trying to imagine how this interacts with things like URI fragment identifiers, though. MIME has Content-ID, but tha
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by premchai21 15y ago
Reading this leaves me troubled. Why not the XLink vocabulary, for instance? I can understand something like this appearing for JSON if only so that people have an intrametalinguistic transition path for their JSON APIs, but letting so mu
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by premchai21 15y ago
Electrolytic capacitors are capable of popping violently should they become internally shorted by excessive overvoltage or reverse bias. The aqueous electrolyte destabilizes and produces hydrogen, which builds up pressure inside the casing
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by premchai21 15y ago
Except for the Flash that's necessary in the background for the more advanced audio modes.
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by premchai21 15y ago
I don't see how it does. Making note of the entrenchment bonus granted by a language already known by much of the target audience isn't necessarily making a value statement about the bonus or secondary effects thereof.
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by premchai21 15y ago
It seems to me that it should be possible to use memcpy between multiple C variables to avoid straight type-punning, and then have the compiler reöptimize it into aliased memory or registers (assuming the source isn't volatile memory or som
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by premchai21 15y ago
While I can't confirm it definitively, it looks as though it may require Flash to handle the audio underneath. If so, this is unfortunate, but perhaps understandable: as nice as the audio tag is for basic purposes, the lack of precise cont
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by premchai21 15y ago
Last I checked, the LuaJIT allocator on AMD64 platforms uses only a small part of the address space for the Lua heap, partly so that more efficient type-punned representations can be used internally. I don't remember what the limit is exac
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by premchai21 15y ago
One major hazard is consumer-grade Internet service that has onerous terms that prohibit running servers from a home connection, for any number of reasons. (Some would see this as cultural complicitness with “client/server as technosocial
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by premchai21 15y ago
> Any member of the public can visit a local university or large public library and get access to any book or journal article they desire. This has not been entirely my experience. Unfortunately, I only have a half-remembered anecdote
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by premchai21 15y ago
I'm curious: are there reasons you were searching for a female designer specifically? (Unless I'm misinterpreting that sentence, that is.)
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by premchai21 15y ago
> So long as your CD doesn't include any square waves, you're golden. Could you explain what you mean by this? Are you referring to certain patterns that fall within standard Redbook audio parameters that FLAC then fails to encode prop
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by premchai21 15y ago
A problem arises, however, when what appears “brazen” to people who have already interacted with a community for a long period is not so obvious to anyone else. Many community standards (such as “nice”) are nebulous and have vastly differi
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by premchai21 15y ago
It's more like hiding a treasure chest somewhere in the ocean (of cryptographic tokens) and then losing the map (private key) when your ship (filesystem) sinks. (Arrrr!) This is something that happens with physical objects of monetary val
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by premchai21 15y ago
Hrrrm. This redefinition, while trivially possible, seems irrelevant. Possession of assets is first and foremost a practical matter. (I think you understand this, but for the benefit of the discussion…) In the case of primary real-world
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by premchai21 15y ago
Actually, while the Bitcoin system itself does not arbitrarily distribute any money to new clients, there does exist a Bitcoin Faucet[1] to help newcomers try the system out, allowing various people to acquire a few free cBTC once. [1] htt
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by premchai21 15y ago
The part of this that stands out to me: the OS claims to be open source. But the bootloader is proprietary. Why? Does the source depend on proprietary specifications that have been embedded in parts of it or something? The documentation
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by premchai21 15y ago
Are you sure about “none” being singular in that context? I agree that the title is inconsistent, but I'd have written “None of us know what we're doing” (if I couldn't just pick some other phrasing). gcide defines “none” as “No one; not o
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by premchai21 15y ago
I'm certainly glad if MessagePack allows non-string keys in maps, as it apparently does (I've only read the spec so far, but not had a chance to try the code). This is a real pain in JSON. My stock “basic data type” set comes mainly from R
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by premchai21 15y ago
The big problem with mmap seems to be handling I/O errors. The most transparent uses of mmap are for executables. Failing to page in part of the program can probably reasonably result in a crash. But what of a server process handling a p
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by premchai21 15y ago
Actually, I'm in the target audience for phone books. I love receiving those (within reason). I wish I had more right now. Why? Two main reasons. One is for actually looking up local telephone numbers. I prefer this to looking them up
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by premchai21 15y ago
FWIW, the main article has "GLBSE", not "GBLSE".
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by premchai21 15y ago
Obligatory story from the Old New Thing: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2006/12/01/11847...
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by premchai21 15y ago
For reference, the wavelength of an 8 KiHz electromagnetic wave (the Nyquist frequency at their sampling rate) is over 36 km. (Edit: at the speed of light in vacuum, that is.) Perhaps I'm misunderstanding something, but this would seem to
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by premchai21 15y ago
What would you recommend more specifically? In particular, whatever LastPass is doing seems likely to be fragile unless there's consensus about how to identify a form as one that accepts tokens (usually a username/password combination) to
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by premchai21 15y ago
> But have YOU read all the fine print when opening an account with your bank? Yes. Paraphrased: Bank agent: “You'll also have to sign this.” (Hands over a sheet of paper.) Me: “Let's see here… […] ‘comply with the Deposit Agreement an
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by premchai21 15y ago
(Compacted for space. Original. Use tr '/' '\n' | sed -e 's/^ //' -e 's/ $//' to reëxpand, with a paragraph break being "\n\n". Sorry for the repeated initial edits and such; I had to try to work out the HN formatting rules.) When humans
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by premchai21 15y ago
That certainly wasn't my intention specifically. I mentioned htmlspecialchars because it was the example being used upthread, but any API with analogous functionality is potentially subject to similar provisos, and if any surrounding cultu
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by premchai21 15y ago
(Note that I haven't been able to see the original video so far, so add salt to taste.) > If you manage to make a single tab commit that much memory as a delta without Flash (remember, 13 MB to > 400 MB) please screenshot about:memo
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by premchai21 15y ago
I use single-quoted attributes on a regular basis when editing XML (and HTML, which I edit as XML) documents by hand, mainly because it conserves a noticeable amount of Shift keying on the US keyboard layout. If necessary I mechanically tr

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