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by sterwill 8y ago
I can't read it because it's paywalled, but how is the operating system's fsync behavior "fatally scary" with regards to PostgreSQL? How does MySQL handle durability in these cases? What's your point?
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by sterwill 9y ago
I noticed the same anomaly. Maybe the X axis is labeled in the author's local (US Eastern?) time?
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by sterwill 9y ago
I vaguely remember you posting a link to Chips & Dips on a Linux-related EFNet channel more than 20 years ago. I gave it a look, and it was sort of interesting, but I didn't bookmark it and forgot about it. Then later you announc
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by sterwill 10y ago
Are those scare quotes or just regular old quotes? TFS and associated technologies have been through a lot of names (Visual Studio Team System, TFS, Team Services, and probably a few I can't remember). Disclaimer: used to work on TFS
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by sterwill 10y ago
In the past (before this week), if you were storing ePHI in RDS with PostgreSQL, you weren't following the terms of the BAA.
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by sterwill 10y ago
Amazon's BAA allows you to use only approved services [1] to process, store, and transmit ePHI. The list isn't very long, it's currently just 10 AWS services, and it doesn't include some basic ones like SQS. RDS with P
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by sterwill 10y ago
http://somafm.com/player/#/now-playing/dronezone is my favorite for writing code.
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by sterwill 11y ago
One reason there are so many sub-projects is that TEE has many build outputs: Eclipse plug-ins, a stand-alone application (I think this was removed), a command-line client with no graphical dependencies. These different products are built
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by sterwill 11y ago
I'm a Time Warner customer in North Carolina and have IPv6 service. It works well, but the IPv6 networks aren't statically assigned, so I can't reach my devices at home reliably.
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by sterwill 12y ago
~30 km/h seems like a low speed for cruise control. Where I live (eastern United States) roads with such a low speed limit are usually in residential or commercial neighborhoods, or on tricky sections of mountain roads. Are there lon
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by sterwill 12y ago
A very timely write-up! Just last night I ordered a large (19"x16"), flat cast iron griddle[1] for oven baking after another disappointing result cooking pizza on my stone. I used to own a pizza stone that seemed to transfer a lo
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by sterwill 13y ago
I think the author means the sales of Windows 8 have been worse than Vista's. I don't think it's a qualitative judgment of the product.
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by sterwill 13y ago
Braintree has a major advantage over Stripe: their terms of service. Did you actually read through all the prohibited businesses[1] in Stripe's ToS? Most of them are common-sense bad, but some of the descriptions are very general, an
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by sterwill 14y ago
It's probably hard to believe, but the V10s sounded even better than the V8s. Even louder, higher pitch at higher revs, and traction control out of the corners sounded like a fully automatic shotgun.
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by sterwill 14y ago
I'm usually in a 64-bit Linux VM (in VMware Workstation) on a 4 core i5 Xeon from about 3 years ago. 5 GB RAM total, Oracle Java 7 with -Xmx800M for Eclipse. My workspace includes 50 projects, most of them are Eclipse plug-ins themselves.
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by sterwill 14y ago
I get the same times, more or less. I'm not sure the -client switch changes any behavior that early in the VM's life, before any garbage collection or sizable allocation happens. It would still be using a 64-bit data model with the -clien
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by sterwill 14y ago
The JVM is very fast to start on my machines. For Java 7 on Linux x86_64: t:~% time java HelloWorld Hello from Java! java HelloWorld 0.04s user 0.02s system 94% cpu 0.063 total It's not as fast as C or Ruby, but who cares about
138.
by sterwill 14y ago
Your Java IDE also lets you move methods and fields, extract interfaces from concrete classes, push members up or down, find all references to a member (reliably), view inheritance relationships, and much more. And it can do all of those s
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by sterwill 15y ago
The easy solution is "mesg n", but chat was fun enough to leave it enabled most of the time.
140.
by sterwill 15y ago
I've seen C code on EBCDIC machines that uses trigraphs because some code pages lack #, {, }, etc. Someone probably still needs them.
141.
by sterwill 15y ago
In my case I always start with Hipmunk, find a schedule I like, then I check southwest.com and end up buying a similar flight at about 75% of the other airline price.
142.
by sterwill 15y ago
Easy to solve, just start them in order.
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by sterwill 16y ago
People often repeat that Eclipse is "unstable." I can use one Eclipse process for weeks, even months on-end with JVMs from Sun and IBM on Linux, and it never crashes or needs a restart (except if installing new plug-ins). The ADK tools do
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by sterwill 16y ago
I'm happy to see a fresh take on the desktop, but I was surprised that Unity is the default in Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition. From my experience, Unity requires pretty fast 3D hardware to run acceptably. My wife's netbook has slow graphics
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by sterwill 16y ago
I have an office with a door that closes, but I usually leave it open and play Soma FM's Drone Zone quietly in the background. No vocals, little to no rhythm, and helps to put my mind in a slightly far-away place where it's just me and the
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by sterwill 16y ago
I heard from a former Windows team member that Source Insight was popular a few years ago, but things have probably changed.
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by sterwill 16y ago
That may not be a safe assumption.
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by sterwill 16y ago
My wife purchased this game last year and we had a lot of fun working through some of the puzzles together. The art and music are great.
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by sterwill 16y ago
Just a guess: sensitive medical information may persist on the device when it's shipped back to Apple.
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by sterwill 17y ago
About Eclipse: in most cases Eclipse never "invokes" a Java compiler--the compiler is built into the IDE! That's right, those .class files are getting built by the JDT Core plug-ins that come with Eclipse [1]. javac is never even used. Of

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