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by wscott 7y ago
https://eviltrout.com/2013/02/16/infinite-scrolling-that-wor...
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by wscott 7y ago
Doesn't seem accurate from my experience. We should have seen a huge downward spike last night when Amazon Prime went down. ;-)
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by wscott 7y ago
Legally I hope those 2 statements are independent of each other. ;-)
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SQRL: Secure Quick Reliable Login(grc.com)
1 points by wscott 7y ago|0 comments
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by wscott 8y ago
"Old age and treachery will beat youth and skill every time." http://ridiculousfish.com/blog/posts/old-age-and-treachery.h...
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by wscott 8y ago
The title should have started with "Two blind mice"
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Humble Bundle Intro to Code bundle (video courses)(humblebundle.com)
3 points by wscott 8y ago|0 comments
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by wscott 8y ago
I clicked on the link thinking. "Oh, some country is using Bitcoin as a reserve currency. That could be interesting." But no. Georgia is allowing an American company mine Bitcoin at scale. It uses a lot of power and a lot of infra
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by wscott 8y ago
The program would be impressive if it was clearly written and commented.
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by wscott 8y ago
For context, this is from The International Obfuscated C Code Contest https://www.ioccc.org/
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by wscott 8y ago
Here is the C program: https://www.ioccc.org/2018/mills/prog.c It is a PDP-7 emulator that can boot the most ancient known snapshot of Unix. This is running Unix from 1969 where the compiler is 'bc' (no
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Best of Show: PDP-7 and PDP-11/40 emulation(ioccc.org)
157 points by wscott 8y ago|27 comments
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by wscott 8y ago
I hear you. The blog post about Stellar made me very nervous. https://keybase.io/blog/keybase-stellar However, I get more nervous about use software without an obvious means of support for the developers so it would be
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by wscott 8y ago
Keybase.io is an alternative for secure chats. Anyone know how it compares to signal, wire & threema?
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by wscott 8y ago
Good question. They don't want to sell them. Just based on the website the licenses are only sold in 5000 unit blocks. The fact that they didn't want to take my money forced me to learn KVM and libvirt. That turned out to work be
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by wscott 8y ago
I totally agree with your conclusion but I wanted to comment about the IO performance remark. If you take an IO-heavy application and compile it natively on both platforms you will find that IO performance on Linux is dramaticly faster th
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by wscott 8y ago
I have heard this is a really good resource for understanding this exact aspect of Rust http://cglab.ca/~abeinges/blah/too-many-lists/book/
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by wscott 8y ago
Instead, Amazon will be profiling and denying access to highly technical engineers who are most likely to be able to subvert their system. ;-) Perhaps to just pull back the curtain to the magic.
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by wscott 8y ago
Here is my unrelated to the article perl memory... I fell in love with perl at school because it seems easier that sh/awk/sed/etc... After I got a job I still used perl for everything. Perl5 came along and made a bunch of re
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by wscott 8y ago
And there are related efforts to upgrade the lisp used in emacs to a more modern and standardized version. I think it is GuileEmacs I am remembering. I hope to two efforts are compatible.
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by wscott 8y ago
disclaimer: I was one of the BitKeeper developers in 2003 > Actually, they were just lucky enough that someone wasn't able to break into the main BitKeeper repository. That is kinda the point of BitKeeper (and yes git as well). The
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by wscott 8y ago
Don't assume something is impossible. Or assume that if your idea was any good then someone else would have already done it.
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by wscott 8y ago
I was assuming zfs and btrfs
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by wscott 8y ago
This one seems promising: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/built-in-lazy-l...
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by wscott 8y ago
> One issue when working in open source is that contributors don't have control over the release cycle, and review requires smaller series than having the feature be delivered all at once. Yes, my reply was unnecessarily disparaging
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by wscott 8y ago
"Before I joined Microsoft, I was a mathematician working in computational graph theory. I spent years thinking about graphs every day, so it was a habit that was hard to break. " As a former BitKeeper developer, this is a key per
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by wscott 8y ago
Yes, total nonsense. See a detailed post by cecilpl2 above. The net savings is about 1%.
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by wscott 8y ago
Some of these comments are "my first HP". I bought an HP-28C in when I graduated from high school using my own money. It was $235 which was a lot of money for me. My parents thought I was crazy. I later upgraded to the 28S followe
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by wscott 8y ago
I hope I can opt out of video. It is bad enough that most the news sites will autoplay videos when you go there. Hmmm, they add code to Chrome to avoid those videos and now they are going to add their own.
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by wscott 8y ago
The bad combo is: * uses Google Chrome * has Kaby Lake processor * uses Intel graphics A lot of the current line of laptops are included in this list.

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