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The service Sheldon Brown provided to cyclists worldwide cannot be overstated. It also becomes apparent every time one needs to research some bike subject involving any technology …

The overhead exists when a novice is trying to use Vim the way it is intended to be used in order to learn. Using insert mode to get the same behavior as non-vim and avoid normal m…

I think an important part of the Vim workflow that I haven't seen mentioned is the fact that -at least for myself- it keeps the mind engaged during "menial" operations. When switch…

I infer it was aggressive, based on the following: Per Christian (the Apollo app dev): "(...) Twitter's pricing was publicly ridiculed for its obscene price of $42,000 for 50 milli…

I understand your point. The thing is that they should be able to introduce their API pricing without triggering the events of the past days. I'm not even remotely an expert, but t…

"You can host your own community then"; Sorry but I'm not really a fan of this "make your own (...)" attitude, especially when excusing corporate behavior against volunteers I mean…

It looks like ipv6 matching is supported since late 2017 (version 10.0 [0]), although the changelog states that "not all ban actions are IPv6-capable now". As for IPv6 capabilities…

Fail2ban [0] bans ip addresses based on failed login attempts (works for more than ssh), minus the isolation layer. [0]: https://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Possibly the best solution would be an installation of the Logitech Media Server (LMS) on a raspberry pi (e.g. piCorePlayer [0]) or an already available home server. LMS can then h…

After spending a few years in a similar situation, and not wanting to maintain my own server, I settled with using runbox.com. It's an economical and privacy-oriented, mail provide…

Actually Python 2 allows that, in Python 3 True, False, and None are reserved words [1]. [1] https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.0.html#changed-syntax

Then this is not really the backup though... I mean it is not a backup if you don't understand it completely.

http://news.mit.edu/2017/volkswagen-emissions-premature-deat...

While the difficulty of reading markup vs a compiled document is subjective, there are tools such as texstudio [1] that allow real-time preview of the document synchronized with th…

Although unfortunate for the author (and a huge inconvenience), such cases display in the best possible way the problem of depending on non-federated communication tools which prom…

>"could it possibly be … that the best way to get good research and publications out of scholars is to hire good people, pay them the going rate and tell them to do the job to the …

The article argues a very interesting point and there might definitely be an opportunity for more competitive open hardware. At the same time, it feels kind of sad that it would ta…

In what ways do you find SyncThing lacking when compared to BTSync? I started using it for work (cautiously) a couple of moths ago and have found it to be very similar (with respec…

This can become very useful, especially if expanded by others as well. If I understand correctly results refer to raspberry Pi 2? They would probably be similar for both rPi B+ and…

The most appropriate compression algorithm to use is highly case-dependent (data structure, compression vs decompression cpu/wall-clock time, compression ratio, system memory,bandw…

It is interesting to point out that using -O3 optimization drops the C (and Cython) code exec time by roughly 45%.