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by thamer 5y ago
It's not only the "VM" experiments but generally the very basic approach to persistence that's kept Redis from being an actual database and has most users (hopefully) only using it as a cache. Around the same period as t
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by thamer 5y ago
When at the onset of the pandemic the Trump administration decided that foreign students couldn't stay in the U.S. if they weren't attending classes in person, I was surprised to learn how much of the STEM students they represent.
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by thamer 5y ago
Just a few small suggestions: 1. Some code seems to be duplicated (although with slightly different formatting) across multiple files, like dd/dw/db in elf.c and x86.c for example. I'd suggest consolidating those. 2. It helps
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by thamer 5y ago
To be sure it's not an exact match but hey, try also comparing the outline of constellations to the giant figures they're supposed to represent. It does require a fair bit of imagination. This shot maps a little closer to the stat
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by thamer 5y ago
You've mentioned this several times on this page, but this is still incorrect. The C standard references "struct or union" all over the place because the two are so similar. The distinction is of course made clear in multiple
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by thamer 5y ago
My pet peeve: structuring their UI to match their database schema. This is one of the most common issues for developers who build UIs or forms – anything that takes user input – and both one of the most consequential and difficult to addres
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by thamer 5y ago
Have you tried it? I've been using it for weeks and I'm consistently impressed by its suggestions. It's definitely not a stunt.
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by thamer 5y ago
It looks like raw HTML5 canvas with some WebGL (2D): https://ciechanow.ski/js/navarch.js with some helper functions in https://ciechanow.ski/js/base.js
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by thamer 5y ago
yes: https://re.kv.io/index.xml – I'll add a more prominent link to it. (edit: added on the About page, thanks for bringing this to my attention).
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by thamer 5y ago
I post reverse-engineering write-ups at https://re.kv.io , not as regularly as I'd like but some of these exercises were pretty interesting (or so I thought). They sort of go in order of increasing difficulty, although it&#x
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by thamer 5y ago
I also spent weeks finishing Full Throttle, and remember it fondly. Some parts were way too difficult, but this was such a unique game with great sound and fun cut scenes. The junkyard with the guard dogs, the bikes with nitro, the five-fin
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by thamer 5y ago
If you enjoyed these photos I'd recommend checking out Pecos Hank on YouTube, a storm chaser with incredible footage: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAQpSHsgUcNt6uCOjpgD8kw
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by thamer 5y ago
I get that carbon capture is very expensive and difficult, but surely planting trees does remove carbon from the atmosphere? That's where their biomass mostly comes from. On my Wren profile, it says "Your annual carbon emissions
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by thamer 5y ago
8K device… demo video is in 1080p. I realize that this 2D video is not showing exactly what you'd see with this special interface, but it does feature panning scenes where objects show 3D relief – presumably as a way to simulate the
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by thamer 5y ago
Great initiative! I offset my emissions with Wren ( https://wren.co – I am not affiliated) and wonder how it compares to Carbon Removed. My current plan there is ~$23 to offset 200% of my emissions for a total of 1.3 tons of CO2&
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by thamer 5y ago
TIL: TRAMP (Transparent Remote Access, Multiple Protocols) is a package for editing remote files [...] Whereas the others use FTP to connect to the remote host and to transfer the files, TRAMP uses a remote shell connection (rlogin, telnet,
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by thamer 5y ago
Is there a human pathogen more contagious than measles? I remember reading this scenario that really gave me a sense of how contagious it is: > The virus can linger in the air for about two hours after a person with measles has left the
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by thamer 5y ago
Previous conversations: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26114959 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26082303
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by thamer 5y ago
Still not loading 4 hours later, the request to /get_analytics is not getting a response. I assume it would time out eventually but I left the page after 30+ seconds without it returning anything.
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by thamer 5y ago
Knowing how Wickr is used by drug dealers, I was surprised to read the author's bio at the end of this announcement: > Prior to AWS, he had an extensive career at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, where he served as a senior exec
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by thamer 5y ago
I don't know if it's related to the way my browser implements it, but with <datalist> once I've picked an item it's then the only one that appears if I click again on the arrow to list the options. That's not
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by thamer 5y ago
Ah, thanks for the link; no need to split the discussion.
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by thamer 5y ago
This is such a Google solution. It reminds me that there was a version of Google Maps on iOS where if you wanted to cache a region of the map locally for offline use, you would (1) zoom out to view the full area to cache and (2) search fo
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by thamer 5y ago
You mean like the Austin urologist named Dick Chopp, who specializes in vasectomies? He even offers a t-shirt to his patients that reads "I was 'chopped' at the Urology Team." (all of this is true)
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by thamer 5y ago
Are "low-risk people" somehow living in an isolated society with only their kind? Or do they also have parents, grandparents, immunocompromised or overweight friends? The ones who you could argue are at the lowest risk level – tho
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by thamer 5y ago
mRNA vaccines were not "invented" to beat the pandemic, nor do the current vaccines use technologies invented in 2020. The technology was there, and ready enough that Moderna even reportedly designed their vaccine in "2 days&
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by thamer 5y ago
> then SO handed over the data proving it? Yes, something like that. The very first mention of the Silk Road online was from a user named "altoid" on Shroomery – the post is actually still up: https://www.shroomery.o
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by thamer 5y ago
The WebKit commit is over 8 months old already: "Enable WebGL2 by default", Sep 14, 2020 – from https://trac.webkit.org/changeset/267027/webkit CanIUse reports that it's only available in Safari Tec
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by thamer 5y ago
You might also want -w for whole words, otherwise commits by your colleague Todor might cause some confusion.
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by thamer 5y ago
Ah, that makes sense. Thanks for the details!

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