UnoriginalGuy

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by UnoriginalGuy 9y ago
Because PhotoBucket know that if people even had two weeks to evaluate it, they'd put their images on AWS's S3 service instead for pennies on the dollar.
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by UnoriginalGuy 9y ago
I really hope USDS can help introduce interdepartmental digital transfers within the federal government. To give an example of how frustrating it can be... I went through the visa -> green card -> citizenship process. No two departmen
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by UnoriginalGuy 9y ago
I'm just glad the new design works better on a touch screen. Had to massively zoom the page before to click two links individually.
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by UnoriginalGuy 9y ago
If the US intends to keep doing private health insurance-based healthcare (as opposed to single payer, universal healthcare, or a medicare-advantage like model) then they need to seriously evaluate if employer linked health insurance is a h
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by UnoriginalGuy 9y ago
Linux was created while Linus was at the Helsinki University of Technology in Finland.
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by UnoriginalGuy 9y ago
> So when Amazon decided to sell hardware, would that be anti-competitive? Which monopoly does Amazon have that they're abusing to sell hardware? > Pretty much, you could use the argument you just made against any business that d
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by UnoriginalGuy 9y ago
In the US too. The US just oddly decides not to enforce it, then the EU gets shit on for being anti-American when they correctly enforce things that are illegal in both the EU and US.
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by UnoriginalGuy 9y ago
We have seen similar action against Microsoft, Amazon, and Apple in the EU... So, yes. > this seems idiotic. Every large tech company leverages its dominance in one area to compete in a different market. Then they will continue to be fin
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by UnoriginalGuy 9y ago
So just like FCC decisions in the US then.
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by UnoriginalGuy 9y ago
> Every country I've been to, customs has not been great. I've been to over thirty countries, including Russia. The US was the worst and UK was the second worst out of all of them. Immigration always sucks just due to the natur
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by UnoriginalGuy 9y ago
> I think you have fallen victim to the news. I've experienced these problems first hand. US immigration being incredibly rude to visitors for no reason at all, and know someone from London who was sent to secondary because they wer
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by UnoriginalGuy 9y ago
That isn't the same thing. Outlook.com offers "Premium" which removes ads. If you stop paying you just get the ads back but your account is otherwise unaffected[0]. Gsuite on the other hand removes ads, but if you stop paying
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by UnoriginalGuy 9y ago
If resolution was the only metric, that makes sense. But reality is that we're seeing higher color depth ("HDR"), higher framerates, higher quality sound streams (e.g. Dolby Atmos and beyond), and even technologies we aren&#x
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by UnoriginalGuy 9y ago
L2TP doesn't traverse NATs and other network firewalls very well. Which isn't relevant if you yourself control all of the hardware between endpoints (e.g. point2point) but if you plan on using it on public networks (e.g. Starbucks
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by UnoriginalGuy 9y ago
Most non-Americans have issues with US immigration because they're extremely rude for absolutely no reason. US customs is fine. TSA is a mixed bag. But US immigration are unfathomably rude and disrespectful for no reason at all; they t
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by UnoriginalGuy 9y ago
IBM researchers: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/news-blog/computers-hav... You can find other figures, but many are in the petaflop range, well above what could be realistically installed in a vehicle.
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by UnoriginalGuy 9y ago
Humans have the computation equivalent of 38 petaflops of processing power. Does a Tesla vehicle? If you seriously want to play the inane game of "well if a human doesn't have it then a Tesla doesn't need it" then let&#x
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by UnoriginalGuy 9y ago
You spend a lot of time thinking, and interruptions negatively impact that. The concept that you only think while you type is non sequitur; if that's the case then even with all of the hotkeys you're still going to lose your train
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by UnoriginalGuy 9y ago
> I think software development also falls into this category. Software development has absolutely nothing to do with code entry speed. Requirements gathering, mockups, design, testing, and thought make up the vast majority of development
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by UnoriginalGuy 9y ago
This wouldn't have been widely covered regardless. Nobody cares about Yahoo! anymore except in niche tech circles. That's why you're reading this on techcrunch.
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by UnoriginalGuy 9y ago
It is so needless too. Users already had to click "Secure," and then a blue link, all they did was change a useful blue link (to the certificate info) to a useless one (Learn More[0]). As a technical user, I was using certificate
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by UnoriginalGuy 9y ago
> participated in the NSA PRISM program It is entirely unclear if they did. While the name of big companies (Google, Apple, Yahoo!, Microsoft, Dropbox, etc) got dragged through the mud, it only appears that these companies were respondin
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by UnoriginalGuy 9y ago
> Luckily the on-call dev knew there was a recent release and was able to identify the missing where clause and added it within the hour. Raises questions about deployment. Didn't the on-call have a previous build they could rollbac
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by UnoriginalGuy 9y ago
> it'll deliver the encrypted blob to the client, so in theory if they really wanted to break your password they could tell the extension that it's encrypted with a single round of the hash function That's incorrect. When
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by UnoriginalGuy 9y ago
Just to be clear: I have nothing against Open Source at all. Open Source is great. I was just pointing out that Open Source in and of itself isn't a security protection. If you follow the same design you'll have the same design we
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by UnoriginalGuy 9y ago
No practical one. The extension needs full access to the data in order to push it into a page's forms or to update them via the admin UI ("Lastpass Vault"). I believe the Chrome Web Store does check an extension's signin
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by UnoriginalGuy 9y ago
> But I really do not love trusting all of my info to a 3rd party. You don't need to. You need to trust Lastpass's design. A Lastpass database is an AES-256 encrypted blob, encrypted using a "slow" hash of your master
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by UnoriginalGuy 9y ago
Backwards compatibility. Older versions of the Office suite used ~ files as locks. New versions flag those same files as hidden and system, so Microsoft hacked in a compatibility fix for old versions of Office to mark all ~ files similarly
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by UnoriginalGuy 9y ago
I'd imagine that wouldn't have worked on NT or 2000 either. You just likely jumped from the 9x series of OSs to XP which was the first one to offer "good" memory protection. Full explanation for how you could do this her
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by UnoriginalGuy 9y ago
Per the article they're "as much as 31% higher" than other auto companies.

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