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by squeed 10y ago
The author touches on something I've often thought about - the crazy ethnolinguistic diversity within the Austro-Hungarian empire and the fringes of the Russian one. Consider Lviv - Polish, Austrian, and Ukranian; Catholic, Orthodox, a
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by squeed 10y ago
Indeed. They purchased FingerWorks[1], a maker of obscure touchpad-based keyboards, in order to get their touchpad experts. Most other companies would just integrate Synaptic's reference design and call it a day. 1: https://
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by squeed 10y ago
This is especially important in managing the North Atlantic airspace, where there is no radar coverage at all. Planes request clearance and track changes via data messages. There is a cool video detailing the process - and the software used
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by squeed 10y ago
The default golang flag package ( https://golang.org/pkg/flag/ ) does not implement gnu-style long-with-shortcut options. Instead, one and two-dash arguments are identical. For example, -enable-pants and --enable-pa
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by squeed 10y ago
Congratulations! And never, ever, ever give up the fight for GNU-style double-dash command-line flags!
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by squeed 10y ago
A friend of mine made a G-code interpreter for the Beaglebone. It opens up a circular buffer and passes commands to a small program running on the PRU: https://github.com/hzeller/beagleg
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by squeed 10y ago
There is an excellent tutorial from LWN about network namespaces also: https://lwn.net/Articles/580893/ - SubgraphOS uses network namespaces to isolate individual processes (and route all connections over Tor). As
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Using the KVM API(lwn.net)
3 points by squeed 11y ago|0 comments
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by squeed 11y ago
That's a very reasonable position, especially with Comcast. Comcast has, in fact, led the IPv6 charge in terms of sizable US ISPs. The flip side of that coin is they have the money to invest in the engineering costs. I assume they did
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by squeed 11y ago
Thanks, this is fun!
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by squeed 12y ago
2Q is clever, but certainly not the only improvement over LRU for page caching. Of interest, also, is LIRS, which uses the timing between the last two accesses to decide on a caching strategy. There is a good comparison of page caching algo
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by squeed 12y ago
You're not wrong. But then they seem to be sending the accounts to collections.
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ARIN has less than one free ipv4 /8 (block) remaining.(arin.net)
4 points by squeed 12y ago|1 comments
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MICA – A key-value store with 60 million IO/s(cs.cmu.edu)
2 points by squeed 12y ago|0 comments
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by squeed 13y ago
I don't mean to be a huge jerk - I think the service is cool - but IPv4 exhaustion is months away! All of the major GeoIP vendors have IPv6 support. It's simultaneously saddening and frustrating that it might as well not exist.
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by squeed 13y ago
An enlightening example is to consider people's perceptions of New York City. The popular perception / comedian's perspective I remember of the 2000s was that NYC was also a shithole, where you would be mugged at the drop of
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by squeed 13y ago
From my experience, phone plans in the US today are kind of like rent-controlled apartments: The prices for new entrants keep going up, so you have a very strong disincentive to switch plans. I have a 4-or-so year old plan with a major carr
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by squeed 13y ago
Awesome, glad to hear that. I was president of the ACM for a year, and we totally stuffed our budget from organizing i-bank recruiting events.
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by squeed 13y ago
I graduated with a degree in CS from Columbia in 2007, at the peak of the finance boom. Most of my classmates at least considered a job at an i-bank; a lot of us had internships. I had a sweet job offer from Morgan Stanley waiting for me th
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by squeed 13y ago
I finally made the jump from Python to Clojure when I needed to really chomp on some data. The world is a better place for me now. Paredit is an absolute dream, and the JVM has shown itself to be truly worthy.
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by squeed 13y ago
Years ago I watched MIT's course 6.033. It is a great way to understand the first principles at hand in distributed / non-trivial programs: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput... (al
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by squeed 13y ago
The chips broadcast right in the 70cm ham band (440 MHz). If you're a licensed ham, then you don't need FCC certification and can just build one yourself :-). Of course, then you can only sell to hams...
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by squeed 13y ago
Seconded. I've been running prosody for months without any interruptions.
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by squeed 13y ago
One of the scariest bits is that most of the operators of these cameras pool information. The result is an ad-hoc nationwide surveillance system operated by a private party . If you operate certain brands of cameras, you get access to the
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by squeed 13y ago
That's right. Old English has grammatical gender and noun cases (like modern German). Modern English retains case only for pronouns. They were lost when the Danes invaded. The language was simplified to a mutually-understandable subset
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Future of Stuff Challenge - a 14-day online design course with the d.school(futureofstuffchallenge.org)
1 points by squeed 13y ago|0 comments
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by squeed 14y ago
Hooray! I can only hope that by doing this, Apple will bring 2-factor authentication to the public forefront.
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What happens when the Secret Service uses a NSL on you(noisebridge.net)
497 points by squeed 14y ago|151 comments
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by squeed 14y ago
My favorite: searching for typos. https://github.com/search?q=legnth&p=1&ref=searchbar...
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by squeed 14y ago
No kidding. I've worked with a few people who have done bicycle advocacy in West Africa (through the awesome https://bikesnotbombs.org/ ). They learned that West Africa is awash in cheap used bike frames - it's about the only part of the b

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