dragonne

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by dragonne 3y ago
If you consider this article lengthy you should read a few books to recalibrate your attention span.
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by dragonne 4y ago
FYI this site isn't paywalled, it just has an obnoxious popup.
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Biden Proposes Government Try to Create Broadband Competition(prospect.org)
8 points by dragonne 5y ago|0 comments
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by dragonne 6y ago
I wouldn't call it over-engineered, but it certainly is an operational disaster. It's slow, memory hungry, and full of catastrophic bugs. We are currently replacing it with PostgreSQL to improve performance and scalability.
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by dragonne 7y ago
> There's no reason you couldn't represent RFC5322 data with RDF as JSONLD. There's now a way to do streaming JSON-LD. Is there a reason you'd want to? I clicked all your links but I still have no idea what Solid is.
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by dragonne 8y ago
I've endured Datomic for 4 years and I really wonder what the folks who enjoy it are doing, because for me it us utter misery. - It's miserably slow (if you wish to contradict this statement, please provide numbers) - Consumes gob
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by dragonne 8y ago
I've heard that this is also why American baguettes are so brutally hard (even when fresh). They're supposed to be closer to crispy, not a dental hazard.
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by dragonne 9y ago
Ah, I see what you meant. Thanks for clarifying!
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by dragonne 9y ago
I think most of your advice is solid, but I take issue with one point: > - If your font colour is more thant #333 on white, you're being cruel, especially to those who suffer astigmatism. A designer should think hard before reducing
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by dragonne 9y ago
You may appreciate https://github.com/Andy753421/mkinit though it is written in mk (from Plan 9) rather than Make.
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by dragonne 9y ago
I guess I have no plans to buy another Nvidia card, then. Their current X11 drivers tear like crazy, and I have hope that Wayland will fix that.
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by dragonne 9y ago
This, a thousand times this. Failing that, though, at least change the default rsyslog configuration such that: * Timestamps are not ambiguous (the default includes no timezone offset) * Timestamps are higher resolution (milliseconds at lea
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by dragonne 9y ago
Scylla's blog has some excellent technical content, though it's intermixed with lots release announcements. http://www.scylladb.com/2017/01/02/top-5-blog-posts-of-2016/ has some of the highligh
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by dragonne 9y ago
The biggest gotcha is that namedtuples compare exactly like regular tuples. Thus, two namedtuple types with identical elements will compare equal even if the type and field names differ. Usually that isn't what you want. I've take
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by dragonne 10y ago
I have a Z5 Compact as well. Nice little phone, and quite fast. However, I don't think that many developers test their apps on a sub-5" screen, because I've encountered issues with several apps where controls overlap. For exa
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by dragonne 10y ago
Another Rust terminal emulator project, notty[1], aims to do this. Downthread the author mentions that the projects are looking at collaborating. [1]: https://github.com/withoutboats/notty
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by dragonne 10y ago
It seems worth noting that as web browsers have removed the ability to disable JavaScript they have added options to disable web fonts. I flipped this switch in Firefox for Android because it makes pages load noticeably faster and conserves
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by dragonne 10y ago
Anyone in particular, or anything open source? I could use this for a work project, but the closest I've been able to find is an old project which backed JGit to Cassandra and the Dulwich Swift backend[1]. [1]: https://www.d
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by dragonne 10y ago
What are the products better than Fitbit's which the article alludes to? I've generally been impressed with their products, and my experience with a competitor (Virgin Pulse) was terrible.
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by dragonne 10y ago
Firefox on Android has a switch for this. Menu -> Settings -> Advanced -> Show web fonts. The mobile web is remarkably faster to load with it off, even on wifi.
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by dragonne 10y ago
The SIL Open Font License restricts subsetting, so you do need to be careful when doing this (the license requires that you change the font name if you reduce the font's display quality). Google has gotten waivers to allow them to alt
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by dragonne 10y ago
CSS unicode-range has that covered: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@font-face/... Pretty good browser support, too.
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by dragonne 10y ago
What tools do you use to profile a Scala + Akka service? IME they are quite opaque to traditional Java tools like VisualVM. What am I missing?
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by dragonne 10y ago
We ship a microservices-based product on-premises. You can do it, but it's a heck of a lot of work. Plus you don't get any of the benefits microservices might bring in a CD scenario: you can't do CD over an airgap.
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by dragonne 10y ago
It is frustrating that Firefox makes it so easy to delete recent history, but difficult to remove old stuff. I really only want the last month or so; why do I have to clear it manually?
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by dragonne 10y ago
Maybe this is new, but the TECK has terrible build quality IME. I have been using two (home and work) and both have accrued keys that don't work properly---some don't respond reliably, or at all, and some double-press. These are
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by dragonne 10y ago
I use a Wacom for some tasks, but I find it even worse than a mouse if you are switching back and forth a lot. For drag and drop I recommend the Contour Design Rollermouse Red. The downside is it doesn't pair well with a deep keyboar
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by dragonne 10y ago
No, Kodi uses SQLite internally (I've fixed garbage in its databases with the sqlite CLI tool before). It does also support external MySQL, though.
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by dragonne 10y ago
In a similar vein, there is https://shop.keyboard.io/ I pre-ordered one earlier today to replace a TECK. I agree that most of the keyboards on this list are not ergonomic at all. Most are simply mechanical keyboards.
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by dragonne 10y ago
Thank you for posting this, and in particular for the pointer to Jolokia. Just what a Python shop needs to monitor Java infrastructure.

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