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abvr

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About abvr

Systems programmer by the day, physics boffin by night.

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    I would love to see a comparison between scp and wcp over NFS, more specifically large single file sizes, if folks are looking to discern more performance parameters. wcp is good s…

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    Comment #26367789

    Check out the Extended Kalman filter for non-linear systems.

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    Yes, unfortunately current manufacturing practices forced them to switch over to Chinese clones of the Cherry MX. I'm writing this on their late 90's Cherry MX Blue based keyboard …

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    Slightly unrelated, but as a fan and user of Edge, I really miss their old 'Save tabs for later' feature.

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    That's the most ridiculous comment I've seen on HN.

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    Thanks, maybe I'll make a post of this instead of posing it as a question, that might create a discussion. Oops, looks like that has already been done heh.

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    Aslo ends up being ironically, kinda of the scapegoat for no fault of hers, other than the fact that she was the mastermind of the whole operation?

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    That's what seperates them both, it's not about immediate formal checking from a compiler here, but rather if our proof is being justified adequately according with the rules of de…

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    How are these things actually measured or scaled?

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    Whoa at the work hours, if you don't mind me asking, just curious to know what kind of work entails such long hours? Also I'm assuming it paid equally well for the time devoted to …

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    Great one. I really do miss the old Internet though.

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    Wait, saying both C and UNIX aren't small and beautiful seems like one major oxymoron. Care to elaborate on those? IIUC, both of them were created in a small and concise design to …

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    Yes, but he isn't exactly wrong about it either, and sure it seems as though it has really affected him, but Apple too need to take a look into their near past, and introspect thin…

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    Comment #21200645

    OL too comes with GNOME out of the box and there is always KDE if one wants to switch.

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    Just use anything command line, I personally stick to Mutt. Check it out or neomutt or even Alpine if your taste suits that.

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    I'd posted a first draft earlier that day, and realized I had to add a few more lines, and give it a better heading. Sorry about that.

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    I'm a bit disappointed that there's no DMR here, but seems to be a pretty interesting document otherwise.