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But the data width is the least of concerns anyway. You should realize a 15 bit computer can compute everything a 32 bit can? The bigger problems are more pedestrian like complete …

I think he pretty much fucked that up to...

uh...yeah... esr is basically Alex Jones if he were half as articulate and twice as ugly. I read the post because I’m an idiot with too much time to kill. But basically it makes ma…

No. Ddg gets most of its index from bing.

No it’s not. The beauty of the cubicle was in its practical functionality. If you’re working effectice and productively you don’t really notice the plainness of your surroundings. …

systemd nspawn

Look, you goofed and misread that comment. The parent said nothing about all BSDs, just “the BSD” which was clearly NetBSD in context. Doubling down just makes you look dumber.

Idiot that is unable to read spotted.

> While the company might give you what you ask for this one time, they will feel blackmalied and will see you as a flight risk, ready to leave for greener pastures at any moment a…

By flash media do you mean memory cards or SSDs? Because that will be a big difference. The issue might not be the pcie USB adapter, and may be whatever it’s connected to. A cheap …

Always thought it cute that the spec mandates 4 allowable alcohol additions... but also completely forgot to specify the list of sweeteners.

That is false. Why do you think it is not a programming language?

Nice catch I think. I’ll be damned if I can see a difference. Looks like the old code will also skip the checksum in the case of any non hexdigit padding.

> They also have a lab that do b&w prints from digital files on photo paper interestingly. Not new or uncommon. The “last generation” of photo finishing (think drug store 1 hour ph…

Yes, pretty much since most ISPs do not block UDP port 53. I have no reason to run DNS on a home internet connection. What would a sane use case be? They don’t block it because it …

Optimum and Fios are two isps in the US. > Try running a UDP-only DNS server from home on some random port. No reason to run DNS. However, I run openvpn udp between three houses (f…

Almost every ISP will have a firewall of some kind, but in the US this is usually just blocking 25 incoming, sometimes 80 (fios), maybe a few other ports. I have run services on po…

Well you either did ask that question and answered it by using appropriate locking and concurrent data structures (which is basically implicitly asking and addressing that question…

Think of an object oriented system. You can have a thread per object at the extreme where each object has its own thread/queue to handle messages. For most cases with synchronous c…

> Creating such an alternative wouldn't only be very difficutl tech-wise I am quite curious how you figure this. Other than analytics and tracking, Duolingo doesn’t even require a …

It’s freemium, which I don’t feel is “completely” free.