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khc

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About khc

Author of catfs: https://github.com/kahing/catfs and goofys: https://github.com/kahing/goofys

looking for the next challenge: http://hxbc.us/resume.ml

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    Comment #46396949

    seems like the issue isn't with using git as a database, but using github as a distribution mechanism?

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    Comment #45277293

    the browser, being the originator of these DNS queries, already knows what website you are visiting.

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    Comment #45191180

    not being a native English speaker, I actually do this all the time

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    Comment #44103489

    I've written something 13 years ago using `read -t` https://github.com/kahing/bin/blob/master/timeout.sh

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    Comment #41391863

    I map mine to C^] which I find to be a good balance between easy to type and not conflicting with other tools

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    Comment #41252181

    > Jail for executives who approve or have knowledge of illegal activities sounds good to me. I suspect one possible outcome is many people wouldn't want to take the risk to become …

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    Comment #40216686

    does it have to be fuse? cant you mount a disk image with loopback

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    Comment #35651787

    Reference?

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    Comment #34839688

    Where do you get $100/flight deals? Also you need to account for lodging during the week

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    Comment #30807627

    Hi chipx86! I remember "Gaim's An Instant Messenger" used to be on the old website but either google or my memory is failing me.

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    Comment #30390550

    from the article, google isn't lowering anyone's existing pay, but is lowering future new stock grants

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    Comment #29804171

    poked around a bit of that from a previous job, here's what I remember: 1. there's a control process and worker processes 2. on upgrade, control process launches new worker process…

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    Comment #29246722

    with most people working from home, not sure if this heuristic works. disclaimer: works for databricks, but not on spark, and first time posting in this thread

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    Comment #29165505

    This came from an acquisition of scroll, which used to allow browsing partner websites without ads. Twitter Blue seems to require that we visit those sites from a tweet, which is a…

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    Comment #29103842

    > At a big company, everyone is spending someone else's money and the people at the top realize they can't (and shouldn't!) change course every 3 mo. tell that to the google messag…

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    Comment #28546123

    I think the alternative would not be that teenagers would not have social media accounts, but that they would all be on Tiktok (which probably is already the case)

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    Comment #28475023

    and 5000 years of dictator rule, not sure what you are trying to say

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    Comment #28292345

    you automatically charge $500 to the passanger's credit card, and self-drive back to the depot to be cleaned

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    Comment #27764437

    google fi busted through GFW when I last went there in 2017

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    Comment #27704216

    note that LD_PRELOAD doesn't work for things written in Go because they have their make their own syscalls instead of going through glibc

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    Comment #27213992

    does it work on ubuntu?

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    Comment #27134244

    All I want to know is: is this going to make google docs on firefox faster or slower?

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    Comment #27071409

    According to https://waterfootprint.org/en/water-footprint/product-water-... , beef has a ~50x water footprint compared to vegetable. It's hard to understand what "99% less impact …