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by muks 7y ago
I wish well-done XMPP/Jabber clients that do voice come up. If you are an XMPP protocol developer / implementer reading this, thank you for what is there so far. Please don't stop. If you have been watching the news this week
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by muks 7y ago
This isn't true for India. Until last year, all the cards I'd seen in India were either Visa, Mastercard or AMEX. This year my bank tried to send me a "Rupay" card which is an Indian processor; on speaking to the bank st
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by muks 7y ago
Here's an example of the quality of Uber's customer support: https://twitter.com/muks/status/1137237193657868289 This was after I reported that my 72 year old mother was asked to get out of the car by th
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by muks 7y ago
We got Misha in Hyderabad too in the 80s. My mother used to buy them for me regularly when I was a kid.
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by muks 7y ago
Wow.. wow.. there are others who have read the same things. :) The hydro pneumatic rocket! I tried to find Mir publishers books about 10 years ago. Apparently Mir got bought out and publishing ceased. Another gem is "Fun with maths and
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by muks 8y ago
I agree with you.
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by muks 8y ago
I can give you a link to download my build if you want (which is a pristine unofficial build with Android security patches till February 5, 2019), but in the end, it depends on whether you'll trust a binary build from some random perso
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by muks 8y ago
Same device here (whyred). If you want an "original" build, you can still build an up-to-date Lineage OS with the latest Android security patches from source from their repo. It is very easy to build it on Fedora or Ubuntu and it
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by muks 8y ago
How does the output compare to running a video with mpv and vapoursynth to increase the frame rate? e.g., this recipe: https://gist.github.com/phiresky/4bfcfbbd05b3c2ed8645
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by muks 8y ago
> Yeah, shellac isn't the most durable finish, but it sure is pretty. +1
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by muks 8y ago
Condolences, but how is this hacker news? There's BBC and CNN for this sort of stuff.
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by muks 8y ago
> But we do need a gatekeeper Having observed this area for 18 years now, I'll say that gatekeeper (a party which has unwaveringly observed and stuck to delivering the principles of software freedom) is the Free Software Foundation.
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by muks 8y ago
> The result, however, is that at this moment, MongoDB is under a non-approved license and therefore IS NOT OPEN SOURCE. Perhaps you meant to say "is not OSI Certified", because the OSI don't appear to have a right to rest
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DNS root KSK key roll has occurred(lists.dns-oarc.net)
3 points by muks 8y ago|0 comments
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by muks 8y ago
I've been a Hetzner customer for several years. I'm yet to have a faulty disk experience with them, but that's not what this post is about. This month I "purchased" another EX41 server. Something made me wonder if t
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by muks 8y ago
It would take someone with reasonable technical skills to install LineageOS as it involves unlocking the phone's bootloader (depending on the choice of phone hardware), working around any anti-rollback features by flashing, flashing TW
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by muks 8y ago
Waiting is inconvenient to buyers and to explain it away, Xiaomi provide some silly reasons such as saying they are trying to thwart sideloading of apps and custom ROMs by resellers, that does nefarious things like steal data... it's a
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by muks 8y ago
After my Samsung Galaxy S7 phone started having hardware issues, I looked to see if a phone running open source software was available, one that also could run the Android apps I currently use. I've had sucess with LineageOS 15.1 on a
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Beginning of the Internet Age(twitter.com)
1 points by muks 8y ago|0 comments
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by muks 8y ago
> I appreciate that this is a work in progress but this section is misleading. As all too briefly mentioned elsewhere on the page, EDNS allows extending this. In practice most of the resolvers I connect to do support EDNS and a buffer of
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by muks 12y ago
verysadpanda: You may be feeling low right now, but believe it, the low feeling will go away and things will get better. If you are at the bottom of the barrel, the only way you can go is up. Most founders of companies that are successful -
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by muks 14y ago
Hi antirez C doesn't have a destructor that gets called when something goes out of scope. That's taken advantage of in C++ (RAII) to implement various things (like scoped_ptr that helps avoid leaks). Refcounting is also not perfect for ever
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BIND 10 zones in memory(banu.com)
1 points by muks 14y ago|0 comments
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Help make GIMP operations better (GSoC 2012)(banu.com)
1 points by muks 14y ago|0 comments
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OpenBSD bug in the random() function(banu.com)
31 points by muks 15y ago|27 comments
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by muks 15y ago
Try cscope and xrefactory for emacs. cscope is very good for searching through C codebases. You can use this with vim too. It has emacs integration using xcscope, and you can use sequences like C-c s g to quickly jump to a symbol. xrefactor
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by muks 15y ago
SEEKING WORK (telecommute) - Chennai, India. I'm an M.Sc. in computer science, and a member of ACM and the GNOME Foundation. I'm good with C, POSIX programming environment (esp. on Linux), the GNU toolchain and other development tools like
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Interview of ColorHug maker, Richard Hughes(banu.com)
4 points by muks 15y ago|0 comments
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by muks 15y ago
What's discussed in the article depends on the capabilities of hardware you are targeting. :) Filling is typically a bottleneck as you are writing to a lot of memory. Square roots can also be rather slow, esp. when there's no hardware imple
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by muks 15y ago
Nice to hear. Go ahead and do write a program. If you have any issues with it, or have trouble following anything that is written in the article, send me an email and I'll be happy to help you out.

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