jankotek

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by jankotek 5y ago
Perhaps it is just travel anxiety? I book hotels a few hours in advance and stats like "only 2 rooms left", are usually correct when I check with hotel reception. At least in Europe booking.com is much better than competition. It
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by jankotek 5y ago
Does it make a sense to turn it into fuse fs, with transparent deduplication?
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by jankotek 5y ago
Win95 had very strict and consistent UI style. Office2k and Win2k were peak of this consistency. After that came WinXP and mismatch of inconsistent UI styles.
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by jankotek 5y ago
Java uses some memory for stack, about 1MB for each thread.
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by jankotek 5y ago
For start they could provide private offices. Open-plan office is hygienically unsuitable for regular use.
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by jankotek 5y ago
I had run LineageOS for some time. It works, but FDroid is missing too many apps, even opensource like Signal. I have to update apks manually every few months.
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by jankotek 5y ago
Japan has very good public transport, and does not really need cars. In america the question is why invest in carbon based transportation? It is "obsolete technology"! In japan cars are "obsolete"!
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by jankotek 5y ago
Better to eradicate ticks.
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by jankotek 5y ago
$10 nozzle repair requires new battery pack for $16,000. Call it what you want, but that is not green car.
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by jankotek 5y ago
Why should people care about some 50 year old obscure cultural references? It is not 1980ies, when 99% unix users were from western culture.
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by jankotek 5y ago
Many public institutions treat Google as public utility. Children can not attend school, unless they agree to privacy policy on school issued Chromebook. Town hall meetings announcements are only on FB... If those are not public utilities
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by jankotek 5y ago
OS author also distributes, maintains and supports project. Just compiling some opensource projects (Firefox, Chromium) is very complicated. I am not sure what happened here. But if large project would use outdated or broken version, author
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by jankotek 5y ago
It searches content of referenced webpages. Also has filtering by year intervals (for example 2012-2016), domains, tags etc.. And I find usability better. I think it is great product.
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by jankotek 5y ago
Chariots were invented, but lightweight chariots were VERY hightech and expensive, something like Ferrari today. See youtube link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Loti-WBK_k
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by jankotek 5y ago
Location: Prague, Czechia Remote: yes, Europe Willing to relocate: no, remote only, preferably async Technologies: java, jvm, data, kotlin, scala, defi CV: https://github.com/jankotek , CV on request Email: jan @ kotek d0t
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by jankotek 5y ago
Many databases can bypass filesystem and use block device (partitions) directly. But modifying NVMe drivers is pretty novel approach. Maybe Redis compiled into Linux kernel is not bad idea :)
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by jankotek 5y ago
It really depends on application and complexity of object graph. Short lived object usually have low overhead. Long lived objects with huge heap may cause a problem. In past GC had bad reputation for increased and unpredictable latencies. I
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by jankotek 6y ago
Human brain. IP protocol is computable by humans. There is even RFC for transferring packets over pigeons.
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by jankotek 6y ago
Saturating modern SSDs is not that hard, if datastream is constant. Write performance usually degrades rapidly after couple of hours/days, once caches are filled and fragmentation grows. But I totally agree modern SSDs will cause shif
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by jankotek 6y ago
> [a]: Obviously, for absolute security, a hammer and/or a shredder does much better. This still leaves large pieces of magnetic plates intact. At uni we could read some data from floppies that went through shredder. Hammer and shre
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by jankotek 6y ago
Hell no! In this case Github is just unreliable piece of infrastructure. My phone provider bans me for receiving phone call from wrong country? Nice joke.
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by jankotek 6y ago
Hm, yet another cloud based app with zero privacy and questionable life expectancy. Personal notes are very valuable and may go back 30 years. What I need: - self hosted server app - data stored in human readable independent format with rev
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by jankotek 6y ago
Ships were often carried across land, for example over Isthmus of Corinth. Ship wood was also expensive, maybe they took and reused some parts...
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by jankotek 6y ago
It quotes Herodotus, this is first link from google, wiki has some pages as well. I am not an historian, but it seems credible. Some details are matching. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necho_II
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by jankotek 6y ago
Phoenicians circumnavigated Africa, Greeks knew about that. https://www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2018/11/the-egyptian-phoen...
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by jankotek 6y ago
Main selling point of Presto Opera engine was it could run on any CPU. Often on poor feature phones, without MMU, floating point arithmetic... Raise of cheap full featured ARM CPUs made it obsolete.
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by jankotek 6y ago
》Bees are the only living thing on earth that doesn’t carry any type of pathogen, including bacteria, viruses, and fungi. That is simply not true. Bees have many parasites, fungi, diseases ...
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by jankotek 6y ago
Hacking used to be about modifying your hardware. Smart TVs are relatively cheap compared to large industrial displays. They are also reliable. If you need large secure (no wifi) display, this is pefectly valid option.
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by jankotek 6y ago
Perfectly valid solution, and it gets downvoted on Hacker News...
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by jankotek 6y ago
Washing dishes and some types of work may also erase fingerprints. Friend had troubles to enter US as a tourist.

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