Laforet

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by Laforet 6y ago
Back in the early 2000s there were no equivalent to flash in terms of features and ease of use. It's bordering on whig history criticising people back then for not going FOSS
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by Laforet 6y ago
I chuckled a bit when I clicked on your link and got a browser warning that crl cannot be downloaded securely over http.
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by Laforet 6y ago
Sounds about right for a technology that operates on unregulated frequencies - as Shannon's law dictates that there is only so much bandwidth in the air. The primary reason for bad wifi in any densely populated city is not construction
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by Laforet 6y ago
In my own experience almost every motherboard will happily accept unbuffered ECC ram and ignore the parity bit. Registered DIMMs, however, will only work with both MCH and BIOS support so I don't expect them to work unless explicitly s
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by Laforet 6y ago
It doesn't have to be that difficult. A crude yet effective method is to overclock the RAM beyond a reasonable frequency and a handful of correctable errors should pop up in no time. In case the OS/BIOS does not support overclocki
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by Laforet 6y ago
One of the unintended consequences of cannabis legalisation is encouraging criminals moving on to a non-drug related enterprise and take their old methods with them. Not that I think progressive drug reform is a bad idea, but they clearly o
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by Laforet 6y ago
Not sure if your last sentence is sarcasm or otherwise, but radio jamming is trivial for state actors if they really tried. It's been matter of fact since radio was invented and the cold war has plenty of episodes of broadcasts being j
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by Laforet 6y ago
Right, thousands of people with admin access and nobody could help me reinstating my API access....
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by Laforet 6y ago
I have a couple of services that run on twitter API and they have all been suspended in the last half hour. They are definitely in damage control mode.
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by Laforet 6y ago
More channels allow more memory bandwidth, though actual performance gain is marginal unless the data being processed has very strict spatial locality (e.g. fluid dynamics simulations), most other workloads are more constrained by cache. Th
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by Laforet 6y ago
I think the argument being made is less about lasting immunity but reevaluating the actual risks for the general population. 8 million people live in NYC and there has been 0.155 million confirmed cases so far. If the actual infection rate
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by Laforet 7y ago
China tried this in March and it failed rather spectacularly. Border officials were quickly overwhelmed and had to play it fast and loose; nobody knows who was responsible for what. In many cases, people showing symptoms who were supposed t
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by Laforet 7y ago
Yes, however one needs to take into account the difference in viewing devices (screens are self illuminated and film/paper subtract colours from a light source) as well as the limited colour depth on modern monitors. After all, 10-bit
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by Laforet 7y ago
First time living away from home with ample access to the vices of the world. Driving alone adds a tangible of risk of death.
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by Laforet 7y ago
It was a precaution ordered by regulations rather than something out of necessity.
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by Laforet 7y ago
The hypothetical already exists, it's called the evening peak hours. I'm not familiar with every part of the US however in Europe most ISPs saw no need to throttle video as the current situation merely makes the usual peak last lo
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by Laforet 7y ago
Some surveillance and a lot of footwork. Cell phone location data helps to suggest if a person has travelled to certain location with their regular phone but that is about it.
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by Laforet 7y ago
This is true, however I can't help but feel that the design of the system encourages users to choose a low entropy master password and get a false sense of security seeing a different "strong" password can be produced for eve
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by Laforet 7y ago
Except in this case there are no IV or nonce involved and every key derivation is perfectly replayable. Let's pause for a second and think what is the point of using password managers - I take it as a means to allow each account to hav
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by Laforet 7y ago
Cryptography is hard, opsec much harder. I frowned immediately when I realised that it generates deterministic password from seeds partially known to the attacker. This is only slightly better than the brain wallet concept for personal key
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by Laforet 7y ago
Sars survivors showed some reduced lung capacity but overall not significant enough to affect quality of life. Morbidity mainly came from poorly executed steroid therapy carried out in a number of hospitals in an attempt to control respirat
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by Laforet 7y ago
It might be better to look at beds available near the major disease clusters rather than a country as a whole, given that patients are unlikely to be transported around the country to fill the beds.
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by Laforet 7y ago
This is quite true. About a decade ago GFW was a simple IDS that occasionally sent RST packets down the pipes. Nowadays it's much more complicated. I've witnessed the GFW upgrade in process several times in which they default to d
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by Laforet 7y ago
In fact this does not have to be intentional. Transit through other network cost money and Chinese ISPs rarely enter into peering aggrements with other ISPs because there is relatively little inbound traffic from abroad (notwithstanding a l
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by Laforet 7y ago
Hospitals in China have been cancelling all elective surgeries and sending the majority of their in-patient home. This was done partly due to the fears of the virus but also because a large part of irregular staff (nurse assistants contract
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by Laforet 7y ago
Seeing the same thing happen across different cultures over very different kinds of crises I came to the conclusion that this has to be a Freudian slip of the fact that people subconsciously care more about being able to keep their rear end
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by Laforet 7y ago
Just over 2300 have been discharged based on a 10-day absence of viral RNA in throat swabs. There has been some discussion about changing the guidelines to discharge patients after 3 days without viral titre but I'm not sure if this ha
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by Laforet 7y ago
You are probably thinking of hazmat suits and it's not the most common type. Medical staff in Wuhan wear disposable protective overalls that are made of a thin layer of polypropylene (as intended so it would be light and cheap) and eas
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by Laforet 7y ago
It's hard to say without knowing more about the website. Some desktop features such as pepperflash were never ported to Android chrome however it's more likely a business decision to push mobile users to use their dedicated app.
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by Laforet 7y ago
The browser sends a UA string to the website in every http request in which the OS you have is indicated. https://www.whatismybrowser.com/detect/what-is-my-user-agent

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