IvyMike

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by IvyMike 11y ago
Doctor shopping usually means going to multiple doctors and keeping them in the dark about each other. Whether or not you agree this should be a crime (see UnoriginalGuy's comments), current laws do make this a crime. And it's h
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by IvyMike 11y ago
Here's an article from almost 20 years ago, about the possibility of using roadside pollution detection to identify these bad vehicles: http://www.cnn.com/TECH/9605/27/emissions/
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by IvyMike 11y ago
No. Let me try restating one sentence. "That's the first possible date you should see a news story or otherwise notice a cluster of events around the world as sysadmins everywhere inadvertently synchronized their systems by reboot
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by IvyMike 11y ago
For those who aren't catching the "May 1 + 248 days" reference: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/05/01/boe...
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by IvyMike 11y ago
> the founders use the word lossless themselves. Where? (I probably just missed it but I don't see it.)
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by IvyMike 12y ago
I agree. But what I'm saying is that the Turing machine should not be connected to a gun. And being hooked up to an idle gun should not be the default for every program.
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by IvyMike 12y ago
"It may be possible for such an attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running file(1)." This is what I am saying...given the right input, file(1) could do anything and everything. Yes, it's only
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by IvyMike 12y ago
I think DasIch is saying "why allow file(1) to open sockets, write to arbitrary files, and run external programs"? Given the correct input, at least a month ago, it could do all of those things. (I am not sure that attempting to e
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by IvyMike 12y ago
Nowadays, most of them do. Romney had the funky R that you probably forgot about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitt_Romney_presidential_campa...
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by IvyMike 12y ago
* I upvote articles I read and liked. * I basically never flag anything because it's not clear what "flag" means. I mean, I can make a good guess, but who knows if I understand the nuance. Is there a guideline somewhere? *
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by IvyMike 12y ago
Anecdotal, but a friend of a friend talked with Meyers, and Meyers said he has not worked on any large scale C++ programs in a while. That being said, I have worked on large scale C++ projects, with a lot of people smarter than me, and the
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by IvyMike 12y ago
> If one of the guitarists was consistently 50ms off, you would notice it. The best movie about this, ever: https://youtu.be/VnuImW1dWAk
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by IvyMike 12y ago
While I applaud Google for killing these extensions, I'm pretty disappointed that they let things get this bad in the first place.
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by IvyMike 12y ago
> Moxies point of concern with regard to requiring a heavier CPU and memory commitment on the server is still valid, particularly when faced with malicious traffic.h How about this: Save two hashes, one low cost, one high cost--both must
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by IvyMike 12y ago
A friend I knew pledged an MIT frat in the 80's. The upperclassmen realized that you could get goat heads for like 50 cents a pound at one of the local stores. For one of their hazing pranks, they gave each pledge a goat head and ins
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by IvyMike 12y ago
PIA has never done me wrong, it's cheap, they support a ton of VPN protocols and OSes, multiple simultaneous clients (up to 5?), and at least one of the guys who runs it is a HN regular. More in this thread: https://news.yco
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by IvyMike 12y ago
Possibly related: http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/21/us/brooklyn-fire-children-kill... TL;DR: Tragic fire caused by a hot plate left on overnight so that it could be used to warm food on the Sabbath.
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by IvyMike 12y ago
I always kinda wonder how much wiggle it has. I mean, like, if you bounce off a wall, how much does the thing vibrate?
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by IvyMike 12y ago
To explain the issue: sea ice floats, is thin, is seasonal, and correlates to wind speeds since it is mostly just the top of the ocean freezing due to evaporation. But sea ice does not really matter if you care about sea level. Ice cubes m
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by IvyMike 12y ago
> What do you think caused the downfall of adventure games in the '90s? I think 90's era adventure games are looked at with rose colored glasses. A lot of the time, these games were non-intuitive and won thru repetition (&quot
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by IvyMike 12y ago
Note that women characters in D&D did, at certain points in the evolution of the rules, did have modifications so that their stats differed from male characters. https://medium.com/@increment/the-first-female-gamers
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by IvyMike 12y ago
Note that this telescope has sorta been in 'competition' with the Thirty Meter Telescope--they're similar technologies being used and they even use basically the same hexagonal submirrors. It will be interesting to see who se
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by IvyMike 12y ago
> I haven't heard many alternatives (in general). From tptacek's FAQ ( http://sockpuppet.org/stuff/dnssec-qa.html ): > What’s the alternative to DNSSEC? > Do nothing. The DNS does not urgently need t
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by IvyMike 12y ago
I'd like to see earlier versions of the canary. Because December 2014 is when they (supposedly accidentally) stopped updating their canary for a bit. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8796307 (Also: hey CanaryWatc
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by IvyMike 12y ago
Weird... after I opened a file using the "Media->Open File" menu item, it started appearing. (It now works even in cases where I open a file by double-clicking on it. Strange) In any case, awesome!
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by IvyMike 12y ago
I'm probably doing something stupid, but on I can't seem to get the "Resume playback where you left off." feature to work on Windows. Is there an option somewhere I need to enable?
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by IvyMike 12y ago
No idea, but they recently shut down their public software mirrors, too: http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/
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by IvyMike 12y ago
> The original motivation for this was that the product team was being asked, “Can we do something to improve our consumer experience?” [...] The motivation was to enhance the experience. This nonsense could have been addressed with one
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by IvyMike 12y ago
Looks like it's probably this bug, which (to my reading) was a problem handling domain cookies: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=950399 This would of course affect any site, but the two common instances wer
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by IvyMike 12y ago
May I ask why the downvote? My speculation may or may not be correct, but despite @brandonmenc's objection, I still think it's a possible factor. It certainly matches the attitudes of my relatives and other adults when I was a c

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