no_gravity

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Warming of the Greenland ice sheet passed the point of no return(news.osu.edu)
6 points by no_gravity 6y ago|0 comments
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by no_gravity 6y ago
Working on a version of https://www.literature-map.com which will be used to organize scientific articles about literature. The design will look like this: https://www.gibney.de/preview The big blue arrow leads
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by no_gravity 6y ago
From how I read it, this reduces the probability that the data gets deleted due to low disk space / garbage collection: Persistent storage can help protect critical data from eviction, and educe the chance of data loss.
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by no_gravity 6y ago
> Native File System API Great, so there is light at the end of the tunnel! > store that data on the server Well, we talked about that already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23793541
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by no_gravity 6y ago
Keeping the user logged in is not the issue. A PWA can inject a unique ID into the installation in various ways. The problem is the data. Imagine a text editor where all your text documents are gone after you cleared the data of a different
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by no_gravity 6y ago
Can you elaborate why it could be a good thing for users? Not being able to reliably store data on the device means that PWAs have to send the users data over the internet and store it on an external server. I would think users rather do no
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by no_gravity 6y ago
The main problem I see in PWAs these days is that they cannot permanently store data on the device. As soon as the user deletes their "browser data", all the data of the PWAs on the device is lost too. If PWAs would get their own
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by no_gravity 6y ago
How would that work?
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by no_gravity 6y ago
Just exchanged the charger .. the hanging still occurs.
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by no_gravity 6y ago
I will try that. At first I would like to see if I can find the problem. I would have thought that when the SD card is not responding, it would show up as "wa" in top and "%util" in iostat -x. But both are zero for the n
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by no_gravity 6y ago
My PI is too cool. It freezes. I have playing with a PI Zero W over the last weeks. At first everything worked as expected. But now it developed some strange "hangings" I cannot explain. It kinda randomly freezes in time for a f
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by no_gravity 6y ago
Ok, great. Here comes more feedback :) Since I did not save my password when signing up, I proceeded to set an email. Got a confirmation email and clicked the link in it. Then signed out and clicked the "Set a new password" link
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by no_gravity 6y ago
I think someone needs to look into the onboarding process. My experience so far: 1: Clicked on "Try Now". 2: Was greeted with a blob of text. Spotted "The easiest way to try Matrix is to use the Riot Web ...". 3: Clicked
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by no_gravity 6y ago
I wanted to play with variations of the code. For that it is useful to make it output a "summary" so you know the variation you tried is computationally equivalent. For the first benchmark, I added a combined string length calcucl
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by no_gravity 6y ago
This seems to be a compatibility list of Surface devices with a special kernel made by someone. I don't see how it is related to what is in the Ubuntu repos? If anything, the exsitence of this kernel seems to be an indication that the
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by no_gravity 6y ago
Do you have a link where someone describes how he got Ubuntu to run on the Go natively without installing software from outside of the repos? The user reports I saw did not get WiFi to work with what is in the Ubuntu repos.
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by no_gravity 6y ago
Is there a tablet that can run one of the major Linux distributions? I am surprised that there is not a single commercial Linux tablet on the market. Given how many developers use Linux, one would think the market is big enough for at least
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by no_gravity 6y ago
PHP has a lot going for it. It is popular, fast, has a nice syntax and a ton of useful functionality baked right into the language. The main weakness I see in PHP is the lack of modules. PHP provides namespaces to avoid name conflicts. Firs
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YC Companies Responding to Covid-19(ycombinator.com)
144 points by no_gravity 6y ago|33 comments
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by no_gravity 6y ago
I had a nice surprise and learning experience, when I discovered that the output of (echo red; echo green 1>&2) | echo blue is indeterministic: http://www.gibney.de/the_output_of_linux_pipes_can_be_indete...
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by no_gravity 6y ago
From what I read in this article and other sources, performing more tests seems to be a very promising approach to get this pandemic under control. The number of positive tests and death rates are published every day on all channels. I wish
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List of Silent Musical Compositions(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by no_gravity 7y ago|0 comments
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by no_gravity 7y ago
Interesting. I have never seen that happen and can not reproduce it. Anything special about the browser you use? Feel free to shoot me an email then we can figure it out.
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by no_gravity 7y ago
The main reason I often use Chromium instead of Firefox is that it starts up faster. I even wrote a oneliner to see if it is just an illusion: http://www.gibney.de/browser_startup_speed As can be seen in the tests, it is ma
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by no_gravity 7y ago
How much better are the photos you get out of the Fuji then the ones you get out of your iPhone? The Fuji X100F is about 3 times as heavy then a usual smartphone. So carrying it around would quadruple the weight of my "camera equipment
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Quantum Radar(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by no_gravity 7y ago|0 comments
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by no_gravity 7y ago
1: A slim stack Every part of the stack will need maintenance every now and then. Some parts even introduce breaking changes and force you to alter your own code. The slimmer the stack, the less often you have to fix it. And the less often
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by no_gravity 7y ago
As I understand it, the author conducted the test on an unusually slow connection. With a roundtrip time of almost half a second. Even a typical consumer line is multiple times faster. He states that the workload is "saving one event t
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by no_gravity 7y ago
I really like the direct DB to filesystem mappings of the MyISAM engine in MySql. A database is simply a directory. A table is simply 3 files in that directory: - One for the structure - One for the data - One for the indexes
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by no_gravity 7y ago
Awesome. So it does hold true for PHP as well.

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