agolliver

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by agolliver 2mo ago
The money transfer app? Works perfectly fine.
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by agolliver 3mo ago
I wrote a batch script that that opened the entire Creative Suite in parallel and couldn't believe how much faster it was than just launching just Flash would have been on the old drive.
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by agolliver 9mo ago
Edges are a separate table
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by agolliver 1y ago
There are no good private DNS configurations, but if you don't trust the big caching recursive resolvers then I'd consider just running your own at home. Unbound is easy to set up and you'll probably never notice a speed diff
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by agolliver 3y ago
Editors & style guides don't tend to give you that choice.
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by agolliver 5y ago
The New Yorker is one of the few places you'll see this regularly https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-...
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by agolliver 5y ago
quite common in America too
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by agolliver 5y ago
I'd also say it's integration with Firefox on Android is just a broken, miserable experience. (I mostly blame FF for this, because it used to be great) https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/
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by agolliver 5y ago
I just created a new Google account in the US without providing any personal details whatsoever.
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by agolliver 5y ago
About a decade ago, as an intern helping research this, I developed an app to manually tag processes as "big core only" or "little core only" etc. This was for the QuickIA[0], which had a Xeon in one socket and an Atom i
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by agolliver 5y ago
PowerShell does have progress bars, but rendering them is (was?) on the critical path. I once had a script that was downloading a large file and took ages to finish, you could speed it up by well over 10x disabling the progress bar. https:
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by agolliver 5y ago
From reading this it sounds like support should land soon in Fedora 35 https://lwn.net/Articles/869561/
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by agolliver 5y ago
At 2 am last night a bot impersonating a family member added every one of their friends on facebook & sent them messages. I reported it as a fake account, a ticket which was instantly closed. Facebook sent a notification later to them t
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by agolliver 5y ago
Looks like it's only true for pointer types which cannot be null (so they can reuse null as the None tag) https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/option/
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by agolliver 5y ago
They need their custom CA on your box for your machine to accept the traffic by default, otherwise you'll get a big ugly untrusted cert error on every https/ssl connection, but some apps will let you ignore those (eg: curl --insec
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by agolliver 5y ago
I have found this comment on liburing[0] which clarifies some things for me. So is it because something like getaddrinfo is not just a simple operation, but a hodgepodge of stuff like "first try nscd, then read resolv.conf, then make a
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by agolliver 5y ago
There is a difference between blocking and non-blocking, which is what I am asking about. Language runtimes apparently cannot provide non-blocking DNS (as evidenced by this article, and the other one I linked which was on HN a week or so ag
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by agolliver 5y ago
Not sure a better place to ask this, but we're getting to the point in most OSs where basically anything you want can finally be done truly async (non-blocking). Except that DNS apparently still blocks[0], so usually things farm DNS re