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by Strom 8y ago
The lack of Estonia seemed curious to me as well, given Estonia's voting history regarding Article 13. Then I looked up the voting history for all these countries. [1] The votes against Article 13 have been as follows: Poland
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by Strom 8y ago
Not with a Google referrer. Simple way to get it is to search for the FT article title. FT is nice enough to include it on their paywall. Subscribe to the FT to read: "Data leak reveals China is tracking almost 2.6m people in Xinjiang
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by Strom 8y ago
The blog post was published on 2018-08-18. Perhaps Debian stable was shipping some other version back then?
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by Strom 8y ago
It can certainly be much cheaper. I pay 17€/month for "unlimited" LTE (includes 9GB EU roaming) and this at ~75 Mbit/s up/down speeds in most cases. Now it's hard to say what "unlimited" actually mean
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by Strom 8y ago
To meet short-term growth goals via human work. Everyone had a close eye on the number of cars produced. Now they're improving their efficiency and thus fewer people can achieve the same numbers.
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by Strom 8y ago
It's also dangerously easy to mistake professionalism with competency. There are a lot of incompetent professionals in absolutely every field and this includes mental health. Just like there are professional programmers who copy-paste
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by Strom 8y ago
Some emerging markets (e.g. Malaysia, Vietnam) generated record revenue. It was China in specific that underperformed and recent economic numbers for China are also underperforming (GDP growth during the September quarter was the second low
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by Strom 8y ago
Windows Defender is an abomination. It makes file operations on regular Windows also extremely slow. For example unpacking the Go 1.11 zip which is 8700 files takes a second with my PCIe SSD with Windows Defender disabled. Enable it and the
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by Strom 8y ago
It's about getting 5 REM-NREM cycles of sleep. [1][2] The exact time varies from person to person and situation to situation, but roughly speaking the cycle takes 90 minutes and 5 * 90 min = 7.5 hours. Add some minutes lying in bed but
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by Strom 8y ago
Those cheap licenses are always used. They exploit the fact that these can be used to activate ~10 copies of Windows. It's even worse than that though. One seller could keep track of this limit, but what happens is that a bunch of sell
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by Strom 8y ago
Based on safety research [1][2] I’ve read on numerous databases, I’ve learned that there is almost always a big difference between vendor promises and reality. Thus when reading claims of order of magnitude performance gains against one of
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by Strom 8y ago
Most likely by not providing data safety and a bunch of features. The classic example with databases is that the super fast ones will report your writes are finished even before the database starts thinking about writing the data to disk, n
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by Strom 8y ago
Peer-to-peer is such a wide term that can mean pretty much anything, e.g. micro loans of money to people in need. It can be viewed just as a way of doing things. So in that sense, all you need is a socket connection to get going. What are y
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by Strom 8y ago
Not exactly, as the other side could just back it up instead. You also need to make sure that the people you communicate with never misclick OK on the constant backup advisory popups.
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by Strom 8y ago
There's no need for theoretical chat history leaks, there's already a practical one in place. Online WhatsApp backups aren't encrypted with end-to-end encryption. [1][2] WhatsApp keeps being "helpful" and aggressive
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by Strom 8y ago
> I'm the tech lead and primary software engineer on the Go runtime. Hey thanks a lot for your efforts! Your direct communication about the Go runtime progress has been a breath of fresh air compared to the years preceding you. I
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by Strom 8y ago
Both google.golang.org/appengine/datastore and cloud.google.com/go/datastore connect to the same data? Is there a list of incompatibilities somewhere? I remember seing some serialization differences between these two dat
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by Strom 8y ago
The automatic size management doesn't go over 3x RAM, but manual configuration allows for a maximum page file size of 16TB. https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/markrussinovich/2008/11/...
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by Strom 8y ago
> just observe the person whos counting .. and trust the votes to all be real? A person voting could put two votes instead of one. (It can still look like one, using the same method that's used for card tricks.) Even if you introd
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by Strom 8y ago
That's an illusion. People can comprehend paper voting on a source code level, in that they know what should happen in theory. No single person can even fully observe a single counting station, much less a whole election. You still end
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by Strom 8y ago
That's a statement that applies to everything, including classic paper voting. It's never a question of whether there's absolute security, because nothing has it. It's about comparing the security and other benefits of d
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by Strom 8y ago
You gotta start small and iterate. Going for world peace with the first step isn't going to work.
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by Strom 8y ago
That's not what happened. The 200ms delay worked as intended. The reddit thread counting the frames can be seen here: https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/94vdpm/openai_hex_wa...
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by Strom 8y ago
200ms is a good measurement on how fast a skilled human can react with a single keypress like activating BKB or phase shift. Players like VP.Noone can be seen doing such reactionary moves even faster than 200ms. Double clicks will already t
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by Strom 8y ago
A really big factor making up your ranking on the leaderboard is your ability to play in a chaotic game where your team and yourself aren't on the same page. Just taking the top players from the leaderboard (who aren't already on
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by Strom 8y ago
More information here: https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/consumers/internet-tel...
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by Strom 8y ago
Yes I used to use TrueCrypt but have been using VeraCrypt on all my computers for about a year now. Most recent issue I had was with EFI boot and major Windows 10 updates, but the latest beta of VeraCrypt addresses that issue as well.
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by Strom 8y ago
You can upgrade to VeraCrypt [1] which is a continuation of TrueCrypt. It's backwards compatible with TrueCrypt volumes but also fixes a bunch of issues that have been found in TrueCrypt code. It also supports newer features like EFI b
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by Strom 8y ago
> They could even naively block normal users from having a verified user's profile picture and this problem would virtually not exist. I'm all for Twitter doing more, especially as they seemingly do nothing at all to combat f
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by Strom 8y ago
Upwork terms of service require you to funnel funds through them for 2 years, then you are free to move elsewhere. Upwork also allows for early leaving if you pay a fee of $3500 or some other number based on crazy calculations. https:&#x2F

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