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by pronoiac 5y ago
> Why not store the "is-paying-customer" bit in a cookie? You shouldn't trust the client. You probably don't want people to get access to paid features with a relatively easy tweak of cookies. The client-side filter i
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by pronoiac 5y ago
Aw, I have a copy of the 1988 Byte issue on Lisp that I ought to scan and contribute, though probably to the Internet Archive, as I'm not sure how to send it in here.
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> Instead of cheap VPS servers we have tried getting dedicated servers at larger European hosters like OVH, Hetzner, ihor and NFOrce. The idea is that we have exclusive resources, so the chances of us impacting other customers is lower,
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by pronoiac 5y ago
I haven't done this, but I've bookmarked a few. Audiotap, for Commodore 64 - https://wav-prg.sourceforge.io/audiotap.html WAV2CAS and CAS2WAV, for a Atari 8-bit - http://home.planet.nl/~ernest&#x2F
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As I put some books into storage, the LibraryThing app on my phone could use the camera to scan the isbn bar codes for my books, and I could tag them with "box 6" and the like. Searching for books without isbns wasn't hard.
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Who's the fun god? Who's the sun god? Ra! Ra! Ra!
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From the About page, https://cloudintosh.sharedigm.com/#about > Cloudintosh is a place for you to store, access, and share your digital world using the look and feel of your favorite operating system. It combines a cloud
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The "contact" link in the footer points to the mods' email address. I've dropped a line.
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The original title: Dolphin Progress Report: August 2021 I've emailed the mods to suggest a change.
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> But locales give a delicious sweet spot of brokenness, where things are broken enough to cause neverending pain, but not broken enough that enough effort would have spent to fix it completely. Oh, this feels familiar. I most recently h
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I like Synology, but I'd suggest more than two drives, so that increasing the size can be done gradually rather than by replacing every drive at the same time.
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I've heard that if you're using different-sized pens on the same print, it can be better to wrap them in tape to fit, to avoid alignment issues.
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I recently read a blog post on putting the Crafting Interpreters book together, and there was an interesting tidbit about visual pdf diffs (under Proofreading the proof ) - https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2021/07&#x
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by pronoiac 5y ago
I checked my bookmarks, and there have been success stories for porting cobol into other languages. Here's a discussion from 2019, from cobol into Java: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19839563 Phase 1: automation
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Wow, the nerdsniping on this is something. Note, for my math, I failed to consider that entries wouldn't fit in one byte. Figuring out an encoding might help. Laying out a sequence in blocks might also help overcome the speed differe
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Reading the Wikipedia page for the Collatz conjecture is interesting; the time-space tradeoff item specifically made me consider the benefit of using a couple of terabytes of disk space for it. (I think 2 to the 40th of space, for a factor
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by pronoiac 5y ago
> In this post I discuss how you can upgrade a NAS Server by adding Thunderbolt 3 for lightning fast connectivity at 20 or 40Gbps. This is an interesting angle of attack, though I'll note that 10Gbps Ethernet was added as an option
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by pronoiac 5y ago
You might look at Kiwix, and the data sources they've indexed: https://www.kiwix.org/en/ (Oddly, it's crashing at launch on my iPad right now)
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"We do these things not because they were easy, but because we thought they would be easy."
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This is the reason I haven't upgraded to Sublime 4 yet.
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I wasn't familiar with the site, and when I clicked the Back button, or tried to go to the homepage to see what was there, I got redirected to scammy "update your Flash plugin" malware pages, so ... I'm ok with this.
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If we were counting bytes of memory, it would be 256MB.
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From the "unexpectedly useful for security research" link: > Due to the birthday problem, any repository that has at least 19291 commits is likely to have a pair of ambiguous commits somewhere.
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Doing the math, 2 to the 28th is around 268 million.
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I like this! It's similar to what I did when turning formulae of an ebook from gif to something prettier and more editable. The whole book only had a dozen formulae, so manual work actually covered everything. I used the codecogs edito
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Norvig's PAIP is available to read online: https://github.com/norvig/paip-lisp I've helped on the ongoing work of ebook cleanup.
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From their GitHub readme: > AltStore is an iOS application that allows you to sideload other apps (.ipa files) onto your iOS device with just your Apple ID. AltStore re-signs apps with your personal development certificate and sends them
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by pronoiac 5y ago
Sneakernet updates seem doable? If you follow the "adding the quality content" link to https://github.com/iiab/iiab/wiki/IIAB-Installation#add-cont... , there are many sources mentioned, like Kiwix
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by pronoiac 5y ago
It's an offline stash of free knowledge, such as Wikipedia, Khan Academy, and OpenStreetMap. It brought to mind El Paquete Semanal, Cuba's sneakernet culture drop: https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-cuban-cdn/
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Possibly better link: http://www.5z8.info/instant-purchase_g3k1bk_kkk

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