Erwin

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by Erwin 9y ago
So does USA have free speech, given laws like this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threatening_the_President_of_t...
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by Erwin 9y ago
This seems like a long-standing country-specific societal problem to me: > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.
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by Erwin 9y ago
The Danish hostmaster as http://dk configured with an A record. I noticed Google uses just "go/XXXX" internally as an URL (no dots!). So their internal DNS server must respond to just "go", or maybe ther
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by Erwin 9y ago
I had a similar idea but my target was a Python application, that was parsing text to create a complex in-memory object tree with tens of thousands of objects. The idea was that the individual elements were not always fully accessed when th
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A Swedish rail line now scans microchip implants in addition to tickets(nordic.businessinsider.com)
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by Erwin 9y ago
Some years ago security reviews asked whether you have removed all the C compilers from your production systems for similar reasons. But now, even bash has an optional TCP socket support, or you might have netcat installed etc, assuming tha
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by Erwin 9y ago
Strangely, "lokum" is a Danish synonym for toilet, deriving from the Latin "locus" (place). No other language have this meaning for the word that I know of -- it makes this discussion rather amusing.
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by Erwin 9y ago
Well, in America. Data protection in EU is stronger and only getting stronger with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regula... which will target EU citizen data stored worldwide.
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by Erwin 9y ago
Telmore's web page was confusing up until today, but my "Telmore Play" with 25 GB included has 8 GB of it usable in EU. Apparently there's a complex "fair usage" formula that is allegedly EU mandated: > EU D
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by Erwin 9y ago
If your nostalgia makes you yearn for this type of game with relatively limited choices, the "80 days" game (perfect for the iPad but now also PC/android) is fantastic: it's a Steampunk twist on the Vernes story (so rock
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by Erwin 9y ago
Some major medicinal companies here in socialist Denmark are: Novo -- focusing on diabetes; about 15,000 employees in Denmark: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novo_Nordisk Novozymes -- enzymes; about 6,500 employees in D
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by Erwin 9y ago
Poland had a similar monthly magazine ( https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C5%82ody_Technik ) I wondered whether it was inspired by the USSR one but it dated back to 1932. Being able to read about RSA -- and calculate it
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by Erwin 9y ago
Is that a C64 boot screen mousemat? Cool.
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by Erwin 9y ago
Curiosly the capability of the x86 MOV is such that you can compile C code to only MOV instructions: https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/movfuscator Inspired by this paper about Turing-completeness of MOV: http:/&#
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by Erwin 10y ago
Do you know of any known public example of someone who has actually done that? This seems advise similar to eating 6 portions vegetables a day: everyone says it's critical, nobody is doing it. In all the cases of Amazon and Google Clo
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by Erwin 10y ago
Hopefully that's a sufficient well-known trick to be aware of, given its appearance in 1997's "Fifth Element": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nah_3vO0uhM -- Matthieu Kassovitz as the low-tech robber try
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by Erwin 10y ago
This might benefit from SQLite's Virtual tables: https://sqlite.org/vtab.html With Virtual Tables you can expose any data source as a SQLite table -- then you can use every SQL feature that sqlite offers. You can just
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by Erwin 10y ago
Well, you cannot use a mutable object as a key without some help. What would you expect to happen if the object is modified after being inserted into the dictionary? If you have a list or dictionary you want to use a key, you can convert it
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by Erwin 10y ago
I saw the same thing with China. We have something hosted on IBM Softlayer in HKG that takes a detour through LA. Apparently all China traffic for Cloudflare must go through LA and that's just now China works, we were told.
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by Erwin 10y ago
After all this time the HEAD~ syntax has suddenly started making sense to me -- this is the syntax for backup files in vim, so HEAD~ is the "backup" i.e. previous version of HEAD.
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by Erwin 10y ago
I had a chuckle at Joey calling @ "a bagel". I guess that's a New York thing. Over here we call them "elephant-trunk-A" (interestingly elephant symbols are quite common here in e.g. royal/government coats of ar
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by Erwin 10y ago
It generates SIGINFO on BSD. Which is even more useful and lets long running programs display progress of their choosing. E.g. how far has this big file copy come along? On Linux, some programs (e.g. dd) actually do the same in SIGUSR1. I
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by Erwin 10y ago
I can only say that tax cases that go just to the lowest court instance in Denmark can take years to complete. Here's the most recent tax related cases I could find: http://www.skat.dk/SKAT.aspx?oId=2232974&vId=0 T
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by Erwin 10y ago
Cases like that often appear when EU country does something that's consider a subsidy. A criteria is selective enforcement/favoritising of one company. If Ireland said: come to Ireland and pay 0.005% corporate tax, that would be f
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by Erwin 10y ago
I love that solid hardware. It reminds me of this unique Xbox game that came with an extremely large controller: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel_Battalion -- 2 joysticks and 40 buttons. $200 for the game and contro
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by Erwin 10y ago
Just how do you "fix a segfault" in your page? Do you immediately replicate the user's exact computing environment, all down to the specific operating system and perhaps browser plugins which might contribute, install a speci
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by Erwin 10y ago
Google's SDCH is kind of that, but each website can in advance decide what the contents of the shared dictionary are. So when you download a SDCH compressed page you may also download a dictionary. Information and experiences with usag
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by Erwin 10y ago
A Humble Bundle is a last-ditch effort to sell an old game -- appealing to hoarders for the company to gain some publicity (as some just give all to chaity). The last "2K" bundle had $360 worth of games -- for $8.97 and only a sma
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by Erwin 10y ago
Cheaper, a simple locker system (nicely AirBnb theme). When renting, you get a code via text, enter it and a small locker opens up with the key. When done, you can deposit the keys in there. You could even put up a computer next to it wher
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by Erwin 10y ago
You can check your configuration afterwards using this tool: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/ For command line, this his nice: https://github.com/iSECPartners/sslyze

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