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by sleepydog 11y ago
I for one. There are fewer advertisements, most messages are just plain text and easily searchable, and I can receive and organize the data on my own terms. I still have mailing list posts I saved that are around 12 years old; every forum p
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by sleepydog 11y ago
As someone else who has been deploying Java applications for years, I'm not saying it's hard, but you have to take care when upgrading the JRE on a server, because with most setups (such as the default Sun JDK RHEL packages) it&#x
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by sleepydog 12y ago
Are you in Boston/Cambridge? I'm in the same boat, although I'm not in a spot that RCN covers. I can't complain about the service I've gotten from Comcast, and I wonder if it's because FiOS keeps them honest. T
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by sleepydog 12y ago
Processes should be differentiated by importance and resource consumption. For instance, PID 1 should be rendered as the Cyber Demon, since killing PID 1 would end your game. Any parent processes of the current process should be friendly, a
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by sleepydog 12y ago
This has not been my experience; after resuming my macbook, it takes up to 30 seconds for it to reconnect to my home network. It is much faster if, after resuming, I disable and re-enable WiFi. There is probably something wrong with the way
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by sleepydog 12y ago
I've lived in Cambridge for 4 years and take serious issue with your beer comment. I will concede to you on every other point :)
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by sleepydog 12y ago
> As an example, imagine you're monitoring /. Nagios runs NRPE, NRPE looks at df /, and if it's 85 percent full (by default), sends a warning page. At 90 percent it sends a critical page. A smarter system collects the
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by sleepydog 12y ago
I used s6 quite a bit in the past, it's got some pretty good improvements on daemontools. Back then I wrote some RPM specs to build s6 against musl: https://github.com/droyo/rpmbuild . I haven't tried to buil
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by sleepydog 13y ago
I found this web page, from the author of musl libc, very insightful: http://www.etalabs.net/sh_tricks.html Shell scripts are great, I use and write them every day (and quite advanced ones, too). But it's very hard to
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by sleepydog 13y ago
A Japanese doctor once told me that asians tend to have slightly curved femurs from a lifetime of sitting on the floor. He told me this as he was treating me for tendonitis of the ankle that I got from sitting in the seiza position too long
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by sleepydog 13y ago
Hopefully they use re2[1] or a similar regexp engine without backtracking. [1]: https://code.google.com/p/re2/
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by sleepydog 13y ago
You could also use this as a force 'duplicator'. If you improve this device to allow freedom of motion suitable for say, making a wood carving, and wire it up in a one-to-many fashion, where the artist can carve 100 blocks of wood
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by sleepydog 13y ago
Steam for windows allows you to launch non-steam games (or applications) from Steam by creating a shortcut(iirc you even get the steam overlay when you press shift+tab). I would be surprised if they removed this functionality from SteamOS.
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by sleepydog 13y ago
Are you sure? I remember reading that they make a ton of money on Xbox Live subscriptions.
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by sleepydog 13y ago
fifos by themselves aren't useful if you're trying to do multi-process signaling with them, as input from multiple programs is not separated or delimited in any way. fifodirs are a nice signalling mechanism built on top of fifos:
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by sleepydog 13y ago
The "for f in `ls * `; do" example is actually not useless. It has the quality that the loop will not run if there are no files, because ls produces no output. Compare: $ for i in `ls * 2>/dev/null` do
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by sleepydog 13y ago
This assumes that you will eat more from the exercise--many Americans eat more than they need to, and doing something for your health makes you more conscious of that.
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by sleepydog 13y ago
One trick I like to do is to feed two files into awk; /dev/stdin and some other file I'm interested in. Here's an example: lookup the subject names of a list of serial numbers in an openSSL index.txt #!/bin&#x
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by sleepydog 13y ago
You can do with simple IO redirection. For example, the arbitrary pipeline $ cat data.txt | awk '{ print $2+$4,$0 }'|sort|sed '/^0/d' can be written as $ <data.txt awk '{ print $2+$4,$0 }
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by sleepydog 13y ago
Like Venti. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venti
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by sleepydog 13y ago
This article is attacking a very narrow and superfluous definition of beauty, that I would instead call fashionable. The beauty of a piece of code should depend not so much on how well statements are aligned and consistency of formatting, a
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by sleepydog 13y ago
I got pretty good a soldering around this time. Scored a free "broken" monitor and spent about 75 cents for new capacitors :)
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by sleepydog 14y ago
I would like to see the rise of the home server. Cloud services have latency and privacy issues. Imagine a small, powerful and energy efficient server that you could tuck away in a closet and connect to your gigabit or faster network. This
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by sleepydog 14y ago
I thought the Cro-Magnons hunted down and ultimately exterminated the Neanderthals. Have there been any discoveries about their interaction?
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by sleepydog 14y ago
Usually in this context, "self-aware" is usually used to indicate the ability to recognize one's own image, voice, smell, etc. The research referred to is mostly several experiments of showing dolphins to a mirror and determining that they
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by sleepydog 14y ago
All you need is some sort of remote control for your tool -- for example, a way to open a file in an existing emacs instance. plumb is just a command like any other that provides global ipc between all your programs, plumb "path/too/f
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by sleepydog 15y ago
Yes, Korean is much more difficult to pronounce. Japanese pronunciation is extremely simple: 5 vowel sounds, no dipthongs, and a handful of consonants. The only struggle for me as an English speaker was learning not to blend the sounds toge