Chlorus

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by Chlorus 10y ago
You realize motherboards had shitty integrated graphics long before Intel decided to put them on-die? How did they slow down the PC upgrade cycle?
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by Chlorus 10y ago
Not as horrifying as someone installing a build script without reviewing it first...
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by Chlorus 11y ago
And I'm sure it has nothing to do with the urban growth boundary or increasingly restrictive land-use regulations.
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by Chlorus 11y ago
> Seems more like a failing of our society to recognize the importance of relationships. I'd argue this is especially true in the US where we obsess over careers and monetary wealth much more than we emphasize the importance of frie
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by Chlorus 11y ago
> You do need to use an IP address from a non-dialup pool, i.e. rent a VPS or a dedicated server at an ISP At which point you're back to trusting a third-party to not mess with your data.
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by Chlorus 11y ago
Except it isn't. By this standard, book publishers would have to go pound sand if libraries started giving away infinitely many copies of their book.
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by Chlorus 11y ago
Well, the theme of the comments is: if google adds protection against certain adversaries (coffee shop wifi, MITMs, etc) via stricter TLS, but not all adversaries (nation-state attackers) via end-to-end, then the former protection is useles
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by Chlorus 11y ago
>" It's not hard, it's not expensive and it's not a lot of work to maintain either" Who wants to bet this guy is unwittingly hosting an open relay and sending spam?
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by Chlorus 11y ago
> (And Americans are spectacularly bad at learning from history because exceptionalism) Because the union scandals of the 60s and 70s never happened, of course.
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by Chlorus 11y ago
> But then the industry might need to admit their collars aren't as white as they pretend. You're fucking insane if you think the plight of the average programmer is anywhere near what custodians go through. I used to work for
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by Chlorus 11y ago
Wait, is that _the_ James Mickens? https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1309_14-17_mickens.pdf
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by Chlorus 11y ago
Honest question: Why wouldn't SFTP work for this use case? Most decent FTP clients I know also do SFTP. Is the encryption overhead non-trivial?
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by Chlorus 11y ago
Where is he/she suggesting replacing FTP with Dropbox? > (this is why passive mode was added) Did you not read their entire section on the problems with passive mode? I'm glad it works for your use cases, but for many of us, R
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by Chlorus 11y ago
> and it has few walkable neighborhoods. Who doesn't want to walk in 120 degree heat?
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by Chlorus 11y ago
Welcome to HN, where 'classical antiquity' is modern.
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by Chlorus 11y ago
You might want to rethink the word 'modern', unless you consider the grain riots of the Roman Republic ~2000 years ago 'modern'
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by Chlorus 11y ago
Those damn lawyers! It's almost as if Congress' job involves laws, or something!
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by Chlorus 11y ago
I'll bite: What happens to the poor when the inhumane supply chain that has sustained them (albeit poorly) goes away? Also, a googler complaining about slave-labor prices is rich with irony.
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by Chlorus 11y ago
But how could they lose?! Hyperlinks subvert hierarchy! The triumphal tone throughout indicates there's clearly no stopping the cluetrain; it's obviously inevitable.
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Deposing Tim Cook(washingtonpost.com)
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by Chlorus 11y ago
Whoa[0] there[1], slow[2] down[3] son! You don't have footnotes for the rest of the common words in that sentence! What is a 'game'? Or 'score'? Or 'rogue' 'like'? [0] https://en.wikti
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by Chlorus 11y ago
> and email clients support folders and filters if you want that instead. Because who doesn't like mucking around with their client's filtering?
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by Chlorus 11y ago
"It irritates me that people think their time is so valuable they are unwilling to do life's most basic tasks, and to properly manage their lives so they aren't constantly in instant-need all the time and reaching for their p
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by Chlorus 11y ago
Here are some other entries on that page so you can tell how seriously you should take that list: "LAMP system” "Content" "Compensation" "Creator"
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by Chlorus 11y ago
Ditto, people seem to say the same things about bread that people said about wine & high-end audio equipment. Some actual empirical research would be nice...
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by Chlorus 11y ago
I understand now, thank you.
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by Chlorus 11y ago
And sure enough, the formally-respectable tabloid known as Ars takes the bait: http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/10/its-official-bacon-ho...
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by Chlorus 11y ago
"That's why our IT dept has to vet every update now; some of them break your machine." Uh, what? That's what your IT dept should have been doing from day one. Are they also in the habit of just immediately applying kerne
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by Chlorus 11y ago
Website idea: "Medium, but for rich techies sharing life lessons" ~ https://twitter.com/BenedictEvans/status/653305844931493890
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by Chlorus 11y ago
"A good solution to identification would be a central state operated database. But it would have to be backed by strong laws defining what it can be used for with no loopholes, not even for police of "national security", and

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