AngryParsley

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by AngryParsley 13y ago
The sad thing about this is that tablets and phones aren't nearly as good at content creation. A physical keyboard is still the fastest brain --> computer interface in town. Also, tablets and phones aren't self-hosting. You can't develo
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
I was part of the Bloglines team from 2007 to 2009. The current Bloglines is nothing like the original. It looks like MerchantCircle kept only the name after acquiring it from Ask. The archived feed data is gone, and the current UI appears
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
Although Intel's Westermere-EX was last updated in late 2011, the specs are still pretty good. Those CPUs have up to 10 physical cores (20 virtual thanks to hyperthreading) and 30MB of L3 cache. The clock speed isn't amazing, but that's to
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
I opt-out of backscatter and millimeter-wave screening every time. I think the TSA is a waste of money and I'd love to see the government take a more calculated approach to security instead of the typical CYA behavior. With that said... His
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
Anecdotes aren't worth much. What matters is statistics. What fraction of those who have corrective surgery regret it? The answer: less than 1 in 20. Most of that fraction includes those who are unhealthy: mainly people with high blood pres
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
I got PRK (epi-LASEK actually) in 2011. It is without a doubt the best money I have spent. Beforehand I was 20/450 in each eye. Now I'm 20/15 in each eye and 20/10 combined. Although the healing process did take a couple of months, it was d
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
Apple seeds contain cyanide, not arsenic: http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/apples.asp I agree with your point though. Lots of natural things are deadly. In fact, the most toxic compound known is natural: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
There's no IV, but the AES key changes each time you encrypt the secret. The key is random.
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
Good catch. My comment was already rather long, so I didn't mention that the public key actually encrypts an AES key that encrypts the secret. A different AES key is used for each secret. Also if the secret is < 1000 bytes (I forget the
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
First: I completely agree. Keeping plaintext secrets in source control is a bad idea. Encrypting them is a good idea. If you have plaintext secrets, encrypt them now using this makefile or git-crypt. Then rotate them. That said, this solu
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
Can you give us the steps to reproduce? I googled around but couldn't find the bug. I also tried a few different languages and I can't get Terminal.app to crash.
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
Quick, get ahold of the engineers at Boeing! Tell them to switch to whatever they used on their older planes! Surely they haven't considered that idea yet! Have you ever been in a situation where a manager proposes a technical solution that
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
I know. I was just poking some fun at TextMate. TM2 was delayed by what, 6 years? One can't not joke about that. I actually use TextMate 1.5 more than I use Sublime Text. Unfortunately, TextMate 1.5 was never open-sourced and TextMate 2 bro
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
I see ST3 bundles its own version of Python 3.3 on all platforms. ST2 did this on Linux and Windows, and it was quite annoying. In ST2, the ssl module is broken on Linux and the select module is completely missing on Windows. (See http://s
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
It's a very rare situation in which truncation is worse than a buffer overflow. I'd also bet that erasing the destination string is more liable to cause problems than truncating it. For example, the programmer might have pointers to locatio
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
//C11, safe version of strcat errno_t strcat_s(char * restrict s1, rsize_t s1max, const char * restrict s2); strcat_s() copies no more than s1max bytes to s1. The second function, s
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
You make an excellent argument for dropping the GPL and adopting the Affero General Public License. After all, the GPL doesn't force commercial web apps to release their modified source. Note: I typically use the Apache 2.0 license for my p
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
In his bestselling 1946 book, Man's Search for Meaning, which he wrote in nine days about his experiences in the camps, Frankl concluded that the difference between those who had lived and those who had died came down to one thing: Meaning
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
The last graph amuses me: http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2013/01/22/graph_custom-3939... Even on a log-log graph, the data looks like a shotgun spread. Species of similar mass have lifetimes that vary by up to a factor of 1,000. Species
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
The probability of revival varies based on who you ask. SEM micrographs of cryopreserved mammal brain tissue show intact nanostructure. One can even see synaptic vesicles with neurotransmitters in them. Also, Alcor's cryopreservation protoc
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
I'll address it, but I don't think cost is your true rejection[1]. If I was talking about a highly-experimental cancer treatment, I doubt you'd nitpick the price. Doubly-so if you had cancer. In fact, I bet you'd do your best to estimate it
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
The cost is low enough today that it could be much more common. Even the most expensive set-up (Alcor whole-body, whole life insurance) is about $130/month for a healthy person in their mid 20's. With term life and neuro (head-only), you co
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
Good point, but I'm not sure I agree with your second sentence. At every place I've worked at since 2008, most devs used laptops and plugged them into monitors and keyboards. I'm sure other places are different, but it makes a lot of sense
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
Why limit yourself to a $1,000 budget? If you're writing code, that's a small percentage of your yearly income. If a more expensive laptop makes you 5% more productive, it's worth buying purely for economic reasons.
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
Magazine restrictions are a separate law in most states. California has an assault weapon ban which restricts features such a pistol grips, collapsible stocks, and flash hiders. They have another law restricting the possession of magazines
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Just for stealing a mouthful of bread(squid314.livejournal.com)
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
Companies make money off life insurance, even though mortality rates tend to 100% over time. It's similar with health insurance. This works due to several factors: 1. Insurance companies can invest payments from young people to cover costs
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
"...very bad style"? That's quite an overstatement. You can enable individual optimizations with gcc. Just add `-foptimize-sibling-calls` to the debug CFLAGS and you're set. Tada! Straightforward code and debug-ability.
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
It looks like this started around Jan 1 00:00:00 UTC 2013. I wonder if it's related to the leap second bug discovered in July. Apparently, a some popular NTP servers incorrectly sent out leap seconds at midnight. Even if it's not that speci
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by AngryParsley 14y ago
There's not much room for improvement. It's a little over 5000 miles from CA to the Netherlands, so light takes about 30ms to travel that far on a vacuum. That means a 60ms round trip minimum. Light in fiber goes at 0.6-0.7c, so the fastest

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