Borealid

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by Borealid 9y ago
We punish for dissuasion. Some who would break the law in the absence of punishment will "choose" (however one wants to interpret that word in a fully deterministic world) not to do so because of the possibility and cost of punish
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by Borealid 9y ago
This neglects the fact that IP imposes a fixed per-packet overhead. More packets means lower efficiency. Using larger packets reduces the overhead as a percentage of traffic, so is desirable regardless of the TCP window size. Higher effici
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by Borealid 9y ago
Shouldn't we take a moment to consider the irony of monetizing a video promoting anti-capitalist philosophy?
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by Borealid 9y ago
There is something I don't understand about this whole debate: why is it considered a "search" of a phone when data is decrypted or exfiltrated? If one "searches" a safe, and finds inside a paper with some random ch
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by Borealid 9y ago
This argument assumes the older children share the parents' goals. If the children are assumed to possess free will, it is possible that the older ones' actions could result in an increase in the amount of work for the parent as t
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by Borealid 9y ago
A 2TB SSD costs around 400-500USD. That's not exactly out of the realm of possibility for a small office.
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by Borealid 9y ago
I don't understand what value the prose provides over spending the same amount of effort producing clear, easy to read infographics. Instead of producing awkward and difficult-to-read English sentences, why not use the same content gen
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by Borealid 10y ago
> While true from a local perspective (how many actions can you perform over this snapshot of the code), you're missing the systemic point of view. > Every time someone adds an additional constraint over their released copy of th
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by Borealid 10y ago
There's a dichotomy here. What you term "protective" here (GPL-style copyleft licenses) actually impose a greater number of restrictions on the person who obtains code under them: specifically, they lose the ability to distri
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by Borealid 10y ago
I feel obligated to point out that: 1. my phone has a 200GB microSD card in it right now 2. 256GB microSD cards are readily available 3. phones with two microSD cards are available 4. I can easily purchase a 4TB hard drive that is roughly t
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by Borealid 11y ago
I wish more people knew about rollernet.us . They're incredibly excellent as an email service provider for technical users.
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by Borealid 11y ago
One time I had MIT Kerberos installed. The /etc/krb5.conf file had been edited. The dist-upgrade included an upgrade of the mit-krb5 RPMs. One of those RPMs had a %postinstall that ran a sed command on the krb5.conf, to try to cha
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by Borealid 12y ago
Do you mean like httrack ( http://httrack.com )? If you're talking about the source for dynamic pages, you can use any file copier like rsync. But httrack is your go-to if you're just talking about downloading a web si
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by Borealid 12y ago
A lawyerly reading still permits echo to qualify as a special built-in utility. Two relevant excerpts: "The following "special built-in" utilities shall be supported in the shell command language ..." "... The term
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by Borealid 12y ago
Quoting from your post: "If the command name matches the name of a special built-in utility, that special built-in utility shall be invoked." Let echo be a "special built-in utility", and sh is compliant.