tsuraan

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by tsuraan 15y ago
I don't know why the above post is getting down-modded. The point is definitely a good one, even if it was stated flippantly. As has been stated in previous threads on this subject, the image captures the creative work of the creator of th
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by tsuraan 15y ago
The project's site is http://openfarmtech.org . I don't think they have their full 50 machines, but what they do have looks pretty interesting.
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by tsuraan 15y ago
Now that's weird; I wasn't even aware that the apple symbol had been removed from the apple key. Both my apple keyboards (one on a IIci, and one on my ~2004 Powerbook G4) have apples on them. I wonder why they removed it. EDIT: according
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by tsuraan 15y ago
Unpleasant is the word your choosing to use? Irritating, painful, expensive? Choose your favorite word to describe your experience as a Sony customer, I guess. but by all means keep hiding behind this tired old excuse that the end resul
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by tsuraan 15y ago
Every Sony customer is an inadvertent supporter of Sony's abuses, and most of them don't care about Sony's morality, they just love the products. If hackers make being a Sony customer unpleasant, then they may be able to hurt Sony's bottom
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by tsuraan 15y ago
It's been a long time since I did any PHP, but are trailing commas illegal? Normally, it seems like languages follow one of these two patterns, depending on whether their syntax allows extraneous commas or not: foo = [ 'first',
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by tsuraan 15y ago
He stopped when they told him to. He complied with their requests, and now they're suing him and his parents. They aren't just protecting their trademark at this point, they're going for blood.
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by tsuraan 15y ago
What I've seen with RabbitMQ is that the memory usage can grow and grow Prior to 2.0, the contents of Rabbit's queues were always in RAM. Even durable queues with persistent messages always had their contents mirrored in RAM. As of 2.0,
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by tsuraan 15y ago
From my experience with borderlands (another gearbox game featuring save file corruption, missing items, and general mission brokenness), I'd guess that "aiming for perfect" isn't their thing. Perhaps they were the perfect company to final
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by tsuraan 15y ago
I think if a bookseller had been making copies of 1984 without permission from the right holder, and you had bought one of these copies, the right holder would have demanded its return. Had you refused, I think you may have been in violati
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by tsuraan 15y ago
If it makes you feel better, their native app for Android is pretty broken too. The most obvious problem is that it can't rotate; the app only runs in vertical mode. The first page it brings you to is the login page; you flip your phone o
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by tsuraan 15y ago
Heh, I guess with Nokia's pivot, I should have said WinMo7, but I had actually forgotten about its existence. The point was that there are other phones out there, with app stores that people (apparently) use. I can't imagine any environme
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by tsuraan 15y ago
I've never used the app, but I'm not seeing why their apparently unique approach to eBooks couldn't run on WebOS, Meego, or Android. I assume there's a good reason, since you don't throw away years of work easily, but I'd love to hear what
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by tsuraan 15y ago
A license subject to unilateral change on their part, of course...
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by tsuraan 15y ago
Have you measured the battery life difference? I'm pretty sure each lit key has a fibre optic lead, with all the keys going to a single white LED. That should be a draw of about 120mW, which is pretty tiny compared with the couple of watt
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by tsuraan 16y ago
Sony is a company that happily plays bait and switch, especially with geek-appeal features. If you like the way a sony phone looks, then by all means buy it for its appearance. If you like any features of the phone (especially geek-appeal
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by tsuraan 16y ago
Ok, that makes sense. Thanks!
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by tsuraan 16y ago
Under what circumstances is storing static media in memcache and using a lighttpd/nginx module to serve them going to be faster than using the web servers' built-in sendfile support? Sendfile is a DMA operation, and as long as the disk cac
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by tsuraan 16y ago
If you try to equate C and C++ by saying C++ can compile to C (not sure if that's what you're saying but it sort of looks like it), you might want to change your argument a bit. Haskell can also compile to C, but that doesn't make C strong
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by tsuraan 16y ago
DRM isn't black and white though. Blu-Ray DRM is (last I checked) pretty good; thus I don't buy Blu-Ray. DVD-CSS is such a joke that it might as well not exist, so I buy DVDs without any problem, and I keep my DVD collection on my file se
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by tsuraan 16y ago
I think the term you're looking for might be "adjacent track erasure", which is the idea that the magnetic fields of adjacent tracks on a hard drive interfere, so if one track is written frequently (such as a file system metadata block), th
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by tsuraan 16y ago
FWIW, you'd probably want to sterilize the thread as well. That's the part that's staying in the wound, and it's a bit easier to sterilize a thread with bleach than with fire.
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by tsuraan 16y ago
Any news on the resolution on the 14" models? I'm still looking for a competitor for the display on my three or four year old sony: 13.3" with a 1600x900 display. The new Sony laptops do full 1080p at 13.3", but Sony really doesn't like l
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by tsuraan 16y ago
I believe that AsbestOS ( http://marcansoft.com/blog/2010/10/asbestos-running-linux-as... seems most authoritative) is what you're looking for. It's early; you need to netboot a PPC linux kernel, but that blog post mentions pretty much ev
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by tsuraan 16y ago
That's not nice all in my opinion. We definitely have different points of view then. I see single-implementation languages as things to fear. Software projects die, sometimes suddenly. The genius in charge might get hit by a bus, a par
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by tsuraan 16y ago
One nice thing about ruby is that it has quite a few viable implementations floating around. MRI or YARV are probably what you have installed on your computer by default, but if multithreading and sane garbage collection are concerns of yo
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by tsuraan 16y ago
Right, modeled after, but I'm wondering why they would be considered failures. Rubygems and cabal both work really well for me, and cabal is both the nicest package management system and the nicest build system I've ever used. I'd love to
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by tsuraan 16y ago
CPAN (and the arguably failed attempts to copy it by other language communities) I haven't used perl, but I do use ruby and I'm learning haskell. What does CPAN do that make rubygems and cabal failures? They both work really well from w
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by tsuraan 16y ago
I had a 17" powerbook for years with a width of 1440 and it drove me mad because I couldn't quite get 3 80-column terminals to fit comfortably (I think I settled on 2 79-column and one 80). Today my minimum width is 1600 pixels, precisely
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by tsuraan 16y ago
When you say higher-end, do you mean larger or something else? I would really like to see replacement options for my Sony laptop, which is a 13.3" with a 1600x900 resolution, but from what I can find, only Sony has a nice resolution (1080p

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