harrigan

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by harrigan 2mo ago
You might be right: I am indeed using https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/minecraft-server . I thought IDLE_SERVER was an upstream feature but it seems to part of that package's management script.
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by harrigan 2mo ago
Minecraft servers are resource hogs even when idle. Enable the built-in idle server shutdown (IDLE_SERVER=true). It automatically stops the server after a few minutes with no players and starts it again when needed. It's not enabled
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by harrigan 3mo ago
I'm not familiar with this -- is it in one of their games in particular?
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by harrigan 3mo ago
Somewhat related, the experiment ongoing at https://www.ecdsa.fail/ is fascinating: it's a competitive, leaderboard-style research challenge trying to optimise a quantum circuit for breaking ECDSA (specifically the ell
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by harrigan 5mo ago
It's being worked on right now: https://www.twitch.tv/pushcx
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by harrigan 5mo ago
Same. I also find Niri paired with an ultrawide curved monitor to be particularly good.
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by harrigan 6mo ago
Episode 4 of the BBS documentary covers Fidonet and is worth watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ng0NE4lDP2U
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by harrigan 10mo ago
We replace push advertising (unsolicited messages) with pull systems (discoverability on demand).
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by harrigan 1y ago
I'm not sure about the metaphors. The "Axe of Satisfaction" suggests that some of the ills of late-stage capitalism can be overcome through individual grit alone. Maybe we need to band together and target the root system ra
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by harrigan 2y ago
For me, Jellyfin makes my smart TV (running webOS) tolerable. It turns the TV into the appliance it should have been from the start, without ads, AI assistants, or silly apps.
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by harrigan 2y ago
I prefer the notion of Productive Failure [0]. [0] https://www.manukapur.com/productive-failure/
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by harrigan 2y ago
Micro Men (2009) is also a fun movie: it's a dramatised version of the Sinclair vs Acorn story.
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Internet Governance in 2023(circleid.com)
1 points by harrigan 3y ago|0 comments
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by harrigan 5y ago
"We ask that the use and possession of Proof-Of-Work cryptocurrencies be banned, with a one year max wait period to let the various projects transition to other technologies, like Proof-Of-Stake (so that nobody loses money, and this is
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by harrigan 6y ago
> Our goals throughout the effort, when articulated at all, have > always concerned themselves with building a comfortable relationship > with the machine and with exploring ideas and inventions in > operating systems. We have n
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by harrigan 6y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP4PqVGudtg is a nice animation of AES. Of course, the inputs are fixed unlike the above.
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by harrigan 6y ago
The article doesn't mention it but entries can include an "annotate" field. I use it to add short summaries and notes. It is not used by the standard bibliography styles, but it can be used to produce an annotated bibliograph
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by harrigan 7y ago
BBS: The Documentary Part 4 ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cm6EFYktRQ ) has some great interviews with Tom Jennings & co. on the beginnings, growth and decline of Fidonet. "It just runs in spite of the idiots.&qu
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by harrigan 9y ago
It is great to see a project like this being open-sourced. There are so proprietary blockchain analysis services with closed-source software. How do you handle forks and reorganizations? Can the software detect these and adjust its database
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by harrigan 11y ago
Graph Drawing: Algorithms for the Visualization of Graphs by Tollis, Di Battista, Eades and Tamassia ( http://www.amazon.com/Graph-Drawing-Algorithms-Visualization... ). The book is from 1998 but is a good basis for reading
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by harrigan 12y ago
Very cool. Are you able to compute the shortest paths on fly?
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QuantaBytes: Bitcoin analysis made simple.(quantabytes.com)
2 points by harrigan 12y ago|0 comments
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by harrigan 13y ago
The alleged Mt. Gox insolvency document claims that they lost about 744,408 BTC due to malleability-related theft which went unnoticed for several years. This is an address that just happens to have had 782,558 BTC flow through it over the
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by harrigan 13y ago
Transaction malleability is a known design issue with Bitcoin. It is interesting to see that people are now trading "goxBTC" for "realBTC": https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=457723.0 . One could ima
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by harrigan 13y ago
This was tried out about a year ago: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=138749.0 . The rules were originally very similar to the website above; then the owner modified them so that the gem randomly "reset".
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Send your web app events to a chat room using a HipChat + Segment.io integration(github.com)
1 points by harrigan 13y ago|0 comments
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Pedestal: An open source tool set for building web applications in Clojure(pedestal.io)
159 points by harrigan 14y ago|59 comments
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StorJ, and Bitcoin autonomous agents(garzikrants.blogspot.ie)
3 points by harrigan 14y ago|0 comments
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by harrigan 14y ago
For the 210,000th block some people voluntarily provided high transactions fees to reward the miner of the block: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/13xd05/idea_for_the...
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by harrigan 14y ago
It's a little unfortunate that there are two apps named "Hacker News Reader" and "Hacker News Reader!". Nice app though.

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