Kadin

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by Kadin 11y ago
It's also subjective to the point of being a useless descriptor. One person's "beautiful" is another person's "terrible waste of precious screen real estate". It's fine if "beautiful" is a
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by Kadin 11y ago
I think the key difference is "10 years ago"; Debian Stable today is a much more pleasant experience than Debian Stable a decade ago. I haven't used Arch so I can't comment there, but there's been a lot of improvem
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by Kadin 11y ago
I would also be very interested in reading the details on your project. Look forward to seeing it on HN.
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by Kadin 11y ago
Yeah I would really like to see the Raspberry series integrate that feature.
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by Kadin 11y ago
I'd argue that Google implemented it because they don't want their product to be implicated in a high-profile attack; if someone disappeared because their Gmail credentials were phished, it could easily blow back on Google and con
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by Kadin 11y ago
True. Although if you run it daily, you'll have multiple opportunities for the renewal to go through before it actually expires. It'll survive a couple of unsuccessful tries in the default/recommended configuration, at leas
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by Kadin 11y ago
Interesting. I wonder how critical to GoDaddy's business the certificate sales are, or if they're really just a sideline to their core hosting business.
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by Kadin 11y ago
I don't know the percentages, but several of the big home broadband ISPs are supporting native IPv6 via dual-stacking all the way to the customer premises. If you have a DOCSIS 3.0 modem, I believe that Cox and Comcast will both give
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by Kadin 11y ago
Plus, devices like that are almost guaranteed to become garbage very rapidly when the vendor decides to stop operating that central command server, wherever it is. And unless you're paying a maintenance fee, they're going to cut
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by Kadin 11y ago
It's reported that he leased a new Mercedes every 6 months so that he didn't have to put plates on the car at all. http://gizmodo.com/5853927/the-real-reason-steve-jobs-benz-d... I don't know if there wa
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by Kadin 11y ago
> The other obvious choice I would think would be to call the paramedics! Is there some reason that a person having this kind of a crisis shouldn't have an ambulance called? In a lot of jurisdictions you'll get both with the sa
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by Kadin 11y ago
That's if you want to use a sheet-feeding scanner, in order to save time. It's a bit of a weird suggestion, since I'd imagine the people who still have these books probably aren't the sort of people who want to destroy
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by Kadin 11y ago
The part where it's not backwards-compatible with Python 2. :)
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by Kadin 11y ago
Except that's demonstrably not what the NSA was doing; they were sniffing the backbones at the switches, presumably because they didn't want to create any sort of paper trail or get warrants, even secret FISA ones, against parti
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by Kadin 11y ago
Most ISPs don't allow inbound (or, often, outbound) connections on port 25, so the number of people who can run mail servers at home is pretty limited. I think even Cox stopped allowing it a while ago, and they were among the most len
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by Kadin 11y ago
It's a forked project with leadership-drama issues, but several ongoing audits haven't turned up any serious security issues. The original anonymous maintainers apparently tried to kill it, for reasons that aren't clear, by s
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by Kadin 11y ago
Same thing happened to me. If I hadn't dug around a little I would have assumed it's a Windows-only app and moved on.
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by Kadin 11y ago
It looks neat, but it's hard not to be cynical about yet another competing standard for low-power "smart home" / IoT-type devices, just to muddy the ZigBee vs. Z-Wave vs. BT LE Longrange vs. conventional WiFi waters a bi
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by Kadin 11y ago
I've never seen a UPS with truly proprietary batteries (not saying they don't exist, but I haven't ever seen one). Most of the time I've opened up dead UPSes, they're just commodity lead-acid SLA batteries slapped
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by Kadin 11y ago
I'm also curious how they decide to expire messages out of the database. Presumably each device doesn't carry around every message ever sent since the beginning of time; that doesn't seem like it would scale well.
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by Kadin 12y ago
I did the same thing recently, and I've hated it since. 10.7 removed Rosetta, broke "Save As", and annoyified the Save dialog. But there were just too many pieces of software that wouldn't run, and unpatched security ho
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by Kadin 12y ago
Snow Leopard is no longer receiving security updates; that'd give me pause in anything but a very firewalled desktop installation.
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by Kadin 12y ago
They'd be like Service Packs if Service Packs broke backwards compatibility and changed core functionality of the OS, which they typically don't. They are not analogous.
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by Kadin 12y ago
Apple has a pretty vicious hardware/software upgrade treadmill. I resisted updating 10.4 for years; IMO that was the high water mark for OS X, everything has basically been downhill from there. If I could still run 10.4 plus bugfixes
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by Kadin 12y ago
That is not correct. You cannot legally build something that interferes with FCC-licensed devices. Various devices fall under different FCC licensing categories, which basically define a hierarchy of who-gets-to-interfere-with-whom. &quot
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by Kadin 12y ago
That is basically asking for an arms race, and I don't think that it would be a particularly productive use of either engineering effort or users' time to have to continually upgrade their mobile hotspots and client devices with t
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by Kadin 12y ago
Yeah the OTR plugin is really nice. I think it has suffered from some serious not-invented-here syndrome in terms of not being baked into Pidgin as a core feature (which it should be). It has been included in Mac OS X's Adium client f
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by Kadin 12y ago
Well in the Bloomberg video (new link) the analyst says that projected "growth" for the Russian economy next year is -4% (so, not growth, but a contraction of 4%). At 14% interest rates there's basically no way to afford capi
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by Kadin 12y ago
> There may be people buying iPhones for rubles, selling them online for other currencies, and then exchange it back to rubles for a profit. Why would you do that sort of roundabout route when you could just trade rubles for other curren
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by Kadin 12y ago
You base the surcharge on what the swap costs. The cost of the swap takes into account the market's idea of what the ruble is going to do vs. the dollar. Basically, you make the customer buy insurance against the ruble losing value ag

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