caladri

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by caladri 14y ago
Well, it's possible to make the deduplication work with Glacier, though. Colin's right that you want to phase versions of the whole tar into slower and cheaper storage, but the technical problem of whether blocks are used in newer versions
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by caladri 14y ago
I think that iXsystems' support of PC-BSD is something like an attempt to do that, but it seems like they're not doing much workstation stuff these days, whereas previously they were at least trying to do slightly more. PC-BSD is getting a
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by caladri 14y ago
Devices being used in a kiosk-like or other setting in which they are mostly not being used by people who would be responsible for activating them?
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by caladri 14y ago
The filename refers to NCFTA, which might seem in context to be http://www.ncfta.net — perhaps some bit of intel that's widely-traded in NCFTA circles for various uses? I mean, hey, pretty useful if you're tracking down pretty much anyth
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by caladri 14y ago
I'm not sure I see how this is in-keeping with any Unix philosophy I've encountered. "Everything's a file" is good, yes, but this program is needlessly-specific when what it does need not be. This is just a tool for browsing a file hierar
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by caladri 14y ago
Now that we can see what a results page looks like, it seems like something more than a sorted list of numbers might be interesting. I mean, there's not enough data collected at the start to do something very interesting, but a chart and s
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by caladri 14y ago
Alright, so the obvious thing would seem to be to have a pool for HN readers, right? http://www.salaryshare.me/10ffcd6db9cf188be1a1175de8ff8f3d
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by caladri 14y ago
Your problem is actually with the organizers. You don't care a bit about random venues except for where organizers of events you are likely to attend decide to use them, I would guess. Therefore, if you have a problem with the venue, you
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by caladri 14y ago
Well, Amazon is making news because we can naively assume by looking at a summary that they're doing it the same way they make money — by working in volume. We can estimate pretty quickly how many people work in Amazon's warehouses, at som
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by caladri 14y ago
Two hours of travel round trip to go to, what, an hour of class? And that's alongside however far one has to drive to work in a day. So maybe you can get away with doing that one day a week? Two? It's going to be a very slow, very miser
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by caladri 14y ago
I think when you say that you pretty well reduce the vision of programmer culture in the US. How much cypherpunk influence is there in the wide swaths of programming culture that came out of Web 2.0? And how many cypherpunks have gone on
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by caladri 14y ago
Can you expand on "shows its age"? Code entropy doesn't increase as a function of time alone. An ANSI C "Hello, World!" from 1990 doesn't show its age in the context of C today, for example. Is age an issue in its own right, or is it what
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by caladri 14y ago
99.999% confidence.
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by caladri 14y ago
Note the use of the word "accessible" in the original post. This is not a synonym for "pretty" or some way of demanding a particular aesthetic style for its own sake. The reality is that some degree visual impairment is not at all uncommo
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by caladri 14y ago
The FreeBSD Project has elections, and is in short order going to announce a new Core Team.
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by caladri 14y ago
Only function pointer types. An indirect function call on some architecture, for example, could require that when one makes an indirect call one sets up several registers in addition to jumping to a particular location in memory, and none
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by caladri 14y ago
For the set of features you have, with most calling conventions on most platforms you don't need to synthesize all that. You could simply have your apply function be written in assembly and handle setting up the parameters fetching them fr
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by caladri 14y ago
How do you feel about the reported performance of "SELECT * FROM table ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 5;"? Is this something that needs to be improved there, or are you happy with that being one of the built-in anchors? Additionally, I'm not sure
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by caladri 14y ago
This seems like a silly point to pick on. Why is the MBP so thin? Because of design considerations and the desires of the target market. The design considerations are a serious component of the Apple brand, perhaps the single most distin
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by caladri 14y ago
It's a common financial strategy among the fabulously-wealthy. Selling shares would incur all kinds of taxes, but he can get a line of credit with a reasonable interest rate quite easily, pay no income taxes, and actually deduct the intere
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by caladri 14y ago
The proliferation of new TLDs is already, quickly reducing some interesting shibboleths of the web. In a few years, young audiences won't be expected to realize how awkward and silly mid-'90s through '00s movie and TV show dialogue seemed
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by caladri 14y ago
At one point it seemed to me that the prices were sorted by the listed retail price for that particular item, and not the lowest offered price for it, or something along those lines. It's been years since I formed that wild guess, though.
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by caladri 14y ago
The article already did. I think it's useful to support the guy, as someone who agrees with him, by cheering this as the actions of a real person that should be a source of pride, and not pretending that this is some embarrassment that sho
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by caladri 14y ago
Looks like Seagate: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=9922065 .
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by caladri 14y ago
That much was obvious. When you build your examples around a sexist experience of sexist media, your examples will themselves end up sexist. I mean, why isn't Zoe buying, too? What is it that Inara's selling? I think we know, and from t
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by caladri 14y ago
Men buy, women sell, and also if women are sad you can feed them strawberries and get off on it. Got it. Now I understand HFT perfectly.
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by caladri 14y ago
The blog, which others have mentioned and which is prominently-linked on the Sourceforge site ( http://punix-os.blogspot.com/ ), would suggest that there is new news, and it's fairly significant. It has actually been run on real hardware r
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by caladri 15y ago
Right, and there are other RNG and PRNG sources and interfaces for precisely that reaon. The question was why random(3) isn't arc4random(3).
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by caladri 15y ago
Yes, because of the need for pseudorandom sequences. In FreeBSD this comes up every so often, but the reality is that there's a lot of AI and simulation/modeling code that uses the libc random functions (either rand(3) or random(3)) and ex