Afforess

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by Afforess 12y ago
I think this is why I enjoy working on FOSS projects a lot. At the end of the day, it is really great to interact with users and know you improved someone else's day, even a little bit.
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by Afforess 12y ago
You missed the 3rd reason for this. Calls to /dev/urandom can not block, so it a script or program requests random bytes before entropy has been set up, it can get back bad random bytes. The new system call getrandoms does block,
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by Afforess 12y ago
Caveat emptor. A rule of thumb I learned from my parents long ago is when you see something you want to have, wait two weeks. If you still want it in two weeks, and can afford it, then buy it. I suspect a little bit of waiting and research
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by Afforess 12y ago
Paypal has great customer support if you are a consumer, it is only sellers that have issues. And usually it is because someone thinks it is a good idea to use Paypal as a donation processor (which it is NOT meant for) and are surprised whe
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by Afforess 12y ago
Why wouldn't it be true? $5000 was as useless as $0 would be, as they needed $24000 to cover fuel expenses for the next week. So if he lost the gamble, there would be no change in ultimate outcome.
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by Afforess 12y ago
Mirror zipped archive of all 39 IRC logs from the OP's link: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/49805/desert-storm.7z
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by Afforess 12y ago
It reminds me of 1984, where the party is perpetually rewriting history to fit their narrative. This is it, history is being rewritten. He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past
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by Afforess 12y ago
Desalination has a fixed energy cost that can't be "innovated" away. It requires at minimum, 1kwH/m^3, in a completely 100% energy efficient system (such a perfect system does not exist). That is the base energy required
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by Afforess 12y ago
Super-expensive and massive energy requirements. Its the least efficient way to produce water. Also produces brine-salt waste which is nasty to process or dispose of. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desalination#Considerat
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by Afforess 12y ago
Or a much more likely: strong AI isn't possible.
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by Afforess 12y ago
How is this any different than what, say, Apple does? Even Google is onboard the closed "experience" these days.
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by Afforess 12y ago
No wonder Google lets many services languish. With a system of promotion based on launches of new products/services/features there is no personal incentive to make things work long term. It seems like the person who redesigns the
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by Afforess 12y ago
There is no evidence Saturated fat is bad.
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by Afforess 12y ago
BPA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisphenol_A Bisphenol A is in a lot of plastics (See: Polycarbonate), including soda drinks, and leeches into the drinks themselves in small amounts. BPA exhibits "Estrogenicity&q
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by Afforess 12y ago
I avoid Crucial SSDs like the plague. They shipped the M4 and similar models with a firmware bug that causes the drive to stop working after 5000 hours of power on time: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Crucial-m4-Firmw
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by Afforess 12y ago
From the article: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=309073.0
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by Afforess 12y ago
Libel is nearly impossible to act upon in the USA. Thank you, first amendment.
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by Afforess 12y ago
I have never seen Sun or Oracle make that claim. You seem to simply be ranting on about a strawman argument, with a rather strange java-hate obsession. I mean, Fortran did worse than Java. Where is your writeup for that?
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by Afforess 12y ago
I would if I could, but my home IP would get banned from many of the forums I frequent. I know a lot of forum websites now auto-ban tor exit node IPs.
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by Afforess 12y ago
If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed
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by Afforess 12y ago
Check the revenues, the stock price is meaningless.
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by Afforess 12y ago
I disagree. TrueCrypt (for better or for worse) made encryption available to the masses in an easy to use application. Without it, similar level of encryption requires knowledge of unix command line or expensive commercial products. The eve
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by Afforess 12y ago
Clearly the fines are too low. Tripling the fines would defeat the economics of the freeloaders little group: Last year, the group took in more than twice as much money — more than $7,500 per month — as it paid out in fines, organizers sai
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by Afforess 12y ago
This isn't a github problem, git lets you set your user.name and user.email as anything you like. In addition, you can rebase and rewrite the history to change former commits to be from whomever you like. It's a feature, not a bug
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by Afforess 12y ago
Ha. Your naiveté is cute. This deal is all about buying out the competition. It's not about streaming. Youtube could have streaming if they wanted to, without the 1B.
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by Afforess 12y ago
Scraping isn't a crime, but by the same token, neither is rate limiting and banning ips.
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by Afforess 12y ago
How true is this? Bullshit. Sure, it's secure from a front-door perspective. But if say, a future unpatched software vulnerability leads to the password hashes being leaked (a when, not an if) the 6 letter password hashes are going to
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by Afforess 12y ago
I've bought exactly one thing, a laptop computer internal fan that had died in a cheap laptop I had. I had the choice of ebay or alibaba and I don't trust ebay merchants these days. Not much to say. Shipping overseas is slow. I wo
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by Afforess 12y ago
There is no way we can be certain this "second" part to the leak is actually even a legitimate followup to the first leak (assuming the first leak was legitimate). In the future, if a leaker wants to be able to prove a future anon
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by Afforess 12y ago
Nginx has an Ubuntu PPA. http://wiki.nginx.org/Install#Ubuntu_PPA

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