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People are putting their routers in jail to protect themselves from Wi-Fi(theverge.com)
3 points by JDEW 6y ago|0 comments
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by JDEW 6y ago
And if you need _even more_ motivation after reading the above: > Insurers were offering a product that paid you, when you died, the greater of (1) the amount you put in and (2) the return on some risky investment. So he'd buy two o
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by JDEW 6y ago
Two paragraphs down: > Sadly, thanks to the bureaucrats of public service industries, local councils, banks, building societies, _insurance companies_ and government departments, we have learnt to accept an official style of writing that
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by JDEW 6y ago
> For some psychological reason, a thing that looks unfinished gets much higher quality feedback than something that looks polished. Does this really imply “humans are broken”? We all have limited resources and I think this could just be
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by JDEW 6y ago
Yes but competing in a cooperation is different than cooperating in a competition.
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A Decade of Sun(kottke.org)
2 points by JDEW 6y ago|0 comments
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Apple’s new iOS 14 home screen brings Windows Phone Live Tiles back to life(theverge.com)
16 points by JDEW 6y ago|7 comments
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by JDEW 6y ago
> Otherwise, if you ever need to create a sample that contains a single word/syllable, you cant. It is weird how much sound that contains clearly distinguishable syllables for the human ears still is not separable when you go to edi
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by JDEW 6y ago
So the conclusion we should draw is that a well run data center is better than a badly operated cloud?
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DoD Clears Microsoft’s Jedi Contract Award(thurrott.com)
2 points by JDEW 6y ago|0 comments
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Microsoft Teams goes down just as Europe logs on to work remotely(theverge.com)
68 points by JDEW 7y ago|42 comments
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by JDEW 7y ago
Citation needed. Literally two lines later: > But decaying wood and organic material releases carbon back into the air. A climax forest is close to a steady state: The rate at which it removes carbon from the air is roughly equal to the
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by JDEW 7y ago
Well isn’t that the magic of software? The costs to run something flatten out as you increase usage, whereas the licensing costs increase linearly.
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by JDEW 7y ago
You can read NYT articles in a private browser window.
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by JDEW 7y ago
I find it strange that there isn't already some precedent from the supreme court on the right to encrypt under the second amendment. This isn't a new idea [1] and the debate about whether or not encryption is a fundamental right i
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by JDEW 7y ago
I remember this being mentioned in car related articles once in a while, would love to learn more. Any sources you can recommend?
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by JDEW 7y ago
I think the article is already quite concise. Moreover it is nicely written and explains a current open problem in physics from first principles. A summary like this is useful if the underlying article is bloated and clickbait-y but in this
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Microsoft Offers Up to $300k in New Azure Security Lab(securityweek.com)
1 points by JDEW 7y ago|0 comments
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by JDEW 7y ago
> We believe that a highly sophisticated individual was able to exploit a specific configuration vulnerability in our infrastructure. When this was discovered, we immediately addressed the configuration vulnerability and verified there a
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How the Government Will Sell Us the Iran War(gen.medium.com)
3 points by JDEW 7y ago|0 comments
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by JDEW 8y ago
If anything should be regulated it's ethical hacking and security research. Having a bug bounty program that is accountable to some government agency should be mandatory for every single enterprise that does some form of development an
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by JDEW 8y ago
Are you referring to the Gell-Mann amnesia effect? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect