hoov

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by hoov 5y ago
There is also spyware running on them. They literally spy on what you're watching and send the info home, and the data gets sold to market to you. No thanks. Edit. They also connect to unprotected wifi networks to send data without you
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by hoov 5y ago
I was in the same boat, but I'm taking some time off work and I'm very happy with the Lua support. New link to my dotfiles to come. In the mean time, here are my current ones, in case they help anybody out: https://gith
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Prime today, gone tomorrow: Chinese products get pulled from Amazon(techcrunch.com)
10 points by hoov 5y ago|2 comments
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Thank You, Arash(blog.dropbox.com)
5 points by hoov 6y ago|0 comments
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by hoov 7y ago
I've tried a bunch of X servers, but with a 4k display, they're all too slow to be usable. I'm settling for running WSL inside Alacritty for now.
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iRobot removing multiple account support(homesupport.irobot.com)
1 points by hoov 7y ago|0 comments
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by hoov 7y ago
Or even nothing goes wrong suddenly. Once, I had a vacation planned for six months and had to spend the long weekend cooped up in my hotel room overseeing a complicated migration.
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by hoov 7y ago
> There's an asymmetry because Amazon can "afford" to double check everything? How? Well, Amazon shows you the percent discount. I can't imagine that there are too many items over, let's say, $1000 that are at a
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by hoov 7y ago
This is so great! While at Adobe, to solve some technical issues, I wrote a microservice that sat along HAProxy, providing a REST interface to manipulate the configuration, validate, and then do a graceful reload. The fact that this is now
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Micromort – The Measure of Mortality Risk(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by hoov 7y ago|0 comments
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by hoov 8y ago
It's a little more complicated than that. Even with a riving knife, you can still get kickback if your blade isn't aligned properly -- and most cheaper saws need a tune-up before being used.
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by hoov 8y ago
This is really nice, especially all the integrations. I've been using slides.com for a while, and I may switch to this. But, one feature that would be amazing would be the ability to upload to an S3 bucket. Bonus points for creating a
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LMDB – Lightning Memory-Mapped Database Manager(lmdb.tech)
81 points by hoov 8y ago|22 comments
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Cloudflare’s new ‘one-click’ DNSSEC setup(techcrunch.com)
3 points by hoov 8y ago|0 comments
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Scientists Train Bacteria to Build Unnatural Proteins(npr.org)
2 points by hoov 9y ago|0 comments
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by hoov 9y ago
Difficult, but possible. We did this with Buzzword at Adobe. The hardest part was the UX, honestly. Most knowledge workers need some hand holding, to say nothing of teachers and students (we had success selling to high school teachers).
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by hoov 9y ago
I'm not a fan of this. First of all, requirements.txt is for development requirements. Runtime ones belong in setup.py. Also, the "extras" feature is already in setup.py via extras_require. I see no need to use this nonstanda
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As Hurricane Irma bore down, Tesla gave some Florida drivers more battery juice(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by hoov 9y ago|0 comments
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Quickly review changed functions in your Python pull requests(github.com)
3 points by hoov 9y ago|0 comments
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by hoov 9y ago
Unfortunately, I bet there are a bunch of regulations, both federal and per state. For example, the 7k memory limit is a state-by-state thing: "Memory sizes greater than those permitted in any specific correctional facility will be rej
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by hoov 9y ago
Sun sat at 4:15 PM in Boston last December 21st. I'd take 6 PM over that. Sunrise was 7:10.
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Photographer behind 'monkey selfie' is broke after years-long copyright battle(dpreview.com)
5 points by hoov 9y ago|1 comments
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LEAKED AUDIO: Uber's all-hands meeting had some uncomfortable moments(finance.yahoo.com)
1 points by hoov 9y ago|0 comments
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by hoov 9y ago
> I am just starting out in web development and am looking for any tutorials on Phoenix/Elixir/Erlang. While I like Elixir a lot, I'm not sure that it's the best place to start. I'd find an ecosystem that is more
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This device pulls drinking water straight out of the air(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by hoov 9y ago|0 comments
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Nvidia Announces Titan Xp Graphics Card(techcrunch.com)
149 points by hoov 9y ago|116 comments
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by hoov 9y ago
It clearly doesn't cover "unix and unix-like" shells, since fish shell syntax isn't supported. It seems to be trying to be bash-compatible since it uses bashlex under the hood, but as another commented noticed, the bash
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Netgear announces two new Orbi routers(techcrunch.com)
1 points by hoov 9y ago|0 comments
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The “Terminator” of startups says he’s seeing two to four wind-downs a week(techcrunch.com)
4 points by hoov 10y ago|0 comments
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Git LFS 2.0.0 released(github.com)
2 points by hoov 10y ago|0 comments

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