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601.
by pronoiac 11y ago
> In a few years we've gone from /etc/init.d/sshd restart to service sshd restart to systemctl start sshd . Aw man, I just got used to the second one!
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by pronoiac 11y ago
Oh, the 19A0s. I'm surprised jwz doesn't have a tag for them; he's definitely labelled bands befitting that era. Here are some relevant computer GUIs: http://visualpunker.tumblr.com/post/49438567333/
603.
by pronoiac 11y ago
- because fracking is bringing cheaper oil and gas, for lower energy costs.
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by pronoiac 11y ago
Not only that, I can control how much CPU and Memory the app uses. Yes, the cpu/memory hungry Chrome is now perfectly contained! Ooh, I like the sound of this!
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by pronoiac 11y ago
Oh, cool! I've looked into suffix trees and suffix arrays, by way of investigating how diff works. While I found suffix trees hard to understand, this is a great explanation of suffix arrays. Suffix arrays can take much less space - I&
606.
by pronoiac 11y ago
There's a mention of scheduling backups in the Github repo, as an upcoming feature, but in the meantime, here's my tarsnap-cron: https://github.com/pronoiac/tarsnap-cron
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by pronoiac 11y ago
The games - Microcorruption and the Crypto Challenges - aren't going anywhere.
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Matasano brand officially retired by NCC Group(twitter.com)
2 points by pronoiac 11y ago|1 comments
609.
by pronoiac 11y ago
Yeah, Stewart Butterfield is kinda the most successful least successful game developer ever.
610.
by pronoiac 11y ago
"I have discovered a truly remarkable proof of the Banach-Tarski theorem which this margin is too small to contain - oh wait, this is a webcomic, of course there's room!"
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by pronoiac 11y ago
Maybe I'm seeing a connection where there isn't one, but there's a conversation in a nearby thread about extending shells: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9673975
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by pronoiac 11y ago
Hey, would that be easier if we rewrite the coreutils in, say, Rust? Honest question.
613.
by pronoiac 11y ago
Huh, the "Images and layers" section is 404'ing. Edit: ah, here it is - https://github.com/odewahn/docker-jumpstart/blob/master/publ... Edit: filed a PR
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by pronoiac 11y ago
I think Pinboard is deliberately aiming at changing less than most web sites, and he probably has better backups than I do for my own computers. Also, I have lots of devices, and it's nice to be able to save and access the archives f
615.
by pronoiac 11y ago
Pinboard can keep archives of bookmarked pages, and can also watch, say, your Twitter for new links.
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by pronoiac 11y ago
From memory, they do a spectrum analysis (frequency vs time) and look for peaks, specifically sets of three peaks in a row, evenly spaced. Gather a lot of them and send them in.
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Falling in Love with a Hard Drive: How to Name Your Computer and Other Machines(medium.com)
6 points by pronoiac 11y ago|4 comments
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by pronoiac 11y ago
> There were also always a small group of prostitutes on the corner of Larkin and Sutter. Please! They're transvestite prostitutes. They're a step up from regular prostitutes.
619.
by pronoiac 11y ago
This is about the Bitcoin blockchain, btw. (My guess was hard drive details.)
620.
by pronoiac 11y ago
Hey, I'd like to know more about your speech-to-text project, if you're willing to share.
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by pronoiac 11y ago
There is help; here are some resources on suicide and depression, including hotlines around the world. http://mefiwiki.com/wiki/ThereIsHelp Disclosure: I run the server.
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by pronoiac 11y ago
Check out the key roles; you can split up writing and deleting archives, so - for example - a hacked machine can't delete the archives. This is nice.
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by pronoiac 11y ago
NDN sounds a lot like http://ipfs.io/
624.
by pronoiac 12y ago
Maybe? It looks like they're in contact; see Proposals at the bottom of http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=INTERNETARCHIVE.BAK - it says a proposal is in progress.
625.
by pronoiac 12y ago
Huh, I first read about magnetic fingertip implants back in 2006: http://archive.wired.com/gadgets/mods/news/2006/06/71087?cur...
626.
by pronoiac 12y ago
Yup, it made it seem either a bit incoherent or that ugh, Everything is Wrong!
627.
by pronoiac 12y ago
It's a bit incoherent that way. "Macs are bad, because they change every six months" (what?) and also "ooh, using this version of Ubuntu is bad somehow, because it's three years into its five years of support.&quo
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by pronoiac 12y ago
The Corman Fantastic Four? If memory serves, it was quickly filmed just to keep the license.
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by pronoiac 12y ago
Ugh. The site's down, here's the Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Ju2jJJ_... I emailed jwz, and he blames a reader here for a DDOS, specifically a synflood. Please knock that off.
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by pronoiac 12y ago
Hmmm, this is kinda nifty. How long does the mysqldump and git commit take? It seems like comments could DOS the server.

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