rwolf

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by rwolf 10mo ago
"all the time" in this context means frequently, not constantly, and is usually understood as a global rate. for example: people fall in love all the time.
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by rwolf 1y ago
https://docs.openindiana.org/misc/openindiana/ looks like what you wanted, was not straightforward to get there from the homepage.
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A Reflection on the Departure of RMS(medium.com)
83 points by rwolf 7y ago|43 comments
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by rwolf 7y ago
To elaborate of the commenter above, here's what I tried to try to get some information about this site: * Looked at the top and bottom nav for a link to something like a blog or an about page. * Searching for [2ndwind] brings up tons
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by rwolf 12y ago
For anyone (like me) who raised an eyebrow at the "trans fats are highly toxic" bit, wiki helpfully mentions some recent (2013) FDA guidance on the matter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans_fat
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by rwolf 12y ago
Note the timestamp on the article and compare to: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/12/the-et...
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by rwolf 12y ago
Thinkpad keyboard only appears to come with $5,000 limited-run version, and it's detachable. Every other version explicitly does not come with a keyboard because of how little consensus there is.
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Liber.io – Make eBooks. Really simple(liber.io)
5 points by rwolf 13y ago|0 comments
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by rwolf 13y ago
buffer -> http://bufferapp.com/ . nothing to fix, just someone deciding that, since someone has done X, no one else should do X. congrats on making something! happy new year.
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by rwolf 13y ago
I'm puzzled, your comments seem to claim simultaneously that: * There is not a battery life problem on Windows machines. * The battery life problem on Windows machines is not surprising.
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by rwolf 13y ago
Default switch happened in August https://people.gnome.org/~csaavedra/news-2013-08.html while spike appeared to start 2 months previous.
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by rwolf 13y ago
I'm curious if the problem here is splashtop--does it work when you go to cafes with spotty wifi? For example, running vim from an ec2 instance might give you better connectivity.
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by rwolf 13y ago
4.5% tablet marketshare ( http://www.winbeta.org/news/windows-8-and-windows-rt-account... ) is tiny, but big enough to account for anecdotes like this.
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by rwolf 13y ago
In the "pros" column, you're just violating netflix TOS so in the worst case they figure out you are lying about your country and delete your account. Sounds like a pretty safe (but expensive) way to pirate movies to me.
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by rwolf 13y ago
Right, there's not a legal way to subscribe so you're illegally subscribing. For the children, or something.
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by rwolf 13y ago
You weren't actually asking for comments, so sorry if I'm just being annoying, but: * I love the font size and content column width. More line height than 140% might be good, but I then again have extreme preferences for line height (160%).
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by rwolf 13y ago
<3! Thank you for making this, and please please please don't "pivot" from a bookmarklet into another half-baked social network.
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How to Enable ETags and Compression in lighttpd(pseudony.ms)
1 points by rwolf 14y ago|0 comments
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by rwolf 14y ago
The title is missing a >. Should be "-->"
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by rwolf 14y ago
No requests are sent when I hit the "Save Changes" button. I have a small amount of confidence that my preferences are going to be picked up.
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by rwolf 14y ago
It's important to note the careful hedging in that response. Specifically: * Activity Streams will be read-only, except through their (non-ostatus) API. * No subscribing through pubsubhubbub "initially." It implies but does not promise even
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by rwolf 14y ago
Sorry for the tangent, but svbtle knockoffs like the http://wp-svbtle.themeskult.com/ used here are annoying. I don't want the whole internet to look like svbtle. Heck, I don't even want svbtle to look like svbtle.
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by rwolf 14y ago
Citation needed.
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by rwolf 14y ago
I never thought I'd say this, but that page is too orange.
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by rwolf 14y ago
This sounds like snake oil. I'd love to read more about it--any sources for "profile picture as EULA"?
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by rwolf 14y ago
"Hadopi, the body charged with hunting down freetards under France’s three-strikes law, has sent a million warning e-mails and 99,000 registered letters." Did The Register really just say "freetards?"
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by rwolf 14y ago
Your phrasing here suggests that you work for orbitz or a similar company. Is that accurate?
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by rwolf 14y ago
I'm confused: how do you use message queues to handle traffic spikes? If a user request is sitting in a queue, aren't they staring at a white screen until I get back to them? edit: "And you can launch more servers to eat away at the queues
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How to Get Your Tweets Indexed by Google(pseudony.ms)
2 points by rwolf 14y ago|0 comments
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by rwolf 14y ago
Seconded. Nothing happens when I click join, and there is an error "no zlib library" in the console.

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