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by zbuf 4y ago
Yes, having a version number centralised in source code is exactly the thing Git helped us many times to avoid. Also ties in with the author's recommendation to begin tags with "v". My experience is that excluding it is bette
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by zbuf 4y ago
Yes. Read the original bitcoin paper; its a really interesting read and won't take long. I can't say what % of cryptocurrency tech you'll learn, but it's enough to make sense of a lot of the information out there. I foun
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by zbuf 4y ago
The author is right about full duplex audio. My opinion is that manufacturers long neglected audio, incorrectly thinking that video and eye contact was the key to more natural conversation (the pandemic did do something to correct that, tho
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by zbuf 4y ago
And an init system, surely
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by zbuf 4y ago
We built https://cleanfeed.net/ which is an online studio for pro audio. Chances are if you enjoy radio, podcasts or movies, especially during the pandemic, that you've listened to something produced using Cleanfeed. I
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by zbuf 4y ago
No need to mandate it, Netflix should have realised the end game of competing with their own suppliers.
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by zbuf 4y ago
I inherited a codebase like this, from a developer coding in their native language. Function names or variables started with a typo, and they just carried on with tab/auto completion from then on. By the time I arrived the damage was w
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by zbuf 5y ago
Are any credit cards issued with numbers beginning zero? I would bet this sort of pragmatic workaround is taking place.
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by zbuf 5y ago
It certainly took a long time (mid 2010s) for panels in their various guises to truly overtake CRTs for film work. The reason given at my workplace was the calibration control of CRTs took time to be superceded. The Sony 21" CRTs (and
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by zbuf 5y ago
With a modern encoder, I think that's virtually guaranteed, yes. Most peoples idea of "horrible" 128kbps seems to be skewed by the early days of MP3 -- which does mean there are horrible files and encoders out there, yes. But
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by zbuf 5y ago
The counterpoint.. The day you cancel your subscription to a streaming service and you have absolutely nothing to show for it. Without the physical media, I lose the journal of what I enjoyed, why and when (as well as the guarantee I can li
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by zbuf 5y ago
I think its important to recognise that these are community projects -- they don't owe you anything so don't misunderstand this "responsibility" you're citing. If something is an issue that's important to you,
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by zbuf 5y ago
On balance, I've found PostgreSQL lack of hints to be a good thing. I can recall a single genuine case where the planner could not make a good plan, and 1000 where a colleague would have created some unmaintainable time bomb; instead t
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by zbuf 5y ago
But that's all part of the overall achievement -- 6M requests/day is a key part of the optimisation, and how much real world "traffic" that corresponds too.
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by zbuf 5y ago
Yup. Our competitor advertises against our company name, and Google helpfully optimises the text of their ad -- some ML algorithm finds text most likely to be confused with the search results. Optimising for "clicks" is just optim
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by zbuf 5y ago
There's many ways that different Zip files can contain the exact same content. A change to the order in which files are stored is likely to be the primary one. Zip also has optional ZIP64 headers (required for large files) and a switch
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by zbuf 5y ago
Yes, it mostly decouples "launch" of a feature from accidental side effects of it. I find that reduces the peak/emergency workload; important for small numbers of developers. Also aids in developing the whole codebase cohesiv
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by zbuf 5y ago
I think you've worked it out: because Spotify doesn't sell music. In producing it's own programming, Netflix started competing directly with the very people providing it's content. I assume streaming on it's own jus
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by zbuf 5y ago
On a similar theme, I'd like to know if there's a secure and sensible way to SSH using a "shared" key in two parts. Because it seems the flaw is having to trust this combination of an IP and its fingerprint is suitable f
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by zbuf 5y ago
> Imagine you have a wife I feel like this comedian knows their audience
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by zbuf 5y ago
We can add this to the debate above about whether Netflix was really a pivot. Acorn made computers and eventually decided they needed their own processor. I'm sure one could debate whether that was evolution or revolution, but what we
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by zbuf 5y ago
I found this also interesting. I can see how it simplifies the mathematics to use a fixed time interval. Can anyone experienced comment if 10Hz is very different or the same as vehicle control systems such as a modern car? Also, are these s
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by zbuf 5y ago
Thanks for this. Sounds promising. "flying" is a hard search online for screenshots or other info, so I'll follow the lead from the URL when I'm back at my Linux workstation.
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by zbuf 5y ago
> no amount of DRM will ever prevent this so why bother There is a possible reason: insurance. Once insurers are involved it drives behaviours in media production that may at first not appear to make sense -- protecting content in it&#x2
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by zbuf 5y ago
Yes, though this isn't forwarding. The mail is actively being delivered into gmail, who must be programmed to accept mail for that domain. Forwarding, on the other hand, made it possible to do a simple redirect of one address to anothe
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by zbuf 5y ago
Back in the 90s, I has a fun pool/snooker game in 2D for x11. My encounter was in the default install of the ARM port of RedHat 3.0.3. I've asked on these sorts of threads before, but can anyone remember what it was? I seem to hav
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by zbuf 5y ago
Interesting, I misinterpreted what was being said! I'm doubtful a default block would work, as that would even penalise the 'big boys' of email when they make basic network changes and piss off existing customers of both send
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by zbuf 5y ago
This matches my exprience. I switched recently after 10+ years, and was cautious that this might be a problem but it hasn't been at all. I think it has more to do with the choice of ISP.
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by zbuf 5y ago
I think the vastly different experiences have a lot to do with the quality and scale of the ISP. Best results with small, good quality ISPs. Also running my own servers for personal and business, and working well. But when we tried to use o
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by zbuf 5y ago
Does gmail actually trust the incoming forwarded email? Or mark a lot of it as spam. My understanding is that SPF makes forwarding like this no longer possible if the original sender's address is to be preserved.

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