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sk5t

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    Comment #48079515

    204 might be acceptable if you aren’t returning an entity body to describe what is missing, but do wish to indicate the request was successful.

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    Comment #47438798

    Notes was simple enough to allow folks with no computer science background or even sympathy for the machine to build teetering, badly-performing things. However, even with a mind t…

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    Comment #47424970

    Yes, it very closely parallels the “one weird trick” bait from a decade ago.

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    Comment #47194822

    Simply require per-use parental consent for fopen.

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    Comment #46625703

    Is this a serious question? Whom do you imagine would offer such a guarantee? Moreover, finding a more effective way to revoke a non-controlled key seems a tall order.

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    Comment #46200272

    To the best of my knowledge, Redis has never blocked for replication, although you can configure healthy replication state as a prerequisite to accept writes.

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    Comment #45266040

    How does one concretely prepare for socio-economic collapse, beyond taking a long position in canned goods?

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    Comment #45257565

    New band albums are rumored and hinted-at, from time to time, by Geoff Barrow, though it seems hard to say if there will be another. Bear in mind Beth made "Out of Season" apart fr…

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    Comment #45256568

    I'll put my hoping energy into a new Portishead album instead.

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    Comment #44843544

    Decent article, with some technical misunderstandings about MULTI/EXEC, perhaps unnecessary skepticism about Lua, though I certainly do wish Redis had richer built-in functions for…

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    Comment #44780631

    Yes - not only is Slack search underpowered, but also records management folks are likely to configure pruning of Slack content older than a couple years or so. This is IME less li…

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    Comment #44285783

    Phoebe Bridgers also. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ9-xN6dCW4

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    Comment #43904130

    Water being mostly incompressible is not the same as having high compressive strength. Liquid water makes for a poor tooth or structural column.

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    Comment #43607541

    > That's just adding a row into the 'Outbox' table No tables and no rows in Notes. Composing an email would create a new document using the "Mail" form; clicking the "Send" button …

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    Comment #43552876

    Are those runners and bicyclists not confused? Taking a risk in golf could save a stroke or cost several; are runners making mistakes like "run harder for a bit but fall into a pon…

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    Comment #43376125

    Chase it with sudden repeated exposure to "hermeneutics"!

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    Comment #42996756

    > very big, very blunt, rocket-powered sledgehammer to the budget A simplistic approach--sounds nice to simpletons, won't have the effect they might desire.

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    Comment #42769703

    Costco’s “super premium vanilla” is quite nice—-better than any other mass market vanilla.

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    Comment #42705577

    Visiting just one page on this wacky website absolutely trashed my browser's (Firefox) back-history.

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    Comment #42634079

    Agreed, it’s worth cleaning contacts and reseating the memory modules to start with.

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    Comment #42523670

    > JVM exploits from the last years Entirely user/library serialization or fine cryptographic issues, and not the VM, no?

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    Comment #42346500

    OP’s backup choice is December 7, 1941.

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    Comment #41653864

    Odd, the article claims to be about consistent hashing, but spends all its words on plain-old hash quality topics.

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    Comment #41587356

    > I'm optimistic SAML will be dead soon Get used to disappointment.

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    Comment #41374831

    Have you accounted for the population of Australian kernel developers?