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spellboots

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    Comment #49143978

    I'm actually curious if this is faster than a tmpfs clone, I suspect it might be as depending on how many underlying files it's copying, it might effectively be doing "nothing" for…

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    Comment #49143958

    I do know that if it's not supported by the underlying filesystem if falls back to the default. What I don't know is if it's faster to copy than a regular copy on a ram tmpfs - sin…

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    Comment #49140074

    Many people are unaware of a relatively recent method that allows almost instant copies of postgres databases that I use very heavily: CREATE DATABASE new_db TEMPLATE templatedb ST…

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    Comment #48163481

    All I need to know about the project is that the creators didn't read a relatively obscure SciFi book from 2005?

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    Comment #46358690

    Yes, you can do this with hooks: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/hooks

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    Comment #43819461

    I worked for US companies for over a decade, and travelled there multiple times a year. I worked remotely from my home in the UK as a software engineer and and CTO, including as CT…

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    Comment #43695410

    This feels a lot like https://inertiajs.com/ which I've really been enjoying using recently

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    Comment #32725344

    There are economic and regulatory factors involved, it is more complex than people being resistant to change which no doubt makes up part of it. In the UK, for example, automatic c…

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    Comment #27052904

    It sounds like you have some additional constraints that you didn't make clear in your original question. You said, "Tell me how to do something worth doing with ETH and I'll be im…

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    Comment #27030198

    Enzyme | HQ San Francisco, CA | REMOTE Think TurboTax, but for FDA compliance. We’re building a software platform to handle the compliance aspects of running a drug or medical devi…

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    Comment #14331572

    I made a similar tool if you want to output a nicely formatted HTML tutorial: http://github.com/alexspeller/kondiment

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    Comment #13398932

    https://gizmodo.com/262981/this-heated-keyboard-is-the-best-...

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    Comment #10566458

    Assuming that humans will behave rationally is, in itself, quite irrational

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    Comment #9550617

    Why wouldn't this be protected speech under the first amendment? As long as the newspaper believes it to be true, why wouldn't they be allowed to publish it?

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    Comment #9349540

    This seems to be contradicted by this recent article: http://asiancorrespondent.com/125980/thai-immigration-offici...

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    Comment #9267069

    Anyone creating a new Ember.js application today is using babel by default. It works very well in my experience. I haven't used typescript however.

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    Comment #9254293

    They are in other countries. I just did my kit in the UK. https://www.23andme.com/en-gb/

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    Comment #9244670

    "Omniref (YC W15) Is Rap Genius for Code": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8821117

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    Comment #9244669

    "Omniref (YC W15) Is Rap Genius for Code": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8821117

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    Comment #9025154

    Perhaps, perhaps not. You could argue that choosing not to enable data scrubbing was a deliberate decision by DO to place cost savings (simpler / less costly not to scrub SSDs and …

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    Comment #9025115

    Every provider will have security issues occasionally. Including digital ocean: http://venturebeat.com/2014/01/02/digitalocean-fixes-securit...

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    Comment #9024753

    I've found this to be very untrue - digital ocean offers very poor performance per $ compared to linode in my experience. Linode don't have a $5/month option but if you pay $10/mon…

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    Comment #9006251

    > any crypto we use today will be trivially cracked by a cell phone 20 years from now. This is completely false for correctly implemented crypto unless mobile phones of the future …

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    Comment #8986647

    > When is the last time your water pipe had a virus? "From 2005-2006, 20% of US outbreaks of virus and bacteria in water were caused by old, dirty pipes" http://www.premierwatermn.…