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by devnonymous 7y ago
If not for 'programs /like/ this', how else has 'infant mortality dropped nearly everywhere' ?? Just because Finland introduced boxes and other countries didn't does not mean that the Finland's contri
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by devnonymous 7y ago
That word you used, I don't think you know what it means. Appropriation is when you take something (often by deceit, lies or force) and (this is the important part) call it your own. Had he for instance learned Terenggaun food, clothin
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by devnonymous 7y ago
- Maybe DeepMind and he just needed time for a loving exploration... I agree tho wild speculation defaulting to a sex scandal is just weird.
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by devnonymous 7y ago
I've taken a stab at this and made quite a bit of progress. However, the idea was to use the sqlite fuse layer as a stacked layer over the underlying filesystem rather than a full scale file-system (which for example, is what libsqlfs
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by devnonymous 7y ago
Looks spiffy ! Too bad I can't try it out, what with being a linux user and all. I like the time traveling aspect and the visualization of it all. Kudos on the launch. Wish you guys the best.
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by devnonymous 7y ago
Well, even their nines aren't a whole lot nines if you've been paying attention to all the outages of late.
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by devnonymous 7y ago
Quite honestly, I wonder how much of this can be traced back to the fact that there are way too many layers of abstractions between the browser requests coming in and a cpu actually executing something to serve the request.
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by devnonymous 7y ago
I'm just going to leave this here : http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/223/electric-car-timeline.html Research more about the 1997-2000 period mentioned there. Sure Tesla had a part to play in the adoption of
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Tools for Turning Descriptions into Diagrams(avdi.codes)
2 points by devnonymous 7y ago|0 comments
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by devnonymous 7y ago
Absolutely! Put them all in jail, where they have a roof over their head, a bed to sleep, 2 square meals, sanitation... paid for by tax dollars.... errr or some such. /sarsasm in case it was not evident. some days I just don't kno
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by devnonymous 7y ago
Hmm, your mental model possibly could use a tweak. Yes, a pointer is like a map. It tells you how to get to the thing but it isn't the thing. It is a reference point, a pointer to the thing. The thing that it points to might be a libra
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by devnonymous 7y ago
Here's another idea to build on top of this. How about isolating that layer which enforces the access control in a manner so that it acts a bridge between multiple fronteds and multiple databases? Now wouldn't that be awesome? Jus
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Vim and NeoVim Vulnerable to High-Severity Security Bug(threatpost.com)
2 points by devnonymous 7y ago|0 comments
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by devnonymous 7y ago
Just a tip (since there sometimes seem to be a pattern here to tl;dr but still comment), please read the whole thing. My thoughts on this: I consider myself an avid pythonista and have built my career programming in python. Though I've
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by devnonymous 7y ago
You're applying software testing logic to aircrafts! Think about it a bit. Why does hiding implementation details work with software testing? How is software tested? By trying things and catching/looking for breakage. Breaking thi
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Hate speech detection, and language complexities of the Global South
1 points by devnonymous 7y ago|0 comments
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by devnonymous 7y ago
No, I meant rice that is usually preferred to made dosa/appam/idli batter.
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by devnonymous 7y ago
All Asians do AFAIK. Also, Indians (and perhaps a lot of south-asians) cook a lot with (ground/) parboiled rice.
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by devnonymous 7y ago
> It is very subjective after all Methinks that was what the OP was asking -- what is the tipping point ? Having differing ethics is fine but one can't just lean on that as a crutch when one has none.
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by devnonymous 7y ago
Also from the article > A Facebook spokesperson also told Gizmodo that a screenshot of the original opt-in prompt was not available. I'm not a conspiracy theorist but if you're trying to claim you cannot capture a screenshot fr
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by devnonymous 7y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12018965 Generated a few comments but not many. I put in by thoughts on why code reviews are so much more better at gauging expertise. I have since adopted that and found that it led to
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by devnonymous 7y ago
Original blog post link: https://www.upguard.com/breaches/facebook-user-data-leak Mods, please update or flag as dup if it is so
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540M Facebook User Records Exposed Online,Plus Passwords,Comments, & More(gizmodo.com)
1 points by devnonymous 7y ago|1 comments
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by devnonymous 7y ago
> Also, India was not born Socialist, although it may have socialist policies - much like any other country. First mention of socialism was in 1976 OK, I grant you that the words Socialist made it into the constitution later, but Nehru (
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by devnonymous 7y ago
> I still don't understand why US decided to support horrible unstable dictatorship in Pakistan instead of biggest democracy in the world in the past. Current India was born as the Socialist democratic Republic of India and had clos
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by devnonymous 8y ago
> What's your alternative? When I execute rm I mean to delete. When I'm not sure I expyre[1] the path: https://github.com/lonetwin/expyre [1] shameless plug -- but you did ask ;-)
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by devnonymous 8y ago
...and then how do you delete it from that specific place when you are sure you want it gone? A new syscall? In seriousness tho, if you're ever wondering why such and such thing is not builtin into the kernel read up on separation of p
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by devnonymous 8y ago
The relationship between Debian and Ubuntu is more akin to that between fedora and RHEL. Having a different focus than fedora, in fact, one could say almost radically different[1] hasn't stopped Redhat from contributing people, hardwar
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by devnonymous 8y ago
Why not Canonical/Ubuntu ? After all they are presumably the most affected by the state of Debian. Just a couple of days ago I made a comment along these lines in a different thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id
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by devnonymous 8y ago
While this is sad and painful to read, I can't say I'm surprised. The problems listed are precisely the kind of problems that Redhat strategically supports fedora with, in terms of investment of resources. For all the hate Redhat

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