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by yason 7y ago
I just realised that there might be an actual, political need for something as brittle and theatrical as DNS blocking, and probably of other things similar, because there are large masses of untechnical nature for which it really works. Of
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by yason 7y ago
The fork+exec is sort of a special, common case already. There have been attempts to explicitly implement that because even the current fork() has turned out to be too slow or too convoluted to implement, as witnessed by things like vfork()
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by yason 7y ago
I recognise the situation but I've always considered it part of the gameplay. I mean, how else would you play when the enemies are tough? In nearly any shooter you will soon learn that if you run into an open space carelessly you'
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by yason 7y ago
There is no problem for Excel to allocate memory dynamically for rows and columns as the user edits the sheet as long as it will also handle an allocation failure gracefully. That generally means the user input events call functions that fa
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by yason 7y ago
We have 2 beaches within 20 minutes of us Walking or... driving?
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That's about a low as you get... I wonder why did they even bother with that? The very point of a train crash, or any crash, is to seriously total the equipment and see debris flying, and also the theoretical possibility of a memorably
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by yason 7y ago
Each time as fun. If you know Lisp you will instinctively convert any syntax back to S-expressions anyway because that's how things will eventually work anyway and because you can't think of Lisp macros otherwise. So, the syntax b
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by yason 7y ago
If you're very much involved in climate change issues and want to make an effect on the tech crowd then you might as well partake yourself with meaningful comments in the relevant discussions here on Hacker News, offering your wealth o
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by yason 7y ago
If, for once, you can get of all the middlemen it allows you to create your own.
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by yason 7y ago
Making a huge selection with mouse in LibreOffice spreadsheets even today goes faster if you move the mouse while dragging one endpoint of the selection over the spreadsheet borders which causes the sheet to scroll. Likely the very same cau
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by yason 7y ago
Fuel is just a name for matter that stores energy. Methanol ultimately produced by the sunlight is fully renewable: it's just recycling atoms from molecule to another and burning the produced methanol will eventually recycle them back
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by yason 7y ago
A lot of problems with automation vs manual controls is that the line between those tends to be blurry. It's not that automation wouldn't work in the absolute majority of cases, and that we couldn't define the cases where aut
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by yason 7y ago
but in the end this is a very well-explored area With a lot of interesting new generic allocators that beat the competition hands down popping up in the last 10 years, I'd dare to claim the area is not very well explored. It has inde
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by yason 7y ago
To me, that construction would seem like a hell over the six months that is actually quite warm at these latitudes. I basically already keep my windows open from spring to late autumn without a glass dome like that, and it still gets hot in
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by yason 7y ago
When XML came out into popularity I think the first thing I wrote was a small Python program to flatten/unflatten XML into per-line entries quite similar to the example output in the article. The text streams that are processed line-by
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by yason 7y ago
I hate having to take care of the yard, to deal with unreliable tradespeople when things break, to deal with the huge expense of minor home repairs So, how often do things break, then? I've always thought of home ownership as full co
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by yason 7y ago
My grandad luckily fell, broke his hips, and become hospitalised until his death before he managed to drive over any innocent pedestrians or crash into other cars besides when parking. I'd venture to suggest retaking the standard drivi
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by yason 7y ago
I know what I'm doing, too. Thus, I can learn to use another menu item to do what I want. The save vs export change only hits against habits. It took me a while to figure it out at the time but these days I practically only ever use &q
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by yason 7y ago
All right so there is already work ongoing to solve these problems, and that work is built on top of IPFS instead of extending the base protocol, and the author who just insisted using plain IPFS was thus suffering from expected difficultie
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by yason 7y ago
Interesting, this would definitely explain these errors. Similar to there's/theirs, they're/there which are similar examples of the same. Writing out words based on such a phonetic memory would explain all that. But the
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by yason 7y ago
I don't think this is ultimately an IFPS problem. How I've always understood IPFS is the protocol being a decentralized blob storage. You would use it in place of a CDN, to share files, or other building blocks for something highe
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by yason 7y ago
I wonder why? It seems to be common with native speakers. I'm not native in English but, for me, it would seem to be nearly impossible to mix these two words even in a moment of carelessness. They mark greatly differing meanings and th
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by yason 7y ago
Enlightenment is just the realisation of to know who you are and know what you have to do instead of thinking you know who you are and thinking you know what you have to do.
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by yason 7y ago
This article reminded me of the good old days as well. I wrote some toy Mandelbrot renderers on Amiga. Mine didn't have an FPU so any trivial algorithm would choke itself with the floating point emulation code and would probably take d
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by yason 7y ago
High-demand cities building more have a positive problem, but it's a real problem despite the sign. The cities now housing more people now also support more economic activity, jobs, and development which makes the job markets even bett
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How is that sustainable? Does the scheme lack a feedback loop of sorts or why doesn't he (or the stereotypical American people of similar attitude) realise that the overconfident-looking people aren't necessarily that competent? I
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Traditionally, what is on the records and what happens in real life are two very different things. In each case I've seen in private companies, public offices, or universities, the timesheets are duly filled with what is expected and t
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by yason 7y ago
The article didn't say Ford didn't say the phrase but that there's no evidence Ford ever said that. So, the truth is (as with many historical things) that no one really knows the truth.
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by yason 7y ago
I got the impression that much of developing Teslas was doing things nobody dared to do before, and the screen probably wasn't the only non-standard thing Musk had to extract from the industry with bare hands, even if the industry was
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by yason 7y ago
Unavailability is a drag in any case because transportation always costs something. Either you come earlier and wait, or you pay more to secure a seat (and thus work longer to earn the cost but at least you won't compete with the poor)

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