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by simmons 9y ago
I agree. There are certainly many cases where static linking makes a lot of sense. The redundancy of statically linking a few self-contained applications can be negligible and the reduced administrative burden can be a great value. But a
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by simmons 9y ago
I just installed Fedora 27 in a VM out of curiosity. As far as I can tell from a quick glance, it looks like these Rust executables (ternimal, tokei) statically link their dependent Rust crates (including the Rust standard library), which
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by simmons 9y ago
I think a big part of Eternal September was a culture mismatch where newcomers didn't understand the norms and expectations of Internet culture, more than just the sheer numbers of new users. Now that Internet culture and mainstream c
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by simmons 9y ago
I wonder if part of the decline of small online communities is the sheer numbers of people using the Internet today (versus the 90's). I'll sometimes connect to an IRC channel about a niche programming topic, and see 1000 users.
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by simmons 9y ago
I haven't used org-mode, so I may be a bit unclear on exactly what is meant by folding editors. However, if we're talking about collapsing sections of text, I wonder if the oN-Line System (NLS) would qualify, as shown in Douglas
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by simmons 9y ago
That is scary. I think it would be a nifty feature for a code review tool to show only the conflict resolution for merge commits. (Although I suppose it would need knowledge of exactly which automated merge method/options were used t
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by simmons 9y ago
For what it's worth, I was recently able to recover some Apple IIe/Mac 800K floppies for a relative using a KryoFlux board [1] and a regular PC floppy drive. I was glad to have that option, since I sure don't have any vintag
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by simmons 9y ago
It's worth noting that we don't quite have the transit system that the original 2004 $4.7B FasTracks design envisioned for 2017. The schedule has considerably slipped, with some lines pushed out to the 2040's. The BRT to Bo
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by simmons 9y ago
I think you need to be around the right age group to have heard about it. My 9-year-old niece is obsessed with Musical.ly. I often look at it, and think there's no way I would have ever thought to invent an app like that.
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by simmons 9y ago
It may have something to do with a large, prolonged power outage in downtown Denver. I've seen at least one ISP tweet about possible disruption to services due to this, and it may be impacting others. http://www.9news.com&#
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by simmons 9y ago
Yes, I had trouble getting to crates.io earlier. It looks like my local dnsmasq cached a NAK somehow. I restarted dnsmasq and it started working again. I thought it might just be crates.io, but I guess not.
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by simmons 9y ago
I can't speak for the grandparent poster, but it seems he was making a case for Denver being great for Amazon, not necessarily discussing if Amazon would be great for Denver. That said, I wouldn't mind seeing Amazon HQ2 locate her
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by simmons 9y ago
As others have mentioned, the time of day may have effected reception of the 4625 kHz station. However, in general, I've noticed that there seems to be far fewer stations received on the shortwave band these days, compared to the 1980&
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by simmons 9y ago
This is true, and I've known people who seem to find that quality of broadcast TV addictive. Over the years, they tuned the transition to keep viewers from switching channels -- removed the trailing commercial gap, sped up the closing
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by simmons 9y ago
Borrowing techniques from the gambling industry, Facebook, Google and others exploit human nature, creating addictive behaviors that compel consumers to check for new messages, respond to notifications, and seek validation from technologie
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by simmons 9y ago
This is great. I think that the illusion of time speeding up as we get older is due to getting into a routine where we do the same thing every day, and the brain begins compressing memories as our everyday experiences become less novel. U
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by simmons 9y ago
This would be great! I assume this would be something along the lines of Google I/O Extended, where local people arrange a facility where attendees can meet and participate in live streaming sessions. I often wonder if a lot of the v
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by simmons 9y ago
Yes, in the sense that the game software would interface with hardware (more) directly, service interrupts, and manage its own low-level i/o, you might could say that it was its own OS. Some software, like GEOS, would completely repla
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by simmons 9y ago
I'm skeptical about some of the examples provided. (Do we really know that Instagram's 3-second delay is gratuitous?) But I don't doubt that social media is pushing people's mental reward buttons. This seems to be happ
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by simmons 9y ago
In each, I had actually done nothing but was smart and could have done something. I had the experience in high school in the 90's of being wrongly accused of computer mischief solely on the grounds that I might be capable of such. I
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by simmons 10y ago
That's exactly what I was thinking, too, when I saw the picture of the back of the phone without a camera. "Of course! The entire back of the phone could be sprayed with nano-scale sensors that collect photons at varying angles,
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by simmons 10y ago
I just had to help someone enable Java applets earlier this week, in order to take an online typing test required by a temp agency. At some companies, it seems the 1990's never stopped happening. :/
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by simmons 10y ago
Lately I've been thinking about this exact thing, so it's interesting that someone has actually written an article about it. (With much better supporting details than I could come up with.) I find it frustrating that in 2017 I st
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by simmons 10y ago
This wasn't a GFCI, but an AFCI. According to Wikipedia, AFCI's "detect electrical current alternating at characteristic frequencies, usually around 100 kHz, known to be associated with wire arcing, which are sustained for mo
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by simmons 10y ago
I don't know what's going on here, but my old Mac Pro would always trip the AFCI circuit breaker when I turned it on, even with little else on the circuit. It must have been taking a big gulp of power that resembled an arc-fault.
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by simmons 10y ago
I started reading this thinking it was nuts to put so much effort into targeting one specific company. But by the end, I couldn't help but admire his willingness to set a goal and put in some serious work to accomplish it!
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by simmons 10y ago
It's always good to see more web sites switching to HTTPS. I can't help thinking about something I read on Twitter a couple of years ago, and I wonder if they are mitigating the risk: "I'm all in favor of news sites usi
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by simmons 10y ago
Neat! I sometimes think it would be interesting to develop a web-based podcast production platform, where a similar sort of feature would be available for post-production. But also use WebRTC for conferencing, streaming, allowing callers
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by simmons 10y ago
I suppose these vendors are not major household names like Samsung, so it doesn't make as good of a story. I also wonder if perhaps the general public views attacks as inevitable -- sort of a force of nature -- whereas we view it as a
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by simmons 10y ago
I seem to be one of these "work for the valley from outside the valley" types, and I, too, would be nervous taking out a mortgage in an area where I might be relying on that one job. I resisted the temptation to move to some remo

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