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seems like the issue isn't with using git as a database, but using github as a distribution mechanism?
Re:Firefox 143 for Android to introduce DoH on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @11:49AM (#45277293)
the browser, being the originator of these DNS queries, already knows what website you are visiting.
Re:DuckDB NPM packages 1.3.3 and 1.29.2 compromised with malware on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @07:51PM (#45191180)
not being a native English speaker, I actually do this all the time
Re:TIL: timeout in Bash scripts on Monday May 26, 2025 @10:37PM (#44103489)
I've written something 13 years ago using `read -t` https://github.com/kahing/bin/blob/master/timeout.sh
Re:GNU Screen 5.0 Released on Thursday August 29, 2024 @11:32AM (#41391863)
I map mine to C^] which I find to be a good balance between easy to type and not conflicting with other tools
> Jail for executives who approve or have knowledge of illegal activities sounds good to me.

I suspect one possible outcome is many people wouldn't want to take the risk to become an executive, and the percentage of executives who wouldn't mind taking risks of going to jail will increase, which is not a desirable outcome.

Re:The File Filesystem (2021) on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @05:39PM (#40216686)
does it have to be fuse? cant you mount a disk image with loopback
Reference?
Where do you get $100/flight deals? Also you need to account for lodging during the week
Re:Pidgin: The Universal Chat Client on Friday March 25, 2022 @06:31PM (#30807627)
Hi chipx86! I remember "Gaim's An Instant Messenger" used to be on the old website but either google or my memory is failing me.
from the article, google isn't lowering anyone's existing pay, but is lowering future new stock grants
Re:Upgrading Executable on the Fly on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @09:21PM (#29804171)
poked around a bit of that from a previous job, here's what I remember:

1. there's a control process and worker processes

2. on upgrade, control process launches new worker processes from the new binary

3. requests are drained from old worker processes

4. most of the time nginx request handlers allocate from a per-request allocation pool, so requests mostly don't share memory

5. for the cases where there are global states, there's a separate shared memory pool that you need to allocate from (which is kind of hard to work if you are not using built-in nginx primitives)

with most people working from home, not sure if this heuristic works.

disclaimer: works for databricks, but not on spark, and first time posting in this thread

Re:Twitter Blue is now available in the US and NZ on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @01:35PM (#29165505)
This came from an acquisition of scroll, which used to allow browsing partner websites without ads. Twitter Blue seems to require that we visit those sites from a tweet, which is a degraded functionality
Re:Ask HN: Who's not sucky to work for? on Thursday November 04, 2021 @01:20AM (#29103842)
> At a big company, everyone is spending someone else's money and the people at the top realize they can't (and shouldn't!) change course every 3 mo.

tell that to the google messaging teams :-D

Re:Facebook under fire over secret teen research on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @08:02PM (#28546123)
I think the alternative would not be that teenagers would not have social media accounts, but that they would all be on Tiktok (which probably is already the case)
Re:Hong Kong: Police Raid Tiananmen Square Museum on Thursday September 09, 2021 @05:43PM (#28475023)
and 5000 years of dictator rule, not sure what you are trying to say
Re:Welcoming our first riders in San Francisco on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @01:41PM (#28292345)
you automatically charge $500 to the passanger's credit card, and self-drive back to the depot to be cleaned
Re:What Does My Site Cost? on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @02:44PM (#27764437)
google fi busted through GFW when I last went there in 2017
Re:FUSE-based file system to inject faults on Thursday July 01, 2021 @04:19PM (#27704216)
note that LD_PRELOAD doesn't work for things written in Go because they have their make their own syscalls instead of going through glibc
Re:Improving Firefox stability on Linux on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @04:22PM (#27213992)
does it work on ubuntu?
Re:Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @03:31PM (#27134244)
All I want to know is: is this going to make google docs on firefox faster or slower?
According to https://waterfootprint.org/en/water-footprint/product-water-... , beef has a ~50x water footprint compared to vegetable.

It's hard to understand what "99% less impact on water scarcity" means but surely beyond meat can't use less water than vegetables? (since beyond meat is plant based)

Re:Why A.I. Moonshots Miss on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @12:54PM (#27039722)
> Sort of like we already have flying cars. They're called "helicopters".

you cannot drive helicopters on the road, they are flying but not cars

This is how Google Assistant works on Android TV
Is there something equivalent for the US that people recommend?
if you have more passengers, you will also have more cost to service these passengers per trip.
Re:Amazon workers vote against unionizing in Alabama on Friday April 09, 2021 @05:08PM (#26756204)
is it different from manufacturing work or work in service industry?
people's time is not unlimited. If a customer uses multiple services, it increases the chance that they may drop netflix. I know people who have kids and signed up for disney+, and then a few months later dropped netflix because they don't have time for both.

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