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by sfk 18y ago
Very interesting. Do you have an estimate of how tarsnap compares to rsync in terms of bandwidth in the typical case that only a few files have been modified?
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by sfk 18y ago
She should sue Microsoft for negligence and the school for using misconfigured computers and not educating her properly.
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by sfk 18y ago
Yes, you're right. Perhaps Postini does not scan, in which case it would be ok to keep psmtp.com.
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by sfk 18y ago
Choosing a service because it fits your needs is fine, but in the case of Gmail every trivial detail is posted as a new story. I'm running my own innovative, superior, competitive, streamlined combination of qmail+mutt, so forgive me if I
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by sfk 18y ago
I find the amount of attention that a single ordinary mail provider receives in this forum disturbing. On a forum for hackers and startup founders, I'd expect that people use and promote small providers instead of huge corporations.
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by sfk 18y ago
I can't agree with your first paragraph. It's a small breach of trust if I send mail to an innocent domain and it ends up on the servers of an advertising company where it is scanned for keywords without my consent. Remember that you agre
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by sfk 18y ago
I hope your contacts are aware of the forwarding. Not everyone likes to send mail to a gmail account: http://epic.org/privacy/gmail/faq.html
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by sfk 18y ago
We are both in the realm of speculation about the author's motives here. I don't like this particular essay either, in fact I think it's horrible. However, my troll detector is silent on this one. I agree with pg that the author isn't delib
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by sfk 18y ago
This is utterly unfair. There aren't any ads on that site and the author does not market himself or his site at all.
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What constitutes a true ad hominem argument?(plover.net)
48 points by sfk 18y ago|22 comments
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by sfk 18y ago
The elegant solution escapes me for now, but you could treat the odds and evens from the 1-5 function as a biased bit stream, apply a von Neumann corrector and then use the resulting stream.
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by sfk 18y ago
One person's eyestrain is not another person's eyestrain. I understand that some people have problems with small fonts. Other people, perhaps with sharper vision, find it extremely tiring to stare at a rigid square grid. BTW, the unpleasa
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by sfk 18y ago
Pure Oprah Winfrey stuff. Always keep things vague and general so that some innocent soul might see a reason in the writings. Does Godin have friends here who submit this junk for him?
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by sfk 18y ago
What a waste of words in that article. I've rarely encountered fries that taste worse than McDonald's Fries.
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by sfk 18y ago
The definition of genius must have changed in the last couple of decades.
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by sfk 18y ago
And systems like qsecretary tend to provoke reactions like this: http://www.ops.ietf.org/lists/namedroppers/namedroppers.2003...
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by sfk 18y ago
Good. I've been frustrated by large consumer electronics stores for years. Customer choice has been steadily decreasing to the point that I simply refuse to buy new things. Examples: - A couple of years ago it was virtually impossible to ge
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by sfk 18y ago
I don't seem to get a preview on Google books, but there appear to be thousands of versions of that story on the web, e.g: http://www.progress.org/gandhi/gandhi03.htm "He wrote the station master requesting a first-class ticket and receiv
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by sfk 18y ago
I would say that aggregating publicly available data and making it searchable can be intrusive, even in seemingly harmless cases like Google Street View. A couple of remarks on your second paragraph. I often read the view (Slashdot) that if
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by sfk 18y ago
Fantastic piece of writing, thanks for posting this.
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by sfk 18y ago
I like - in the words of nostrademons - deep chains of reasoning. When I'm in a foreign city, I rather wander around for two hours than ask for directions. Very male so far. When it comes to web pages though, I hate unneccessary complexit
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by sfk 18y ago
Statistics, statistics... European Union : $16.62 trillion (2007 est.) United States: $13.84 trillion (2007 est.)
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by sfk 18y ago
'Byrne has long argued that the press dismissed his views at least in part because Weiss - hiding behind various anonymous accounts - spent years controlling the relevant articles on Wikipedia, the "free online encyclopedia anyone can edit.
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by sfk 18y ago
I cannot refute the bold statement about stability, since I have no experience with Mac OS X. However, I have extensive experience with Linux and OpenBSD and I've had zero stability problems with Linux. OpenBSD is a different story. The f
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by sfk 18y ago
I'm surprised that so many people dismiss the legality of Psystar. Psystar is: - selling PCs - selling legal copies of OSX - patching copies *for interoperability* Now, reverse engineering and patching a product for interopera
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by sfk 18y ago
Well, he seems to be most notable for explaining AI concepts in understandable language. Following the links, I found a glossy website [ http://www.singinst.org/ ], but not too many scientific results. IMHO AI is not going to happen by blog
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by sfk 18y ago
Guys, don't mod this down. It is funny, considering that the transaction took place on craigslist.org (© 1995-2007).
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by sfk 18y ago
To paraphrase Greenspun: Any expert website is an ad hoc, ugly, slow implementation of Usenet featuring inferior comments.
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by sfk 18y ago
I don't think it's a big deal, but you'll hit that limit eventually, too. With CLISP's LONG-FLOAT one should be safe for a while.
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by sfk 18y ago
SBCL gives a type error: * (type-of 1203981239.123) SINGLE-FLOAT * (type-of 129381723987498237492138461293238947239847293848923) (INTEGER 536870912) * (+ 1203981239.123 129381723987498237492138461293238947239847293848923) debugger invoked o

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