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by stplsd 10y ago
I think genetics have a part too. My grandmother was deported to Siberia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_deportations_from_Lithu... ) for 20 years where they have 200 grams of bread a day at best and never brushed
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by stplsd 10y ago
I am only 30 years old and have shitty job, and half of my teeth are missing. Implants are my only hope so far. But compared to natural tooth, implants are so crude replacement. Fuck my life.
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by stplsd 10y ago
There is a great documentary from BBC Horizon series made in 1991 called "Inside Chernobyl's Sarcophagus", it won a Emmy. It shows scientists working inside chernobyl's sarcophagus, in 1996 BBC did a follow-up, and a
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by stplsd 10y ago
> ~/.vimrc works on bash, but it hangs on zsh because it treats it like cat > ~/.vimrc (> without any command in front of it is not well defined in POSIX) So portable way to do this is like this: :> ~/.vimrc
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by stplsd 10y ago
Or to be completely portable :> ~/.vimrc
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by stplsd 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrett_Brown
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by stplsd 10y ago
To me it's "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" "He not busy being born is busy dying" must be one of greatest lines ever.
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by stplsd 10y ago
Nobody is bashing PCRE. >but they are definitely part of the traditional (UNIX) definition of regular expressions. This is not exactly true. In 1968 or ealier Ken Thompson wrote first grep implementation using NFA simulation, an algorith
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by stplsd 10y ago
This is also a very good read: https://lagunita.stanford.edu/c4x/Engineering/CS316/asset/A_...
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by stplsd 10y ago
https://lagunita.stanford.edu/c4x/Engineering/CS316/asset/A_...
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by stplsd 10y ago
How is even related to the points discussed by parent comment?
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by stplsd 10y ago
Sir, I honestly think you do not know what you are talking about. Disclaimer: I am from Lithuania, which was occupied by SSRS almost by 50 years, my grandmother was deported in Siberia for 10+ years and my mother was born there.
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by stplsd 10y ago
I wonder about this myself, anyone has experience using this? MySQL 5.6 brought many long awaited features, like schema update without locking tables https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/innodb-online-
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by stplsd 10y ago
Is it? MySQL improved a lot since 5.1 days, you know.
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by stplsd 10y ago
‘We must cease once and for all to describe the effects of power in negative terms: it ‘excludes’, it ‘represses’, it ‘censors’, it ‘abstracts’, it ‘masks’, it ‘conceals’. In fact power produces; it produces reality; it produces domains of
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by stplsd 10y ago
There is a very interesting documentary from 1991 made as part of BBC Horizon series called "Inside Chernobyl Sarcophagus" --> www.imdb.com/title/tt1607059
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by stplsd 11y ago
Dissidents and human right activists were sent for mental institution mostly by diagnosing schizophrenia as a means to discredit them and as message to others. We should applaud those brave souls and not doubt their sanity.
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by stplsd 11y ago
In my opinion these are best two books on the subject. Stevens' book is classic and have been updated quite recently (3rd edition came out 3 years ago), LPI is very extensive and have some specific Linux info not present in Stevens&#x2
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by stplsd 11y ago
Well, you could get a new Ural 4320 for about 2 million roubles (25K USD): http://uraltrucks.com/ural-4320-1031-truck/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0Ji7D2WT3I
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by stplsd 11y ago
I am from Europe and this looks almost surreal for me. It is unheard of here that team simply packs players and go to other city. Sport culture and sport business so different in USA.
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by stplsd 11y ago
Common, Davydenko incident is already in betting folklore and have been excessively documented. Where are the other names in top 50?
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by stplsd 11y ago
http://www.scaruffi.com/vol3/bowie.html
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by stplsd 11y ago
MPEG Video Compression Standard: http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/b115884 It says restricted to me and offers me to buy chapter for $29.95 and whole book for $229.00
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by stplsd 11y ago
It is interesting that hash is sometimes (incorrectly) used as a synonym or generic name for map/dictionaty/associative array, but Red-Black-Tree, AVL tree, etc. is not.
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by stplsd 11y ago
good read here --> http://amzn.com/0805082409
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by stplsd 11y ago
Maybe I misunderstood your first message about 'buffer bloat'. I was thinking about buffer bloat in routers/switches when many TCP connection start to send packet, router starts to buffer them, once packets are dropped, conge
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by stplsd 11y ago
Shouldn't RED type algorithms in routers prevent buffer bloat?
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by stplsd 11y ago
Well, internet.org is non-profit organisation, so...
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by stplsd 11y ago
This is hilarious: "Following the controversy of Where the Tractor’s Roam, Gadyukin’s arrival in London was received with great expectations. His first production in the UK was Waiting… in 1956, a project born out of a desire to film S
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by stplsd 11y ago
I don't know, while I never used opiates or any other "hard" drugs (except nicotine and alcohol), I had/have gambling addiction, lost a fortune of money (myself and parents), now have huge debts, caused a huge emotional

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