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by mxvzr 9y ago
While you can find stage3 tarballs for systemd, OpenRC is still the default for Gentoo AFAIK. (And speaking of Arch Linux, I can't really say I miss initscripts)
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by mxvzr 9y ago
I enjoyed reading some of the blog posts on here awhile back: http://www.gdargaud.net/Antarctica/index.html . The author spent a number of seasons, including winter, in Antartica. From what I remember he was a "tec
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by mxvzr 9y ago
Some things can be done with the mouse: selecting a client, moving to another workspace, changing the layout, moving/resizing a floating (ie. not tiled) window (awesome 4.x is more mouse friendly than awesome 3.5: in addition to the ab
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by mxvzr 9y ago
I've been using awesomewm for a few years now, and while it's not i3 I believe it's close enough that I can answer that: A tiling wm is very viable for a general purpose desktop. It's also extra useful if you have a mult
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by mxvzr 9y ago
Cheap rockets will lead to cheaper satellites. Take a look at the development of cubesats [1]. It's a new "paradigm" for LEO sats: rather than develop a massive and/or complex sat with a lifetime spanning decades, costin
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by mxvzr 9y ago
5+ years of experience in adtech, on the advertisers' side mostly. By far the largest surprise for me was the amount of efforts that went into denying payouts to the publishers. That went anywhere from designing terms that reduces the
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by mxvzr 9y ago
I've noticed your trolling re: emacs & vim vs IDEs in the previous days (ie: mostly argumentless name calling), but I'll bite anyway. Linus uses microEMACS, Guido uses emacs, Bjarne uses sam. The list goes on. What is your poi
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by mxvzr 9y ago
Client side re-targeting has two pieces to it: a "segment" code placed on the product page (a marker showing you have interest in this particular product) and a "burn" code placed on the conversion page (that removes the
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by mxvzr 9y ago
Cross browser fingerprinting is also a thing (system fonts, exotic screen resolutions, AudioContext & canvas/webgl quirks, number of cpus, ...). At this point you either need to disable javascript or take your browsing to a VM if y
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by mxvzr 9y ago
> Even if you signed out, they probably still have a cookie tracking who you are Indeed: https://www.nikcub.com/posts/logging-out-of-facebook-is-not-...
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by mxvzr 9y ago
Although they wouldn't have used a cookie here since it is mentioned that different browsers & devices were used. It would mean that segmenting was done on the backend, maybe using a user id from a social network.
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by mxvzr 10y ago
After using it for a few months I must say I am not very impressed with FastMail's antispam filter: I am receiving quite a bit of spam (tax/home alarm/life insurance/what-have-you spam) to an alias email. About a dozen a
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by mxvzr 10y ago
You can setup zram like this. Typically you'll want to make a service for it since it needs to run on every boot. # modprobe zram num_devices=1 # echo 1G > /sys/block/zram0/disksize # mkswap zram0 /d
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by mxvzr 10y ago
I use zram rather than a regular swap partition on all my laptops (because I'd rather not swap on SSDs) and desktops (same reason and/or there is an absurd amount of RAM to begin with). I also hear that most chromebooks use zram t
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by mxvzr 10y ago
unrelated: are you the billiob that used to contribute to aMSN back in the days?
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by mxvzr 10y ago
I too think this is a bit premature, especially when I see placeholder code like this [1]. I'd also mention the redis dependency somewhere, IMO I shouldn't have to go all the way here [2] to find about it. Somewhat less important
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by mxvzr 10y ago
Poorly written title/article (if you can call it that). At least it contains a link to ieee.org with more content [1]. See also arstechnica [2][3] for some earlier coverage. [1] http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/s
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by mxvzr 10y ago
No you're right it's not resource hungry: if you have an empty (or sane) ~/.emacs and ~/.emacs.d then it is completly fine. However if you have the habit of opening a new instance from the command line for a given file r
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by mxvzr 10y ago
I see no mention of the emacs daemon [1] which I've found very useful in resource constrained environments (ie. tiny VMs or underpowered chromebooks). That's especially true if you bring out the big guns like Spacemacs. [1] https
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by mxvzr 10y ago
What amazes me the most about the Cassini mission is the drastic inclination changes they managed to achieve around Saturn (see the GIF in the hero section [1]). At first I thought the spacecraft must have had some serious delta-v budget, b
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by mxvzr 10y ago
There is also something to be said about a CEO with administrative privileges.
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by mxvzr 10y ago
Why do you make that distinction? AFAIK reddit is not a free speech platform.
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by mxvzr 10y ago
"confidentiel" can be used in french to denote something that isn't necessarily secretive/restricted but yet only known by a select few. I assume the author meant "esoteric".
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by mxvzr 10y ago
https://xkcd.com/695/
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by mxvzr 10y ago
Actually as per RFC7168 a teapot may return code 418 to "denote a more permanent indication that the pot is a teapot".
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by mxvzr 10y ago
This pretty much sounds like the scenario used, successfully, here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002
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by mxvzr 10y ago
> there's not much else out there like it Orbiter [0] is commonly mentioned. You trade a bit of the "fun" angle of KSP for more realism. The physics model is more advanced too: I believe halo/lissajous orbits are poss
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by mxvzr 10y ago
More claims: https://www.reddit.com/r/KerbalSpaceProgram/comments/4hw5x7/...
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by mxvzr 10y ago
I was hoping a Frenchman would recognize that I was merely paraphrasing one of Hugo's main arguments against capital punishment, developed in his preface of Le Dernier Jour d'un condamné, rather than "close the case on one of
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by mxvzr 10y ago
> what is justice without revenge? Justice. Sentencing is here to take criminals away from the rest of society, in order to protect the latter rather than punish the former.

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