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he's going from Iceland to us-west (Oregon). surely his RTT is dominated by the length of the cable, not any useful work. my closest AWS DC is in Frankfurt with HTTP ping below 40m…

that's not accepted as a good answer on SO. do you have any examples?

this reads a bit like a parody of the all-inclusive movement. the first half of the article chronicles how she took offence where none was offered, and instead of "my bad", there's…

> I had about a half days' worth of work typed up into the browser's text field and when I clicked "submit", all of my work vanished and Firefox only showed a page stating that the…

this reminds me of the Boeing 737 MAX8...

> there are numerous ways that could've oopsed in. that's why i said "dishonesty at the org level". i don't think there's any one particular person in mozilla at the prenda law-lev…

> There are sites that just block requests from the EU, there's a difficult-to-measure chilling effect on small businesses food safety regulations have a chilling effect on busines…

that's so tone-deaf from mozilla... hello? anyone behind the driving wheel there? what are your priorities? trying to win the game of hypocrisy? seriously, this is a great display …

> s there any outcome where ISS melts, short of re-entry? i don't think so. should the cooling system fail, the sources of heat (mechanical work, biological processes) would cease …

yes, but the topic is the price of egress. i thought this was obvious to everybody: public clouds want to lock you in, so they make it very cheap and easy to get data in, but charg…

> death by cold is [...] the default problem in space well, actually... you need lower-energy atoms for higher-energy ones to rub against to carry away the excess. there's not many…

it would have to ignore underscores as well. does your grep have that functionality bundled under a convenient flag? does your browser's ctrl-f have it for eg. github?

well, these two things (strongSpaces couldn't have been "undocumented": i knew about it from a cursory glance at the language a few years ago, never wrote more than a hello world i…

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that's a gross mischaracterization of the situation. copyright doesn't mean "i get paid", it means "i get to withhold" (see all the out-of-print books, abandonware, etc). GPL does …

GPL "abuses" copyright to prevent conveyors from closing off software from its users. make the provisions of GPL the law, and copyright of software can go.

so you install dstat in /usr/bin/dstat + /usr/share/dstat (because you are root), and an attacker creates /home/eve/bin/dstat with /home/eve/share/dstat/evil.py. why would you run …

no, it's just cargocult security. edit after your reply: if you install in /tmp, you'll end up with /tmp/bin/dstat and /tmp/share/dstat. you're concerned that an attacker could smu…

expert vim :he

this is somewhat shorter: qq0i" A", jq@@ i agree this example is silly. i'd do something like :%s/.*/"&",/

> around minus 50 degrees F == around -45.56C ( https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=-50+F+in+C )

> One would think that a sexual organism never having heterosexual sex would be a huge evolutionary fitness disadvantage Genes do not "care" for individual organisms. If they did w…

i wonder why he has the "wrapper over wc" which does just what wc does? #!/bin/sh total=0 for FILE in `find . -type f -name "*.txt"` do wc -w $FILE words=`wc -w all this achieves i…

> Words can not be violent. sure, sure. please explain how Facebook did not contribute to the Rohingya "situation" in [Myanmar]. please document how violence-inciting speech never …

> That means your (or my!) WPF/WinForms/WinUI apps can all use the same controls if you like, using XAML Islands. I could take the now 10 year old BabySmash WPF app and add support…