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by sigil 14y ago
> That would never fly in the sciences. Or would it? http://climateaudit.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/mcintyre-grl... Regardless of what side you come down on w.r.t. this particular issue (and I realize it's a sensitive one), the fact
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by sigil 14y ago
Interestingly, the original Bitcoin paper opened by addressing exactly these concerns: the origin of transaction costs in current payment systems consisting of middle-men (central trusted parties, in more charitable terms), paper forms, etc
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by sigil 14y ago
Good question. Longer transaction blocks maybe? Would love to hear this answered.
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by sigil 14y ago
Correct. It's quite ingenious actually. "By convention, the first transaction in a block is a special transaction that starts a new coin owned by the creator of the block. This adds an incentive for nodes to support the network, and provide
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by sigil 14y ago
But who uses echo(1) anyway? It's not portable. Code quality aside, that much should be obvious from this gist. Use printf(1) instead.
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by sigil 14y ago
Actually, rlwrap works well with all line-reading programs that DON'T use the readline library, and not so well with some that do. Like the python debugger. :(
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by sigil 14y ago
Network REPL, with autocomplete and history: rlwrap nc ....
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by sigil 14y ago
while true; do make all & sleep 1m; done Welcome to orphan land. (^C to see.) Don't do this folks. The 'make all' invocations may also potentially overlap and corrupt your builds. To be fair, you fixed that issue here: w
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by sigil 14y ago
I suggested it to Zed back when he wrote this, and I still suggest it today: just use mutt and an rss to email gateway. (Loved this essay though, thanks for bringing it back!)
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by sigil 14y ago
The use of watch seems pretty pointless here, since you specifically don't want the original watch(1) behavior of clearing the terminal and redrawing. Equivalent and no special tool required: while true; do make all; sleep 1; done
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by sigil 14y ago
> I'm also curious about the dpkg equivalent. dpkg -S /path/to/file
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Turn Vim Into Excel: Tips for Editing Tabular Data(acg.github.com)
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by sigil 14y ago
The example you gave won't stick for most people: echo "nameserver 127.0.0.1" > /etc/resolv.conf If you use dhcp3-client (chances are you do), add this line to /etc/dhcp/dhcplient.conf to try your local DNS cache first: p
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by sigil 14y ago
> I don't remember the company, but I was inspired by a fresh fruit+veg box-delivered-to-your-door founder. Could it have been Manuel Rosso of Food on the Table? He was the "Concierge MVP" example from Ries's book. They started by meal
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by sigil 14y ago
Reddit is way ahead of the curve on this one. Here's a post by Randall Munroe on the problem and solution, from 2009: http://blog.reddit.com/2009/10/reddits-new-comment-sorting-s... I seem to recall they also randomly premute comment orde
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by sigil 14y ago
No, haven't seen that one. The most common natural deaths for me are fan death and USB ports going out. This list of known hardware problems by Thinkpad model has proven true though: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Known_Problems Also, I'll
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by sigil 14y ago
> I am contemplating ordering a T530 and perhaps an x230 in top configurations and keep them in a closet for future use. Welcome to my world. I exclusively use Thinkpad T40s, T41s, and T42s, the last few models to be manufactured by IBM
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by sigil 14y ago
While more efficient templating sounds like a good thing and is clearly a pain point, I'm not convinced Wikimedia is really thinking this one through. 1. Every page is now a "real" program. Will separation of code and content result from th
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by sigil 14y ago
Have you ever read transcripts from the Loebner Prize Competition, a Turing (con)test they hold each year? Machines keep getting funnier. http://www.worldsbestchatbot.com/Competition_Transcripts
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by sigil 14y ago
Based on your must-have list, a good low-tech solution might be an RSS to email gateway. Then your mail client becomes your RSS client. Gmail has j/k key bindings, is relatively unadorned, and facilitates your skim / skip workflow. Excerpts
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by sigil 14y ago
See also "100x100," a collection of 10 ft by 10 ft Hong Kong apartments photographed by Michael Wolf. The use of space in some of these is just amazing. http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.404783143152.173014...
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by sigil 14y ago
daemontools also has manpages, thanks to Garrit Pape, the author of runit ;) http://smarden.org/pape/djb/manpages/ The manpages are installed by default in every system I use -- debian, ubuntu, MacPorts, and FreeBSD ports.
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by sigil 14y ago
"The one caveat to be aware of is that Runit expects daemons not to fork." Nitpick: it's fine if your daemon forks, it just shouldn't background itself, which is different. A nice succinct implementation of daemonization lives in the BSD so
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by sigil 14y ago
As a diehard daemontools user this comment made me take another look at runit. Just to be clear, runit is one of several forks of daemontools. Another one is daemontools-encore [1]. There are a couple nice runit features that stock daemonto
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by sigil 14y ago
By the way, cperciva's blog is also generated by a shell script called "blogsh." Pretty similar to OP's here, except the templating is external rather than built into the script. I got a copy by request back in 2008 -- good stuff. http://w
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by sigil 14y ago
You mean you didn't have to "build a custom HTTP server and application dispatching infrastructure around Python's Tornado and Redis" in order to suspend traffic? [1] I like the simplicity of your approach, it's literally 2 lines of code. B
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by sigil 14y ago
"Player Piano, author Kurt Vonnegut's first novel, was published in 1952. It is a dystopia of automation, describing the dereliction it causes in the quality of life. The story takes place in a near-future society that is almost totally mec
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by sigil 14y ago
This is true. Re-reading the bsdiff paper, it's pretty tailored to executable file formats. http://www.daemonology.net/papers/bsdiff.pdf
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I know it's scary, but ask for the money.(siliconprairienews.com)
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by sigil 14y ago
Agree with you there on "profile first." But knowing jgrahamc, he did -- and I'd love to know the results.

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