riobard

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   by riobard 14y ago

   `security` lets you manipulate your Keychains. `say` lets you do text-to-speech in command line.
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   by riobard 14y ago

   Ha, that's the one I'm dreaming about! Thanks!
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   by riobard 14y ago

   Please don't feel sorry about it. I'm actually quite happy to see it's still useful for someone today. I'm just not sure what to do with it next. Right now it doesn't cost me anything to run it anyway. Thanks very much for your idea :) I wa
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   by riobard 14y ago

   Actually they have to do the compression on the mobile clients before uploading, otherwise it will take forever and cost a real fortunate on the mobile data usage.
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   by riobard 14y ago

   Author of airportcode.riobard.com here. Couldn't believe my eyes when I saw someone wrote a script to call that ancient API of mine from a few years back. Thank you for the `sleep 1` =) I haven't maintained that service for a long time, and
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   by riobard 14y ago

   You don't need to worry about the particular structure of the files if you break the files into fixed-size chunks (e.g. 512KB) and do the dedup based on the chunks. The difference in the metadata of MP3 will be just in the first chunk, and
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   by riobard 14y ago

   Ha, this is very cool. I didn't know you can cross-compile Go before. Just tried and it's really easy to setup a build for multiple architecture. Thanks for the tip!
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   by riobard 14y ago

   You can do the same thing with any compiled language This is not necessarily true. Remember the DLL hell? Go does not support dynamic linking at all (some say this is a disadvantage), so you are forced to produce a single self-contained b
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   by riobard 14y ago

   Another reason Go has been helpful is that is generates a single executable that can be distributed to our clients. There's no complex dependency chain or layout of shared libraries to worry about. This is such a subtle yet profound featu
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    by riobard 14y ago

    There's a Crucial M4 deal running on Amazon a few days ago...
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    by riobard 14y ago

    Reading two-column 10pt/letter-size PDF (most academic papers are formatted this way) on 1280x800 is not a pleasant experience, whatever the physical size. The only way you can read all those tiny footnotes is using the landscape mode at fu
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    by riobard 14y ago

    You won't be able to fit that fanless heatsink inside a laptop. It's just way too big.
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    by riobard 14y ago

    iFixit seemed to suggest the panel is from LG Phillips. I doubt Apple have much to do with the panel per se, but the actual design of the new cover glass and the way they make it that thin might be patentable.
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    by riobard 14y ago

    How so? Because they bought up all hi-res panel supply? Other manufacturers will catch up sooner or later on this, or they will face sale declines. I don't see how Apple intentionally prevent others from moving to retina displays. If anythi
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    by riobard 14y ago

    even the ipad uses sub-pixel rendering for its fonts No, it doesn't. No iOS devices use sub-pixel rendering, ever. Unless you mistake it for normal anti-aliasing, which is done on pixel level. I have less than perfect eyesight. I hold m
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    by riobard 14y ago

    Thanks! Does the support of devices (e.g. different chips) affect the choice of which one to use?
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    by riobard 14y ago

    If Apple really pushes the whole industry into Retina-era, we can probably forget about subpixels in a year or two.
18. 498.▲
    by riobard 14y ago

    Can anyone familiar with DD-wrt/OpenWrt/Tomato comment with their relative merits against each other?
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    by riobard 14y ago

    Actually the ”ClearType Display” makes sense if they cannot provide Retina-like screens at reasonable price and have to settle for subpixel rendering…
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    by riobard 14y ago

    Funny that the spec sheet is a PDF, which none of Microsoft's shipping operating systems or browsers have native support for.
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    by riobard 14y ago

    OK, I see your point. But I doubt browsers will support this by default...
22. 502.▲
    by riobard 14y ago

    Autofill profile will be the same for everyone, no?
23. 503.▲
    by riobard 14y ago

    No I don't want to fill the form by hand. I'd like the browser to autofill it for me the next time.
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    by riobard 14y ago

    Thanks for this tip! I guess this is more secure than just opening up all rebind from the wild.
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    by riobard 14y ago

    I have a dd-wrt router with DNSmasq functioning as the DNS server for local hosts. DNSmasq resolves external domains using Google DNS (8.8.8.8/8.8.4.4). With this setup, domain names like 192.168.X.X.xip.io and 127.X.X.X.xip.io won't resolv
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    by riobard 14y ago

    Thanks! Seems DP++ can do regular DP, HDMI, DVI, and VGA, which is pretty awesome!
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    by riobard 14y ago

    Anyone knows what is DisplayPort++?
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    by riobard 14y ago

    Just want to point out one obvious thing that I found very interesting: that the V8 JavaScript engine which makes Node exist in the first place comes from the same company which makes Go.
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    by riobard 14y ago

    If I remembered correctly, Facebook uses this method to deliver their 1GB PHP-converted-to-C++-then-compiled binary to their server farms because that's the only way they can update without crashing some central servers.
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    by riobard 15y ago

    Quickly make a dict: >>> keys = ["foo", "bar", "spam", "egg"] >>> values = [1, 2, 3, 4] >>> dict(zip(keys, values)) {'egg': 4, 'foo': 1, 'bar': 2, 'spam': 3} Quite useful when you MGE