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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
You're right, I didn't choose my words well. I should have dropped "career" from the statement and just left "pursuit," something you do in a large part for its own sake. And maybe I should say "It's
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
I agree, but you can apply your second hypothesis to pretty much any pursuit or career. "It's not brilliance that defines a professional artist; it's a willingness to draw constantly for very little compensation." "
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
According to this http://blog.dob.sk/2014/07/23/firefox-31-self-signed-certifi... it's a 3+ month old bug in Firefox's certificate verification code. I used to be able to access my router's c
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
Kinda off topic, but just to add to the TLS error woes, you currently cannot access sites with self-signed certs (such as my router's config panel) at all in Firefox: https://a.pomf.se/zsrlud.png If there are any Moz
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
They did you a solid.
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
Seconding this. I used one for a few years and while I loved the device itself and everything about its interface, it was hampered by the poor software (a reskinned version of Windows Media Player, basically) required to sync anything to it
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
>but as with the browser they're only delivering changes because third-party software innovated them and it's making them look bad. How is that a bad thing? Firefox was kinda stagnant before Chrome came around and took the perf
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
Don't forget Flash and (until recently) PDF reading support.
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
This looks fancy and Web 2.0 and pinteresty and whatnot (and has the page size and CPU requirements to prove it), but it still has the fundamental problem of the old archive.org: it thinks portals are still relevant to the internet. They&#x
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
Popular installer packages include the "you should restart your computer now" dialog purely as boilerplate, you almost never actually need to do so. This is yet another sad case where the "power users" realized something
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
Why? What's the point? NT isn't bad at all, it's just different from POSIX (hell, I can't believe the irony of this statement, but I'm glad that Microsoft is still around to resist the POSIX monoculture ). Neithe
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
The APIs may be annoying (HWND, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, DWORD_PTR dwcsprcadrswtfbbq, NULL, ...) but that backwards compatibility you're suggesting they do away with is pretty much the best thing about Windows. I got so fucking si
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
We kinda already had this with the old segmented memory model. That AMD mostly dropped support for it in x86_64 should tell you something. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_memory_segmentation
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
>I'm misread your post because I'm tired Ok, it's officially past my bedtime.
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
Oops. I haven't worked with ARM in a while, wasn't aware of that. I knew it was simplified a bit (like no more funky barrel-shifter stuff), but I'm kinda surprised they went back to a fixed-length encoding scheme when they&#x
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
>they will tell you that x86's register-starvedness and anisotropic instruction encoding are huge losses. Eh, not sure I buy that. Since at least the Pentium, x86 implementations have had very fast stack variable access compared to
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
EDIT: I'm misread your post because I'm tired, but I'll leave this explanation of -fomit-frame-pointer up anyway. With most architecture+compiler combinations, a register is dedicated to holding the frame pointer, a pointer t
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
Haven't checked but I'm pretty sure the binutils just look for "magic numbers" (ie are the first four bytes "0x7F 'E' 'L' 'F'") and don't look at any filesystem information.
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
>Do you know anybody who makes purchasing decisions based on how high a score a game reviewer gives it? Not personally, but the stories that the press chooses to report absolutely has an effect on purchasing decisions in the aggregate. I
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
I didn't know about that, and I agree, no one deserves to be "doxed." By "forced off the internet," I thought the GP was referring to Phil Fish's regular practice of throwing temper tantrums and "cancellin
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
I feel the same. I don't think I want to post here anymore. I mean, I should have known that it's not worth discussing politics on HN, but there's something really demoralizing about putting sincere and civil comments togethe
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
More examples of the first group, because we could all use a laugh: http://a.pomf.se/vrwobd.png http://a.pomf.se/mdiqol.jpg http://a.pomf.se/jdwkkw.png http://a.pomf.se/brsu
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
Intel pulled advertising from Gamasutra because they directly insulted a customer group that is very important to their brand. Intel didn't cave under pressure, they simply acted rationally to a media outlet committing brand suicide.
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
Another racist man says "hey black person, your opinions are invalid because you've internalized racism. Please, let me, a liberal white man, speak for you."
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
I'd agree if there was just a little more context in the title. Maybe "Hackers Caught on Video with the Kippo Honeypot" or something would be totally unambiguous. Maybe I'm completely fucked in the head or something, b
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
Just to be clear to whoever downvoted me, I was being sincere. I was afraid to click this link until I googled "Kippo," and I assume others are as well or this would have more points by now.
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
You might want to come up with a better name for this article. "Honeypot Video Gallery" sounds like something that you'd be sent to federal prison for clicking.
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
[b][i][o][u]BBCode is just gimped HTML.[/u][/o][/i][/b]
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
The person who wrote this post is the developer of OptiFine, a Minecraft mod that significantly improves and stabilizes performance by optimizing the game at many levels. In order to make it, they absolutely needed to understand the game en
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
>It's only selfish if they had the resources from the beginning which they didn't. As the post mentions, early versions of Minecraft allocated significantly less garbage. You know, the versions programmed by one guy, before the

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