vrdabomb5717

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by vrdabomb5717 5y ago
I'm curious if we see other unconformities related to other Ice Ages. If receding glaciers scraped away the earth and led to this big of a gap, shouldn't this have happened again when the glaciers receded after more recent ice age
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A roadmap for improving Swift performance predictability(forums.swift.org)
2 points by vrdabomb5717 5y ago|0 comments
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by vrdabomb5717 5y ago
Not a professional anthropologist or historian, but I do enjoy reading about it. You should be skeptical when authors/books make general claims about a large group of people. There are counterexamples, especially when writing about a l
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UK to indefinitely delay age-verification system for online porn(theverge.com)
3 points by vrdabomb5717 7y ago|0 comments
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Bitcoin has a huge scaling problem–Lightning could be the solution(arstechnica.com)
93 points by vrdabomb5717 9y ago|131 comments
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by vrdabomb5717 10y ago
With FileVault, the disk won't decrypt until the user enters their login password. Here's Yubico's documentation on Filevault integration: https://www.yubico.com/support/knowledge-base/categories&#x2
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by vrdabomb5717 10y ago
Hmm, it's unfortunate that this is being shut down. If you're looking for alternatives, I've been using the New York Times app, CNN, and Buzzfeed News. You need to deal with some annoying notifications (for example, CNN sent
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The Not-So-Wholesome Reality Behind the Making of Your Meal Kit(buzzfeed.com)
9 points by vrdabomb5717 10y ago|0 comments
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by vrdabomb5717 10y ago
I think funding mass media is less interesting than finding a way to have sustainable investigative journalism, both at the local and national levels. Investigative journalism, especially at the local level, has been hit hard by local newsp
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Snapchat Memories is a searchable replacement for your camera roll(techcrunch.com)
1 points by vrdabomb5717 10y ago|0 comments
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by vrdabomb5717 10y ago
At the big tech firm I work at, there's a best practice where any database (whether that's a traditional RDBMS or a NoSQL client) is abstracted away by a microservice with a defined API, and every other application that wants to g
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by vrdabomb5717 11y ago
Sounds a bit like a web version of this: http://junecloud.com/software/iphone/deliveries.html
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by vrdabomb5717 11y ago
All this has happened before, and all this will happen again. - Six, Battlestar Galactica
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by vrdabomb5717 11y ago
What fascinates me is how close this synthetic filesystem is to making REST calls with a small client library. All your application needs to know is the path to call and what HTTP verb to use. Even the way the author introduces versioning s
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by vrdabomb5717 13y ago
In order not to get into trouble with the SEC, wouldn't Icahn have had to issued this press release alerting investors to look at his Twitter account before he tweeted? Seems like it happened the other way around, which leaves plenty o
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by vrdabomb5717 13y ago
Github seems to have done this: https://github.com/blog/1530-choosing-an-open-source-license Their new repo page points to choosealicense.com and lets you choose any of the major OSS licenses, though it does show the M
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by vrdabomb5717 13y ago
You might want to be careful: in OS X Mavericks, the default version of Ruby is 2.0.0p195. If you decide to upgrade, you'll have to go through this pain all over again. If you're using Homebrew, you can install rbenv, ruby-build,
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by vrdabomb5717 13y ago
You can get a list of the available cipher commands with openssl list-cipher-commands A description is available if you do man enc Doesn't seem to be any reason you couldn't use AES-256-CBC if you wanted to. Not a security
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by vrdabomb5717 14y ago
Youtube on the selection of a winner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H542nLTTbu0
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by vrdabomb5717 14y ago
It only seems to work on Chrome right now. Safari doesn't support the FileSystem API, so it doesn't seem like even Webkit's enough.
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More N.F.L. Teams Use Statisticians, but League Acceptance Is Not Mode(nytimes.com)
3 points by vrdabomb5717 14y ago|0 comments
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by vrdabomb5717 15y ago
At the same point as you are. I have 8 GB of RAM in my mid-2009 MacBook Pro and usually have one browser running with a number of tabs. I quickly run out of RAM and go to swap, and the only solution I've found so far is to use the purge t
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by vrdabomb5717 15y ago
I disagree. I think it's prudent for hackers to think of the social and environmental costs associated with making great products. Hackers don't live in a vacuum, and even the best of companies should acknowledge that there are costs associ
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by vrdabomb5717 15y ago
This happened to me recently. I had nearly 2 TB of movies and TV shows on an external hard drive that decided to die on me when I moved it. After some messing around, I was able to coax the drive to boot up again and list files, but it take
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by vrdabomb5717 15y ago
There's no loop there: Genghis Khan -> Borjigin -> Clan -> People -> Human -> Taxonomy -> Science -> Knowledge -> Fact -> Information -> Sequence -> Mathematics -> Quantity -> Property (p