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by vog 9y ago
> The view of the night sky is stunning. You can see the Milky Way with the naked eye, and the sheer number of stars is magnificent Note that you can see the Milky Way with naked eyes also outside of reservates. Maybe most people forge
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by vog 9y ago
If you want this, just press F11 on firefox. Or select from the menu: View / Full Screen. But this has nothing to do with a headless browser.
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by vog 9y ago
> doing everything possible in terms of vectors and never using angle measure unless interfacing with humans or legacy software is a generally good idea More generally, use scalar products instead of angles. Calculations based on scala
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by vog 9y ago
That doesn't make any sense to me. People in such responsible positions are on respective announcement mailing lists anyway, and read about those events (and patch their system and/or take other measures) long before the story is
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by vog 9y ago
> this requires automated procedures to convery any event version N to another version N + 1, but having these kind of procedures in place is good practice anyway Note that this "good practice" already has a name, it is usual
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by vog 9y ago
If you want to pitch your project and get feedback from HN readers, the recommended way is to create a "Show HN" submission, rather than hijacking another thread.
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by vog 9y ago
> More low-level radiation access? (smartphones/computers/smartwatches) I don't get why people are so worried about this. The effects are so small, it is almost like worrying about undesirable side effects of homeopathy.
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by vog 9y ago
Wow, the alternative print is extra evil ... >>> from exterminate import AltPrint >>> print("Hey! How are you?") Yo dawwwwg! Wuz crackalackin' yo? ... because that string is not calculated l
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by vog 9y ago
Or OpenSolaris+ZFS, if that project hadn't died.
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by vog 9y ago
This description is unfair and not correct. They also rant about FOSDEM.
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by vog 9y ago
From the n-gate page: > Pasting n-gate content or generally talking about n-gate on "Hacker" "News" is a violation of the Prime Directive. In other words, they want to publish their rants, but are unwilling to discu
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by vog 9y ago
Not sure why others downvoted you. (Maybe because you didn't name the alternative you obviously had in mind.) But I think you have a fair point: If it is about quality and stability, why not going from Linux+ZFS straight to FreeBSD+ZFS
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by vog 9y ago
Some time ago I came to a similar conclusion: In most cases, the only way to properly process PDF files is to render them and work on the raster images. I was involved in a project where we needed to determine the final size of an image in
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by vog 9y ago
Serious question: Why would anyone today use BTRFS, given that the battle-proof ZFS has finnally been ported to Linux for quite some time?
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A Neighborhood of Infinity: The Three Projections of Doctor Futamura (2009)(blog.sigfpe.com)
2 points by vog 9y ago|0 comments
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by vog 9y ago
Good point for music, but if you add podcasts, youtube clips, movies and serials to this list, you quickly have mutiple terabytes that you can't ever consume in a healthy way. (And playing it on a TV screen in the background while doin
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by vog 9y ago
Moreover, we see the same thing today with digital items. (Well, to be honest, we already saw this 20 years ago with digital items.) There, it is just not so visible because disk space is ever increasing as well as getting cheaper. In the d
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by vog 9y ago
> Relying on time stamps is a design decision that was good for its time, but it is no longer robust I agree with the sentiment, but a small nitpick: Relying on time stamps for older/newer comparisons is not robust. Using time s
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by vog 9y ago
> eg open source or not - just looking through that list I saw non-free software without much warning about their status To add to this, I found it strange that they added the proprietary "Civilization 5" to their list, but n
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The lives of Bitcoin miners digging for digital gold in Inner Mongolia(qz.com)
4 points by vog 9y ago|0 comments
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by vog 9y ago
Very interesting view into the insides of mining. However, I always find it sad to see how mining is depicted in most media: as a way to "generate" bitcoins. This view is inaccurate for two reasons: 1. The purpose of this whole co
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by vog 9y ago
That sounds strange, especially for a tiny project. What kind of dependency structure did you have?
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by vog 9y ago
The problem is not tsort, it is adding, removing, updating items in such a text file. (not to mention nasty corner cases like filenames containing whitespaces, or the security implications of filenames containing newlines)
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by vog 9y ago
> What happens when a dependency does change, but not in a way that actually matters I believe that tup does have some features in that direction, but I may be mistaken.
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by vog 9y ago
> The frequency with which I find bugs in the dependency graph of `Makefile`s [1][2][3] suggests that people are starting from a sequence of commands anyway This is why the more elaborate build systems recognize dependencies automatica
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by vog 9y ago
> 2. Make is _really_ hard to use to try to compose a large build system ... recursive make is harmful Note that "recursive make is harmful" does not argue against multiple Makefiles! There's nothing wrong with using m
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by vog 9y ago
> 1. Using make in a CI system doesn't really work, because of the way it handles conditional building based on mtime This is my #1 gripe with Make, and many other build systems as well. There are so many flaws in the timestamp ap
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by vog 9y ago
> As a shameless plug, I built a tool similar to Make and redo Also be sure to have a look at tup, which operates vastly more efficient by simply walking the DAG in the opposite direction: http://gittup.org/tup/ T
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by vog 9y ago
It is really a pity that FOSS is not yet a strict requirement for every security-relevant component. This is especially strange given that "Security by Obscurity doesn't work" and "Nobody can analyze code which they can&
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by vog 9y ago
Indeed, it is "Commercial Off The Shelf". I sometimes saw this in marketing speech, too.

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