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by vthriller 7y ago
I'm not a fan of the style that threaded discussions have (too much padding, and I'm not sure about arrows too), but I always wanted to experiment with that sort of arrangement of messages, where long chain of one-on-one replies d
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by vthriller 7y ago
Why can't they target content instead of visitors? i.e. articles and videos about X instead of people that showed even minimal interest in X in the past month or so.
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by vthriller 7y ago
> native desktop app exposes a much larger attack surface If we're talking about code executed as a result of, say, buffer overflow attacks, then the impact is the same both for the native app and for the browser. The latter, howeve
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by vthriller 7y ago
Consider load balancers that redirect requests to any other server if one of them is taking too much to respond (no matter whether it's slow or gone altogether). Eliminating timeouts there and pushing the problem waaaay back onto the c
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Timeouts and cancellation for humans (2018)(vorpus.org)
134 points by vthriller 7y ago|37 comments
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by vthriller 7y ago
> vitamin D really shouldn't be taken any other time than before noon Does this advice apply to people that work night shifts?
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by vthriller 7y ago
You can look at data provided by internet exchanges. For example, here are stats from AMS-IX: https://www.ams-ix.net/ams/documentation/total-stats
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Pygolang – Go-like features for Python and Cython(lab.nexedi.com)
3 points by vthriller 7y ago|0 comments
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by vthriller 7y ago
I'd say it's more complicated even for simple ZFS pools without any redundancy or fancy features. My favorite illustration on this topic would be figure 2 from "Reliability Analysis of ZFS" (PDF): http://pages
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by vthriller 7y ago
May I suggest you to have a look at Swiss Tables? There's a good talk from CppCon [0] that explains its design decisions, and implementations available as part of Abseil [1] and Rust stdlib [2]. [0] https://www.youtube.com&#
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by vthriller 7y ago
> what I'd love to have is some kind of universal messaging app that connects to all services I want to use There is (was?) plenty of said messengers; Trillian, Miranda, Pidgin, Adium to name a few, plus XMPP transports that could b
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by vthriller 7y ago
I'm not sure I'm following. Isn't this argument applicable against Docker as well?
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by vthriller 7y ago
Or you could use regular tab stop characters to align parts of adjacent lines. That's the idea behind elastic tabstops: http://nickgravgaard.com/elastic-tabstops/ Not all editors, however, support this style of al
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by vthriller 7y ago
> f(g(h(x))) Haskell has $ operator (simple application operator but with low precedence—think open bracket that closes implicitly at the end of expression). While it makes your example a bit more verbose: > f $ g $ h x it also allows
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by vthriller 7y ago
Speaking of building on top of CPython, you can also go another route with compiling however crazy syntax you can come up with into its bytecode. See e.g. https://pyos.github.io/dg/
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by vthriller 7y ago
I'd pick a call in the morning any time given that the cause of the call occurs rarely and the alternative is to spend a lot of time automating things with possibility of blowing things up in a much bigger way. If situation like [0] ha
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by vthriller 7y ago
> Most websites not having human-readable URL's What problems human-readable URLs solve in the context of URL shortening and modern websites? Their benefit in the past was that on websites with clear hierarchy you could strip URL pa
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by vthriller 7y ago
Well, I wouldn't necessarily call him a patriot or regime supporter or whatever (not a vocal one anyways), but he indeed did like to occasionally throw some stones towards non-systemic opposition, color revolutions supporters, or other
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by vthriller 7y ago
Why then embed tweet as an image if you're going to copy its text anyway?
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by vthriller 7y ago
It doesn't work for me for quite a while now (for up to a year), even with recent versions from git [0]. My preliminary guess is that's because Google renders each result with <div> (block element) inside an <a> tag.
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by vthriller 7y ago
> Apple sells integrated products. They don't sell operating systems, browsers, app stores, and NFC chips. They sell a finished good Microsoft didn't sell IE either, it too was once part of a package called Windows.
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by vthriller 7y ago
> Forbid advertisements. How would one formalize what's an ad and what's not? And what about sneaky things like sponsored content or, say, amazon reviews? It's hard sometimes to tell whether a review is legitimate or an ad
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by vthriller 7y ago
> Gmail is 10 years old, for context, and it's ubiquitous for basically the entire population, and it has barely 4 times that. GMail comes preinstalled in a lot of phones, and you can also use the service with different mail client,
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by vthriller 7y ago
Better yet, you can even define your own combo. Here's how I type it with compose + left-arrow twice: $ grep ← .XCompose <Multi_key> <Left> <Left> : "←" (I use double press to disti
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by vthriller 7y ago
My w3m installation didn't change in the last year or so. I also had opportunity to test this on various machines when needed to google random things in a hurry—it's consistently broken for me. As for reproducability, in just this
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by vthriller 7y ago
> Google ... doesn't force you to use Javascript. About 3 months ago Google became unusable when browsed through w3m: search results are not rendered as links, just as a regular text that can't be followed-through. They clearly
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by vthriller 7y ago
> people don't want pdf's because they can't be inlined on a issue ticket like plain old images can Well, this module can also produce SVGs, which, I guess, can be inlined in some issue trackers. But, aside from being GTK3
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by vthriller 7y ago
Re: annotated screenshots, there once was a module that allowed making snapshots of GTK windows as PDFs: https://github.com/nomeata/gtk-vector-screenshot Edit: here it is in action, with selectable text: https:/&
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by vthriller 7y ago
There's video about looped run-outs and multiple groves as well: https://youtu.be/yIoAYU_r0Uk
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by vthriller 7y ago
> You just get all the data, and filter what you want programaticly. There are definitely cases when you're better off with producer-side filtering. For example, `find` allows you to not traverse certain directories with -prune, whi

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