contras1970

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by contras1970 7y ago
he's going from Iceland to us-west (Oregon). surely his RTT is dominated by the length of the cable, not any useful work. my closest AWS DC is in Frankfurt with HTTP ping below 40ms. if i consider 100ms for actual work, the overhead
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by contras1970 7y ago
that's not accepted as a good answer on SO. do you have any examples?
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by contras1970 7y ago
this reads a bit like a parody of the all-inclusive movement. the first half of the article chronicles how she took offence where none was offered, and instead of "my bad", there's a whole 'nother half of it talking abo
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by contras1970 7y ago
> I had about a half days' worth of work typed up into the browser's text field and when I clicked "submit", all of my work vanished and Firefox only showed a page stating that the certificate was invalid and that no
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by contras1970 7y ago
this reminds me of the Boeing 737 MAX8...
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by contras1970 7y ago
> there are numerous ways that could've oopsed in. that's why i said "dishonesty at the org level". i don't think there's any one particular person in mozilla at the prenda law-level of crookedness, but w
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by contras1970 7y ago
> There are sites that just block requests from the EU, there's a difficult-to-measure chilling effect on small businesses food safety regulations have a chilling effect on businesses that would try and sell arsenic-laced food. du
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by contras1970 7y ago
> s there any outcome where ISS melts, short of re-entry? i don't think so. should the cooling system fail, the sources of heat (mechanical work, biological processes) would cease way before that.
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by contras1970 7y ago
yes, but the topic is the price of egress. i thought this was obvious to everybody: public clouds want to lock you in, so they make it very cheap and easy to get data in, but charge stupendous amounts for getting your data out.
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by contras1970 7y ago
> death by cold is [...] the default problem in space well, actually... you need lower-energy atoms for higher-energy ones to rub against to carry away the excess. there's not many atoms in vacuum, so the default problem in space
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by contras1970 7y ago
it would have to ignore underscores as well. does your grep have that functionality bundled under a convenient flag? does your browser's ctrl-f have it for eg. github?
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by contras1970 7y ago
well, these two things (strongSpaces couldn't have been "undocumented": i knew about it from a cursory glance at the language a few years ago, never wrote more than a hello world in it) made me shy away from the language. i
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by contras1970 7y ago
λf. (λx. f (x x)) (λx. f (x x))
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by contras1970 7y ago
that's a gross mischaracterization of the situation. copyright doesn't mean "i get paid", it means "i get to withhold" (see all the out-of-print books, abandonware, etc). GPL does not mean "you have to con
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by contras1970 7y ago
GPL "abuses" copyright to prevent conveyors from closing off software from its users. make the provisions of GPL the law, and copyright of software can go.
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by contras1970 7y ago
so you install dstat in /usr/bin/dstat + /usr/share/dstat (because you are root), and an attacker creates /home/eve/bin/dstat with /home/eve/share/dstat/evil.py. wh
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by contras1970 7y ago
no, it's just cargocult security. edit after your reply: if you install in /tmp, you'll end up with /tmp/bin/dstat and /tmp/share/dstat. you're concerned that an attacker could smuggle some
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by contras1970 7y ago
expert vim :he
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by contras1970 7y ago
this is somewhat shorter: qq0i"<Esc>A",<Esc>jq@@ i agree this example is silly. i'd do something like :%s/.*/"&",/
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by contras1970 7y ago
> around minus 50 degrees F == around -45.56C ( https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=-50+F+in+C )
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by contras1970 7y ago
> One would think that a sexual organism never having heterosexual sex would be a huge evolutionary fitness disadvantage Genes do not "care" for individual organisms. If they did we would be immortal. Jared Diamond argued t
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by contras1970 8y ago
i wonder why he has the "wrapper over wc" which does just what wc does? #!/bin/sh total=0 for FILE in `find . -type f -name "*.txt"` do wc -w $FILE words=`wc -w < $FILE |
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by contras1970 8y ago
> Words can not be violent. sure, sure. please explain how Facebook did not contribute to the Rohingya "situation" in [Myanmar]. please document how violence-inciting speech never helps spark actual violence (xenophobic viole
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by contras1970 8y ago
> That means your (or my!) WPF/WinForms/WinUI apps can all use the same controls if you like, using XAML Islands. I could take the now 10 year old BabySmash WPF app and add support for pens, improved touch, or whatever makes m
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by contras1970 8y ago
> America's first copyright law [...] was adopted because people saw benefit in rewarding the people who created books and maps. that seems contrary to wikipedia: The 1790 Act [...] specifically noted that it did not prohibit copyi
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by contras1970 8y ago
the radical, out-of-balance and ill-considered message was mainstream not that long ago. it's only seen as "extreme" by some because the Overton window has moved considerably. case in point: US politics.
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by contras1970 8y ago
http://jdebp.eu/FGA/introduction-to-redo.html hoping jdebp will chime in..
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by contras1970 8y ago
that list reads like my typical woes with MS Windows... half the time or more they're caused by the hardware, not the software: ask anyone who does device driver programming. back in the day (Windows XP era) i bought components and bu
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by contras1970 8y ago
see the comment on lines 29-170!
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by contras1970 8y ago
> you find a good candidate, give them what seems like a competitive offer, then they disappear, and you learn after a couple of months they preferred my position, but got better pay elsewhere, where the difference is definitely small e

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