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by snarfy 8y ago
Now I'm curious how Vim deals with large files. I'm assuming the went the pread route.
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by snarfy 8y ago
I use the . (dot) command a lot out of habit. It executes the last command. If the last command was a macro execution, dot doesn't execute the macro - it executes the last command of the macro. Is there a way to fix this? edit I s
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by snarfy 8y ago
One of my favorite ideas of his is the Geon [1] [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geon_(physics)
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by snarfy 8y ago
Hey HN mods, why was this buried? Posted 3 hours ago and now it's gone from the front page.
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by snarfy 8y ago
My problem is Elastic acts like the employees of that company are the only people that ever contributed code to their project. Being open source that's simply not true. What about all of the contributors to Elastic that are not employ
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by snarfy 8y ago
How does DMCA apply to trademark? I thought the DMCA was only about copyright.
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by snarfy 8y ago
Then why create new languages at all? Just 'think harder' about the assembly language someone else wrote.
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by snarfy 8y ago
Don't blame the GUI, blame the screen reader. It's the screen readers that are stuck in the 70's. We have software that can do facial recognition and run on an raspberry pi but for some reason screen readers still need some
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by snarfy 8y ago
Most people agree that URL spoofing is bad. I'm not sure why google should get a pass.
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by snarfy 8y ago
I think you misspelled loathes.
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by snarfy 8y ago
They are the only thing not solid in your solid state devices. I've successfully repaired 5 out of 6 dead monitors and TVs by replacing all the big capacitors. No diagnostics skills required. Just replace the big caps.
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by snarfy 8y ago
I recall reading Slackware's Patrick Volkerding's health problems were traced back to his sonic toothbrush. [1] tl;dr The sonic toothbrush was aerosolizing the bacteria in his mouth which was inhaled while brushing his teeth. [1]
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by snarfy 8y ago
I wouldn't call its ecosystem weird and fad prone.
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by snarfy 8y ago
Have you tried C#?
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by snarfy 8y ago
They were going to lose customers to Airbus, who had a longer range plane. The solution was to retrofit larger engines on the 737. But they were too large and collided with the ground. They moved the engines to the front of the wing for
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by snarfy 8y ago
19 Saudis were responsible for 9/11 and we invade...Iraq. They stop selling oil in dollars and they will get the Iraq treatment too.
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by snarfy 8y ago
Agile is the Agile Manifesto. Anything else is not. All I see are references to Scrum. Maybe this should be called Scrum Lite?
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by snarfy 8y ago
In the late 90s I installed Slackware on a 386DX 40mhz with kernel 1.2.8, XFree86, elvis vi clone, etc. I've been using Linux for a long time, on and off as my main desktop. I have various Linux machines around the house, but it&#x27
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by snarfy 8y ago
I had a naive theory that there is a limit to black hole size/mass that once reached causes gravity to have a more linear strength instead of the inverse square. This discovery blows out that pet theory.
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by snarfy 8y ago
They always threatened in school 'this will go down on your permanent record', and then we went ahead and built one.
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by snarfy 8y ago
Maple - https://3d.bk.tudelft.nl/liangliang/software.html PolyFit - https://3d.bk.tudelft.nl/liangliang/publications/2017/polyfi...
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by snarfy 8y ago
I remember a time when the only thing you could win was the high score. I hate all of the gambling games. The arcades are all dead now. They were mostly killed by nintendos and playstations, but I can't help but feel some of it is du
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by snarfy 8y ago
I recall reading somewhere the density at the event horizon of the super massive black hole at the center of our galaxy is about the same as water. The singularity is supposedly infinite, but the event horizon depends on the size of the b
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by snarfy 8y ago
I'm not against advertising, but I am against branding. The term was borrowed from the cattle industry, where a hot piece of metal scars the cattle with a logo of the owner. Branding in advertising is meant to scar your brain. I con
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by snarfy 8y ago
I remember reading about the Sega arcade game Daytona USA. Instead of back to front or front to back rendering, it was a mixture of most important (your car, race track) to least important (background stands, trees, etc). It included a ha
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by snarfy 8y ago
Lag will always be an issue. I used to play a lot of competitive games like street fighter, tekken, starcraft. There is zero chance of a fighting game like Tekken ever being popular on Stadia due to lag. Distance from LA to New York: ~4500
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by snarfy 8y ago
In the context of lobbying, they shouldn't. Should Fox News? They could lobby that all press needs a specific press badge to cover certain media events. The problem isn't free speech, it's free speech in the context of lob
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by snarfy 8y ago
> No drugs or goofy supplements other than my medium cup of Starbuck coffee every morning around 5:30am, plus a booster cup around midday. You have no idea how much coffee affects your sleep and energy levels until you quit drinking it.
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by snarfy 8y ago
> But they think it's important for their company to lobby. But in your world, they can't. Sure they can, just not under the (limited liability) umbrella of the corporation. Do you believe the lobbying done by Amazon is appro
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by snarfy 8y ago
1st amendment rights apply to people. They should not apply to corporations.

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