AnonymousPlanet

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by AnonymousPlanet 10y ago
More interesting is the moment when this future is more evenly distributed and the technology is so cheap that we have animated decorations on toilet paper.
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by AnonymousPlanet 10y ago
So they are to be scoffed at because too many people like them for the wrong reasons? That attitude reminds me a bit of those people who will dismiss everyone they see with a macbook as a whimsical hipster who is easily persuaded by shiny
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by AnonymousPlanet 10y ago
It's hard to read between the lines, especially from afar, but their motivation to put a positive spin on it could also be political. The phrase "a recent, abstruse change in the parking rules" caught my eye. Maybe they are u
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by AnonymousPlanet 10y ago
This annoys me to no end. It basically means that you can retroactively censor content by buying a domain that was parked for 10 years and then remove the old content with one little robots.txt. All of this regardless of the wishes of the o
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by AnonymousPlanet 11y ago
I really don't know why people hate Unity so much. If you don't want to be stuck in the last decade, regarding desktop workflow (Mate, XFCE, etc.), and if you want to actually use a mouse, your options are basically Unity, KDE, Gn
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by AnonymousPlanet 11y ago
It also reminds me of the "Stealing the Network" book series. Every chapter was written by a notable IT security person and features real technology and techniques. At times it reads like Phrack or the hacking account of Phineas F
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by AnonymousPlanet 11y ago
What do you mean by "real keyboard"?
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by AnonymousPlanet 11y ago
Judging by how this thread exploded, the discussion has shifted towards a standoff between two other groups. On one side IDE users shaking their heads at what they experience as a backward mindedness and on the other side Emacs/Vim&#x2
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by AnonymousPlanet 11y ago
> But kind of easy-to-guess once you have used Windows for a while. Um, no. Just line swapping is different across IDEs. The same is true for other advanced editing moves. We're not merely talking about feature set Notepad or some r
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by AnonymousPlanet 11y ago
I'm not talking about superficial usage like that. I'm talking about productivity boosts like multiline edits, line swapping, cursor jumping over blocks, and more advanced tricks. Also about where to do all those little tweaks to
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by AnonymousPlanet 11y ago
I disagree. VS, Clion, Eclipse etc. have very different key bindings and differ significantly in the way projects are set up and regarding underlying build mechanisms. These are all things you need to learn to be proficient with a tool. Onc
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by AnonymousPlanet 11y ago
Each task has its own tools. You seem to have been using Emacs as surrogate for a certain IDE experience known to you. An IDE is a tool that has been carefully geared toward a certain domain and workflow. Like an office suite, it provides e
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by AnonymousPlanet 11y ago
It is not enough for a cyberpunk action movie. The consequences for society are chilling, however. Picture a society in which everyone has even more reason to behave and live in a certain way just so they don't get misjudged by some al
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by AnonymousPlanet 11y ago
> What? It sounds like the problem is they didn't have enough information about you. That is part of my point. It will never be perfect, but perfect enough to get a benefit for businesses. If this leaves you as part of a small perce
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by AnonymousPlanet 11y ago
That has everything to do with data collections. It won't always be something obvious as poor zip codes. When data of many people is collected it enables the establishment of certain behavioural types. Then when you come along with the
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by AnonymousPlanet 11y ago
I will answer you with a lengthy anecdote. A couple of years ago I wanted to buy something from a popular online shop. The shop offered various payment options. I won't bother with details, so let's make it simple: option A was no
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by AnonymousPlanet 11y ago
Bingo! It is about keeping the money inside the country. It's not just the US. The German authorities even went so far as to offer and pay money to whistleblowers/thieves with CDs full of customer names. It looks like an economic
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by AnonymousPlanet 11y ago
> You'll rarely ever see factories, managers, private variables, explicit inheritance, or any other flagship OO mechanisms in pseudocode. Because they are implementation details that have no place in pseudocode. Their absence there
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by AnonymousPlanet 11y ago
As one of those people who have used pseudocode in papers, I have to disagree. In a scientific paper, you describe what you have in mind using mathematical definitions. This makes it easier to reason about (proofs) and to describe it in an
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by AnonymousPlanet 11y ago
You seem to easily shrug off your conclusion. But it makes me shiver to think about that future. If advertising is dead, what else is Google going to do with all that data it has on us? Sell to the highest bidder?
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by AnonymousPlanet 11y ago
See? They're not evil at all! It's just like Microsoft. Opensourcing stuff proves they are good now. They're going to be the organisation we all love. You'll see. /s
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by AnonymousPlanet 11y ago
Is there any kind of proper formal definition for the algorithm? The linked paper is a bit unstructured in this regard and seems a bit implementation focussed.
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by AnonymousPlanet 11y ago
That was my first thought aswell. One of the main takeaways from this is that Kaspersky Labs was probably compromised. Or at least there was an attempt. And the attacker is related to Stuxnet in some way. At least according to Kaspersky Lab
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by AnonymousPlanet 12y ago
It is possible that you are under a false impression here. Factors for this might be the availability of news reports about crashes (e.g. you just didn't get to know about all those crashes in, say, Africa in the 90s) or an increase of
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by AnonymousPlanet 12y ago
I would have to tell my phone not to believe everything some house computer (on Earth or Bespin) tells it. At least with USB, my phone is less likely to mistake the power plug for the data plug, because it's all the same.
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by AnonymousPlanet 12y ago
Wiretaps conducted by the FBI apply to installations in the US. Let's say I'm a dissident in my own (not the USA) country. An FBI wiretap does not compromise me wrt. my own government. Tampering with Tor on a large scale, however,
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by AnonymousPlanet 12y ago
Ok, since we're kind of nitpicking over the word "nation": what do you suppose was the Holy Roman Empire of German Nation? I'm aware that you were referring to the idea of a nation as it was established around the time o