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by shabble 5y ago
about:blank ..Which gets progressively harder to configure away from the "Helpful Tabs from our sponsors" and other guff with each new browser install I do.
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by shabble 5y ago
Can be a lot more than that! I was looking recently and came across https://www.aten.com/gb/en/products/kvm/desktop-kvm-switches... (and similar in the range) Switching multiple monitors simultaneously s
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by shabble 5y ago
I'm using it (mostly locally at the moment) for semi-automating testing of django db data migrations, and it's really great. I've previously spent a fair bit of time tuning postgres for fast/less durable settings to spee
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by shabble 5y ago
sticking a needle in a MEMS microphone is just as effective, you just have to [find the damn thing, and] push the needle all the way through! If brute force isn't working, you're just not using enough of it yet.
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by shabble 5y ago
You could reasonably invoice an upfront tooling cost ("isolated development workstation to meet customer IT policy requirements. Apple Macbook Foo, $BIGNUM") If you want to be really cheeky, could get some value-added margin on it
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by shabble 5y ago
Cochrane Reviews? https://www.cochranelibrary.com/about/about-cochrane-reviews
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by shabble 5y ago
you could have a look at dblab[1] which (afaik, I've not yet tried using them) has some support for streaming in from a primary source and applying sanitisation functions/transforms The main value is the use of ZFS snapshots to gi
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by shabble 5y ago
> On desktop systems where the option is available to me, I use ... though the uBlock Origin elements remover can also be used for this.) After getting really annoyed with some unpleasant thumbnails that just kept showing up, I came up w
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by shabble 7y ago
Or just implement an appropriate RFC[1] :) [1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1217
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by shabble 7y ago
If you're still looking, I quite like XKeysnail ( https://github.com/mooz/xkeysnail ) for that, although it does occasionally get confused. It does seem like it's something a WM should be capable of though.
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by shabble 7y ago
You might want pgrouting[1], if you can find access to appropriate datasets for your routing (road) network. [1] http://workshop.pgrouting.org/2.5/en/chapters/advanced.html#...
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by shabble 7y ago
unless I'm missing something, jq isn't[1] [1] https://github.com/stedolan/jq/tree/master/src
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by shabble 7y ago
Sometimes referred to as "Battleshort"[1] mode [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleshort
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by shabble 7y ago
looks like the 3000 has the same horrible reduced-size Escape and F-key row that I've had the misfortune of using on the Sculpt and others. The older Curve 2000 series might be a better choice if you actually want to use those keys wit
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by shabble 8y ago
as in, the backup host connects to the target machines and pulls them back to itself? Biggest concern I have with that is that to get around file permissions, the backup user needs to be effectively root. It's much more of a problem is
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by shabble 8y ago
I've occasionally wondered what the best way to secure your backup host from the individual clients, and possibly clients from a compromised backup host would be. The most promising option I've come across so far is Borg running i
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by shabble 8y ago
How useful is a mars colony/parallel civ against an incoming GRB though? My vague understanding is that they're potentially quite 'tightly collimated' in astronomical terms, but that would still potentially cover a good
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by shabble 8y ago
back when I last looked, xnest[1] was the go-to for that sort of thing. It's been the best part of a decade though, so YMMV. [1] https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.7/doc/man/man1/Xnest.1.xhtm...
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by shabble 8y ago
Given the mentions of the word throughout the article, I was entirely expecting to see Palimpsest by Charlie Stross[1] in there somewhere. It does feature a very large library, although the plot is more time-travel (and temporal engineeri
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by shabble 8y ago
A Simple and Convenient Synthesis of Pseudoephedrine From N-Methylamphetamine[1] [1] http://heterodoxy.cc/meowdocs/pseudo/pseudosynth.pdf
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by shabble 8y ago
Cards: https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?page_id=3592
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by shabble 8y ago
I have one that takes an optional numeric arg for the number of times to repeat. Surprisingly useful, but I still keep meaning to get round to making a nicer interactive one with fzf or something. $ alias .. ..=up $ type -f up
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by shabble 8y ago
I did also just find https://liltinkerer.surge.sh/noscript.html as well. I thought most of the controversies have been the commercialisation/hostile takeovers of the various (ad|u)block (pro)? extensions, but seems not
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by shabble 8y ago
Has Noscript abused its capabilities as an extension in the past? I can't think of (or immediately find) any suggestion that has, but now I'm curious.
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by shabble 8y ago
https://wiki.postgresql.org/images/6/6c/Index_support_for_re... is I think the slides for a conference talk on implementing within Postgres
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by shabble 8y ago
see also: suicide linux [ https://qntm.org/suicide ]
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by shabble 8y ago
Your first couple of points reminds me of a talk[1] about using a graph database for tracking all sorts of entity and quest dependency relationships to assist in game balancing and content creation. [1] https://www.airpair.com&#x
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by shabble 8y ago
> * I remember using these somewhere, perhaps a music player, and how amazing they were.* Maybe foobar2000 (possibly with some UI plugin?) It's been a very long time, but I recall somethign similar. https://yuo.be/co
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Update on special-case subdomain elision in Chrome(groups.google.com)
28 points by shabble 8y ago|14 comments
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by shabble 8y ago
I remembered seeing something along these lines a while ago, didn't realise it was as far back as 2012 though: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/sv6kw/which_is_... I guess it's somet

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