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by superjan 6y ago
At a small research facility long ago, we were reprimanded for not storing our data on the server. “What if it crashes and your work is lost!” Within 3 weeks the server had a harddisk crash. There were no backups.
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by superjan 6y ago
Nice project. Tip: for high quality CRT photos make shutter time is equal to a multiple of the refresh period. 1/60th, 1/30th, 1/20th and so on.
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by superjan 6y ago
I think he’s right. Hover menus are slow (often you need to wait for it to open), and if you accidently hover just before trying to click something, you will click on the surprise menu, not what I want to click.
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by superjan 6y ago
Not to be snarky, but suicide itself is usually not forbidden. Legalizing assistence is a different thing.
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by superjan 6y ago
As far as the ISO is concerned, IT business is just one of many businesses for which they manage the standards process. ISO has to pay the bills somehow, don’t they? If they would not charge the users of the standards the bill would go to g
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by superjan 6y ago
Today’s xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2432/
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by superjan 6y ago
> dBase was THE first commercially successful DBMS in computing history Is that true? I worked only with PC’s back then but I’m sure that the “mainframe” computers of the day were doing mostly database workloads. Think banks, insurance c
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by superjan 6y ago
That’s a useful addition. I was thinking it is kind of pointless to have this indicator that only tells you that something might be wrong when it is too late. The article does not address this aspect if I’m not mistaken.
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by superjan 6y ago
It’s quite possible that there were way less items in the store on launch, or during testing. Then it could easily be overlooked. Of course no excuse to not fix it later.
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by superjan 6y ago
I can second that recommendation. Contrarians do get their mention in the course albeit briefly. It also gives fascinating insight into the different sects of judaism in that period.
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by superjan 6y ago
It sounds like rollback could be used to cheat by artificially delaying your outgoing network traffic: the other player has less time to respond. But I doubt I’m the first to get that idea.
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by superjan 6y ago
I thought it was a cool technique. I used lookup tables for image decompression, I’m curious if this technique would apply there. In the start of the article, you exclude conversions that don’t round-trip. But I would guess this technique w
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by superjan 6y ago
Please don’t downvote this guy, or the other crypto proponents, when they try to explain why they support it. I think the idea here is to have open debates with them, not run them out of town.
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Skylab(en.wikipedia.org)
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by superjan 6y ago
By far the best ergonomics advice I got was: do what feels natural to you. For me that’s a trackball, and home row typing with my lower arms resting on the table. I have had episodes where I was dangerously close to RSI, but after that last
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by superjan 6y ago
So in the Netherlands, I can file my taxes for free, it takes me less than an hour for me and my wife. It’s also auto populated with all relevant figures. The hardest part is remembering your password for the nationwide single-sign-on servi
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Criminals stole over USD 100M in cryptocurrencies by hijacking phone numbers(europol.europa.eu)
3 points by superjan 6y ago|1 comments
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by superjan 6y ago
For best effect you can insert bracketed additions, and add a SIC to point out the spelling error the author did not choose to fix.
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by superjan 6y ago
This is easier to reason about if it’s not about your own code. Consider this: would you swap your own codebase for your competitor’s if you had the chance? For me, it’s a resounding no. I bet it’s the same from their perspective.
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by superjan 6y ago
That 8.6 figure comes from the paper linked below [0]. It’s an average. For many benchmarks, the difference is less than one percent, for others it’s 20 or more. In the freebsd article, they see around 1%. [0] https://www.microso
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by superjan 6y ago
I second your observations on JPEG. It turns out that you can use the same code to skim through jpeg, lossless jpeg, Jpeg2000 and jpeg-ls headers. Impressive in it’s simplicity.
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by superjan 6y ago
I would love to be able to do that on iOS.
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by superjan 6y ago
I know 3 examples from personal experience. One that I worked on myself, that was scrapped before completion. Two other two were finished but they have severely impacted the business. But they are not so useful to share because you would no
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by superjan 6y ago
It could get hairy when here is also another parser that has different assumptions. They don’t see the same URL. Psychic paper [0] comes to mind. [0] https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/05/02/psychic-p
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by superjan 6y ago
Can anyone explain why they’d start with the low end i3?
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by superjan 6y ago
And dont forget the cryptic “safety number has changed” message you get in Signal when somebody else repaces their phone. It freaks out my parents every time. Yeah you can prevent that but most people don’t realize in time.
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by superjan 6y ago
That would be the most ethical, sure. But this was a faster and safer course of action. And it wasn’t unethical.
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by superjan 6y ago
It might depending on platform. On my windows laptop, I can videoconference without GPU accelleration. Windows 10 has an impressive software fallback for gpu rendering (WARP), they could be using that.
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by superjan 6y ago
Try disabling gpu rendering.
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Covid: WHO in 'close contact' with UK over new virus variant(bbc.com)
3 points by superjan 6y ago|0 comments

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