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by riobard 14y ago
Portrait mode will screw subpixel rendering of text.
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by riobard 14y ago
Linus Torvalds said O_DIRECT shouldn't be used because Linux's already implemented page cache and application developers should not bother to re-invent the wheel. However page caching algorithms are pretty generic and database people think
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by riobard 14y ago
That's not the point. The point is NO ONE can promise 100% uptime. One can promise a 99.999% uptime and refund for the downtime. If one promises 100% uptime, either he's lying or he's just stupid.
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by riobard 14y ago
100% uptime SLA? Really?
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by riobard 14y ago
Unfortunately this only works for multiple addresses with the same SMTP account on the same server. All mails you send will be from that account (check the MAIL-FROM field in the SMTP session). If you have separate personal/work accounts, y
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by riobard 14y ago
Scala with actors fit into rank 3 too.
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by riobard 14y ago
Interesting. I was using the Podcast app too, which I believed was the reason for the data overage. It shouldn't be, though. A few podcasts are definitely under 1GB. This AV Foundation Framework issue seemed to be the root cause.
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by riobard 14y ago
Hmm, so this explained my 3G data overage last month. I have 6GB/month of data, and usually I'd be using around only 700MB. But last month my iPhone 4S (running iOS 6.0) consumed nearly 8GB in total, resulted in quite some overage fee. Shou
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by riobard 14y ago
For those who want to run their own copy of this, here's how to do it: 1. Find a Mac-based server (a co-located Mac Mini will be fine) 2. Run `say -o output.wav $TEXT` to generate the voice 3. Compress the WAVE file with `lame` or the syste
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by riobard 14y ago
s/chairwomen/chairwoman/
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by riobard 14y ago
“high-speed link would make New Zealand an attractive location for data centers” Why would anyone want to host in a data center with such high latency?
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by riobard 14y ago
Isn't that just a simulation, not for real?
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Go's int type will be 64-bit on amd64(code.google.com)
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by riobard 14y ago
Yes, in theory. Unless you run into a not-so-compliant mail daemon…
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by riobard 14y ago
There you go, Facebook's BigPipe!
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by riobard 14y ago
That's silly. Simple frequency analysis would defeat this, no OCR required.
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by riobard 14y ago
Why would 3rd party Twitter client developers want to open-source their apps? Just to hurt Twitter at their own financial cost?
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by riobard 14y ago
…based on a strange measurement of “PPP GDP per CO2 ton per million people”. GDP per CO2 emission gives you rough measurement of one economy's energy efficiency. GDP per capita gives you rough measurement of the wealth of the economy. What
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by riobard 14y ago
The trick is to put a space before the first word of the title.
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by riobard 14y ago
Just try visiting the page on iPad and zoom. You'll know. (Hint: browser crash)
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by riobard 14y ago
No, this thing isn't a software platform . You cannot build any applications with this alone. This is a library . We have these precise terms. Don't abuse them.
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by riobard 14y ago
Can we stop calling these things “frameworks” if they are so lightweight?
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by riobard 14y ago
Google is also stabbed on its back by Android OEMs and carriers for replacing many Google services with 3rd-party alternatives. This is especially true in China (2nd largest market for Apple) where almost all Google apps have been replaced/
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by riobard 14y ago
Based on my experience, that's not how it works at all in practice. They will ask these info about your real identity as recorded in their CRM systems. I doubt you can list your name as BLAH BLAH BLAH there and still receive your package de
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by riobard 14y ago
Actually, it appears to me that almost 100% of “security questions” used during support phone calls are completely insecure. Usually they'll ask a few (2~3 is normal) questions like your full name, date of birth, address with zipcode, email
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by riobard 14y ago
The forced capitalization of the first word of submitted titles is becoming increasingly frustrating. Please do not second guess users!
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by riobard 14y ago
Not sure about it now. My conclusion from that research was that the risk of getting into trouble is too high and I don't want to waste my time worrying about a giant box of plastic.
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by riobard 14y ago
Hmmm, LG panels... These panels were available since a few years ago on Taobao.com (China's eBay if that helps) in small quantities, and there were lots of excitement to make your own “Cinema Display” at 1/3 the price. As a big screen lover
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by riobard 14y ago
I know this has been asked thousands times before, but I want to know with this latest release, should I switch from Bash to Zsh now? What features do Zsh offer which are not in Bash? Currently I'm thinking about the Fish-style syntax highl
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by riobard 14y ago
I used to SSH into my wife's Mac and asked her to come over if we are in different rooms :)

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