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What finally worked well for me was an "ear loop" tool, a small, cheap plastic tool with a safety guard, that makes extracting the wax quite easy. They cost less than $10 USD, do n…

The copy object operation has options to control if the copy occurs based on examining source metadata, see "x-amz-copy-source-if-match" at https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/lat…

With this change, is there a way to implement atomic operations like put-if-absent?

I had a 'rattling' issue, but mine correlated with moving my head. If I held very still, the sound was fine. This didn't happen at first, it developed over time. I wondered if the …

We're still early in development, but the ZNG format is one we're working on for schema-less, semi-structured, zero-copy operations: https://github.com/brimsec/zq/blob/master/zng/d…

Rafael Weinstein's mutation-summary library, from a few years back, includes functionality to transmit & mirror DOM's: https://github.com/rafaelw/mutation-summary

Perhaps Ithaca, New York? It's a smallish college town (Cornell, Ithaca College), but with lots of great scenery nearby, including forest, lakes, and gorges.

I believe you're referring to the Musée Mécanique ( http://museemecaniquesf.com ). Besides the arcade games, the orchestrons are captivating.

An advantage of dynamic libraries is that the memory used to hold the library's executable pages can be shared across processes. So using static only binaries will lead to less fre…

As I recall, we used this for system call testing/timing. (I worked at Be.)

My favorite tech poem is Radia Perlman's "Algorhyme". She's the inventor of the spanning tree protocol. Algorhyme I think that I shall never see a graph more lovely than a tree. A …

Though I appreciate the idea of 'storing bandwidth' by just sending lots of qubits ahead of time, that ignores the extra communication overhead needed of tracking them: When Bob re…

Perhaps the attackers are drawn to sites they believe will later publicly document the attack, to learn whatever they can on how the operations team responded.

I've got a passing interest in Erlang, and also saw the existence of Elixir http://elixir-lang.org/ , which uses the Erlang VM. Could someone from either language's community comme…