That also means a git repo can get a bit bloaty, should a repository be very old and/or active.

There's pros and cons to each approach.

It's not that simple...

The metal contracts as it cools. You have to scale up the model to compensate, and that takes knowledge you don't generally get without working with casting a LOT.

To make things interesting, the amount of scaling that's required changes based on the metal/alloy being used, and the -shape- of the object at that given area.

Damn, that was well written.

I think it's a bit funny (and appropriate?) that the Japanese song sounds (to my ear) so much like a Vocaloid. That said, to someone that doesn't speak the language a well-written bit of singing from one of those sounds pretty damn good.

Keep in mind a file with 755 will be examined and run based on the magic number at the front of the file.

Even shell scripts. #! is actually a 16-bit magic number, that also happens to be a comment in almost every scripting language.

Go ahead - chmod +x a random non-executable file and try to run it. You'll probably get something enligthening: "invalid file (bad magic number): Exec format error"

Because a proper user is going to run iterm2 after logging in and never touch finder again...

That's the fault of your file browser.

In all of these cases that's true - it's not Windows or OSX doing it, but Explorer or Finder (or thunar or whatever you're using on Mint)

You could theoretically do some packet inspection on the handshake and send a spoofed RST if you see something during the exchange you don't like.

I've only ever dug into the certificate exchange portion of the handshake. I'm assuming the cipher negotiation is also in the clear.

Sure, if there's a competitive reason to do so.

After all, they do the same for power/data/audio connectors too. (or at least they did.. *cough*nokia*cough* )

So... someone started a really big Civ V game. This is hardly news, even for nerds.

Not if it's integral.

I've heard this too, though on mine it was only audible when amplified to absurd levels (well, relatively).

Have you ever had a computer that made odd sounds though the speakers when you move the mouse cursor? In my case, it was a very similar sound. Again, quiet - but if you have it loud enough or it's otherwise quiet enough, you can hear it.

I believe this was a Sansa e200r. It didn't have an SD card, but flash memory - in either case still a lot of digital signaling.

Nope, because the image data is already pulled from the CCD and has undergone some minimal processing before writes to the SD card start to happen, so I don't expect RFI from the SD card circuits to matter.

SD cards are commonly used in handheld recorders, in very close proximity to some sensitive condenser microphones.

Maybe I'm lucky and mine is just quiet - I don't hear any noise even when I record at 96khz and play at 11khz... but I can certainly see this having an affect.

... derp, I was thinking of adblock. No idea if adaway works.

Doesn't work on kitkat, even rooted.