satiani

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by satiani 6y ago
I don’t understand why there isn’t a simple system where you register your interest in vaccine, age, medical conditions and leave your contact info to be called in when your shot is ready.
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by satiani 7y ago
I think issuing fiat money and setting price of credit by fiat are two faces of the same coin. I think the way real interest rates behaved under the "Gold Standard" would be close to an answer to your question.
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by satiani 7y ago
source?
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by satiani 8y ago
Yeah, I admit my comparison to the subway costs was not fair. Still, let them try something new. What have you got to lose? If the R&D work they're doing here results in even marginal improvements in tunneling technology, I'd
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by satiani 8y ago
Yeah, that's fair, but no reason why we shouldn't do both. Unfortunately the US government is not gonna make that happen any time soon.
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by satiani 8y ago
Yeah, those subway networks cost $2.7 billion per mile (in NYC) and take decades to complete. He managed to do it in a couple of years at an estimated cost of $10 million. Even if that number is wrong by an order of magnitude this is a mass
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by satiani 8y ago
Cars are an established industry too...
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by satiani 8y ago
I really don't understand all the cynicism around this. It's a prototype of a bold idea, in all likelihood it will fail (like most bold new ideas), but at least they're trying something new. That's how change happens, th
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by satiani 8y ago
> So i know what local echo is. It has nothing to do with prediction :) Not precisely, because you're sometimes predicting whether a keypress should be rendered as a letter on the screen or not (e.g. if you click 'j' in vi
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by satiani 8y ago
That's not what mosh is, it doesn't predict what you're going to type. It however proactively renders the characters you type before it receives confirmation from the tty on the other end. In other words, imagine typing ssh s
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by satiani 12y ago
Your payment form is not secure, even though it makes a submission over SSL, the fact that it is hosted on a non-SSL page exposes it to Man in the Middle attacks. An attacker may, for example, change the iframe URL to something controlled b
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by satiani 14y ago
Or you can just select the block of text and type gq. This will do what par does, and can be adjusted with vim's 'textwidth' and 'formatoptions' settings.
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by satiani 15y ago
This behavior can be turned off by adding this to .zshrc: setopt no_nomatch # if there are no matches for globs, leave them alone and execute the command zsh also tries to autocomplete directory names using variables in global namesp
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by satiani 15y ago
The problem with graphical programming is that it is inefficient when it comes to using a large API. There are only so many icons and graphical objects you can fit on a screen, while still making it easy for users to find them. That's why t
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by satiani 15y ago
I'm a diehard vi fan and I loved what I saw. That IDE makes me want to get an iPad.
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by satiani 15y ago
Did Netflix really jump from 15.9 million subscribers in 2010 to 25.6 million in June 2011? That's an increase of about 10 million subscribers in about a year, compared to an increase of 3.6 million between 2009-2010.
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by satiani 15y ago
I don't think there is a need to use the tracking software to build a case against the burglar. They caught him with stolen property and have fingerprints. No need to go high-tech here.
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by satiani 15y ago
zsh can be a shoein replacement for bash, and its globbing facilities makes 'find' almost obsolete for me. For example: find . -name "*.css" is: ls -d **/*.css in zsh. Other examples, all derived from the article: find . -