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by stplsd 11y ago
I hate when heroin is described as some terrible extremely dangerous drug, when in fact it is quite the opposite - it is very gentle and relatively harmless drug. Of course I am talking about medical grade pure heroin, not that Mexican blac
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by stplsd 12y ago
Yeah, "it even had 16-bit digital stereo sound".
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by stplsd 12y ago
I think the main source of confusion is that mutexes and semaphores have different semantics, and people tend to forget that. You cannot easily (in userspace) implement mutex with semaphore(s) or semaphore with mutexe(s), because they by de
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by stplsd 12y ago
So true. I am sure that after 100 years or so we will see these senseless drug prohibition laws and "war on drugs" in the same light as we see segregation laws now. So many lives, even whole countries ruined due this nonsense.
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by stplsd 12y ago
>Trying doing that with cocaine or heroin. Actually do not try it because you will be addicted and have serious health consequences. This only because heroin is illegal. Pure heroin is very gentle and harmless drugs. The worst you can ge
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by stplsd 12y ago
Just remember that by default lsof prints only first 9 characters of process name, so processes with long names will be cut. You can change how much initial characters lsof prints with +c command, but often kernel does not supply full names
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by stplsd 12y ago
http://soundpolitics.com/Sotsrealizm.jpg
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by stplsd 12y ago
So that does that means for linux developers like me, who want to start dabble in .NET ecosystem. Where MONO stand in this?
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by stplsd 12y ago
And do not forget mystical Obi!
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by stplsd 12y ago
This is from part 6, priceless: Q And first let me ask a general question, and that is: Did you believe that from Microsoft's standpoint it was desirable to have as many pure Java applications as possible? A We weren't focused on
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by stplsd 12y ago
Funny thing, Just yesterday I did not know almost anything about memory models, cache coherence, etc. Then I've read this book/lecture [1], got interested and later found the same great articles by Peter Sewell[2], you've men
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by stplsd 12y ago
Wolfs community is very concerned about this. There is initiative from senior members to held conference about fighting for wolfs right to privacy.
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by stplsd 12y ago
Will I still be able to run commands like service mysqld start, etc?
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by stplsd 12y ago
Yes, you can, through third party HBO partners like Pirate Bay and Kick Ass Torrents. It has many benefits over Amazon offering: 1) It's available worldwide 2) Price is good even for starving students 3) For older seasons, you can cho
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by stplsd 12y ago
The Shield is actually better than The Wire: http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2008/dec/27/tv-drama-davi...
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by stplsd 12y ago
Jesus, the next time I will read phrase 'leaky abstraction' I am going to throw up.
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by stplsd 12y ago
Oh, article with attitude.
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by stplsd 12y ago
Carlin said this better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acLW1vFO-2Q
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by stplsd 12y ago
- number theory underpinning almost all modern cryptography - NFA/DFA underpinning regular expressions ( well practical regular exp are not in fact regular, but anyway)
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by stplsd 12y ago
I am indifferent that he died and I hate to say this, but it should have been better to literature if he never existed as writer.
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by stplsd 12y ago
He's “a man terribly pleased to have hobnobbed with so many Presidents and Archbishops” He opened the flood gates of saccharine magic realism which haunts Latin America literature to this day.
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by stplsd 13y ago
Or just open multiple TCP streams (that means of course multiple TCP connections) and waste resources on additional TCP state tracking and additional recieve/send buffer allocations, etc.
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by stplsd 13y ago
Ok, obviously I never done web development, but why you would want declare schema from rails? And ActiveRecord is some kind of ORM (the buzzword I was hearing lately, but never actually care to fully understand it)? Now I am reading book Hi
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by stplsd 13y ago
>Van Jacobsen Van Jacobson He is probably most famous for his work on early congestion control algorithms in 1988 ( http://ee.lbl.gov/papers/congavoid.pdf )
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by stplsd 13y ago
This is flame between two man with HUGE egos, not a debate.
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by stplsd 13y ago
What about 386BSD?
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by stplsd 13y ago
>In an ideal world, no one would try to get heroin It's a sad statement. In what ideal world? Brave new world type "ideal world"? World with "shiny, happy" people which you see in TV commercials? And in an ideal
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by stplsd 13y ago
> highly addictive hacker news is highly addictive, should we ban it too? > and easily lethal if taken in to high a dose or combined with other drugs Just use common sense. Water is lethal taken in to high a dose [1]. Almost every sub
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by stplsd 13y ago
It is a shame that all legalization efforts goes to cannabis - the drug that causes the least problems by being illegal. What we really need is to legalize "hard drugs"[1] - heroin, methamphetamine. These drugs cause the most harm
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by stplsd 13y ago
"Why is the drug czar of this country - Well, lets go back. Why do we have a drug czar in this country, a)? b) Why is he a cop? Why isn’t he a guy in recovery, who’s had alcohol and/or drug addiction and overcome it? And why doesn

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