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by cuspycode 7y ago
Security patches don't necessarily affect uptime. For example, patching and replacing e.g. libc on a live system is entirely possible, even though it's not the standard procedure.
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by cuspycode 7y ago
Both libqrencode and qrcode-terminal are capable of using ANSI escape codes for colored text to produce black and whites squares. Two space characters make about the right aspect ratio in an xterm window. I reinvented the same method myself
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by cuspycode 7y ago
This is my experience too. Sexual attraction brings you together. This may lead to love, if the circumstances are favorable. And then you can choose to make the effort to nurture that relationship, or not.
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by cuspycode 7y ago
Agreed. And the phenomenon is not exactly new. I played around with CGOL about 35 years ago, and although I was already a fan of s-expression syntax, I still thought CGOL was great for certain applications. It's cool to see Vaughan Pra
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by cuspycode 7y ago
Also, the pharmaceutical effect of any given amount depends on body weight and various other factors. So the exact amount needed for a particular trip level is different from person to person.
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by cuspycode 7y ago
If I had to live there, I think I would campaign for using UTC only, and forget completely about local time.
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by cuspycode 7y ago
The international date line is needed when you use local times instead of UTC, because the local date is incremented on midnight local time. So, if it's October 19 just after your local midnight, every timezone to the east should also
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by cuspycode 7y ago
Let's not forget that the chinese communist party is currently performing three different genocides simultaneously: genocide against tibetans, genocide against uyghurs, and genocide against falun gong practitioners. So it's on a d
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by cuspycode 7y ago
Yeah, LXD is what I have been using. Maybe I should have said "LXC/LXD" instead of just "LXC".
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by cuspycode 7y ago
I agree. I had some VMs that I wanted to turn into containers. With LXC it was a breeze, and the result is very much like a "lightweight VM". Docker seems more like putting a single application process in a container, which is a v
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by cuspycode 7y ago
DNA does not encode a complete model of the human that has the DNA, it encodes a bunch of potential clones of that human. This is an abstract, incomplete model. To encode a complete model you would need a complete physical measurement of th
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by cuspycode 7y ago
- Network controller for my latest file server and video NAS, which is based on a USB RAID-1 drive. The box that produces the graphics however is a small Intel-based box (not a NUC though). - Network controller (using CUPS) for a very old l
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by cuspycode 7y ago
I interpret this as using the binary operation "both" in a reduction over a list of three items. Kind of like how you can add a list of numbers through e.g. (PLUS 1 2 3 4) in LISP, although addition is actually a binary operation.
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by cuspycode 7y ago
Hearing about Niki Lauda brings back memories of the death of the Swedish F1 racer Ronnie Peterson in 1978. I was sitting on a commuter train, and heard whispers moving through the coach saying "Ronnie Peterson just crashed". Ther
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by cuspycode 7y ago
All it takes is one information leakage scandal, and customers will abandon Slack at the drop of a hat. It's just a chat app, so it's very easy to replace.
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by cuspycode 7y ago
It can be used in non-interactive mode from scripts, e.g. lynx -dump $URL > $FILE This is a simple way to extract the content of a web page as plain text.
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by cuspycode 7y ago
Agreed. According to science, life began about 4 billion years ago, and has been going on without interruption ever since. Personhood is a completely different (but nonetheless very interesting) category.
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by cuspycode 7y ago
There is one aspect in which non-radioactive heavy metals are worse: since they are stable elements they must be stored away and guarded forever, not just for a limited number of years.
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by cuspycode 7y ago
I have only visited Ireland as a tourist, and my impression was that the Irish very much like to tell stories to anyone who will listen, or even to random innocent tourists who are waiting on a train platform. Telling stories is not bullshi
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by cuspycode 7y ago
I stopped eating cheese at around 4 or 5 years of age. I just stopped liking it one day and started hating it instead. When I turned 25 I began eating pizza as an experiment, and had no problems with it, but still many years later I do avoi
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by cuspycode 7y ago
A point is 0-dimensional, but in a space-time diagram the time dimension is added, which makes it 1-dimensional. Penrose diagrams for black holes assume spherical symmetry, so all of space is represented by a single radial coordinate, which
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by cuspycode 7y ago
But DNA needs to be copied to be analyzed. So we could invent a law that makes each person owner of the copyright to their own DNA. There could be legal penalties for anyone who copies the DNA without permission. Twins will need some specia
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by cuspycode 8y ago
The first paragraph of the article mentions that Camacho was traumatized by a kidnapping that involved torture and a mock execution. That made him a victim of PTSD that made him put on weight. It's not clear how relevant this is to the
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by cuspycode 8y ago
A famous anecdote for all egg-lovers: Albert Hofmann (inventor of LSD) claimed that he owed his health to eating two raw eggs for breakfast everyday. He lived to the impressive age of 102.
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by cuspycode 8y ago
The same applies to the island of Crete, so it's true in parts of Europe as well.
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by cuspycode 8y ago
There are two kinds of deadlines: the ones imposed by objective facts (like for example the Y2K deadline), and the ones imposed by arbitrary decisions (like for example a milestone in a project plan). I think it is important to distinguish
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by cuspycode 8y ago
Swedes have lots of real natural resources. Check your facts.
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by cuspycode 8y ago
It's immoral if you steal your prospective (non-customer) client data without their consent. Actually it's immoral even when the client actually is a customer, if you steal their data without their consent.
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by cuspycode 8y ago
I regularly delete all cookies for sites that don't require login (i.e. most content sites I visit), so for me such popup annoyances keep recurring. And I often leave the window before I come back later to finish the article, which is
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by cuspycode 8y ago
I use it too. I like to self-host my commercial projects, and when I decided to move away from Subversion about seven years ago I did consider Git, but the ease of self-hosting Fossil made the choice for me. Just plug it into apache httpd a

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