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looks like the freenode staff confirmed it here: https://twitter.com/freenodestaff/status/1395046345145307140

Ok, this got me curious... 11n_disable=8? A quick google turns up lots of people agreeing with you, suggesting the intel wireless driver seems to have trouble on 802.11n. Fine. But…

Fascinating, TIL–thanks!

"mc" stands for midnight commander, which is itself a clone of Norton commander, which was sold by Symantec in the 80s and 90s. Norton commander was popular enough that by the time…

Tiny spherical lenses. From the article: > One of the unique design features of the microscope is the use of inexpensive spherical lenses rather than the precision-ground curved gl…

It looks like it's a url-safe base64 encoding of an encrypted blob (perhaps a stack trace). They're using '-', and '_' instead of '/' and '+'. Replace these characters and base64 w…

Here are all the files from the git repo converted to png: http://imgur.com/a/WkWtP And PDF: http://cl.ly/3Y423m390Y1Z Edit: added imgur album.

Looks like Google's reporting the issue resolved as of 12:06 PM PST. Our backends are working again, so I believe them :). If you run things on App Engine, I highly recommend subsc…

App Engine's reliability massively improved with the HR datastore, and has gotten even better since the pricing change / SLA guarantee. It's actually remarkably good now, I recomme…

Nope.

"But that's the great thing about going this fast, the novel starts to eat you and you find yourself writing any time you can just for the pure joy of it. Even better, on the days …

This is very often also true of writing.

Looking at http://www.leg.state.nv.us/register/2011Register/R084-11I.pd... , it looks like Nevada decided to define a class of license (G) for operation of autonomous vehicles. The…

Here's the proposed text, for anyone who's interested: http://leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_1251-1300/sb_129... Edit: As I read it, this is pretty straight forward, doing th…

For some reason the map travels behind my cursor as I drag it around. This would drive me away if I was looking for an alternative mapping library to google maps.

no! For one thing, it still prints out an opening '[' before 1. Second of all, relying on the structure of the string representation of an array is just silly. Perhaps: print "\n".…

Where's etherpad development now? Well, it seems to have stopped. Another former etherpad employee here. I just wanted to point out that contrary to the comment above, there's a fa…

But I think it's full of prickly complications that won't get magicaly solved by being able to throw up a sexy Rails website or by having an electronic widget in the vehicle. This …

While I feel the OP's pain in terms of difficulty working with the limitations of AppEngine, what he's not mentioning is the collection of benefits you get from AppEngine over othe…

While this is a neat way to navigate panoramas, in practice it is very difficult to get a smooth transition between perspectives without a lot of source images (you can tell when t…

I use the age-old (well, relatively so :)) equation of headphones and electronic music. It gets you into that coding trance that is so helpful for actually sitting down and getting…

Taking your request literally, 2 terabytes is equivalent to (roughly) one-37th of the currently-digitized items in the printed collection in the Library of Congress. Good day. :) (…

"The first decade of the twenty-first century" sounds good to me. TFDOTTFC ("Tee-Eff dot Tee-Eff-See", TF.TFC) for short :)

Hopefully this will lead to strong community around real-time eventual-consistency text synchronization. Here a link to etherpad's implementation of their magic algorithm: http://c…