henridf

I needed to quickly encode a protobuf from the command-line, and while I pretty much immediately came across protoc --encode as the obvious solution, I did not find much documentation on the input textual syntax.

Here is the relevant snippet from protoc --help:

--encode=MESSAGE_TYPE       Read a text-format message of the given type
                              from standard input and write it in binary
                              to standard output.  The message type must
                              be defined in PROTO_FILES or their imports.

ryanj

Dual booting Fedora 26 on the Lenovo X1 Carbon (X1C5)

Starting with a freshly-delivered Lenovo X1C5 system:

1. Open the box. Charge the battery
2. Open the lid and complete the basic "getting started / system setup" steps for Windows
3. Install Chrome or Firefox, remove IE from the taskbar, and set a new default browser
4. Create a Fedora installation disk (USB), available at getfedora.org
5. Resize / Shrink your C: drive to create room for Fedora
6. If you have trouble shrinking your Windows volume, try temporarily disabling hibernation, pagefile, and System Protection

rauchg

require-from-twitter

Since Twitter doesn't have an edit button, it's a suitable host for JavaScript modules.

How to use

Source tweet: https://twitter.com/rauchg/status/712799807073419264

const leftPad = await requireFromTwitter('712799807073419264');

renchap

Prerequisites : the letsencrypt CLI tool

This method allows your to generate and renew your Lets Encrypt certificates with 1 command. This is easily automatable to renew each 60 days, as advised.

You need nginx to answer on port 80 on all the domains you want a certificate for. Then you need to serve the challenge used by letsencrypt on /.well-known/acme-challenge. Then we invoke the letsencrypt command, telling the tool to write the challenge files in the directory we used as a root in the nginx configuration.

I redirect all HTTP requests on HTTPS, so my nginx config looks like :

server {

haasn

Firefox bullshit removal

Updated: Just use qutebrowser (and disable javascript). The web is done for.

andreagrandi

package main

import (
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
)

type test_struct struct {
	Test string

staltz

The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

(by @andrestaltz)

---

This tutorial as a series of videos

If you prefer to watch video tutorials with live-coding, then check out this series I recorded with the same contents as in this article: Egghead.io - Introduction to Reactive Programming.

---

guifromrio

This can reduce files to ~15% of their size (2.3M to 345K, in one case) with no obvious degradation of quality.

ghostscript -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/printer -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=output.pdf input.pdf

Other options for PDFSETTINGS:

• /screen selects low-resolution output similar to the Acrobat Distiller "Screen Optimized" setting.
• /ebook selects medium-resolution output similar to the Acrobat Distiller "eBook" setting.
• /printer selects output similar to the Acrobat Distiller "Print Optimized" setting.
• /prepress selects output similar to Acrobat Distiller "Prepress Optimized" setting.

jboner

Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
----------------------------------
L1 cache reference                           0.5 ns
Branch mispredict                            5   ns
L2 cache reference                           7   ns                      14x L1 cache
Mutex lock/unlock                           25   ns
Main memory reference                      100   ns                      20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy             3,000   ns        3 us
Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network       10,000   ns       10 us
Read 4K randomly from SSD*             150,000   ns      150 us          ~1GB/sec SSD

kogakure

*.acn
*.acr
*.alg
*.aux
*.bak
*.bbl
*.bcf
*.blg
*.brf
*.bst