smegel

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by smegel 10y ago
Mexico could do with a President like that.
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by smegel 10y ago
> a zapping session may produce an effect exactly the opposite of what's intended Sounds a lot like anti-depressant medication.
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by smegel 10y ago
Australian here, also find it bizarre that this is a problem in the US. Biggest problem I have in my Android phone requires the head-phones to be plugged in to listen to FM...as it acts as the aerial.
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by smegel 10y ago
I would have thought the holy grail would be a battery that lasts a week of continuous usage. And we have self driving cars, arguably far more complex than the relatively simple task of flying through empty space.
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by smegel 10y ago
But it might help identify what the problems to solve actually are. What are we seeking, what are we trying to explain?
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by smegel 10y ago
> After reading the Hacker News post, CEO Sid Sijbrandij pointed out that announcing the affected versions dramatically reduced the search scope of the bug. An attacker could see what changed between 8.1 and 8.2 and discover the vulnerab
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by smegel 10y ago
Do us all a favour and go there on the weekend and ask them. Although I admit that sounds more like a Reddit challenge, perhaps where this story belongs.
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by smegel 10y ago
I'm glad they did. Sounds like they have helped push the development of Go along which is good for everyone.
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by smegel 10y ago
> But this isn’t another article about how great Go is for us — it’s about how our use of Go pushes the limits of the current runtime implementation in some dimensions, and how we respond to reaching those limits.
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by smegel 10y ago
> Does the GC use GC? Think of the Go runtime as like the kernel of an operating system. It doesn't have to follow the rules of a user-land process.
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by smegel 10y ago
Don't most markets have their own local apps/sites that are more popular than foreign ones? I think Kakao is more popular in Korea than Whatsapp. In Russia Yandex is bigger than Google. In China everything is bigger because the fo
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by smegel 10y ago
BSD has a wonderful, unified events system. That incorporates blocking disk IO. Linux has epoll. https://www.nginx.com/blog/why-netflix-chose-nginx-as-the-he...
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by smegel 10y ago
> This means that it doesn't really matter how quickly you execute the "Python" part of Python. Another way of saying this is that Python opcodes are very complex, and the cost of executing them dwarfs the cost of dispatch
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by smegel 10y ago
Looks like a NeXT workstation. http://www.cs.cornell.edu/wya/AcademicComputing/images/next....
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by smegel 10y ago
jq would be a nice addition to that list.
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by smegel 10y ago
> AWS > Support for ap-northeast-2 region (Seoul) What does this mean? How can K8S be tied into something as specific as an AWS region?
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by smegel 10y ago
Those checkboxes respond with noticeable delay. I hope that is more to do with the website than the library.
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by smegel 10y ago
What are you talking about?
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by smegel 10y ago
> Open source produces quantitatively better software As someone who mainly uses open source software for most of my work, I'm not so sure about this.
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by smegel 10y ago
But will it constantly fail to connect to devices it has been paired with a million times before? Don't know how I could live without that "feature".
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by smegel 10y ago
I don't really understand the analogy. Are you saying kids are more likely to read paper newspapers than online sources? I would think the opposite is more likely true. Or if you were saying the opposite...doesn't that support the
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by smegel 10y ago
Cell phones didn't introduce a whole new human activity. At the end of the day, you were still just having a phone conversation with someone - it was just easier and more convenient way to do something people were already doing. Facebo
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by smegel 10y ago
As someone who has never used Facebook, I often feel like I am talking to members of some sinister cult when I meet someone who asks me about Facebook and I say I don't use it. The surprise and weird eyes they give me really unnerves m
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by smegel 10y ago
Does everyone here subscribe to the WSJ or something?
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The UK will also still carry a lot of influence over Europe through NATO.
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> all the compliance with EU regulations Including immigration? That seemed to be a big factor in the Leave vote.
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by smegel 10y ago
"It's not a bug, it's just how the algorithm works!"
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by smegel 10y ago
> Ask the people behind your Operating System and those who design your favourite fonts to start supporting Unicode 9! Surely not every font has to create glyphs for every Unicode character...how does that work? Is there a kind of "
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by smegel 10y ago
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