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by bengunnink 1y ago
I mean, it _is_ a really nice SSH/&c client.
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by bengunnink 4y ago
"It boggles my mind to think this game even exists" Does it, though? Remember that this was only a couple of decades after half the country was willing to kill the other half or die trying to keep black people enslaved. Underesti
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by bengunnink 5y ago
Or... maybe don't tell your doctor how to do his or her job.
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by bengunnink 6y ago
Surprise! An institute named after a megadose vitamin-C whackadoodle is pushing the idea that large doses vitamin C reduces illness duration. I'm shocked. I mean, it's possible, but what a junk study.
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by bengunnink 6y ago
The answer to your question is "Because it makes business sense to do so". Whether you can understand their reasons or not, the best indicator that Netflix has good reasons to use AWS is that it continues to do so. And that will
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by bengunnink 7y ago
The wastefulness of large bureaucracies has been a running joke for decades now, whether fair or not. That being said, I don't think you're going to find that Hacker News is a good forum for espousing your fiscal conservatism--es
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by bengunnink 7y ago
Rephrase the question: "Why should mithril.js be popular?"
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by bengunnink 8y ago
Any idea whose premise begins with "[Group] is the enemy" is pretty much guaranteed to be stupid at best, dangerous at worst (I say this more about the comments than the initial tweet).
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by bengunnink 8y ago
A marriage counselor is someone who is trained in dealing with your particular problem. Would you walk into, say, a car dealership and ask for programming advice? Or would you talk to someone who programs for a living?
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by bengunnink 8y ago
Don't ask the peanut gallery. Go see a marriage counselor.
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by bengunnink 8y ago
They remind me of Material: https://material.io/design/
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by bengunnink 8y ago
Why would it?
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by bengunnink 8y ago
https://adoptopenjdk.net/releases.html#x64_mac https://jdk.java.net/11/ Don't bother with Oracle's builds anymore.
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by bengunnink 8y ago
A 5-year-old article about program that's been abandoned for over a decade. The only resource you need for compression comparison is http://mattmahoney.net/dc/text.html The author of that website, incidentally, st
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by bengunnink 8y ago
Is this really a thing? How do these people find partners?
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by bengunnink 8y ago
The only problem is it's guaranteed to fail for any non-trivial workload.
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by bengunnink 9y ago
So, an XML-like language is the future of XML-like HTML?
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by bengunnink 9y ago
Is godawful rainbow design the new thing now? First Mozilla, and now Dropbox?
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by bengunnink 9y ago
https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/20253/why-we-cant...
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by bengunnink 10y ago
Recent Java versions did something similar, allowing underscore characters, e.g., 7_000_000.
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by bengunnink 10y ago
It's not really an annual fee, though. You're paying for a product with Amazon prime -- besides free movies, photos, shipping, etc, you can now get a special card with no annual fee _just for having it_.
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by bengunnink 10y ago
Many noodles used in ramen are simply made of wheat, which is a simple carbohydrate. Beans/legumes are a good source of protein (among other things). If you use real yakisoba noodles that are made from buckwheat flour, it has the adva
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by bengunnink 10y ago
Real ramen is good (e.g., https://imgur.com/gallery/KkLvG ). The packaged stuff you buy from the store is pretty much guaranteed to be awful for you.
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by bengunnink 10y ago
Companies make products to make money. As the saying goes, if you're not paying them, you're the product.
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by bengunnink 10y ago
Why are you assuming that everyone agrees with you? Maybe we reject your premise.
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by bengunnink 11y ago
Parser? Or viewer? http://sourceforge.net/projects/achviewer/
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by bengunnink 11y ago
Um, no, he's not. He's writing a screenplay and dreaming about a cast that will never happen.
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by bengunnink 12y ago
Preferred Sans-Serif font of the guys who did Bootstrap, who are now working for Github (or at least Mark Dotto is).
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by bengunnink 12y ago
Strictly speaking, size and distribution. You only mentioned DNS, but it's worth noting that CloudFlare isn't just a DNS provider; it's also basically a big CDN, or actually more like a great big proxy server. (Note: I'v
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by bengunnink 12y ago
CVS? Really?

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