Spakman

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by Spakman 4y ago
I'm not nearly educated enough about this subject to try to summarise it, but the research being carried out by Michael Levin's group into how organisms control anatomy growth is completely fascinating and has the feel of a breakt
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by Spakman 4y ago
Excellent link, thanks! One of the linked papers[1] in that article is highly recommended. 1. https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/osdi14/osdi14...
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by Spakman 4y ago
Thanks for clarifying. I agree that reliably writing files is a sneakier problem than it first appears and that the likes of SQLite have already solved it. Despite that my preference these days is still for a DB, like almost all dependencie
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by Spakman 4y ago
Is the swap technique you mention writing to a tempfile and then performing an (atomic) rename to overwrite the existing file? I understand how that could cause data loss if the process exited before the rename but I don't understand h
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by Spakman 5y ago
> I have a deGoogled phone running Lineage, but even with that, no Google Play Services, and some custom settings (like changing the captive portal URLs), there's still network traffic to Google. I'm running LineageOS without P
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Declaration of Digital Autonomy (draft 0.1)(techautonomy.org)
1 points by Spakman 5y ago|0 comments
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COVID-19 Aerosol Transmission Estimator(docs.google.com)
4 points by Spakman 6y ago|1 comments
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Creativity Is Not Enough (2002)(hbr.org)
2 points by Spakman 6y ago|0 comments
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Risk-First Software Development(riskfirst.org)
3 points by Spakman 7y ago|0 comments
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by Spakman 7y ago
When nearing your final resting place and contemplating all the rich intricacies of your life, do you want to be one of those people who didn't learn to juggle? No. That would be silly. So take up juggling! Aside from obvious things li
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Simple Software Manifesto(arewesimpleyet.org)
82 points by Spakman 7y ago|87 comments
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Simple software manifesto(arewesimpleyet.org)
1 points by Spakman 7y ago|0 comments
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by Spakman 8y ago
Thank you very much! I hadn't realised my email address isn't visible here. Maybe I need to move it into the "about" section. In case you aren't aware, your email address isn't visible in your profile either. I
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by Spakman 8y ago
Another thing you might want to investigate (for Linux, not sure about cross-platform alternatives) is OverlayFS[1], which allows you to create union filesystems where some layers are read-only and the top layer is read-write. This can allo
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by Spakman 8y ago
I've had very positive experiences with Mail-in-a-Box for exactly the sort of situation you describe. I think it's a great project that pulls together other packages very nicely. I was fed up with configuring everything constantly
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by Spakman 8y ago
That sounds like an interesting and varied role. Are you enjoying it and getting much from it? Anything you don't like about it?
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by Spakman 8y ago
I hear you! I'm in my late 30s and, although I don't have a family, I'm in a similar sounding situation myself. My first act sounds pretty similar to your own and, for one reason or another, in the last few years I've un
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by Spakman 8y ago
That birthdays are stupid. I love celebrating life and try my best to do so in every moment, but this forced celebration is a total turn off.
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by Spakman 9y ago
Coffee Lab, perhaps? I thought it was a really cool coffee shop when I was there last year and, as you say, very much a hang out sort of place.
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by Spakman 9y ago
I'm a big fan of solving your own problems. Your problem seems to be coming up with problems to solve. Perhaps you could work on something that helps people to find problem to solve?
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by Spakman 9y ago
Yeah, I agree with that!
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by Spakman 9y ago
I really have difficultly seeing how this could be considered anything other than natural. We, our actions and our impacts on the rest of the environment are, after all, born of the very same nature.
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US leads missile interception tests in Scotland in response to nuclear threat(independent.co.uk)
1 points by Spakman 9y ago|0 comments
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by Spakman 9y ago
Radicale for CalDAV and CardDAV. Simplest way I've found to sync my Android contacts and calendar to somewhere I own.
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by Spakman 9y ago
I have have a hard time seeing what there is to mock about your opinion of shells. I absolutely consider them languages - better at some things, worse at others.
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by Spakman 9y ago
Seems like a good time to point to Urchin, the Bash-ish like shell I wrote that also allows writing Ruby directly on the command line. I've been using it happily for years but haven't packaged up a release for a recent version: h
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by Spakman 9y ago
Just to narrow that down a little more, I associate that with more of a London accent/locale. You don't hear it much here in Scotland.
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by Spakman 9y ago
Thanks a lot for this comment. It made a lot of connections form in my brain.
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by Spakman 10y ago
Ah, that first road! I had forgotten all about that feeling :-)! I can still vividly remember the tick-tick-ti-ti-ti-tick-tiiick noise of the trains. I was probably a bit too young to understand all the complexities but have such happy memo
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by Spakman 10y ago
Did anyone else play A-Train (looks like it was actually A-train III)? I loved it but have never found anyone else who has even heard of it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-Train

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