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by awda 11y ago
> I don't see how microbes degrading plastics is any better than putting plastic bottles in a recycling bin so they can be melted down to make new ones." You don't have to waste money and energy sorting bottles out of the
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by awda 11y ago
RPMFusion isn't considered part of Fedora. Yes, it would be nice if RPMFusion served hashes securely.
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by awda 12y ago
Latency is a real problem. Distances to satellites in orbit are very long. Also, there is a scalability problem. How many ground targets can a satellite simultaneously provide service to? My guess is, not a lot. This could be an incremental
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by awda 12y ago
Does Webkit have a very large API/ABI surface? This seems like a nightmare to implement correctly and maintain.
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by awda 12y ago
How far out is servo from being the mainline Firefox renderer? A year? More? Pie-in-the-sky?
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by awda 12y ago
80s and 90s Unix.
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by awda 12y ago
It happened several years ago.
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by awda 12y ago
Go west, young man!
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by awda 12y ago
What does CoW have to do with anything?
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by awda 12y ago
The bad part is bs=1024. That block size will make it take longer. Often, a sparse file doesn't really emulate a real file well, and you do want a big file full of zeroes...
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by awda 12y ago
Why Haskell?
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by awda 12y ago
This is going very tangential, but no, not all bridges are directly paid for only by people driving on them. To make public bridges into an ISP analogy, imagine: municipal and state taxes as well as tax revenue from other states (via Federa
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by awda 12y ago
I'd only change it to "... blaming drivers on your toll bridge when you're the one ..." The drivers (customers) are paying for the bridge!
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by awda 12y ago
Sure, but these are mostly just arbitrary caps. xfs performance at 50TB is supposed to be better than ext4 at 50TB. I don't know what xfs actually does over ext4, but I do know a little bit about ext4; on-disk it looks very similar to
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by awda 12y ago
Or just sorting the results by performance, rather than alphabetically.
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by awda 12y ago
Many (and I would guess most) don't.
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by awda 12y ago
Seattle is not part of Redmond, which is where Microsoft is. But probably a fair number of MS employees in the city.
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by awda 12y ago
Totally and radically unrelated. Next time, please read?
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by awda 12y ago
MDMA is a lot easier than LSD, and dumb people get away with just selling Meth (even easier) as MDMA. But ok, maybe some people get away with making synthetic chemicals for some period of time. I don't know that it's necessarily t
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by awda 12y ago
Or that successful criminals are like unicorns ;-).
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by awda 12y ago
And why would you claim MIT license on the code which you didn't write and has no license listed?
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by awda 12y ago
Probably something I should learn more about if I ever have a four year-old.
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by awda 12y ago
30-40 a year, mostly from suffocation sounds almost negligible. It seems fine if you crack the window and they know how to get out.
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by awda 12y ago
Debit card fraud recovery is only backed by guarantees from the bank, if they choose to guarantee that. Credit card fraud recovery is mandated by the federal government.
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by awda 12y ago
Yeah. UW feeds a lot to the local Seattle Facebook and Google offices, not just Microsoft. But I guess those satellite offices are a small portion of the larger companies.
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by awda 12y ago
Desoxyn is literally brand-name prescription methamphetamine.
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by awda 12y ago
It's perfectly legal for Foxit to license their own software to Google to be released under the terms of the BSD license. This would be with Foxit's consent, of course.
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by awda 12y ago
Didn't realize there was a distinction between POSIX locks and flock, thanks!
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by awda 12y ago
Yep. Build objects with -fvisibility=hidden, create a static library with `ar rcs libsqlite.a *.o`, and link your app with it and NOT dynamic libsqlite.
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by awda 12y ago
Speaking of this guy, my nephew is named after him :).

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