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by sdkmvx 11y ago
Not that I would advocate confusing matters by changing the calendar again, but you just move the birthdays same as last time. From Wikipedia: George Washington (February 22, 1732 [O.S. February 11, 1731] – December 14, 1799) Notice the yea
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by sdkmvx 11y ago
> Can you imagine if, every time something new happened in Syria, Wikipedia published a new Syria page, and in order to understand the bigger picture, you had to manually sift through hundreds of pages with overlapping information? That
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by sdkmvx 11y ago
Algorithms matter. Do you know how Vim inserts text? It's exponential. It's worse than a shell loop spawning a new echo process every iteration. http://www.galexander.org/vim_sucks.html
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by sdkmvx 11y ago
The reality is always more mundane. They showed supposed UI from Pathfinder displays image blocks of varying sizes in random locations then zooms them all to the right place. It makes a nice effect for the uninitiated, but I have trouble un
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by sdkmvx 12y ago
> it took minutes to establish SSH connections between machines on the same LAN Most likely you were using a stupid DNS server that did not respond to reverse queries. See http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq8.html#RevDNS
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by sdkmvx 12y ago
I run a similar system, but with OpenBSD. I don't have to fight systemd and DBus and PulseAudio there. I find OpenBSD to be a much better put together system in general, at the expense of some desktopy things I'd rather do without
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by sdkmvx 12y ago
What would you do if someone shows up on your mailing list and demands that you change your decade-old workflow that works fine? Weitse and others replies are not inappropriate. Some projects do not want contributors. It belongs to the main
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by sdkmvx 12y ago
For those who don't know (apparently including the authors), this is the standard 3270/IBM terminal font. It is available all over the web in various formats, notably in bitmap format with http://x3270.bgp.nu/ , th
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by sdkmvx 13y ago
Show me where in the ANSI standard it says this is illegal. Implementation details do not matter. The Microsoft C compiler will compile a ANSI C89-conforming program into a runnable executable on Windows. The rest is undefined. And while we
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by sdkmvx 13y ago
See http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=xconsole But I have no idea whether this still exists and works on Linux. It is still started by XDM on OpenBSD though.
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by sdkmvx 13y ago
Many people are responding that you're making a mistake because cash is useful after having been stolen. Clearly this is true. But it is a mistake. Multiply the probability of being mugged in a year by the amount of money you carry. Th
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by sdkmvx 13y ago
In Firefox they can be disabled via the gfx.downloadable_fonts.enabled about:config switch. Unfortunately that will really highlight the accessibility nightmare that icon fonts are, as they don't display and have no alt-text like image
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by sdkmvx 13y ago
I just want to add that this is obviously true because ACID can be implemented on the filesystem, which is not ACID. So to create a reliable transaction processing system on MongoDB (or any non-ACID system), you would need to build ACID on
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by sdkmvx 13y ago
Imagine a pawn shop that loans money on cell phones. Now imagine someone comes in and pawns their phone. It still has service and all, but he thinks he will come back next week and redeem it. A few months pass and he never comes back. Now t
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by sdkmvx 13y ago
> It's not a case of legislators saying "it would be better to have less phone theft so let's try to reduce it this way" - instead it's more like, users want this, but don't have the bargaining power to comp
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by sdkmvx 13y ago
> Yes, it can screw up caches and return unexpected content. Then the cache is broken. Obviously not getting a response is going to confuse things, but there is a way to send back REFUSED without giving a positive or negative answer. Tak
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by sdkmvx 13y ago
> At the least it’s leaking, in clear text on the wire, things that I expected to be sent to an encypted DDG search. If there was sensitive search terms or information in that query, it just dropped into Level3′s logfiles. He must not re
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by sdkmvx 13y ago
OpenBSD supports a number of odd and unusual platforms and does builds on them. See http://www.openbsd.org/plat.html . Older hardware can both use a significant amount of electricity and require much more hand-holding than i
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by sdkmvx 13y ago
Are you suggesting that mkdir should know .ssh is special? I'm not sure that's a good idea. And how will the kernel (yes, it has to be the kernel) ask for a password when you access these files? With a GUI? On the console? So you
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by sdkmvx 13y ago
> Why would anyone even have them be two separate machines with the same content? They are in different locations. openbsd.org is updated first and in the same (physical) location as the CVS servers, build equipment, etc., and www.openbs
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by sdkmvx 13y ago
Zero was (is) special. It dials the operator. This was much more common back then than it is today, so it is fitting that it got a special position. I can't speak for keyboards, but I do recall once reading a Knuth paper on METAFONT wh
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by sdkmvx 13y ago
If you like the X11 Fixed fonts, check out http://monkey.org/~marius/beautiful-fixed-width-fonts-for-os... , which provides 6x13, 7x14, 9x15 and 10x20 in OS X dfont format.
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by sdkmvx 13y ago
Your terminal is probably not correctly configured. Remember that real terminals did not originally have arrow keys or home end keys or really anything that's not in ASCII. If you're actually using a termcap old enough that it doe
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by sdkmvx 13y ago
What does this even mean? Google provides the leased line to the store? The store obtains an Internet connection the normal way, but then tunnels to Google? Or is Google's level of involvement that they have paid for an ad in the SSID?
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by sdkmvx 13y ago
Before widespread communications networks, credit card imprints were taken with machines that look like [1]. They are still sometimes used when networks are down or when there is no phone/Internet network (think temporary locations lik
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by sdkmvx 13y ago
> How many liberal democracies can you point to that have gone the way of totalitarianism, mass imprisonment, and genocide? How many 200 year old liberal democracies can you point to? There's no historical data to look at. This hist
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by sdkmvx 13y ago
> > Note: In order for opt-out to work properly, you need to accept a "cookie" indicating that you have opted out of this service. If you use a program that removes cookies, you will have to repeat this opt-out process when the cook
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by sdkmvx 14y ago
I run a mail server with OpenBSD's spamd[1] with greylisting and it works well enough. Most spam is not sent by SMTP compliant hosts. Blacklisting makes it particularly hard to recover IPs that have ever been compromised and unfairly hurts
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by sdkmvx 14y ago
Is it actually dangerous to use read for user input? (defun read-data () (let ((data (let ((*read-eval* 'nil)) (read)))) (mapcar (lambda (x) (format 't "~a: ~a~%" (car x) (cdr x))) data))) Then I can
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by sdkmvx 14y ago
AirPlay works with any video from the iPod/Music/Videos apps. One can import any video (including tormented TV shows) into iTunes and thus into these apps. It most certainly is AirPlay, although Apple would prefer people to just buy from th

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