Veratyr

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by Veratyr 9y ago
> I thought about this as well, but I'm not convinced that hiding the Server header or anything like unto it is really that beneficial. We as users don't believe that's your choice to make. > And if it becomes common to
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by Veratyr 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_Code is a decent summary. IP68 means absolutely no dust whatsoever and: "The equipment is suitable for continuous immersion in water under conditions which shall be specified by th
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by Veratyr 9y ago
> National IDs are a nonstarter politically in the US. One side thinks it is undue encroachment on local rights, and the other side thinks requiring ID disenfranchises the poor and undocumented. That's the tl;dr version of course --
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by Veratyr 9y ago
> The self-reported Google salary spreadsheet [...] That's all I needed to see. Nothing worthwhile here. The people who'll tend to report will be the people who are worried about how much they earn. I'd say all this shows
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by Veratyr 9y ago
California has a convenient free web page that tells you most of the steps: http://www.courts.ca.gov/1007.htm This has all the forms and a link to what to do with them: http://www.courts.ca.gov/9744.htm
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by Veratyr 9y ago
StorJ isn't really in this space as the entire system is centralized. You can't buy storage from anyone other than StorJ, nor can you sell storage to anyone other than StorJ. They don't have a free market like Sia (or even Fi
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by Veratyr 9y ago
> Aside from the oodles of money that the early adopters will make, what am I missing? You're assuming that all the people selling storage will be buying hardware for that sole purpose. In reality, many regular people have some free
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by Veratyr 9y ago
As a newcomer to C++ myself, I found Stanley Lippman's C++ primer to be helpful. The latest edition includes the newer features. And in case it helps, the main things I find myself using differently to C are: - Smart pointers. If you&#
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by Veratyr 9y ago
These are good points and mostly why I said "hopes" rather than something stronger like "bets" or "production machines".
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Do you use replication at all? I have a feeling the reason why nobody else sees my problems is that most folks will be using a system like Ceph for distributed replication rather than BTRFS for local replication.
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by Veratyr 9y ago
> The ability to online-restripe between almost any layout combination is quite useful for example This is true but since the only stable replication options on BTRFS are RAID1 and single, this online restripe is of very limited usefulne
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by Veratyr 9y ago
> Linux has also been developing its own ZFS-like filesystem, btrfs. Since it's been developed in the open (unlike early ZFS), people tried earlier ("IS EXPERIMENTAL") versions that had serious issues, which gave it someth
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by Veratyr 9y ago
> Am I right in guessing that using a VM would be the easiest path to success? I've been able to successfully build Android on Arch Linux. Depending on which particular ROM you're building, much of the required build environmen
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by Veratyr 9y ago
460p is a low bar but these restrictions already exist on current services. Netflix: https://help.netflix.com/en/node/23742 - 720p on Chrome and Firefox, 1080p on IE and Safari and 4K requires Microsoft Edge, a HD
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by Veratyr 9y ago
> Could you clarify? The developer is using the YouTube API, which has terms which the developer agreed to. He is breaching those terms. > If I'm using YouTube without signing in, which contract is being breached? You're not
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by Veratyr 9y ago
> I'm sure this could be the case but I'm not convinced that their license to the content would be so specific as to require the delivery of the content video/audio together, or must be played in the foreground. The licens
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by Veratyr 9y ago
> I'm not sure where the copyright angle is coming from. YT doesn't own the copyright of the videos they host. The best YT could hope for is a ToS violation which is pretty toothless. The developer is displaying copyrighted con
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by Veratyr 9y ago
It's a paid app facilitating breach of contract at the least and possibly facilitating copyright infringement and a breach of the CFAA. And Apple takes a cut and therefore has legal liability for distributing it.
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by Veratyr 9y ago
> Lucky? It's a toss-up whether policies like this are actually enforceable. Most likely all they'd be able to do is block the devs access. He consented to a contract, violated it and caused actual damages (loss of ad revenue,
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by Veratyr 9y ago
> They basically wanted me to remove every feature that made ProTube what it is – that includes the player itself that allows you to play 60fps videos, background playback, audio only mode and more. > background playback, audio only m
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by Veratyr 9y ago
There's definitely no "right" to ask others to delete an email thread. At best it would be a courtesy. A real world comparison would be to letters. Would you claim the right to have a correspondent to burn any letters you sen
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by Veratyr 9y ago
Deleting your own data is easy: https://myaccount.google.com/deleteaccount The problem, though you didn't put it that way, is deleting other people's data. That's not your presence on Google, it's theirs
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by Veratyr 9y ago
Doesn't this conflict with the precedent set by, for example, safe combinations?
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The "forgone conclusion" argument makes no sense to me. If there's enough evidence that the conclusion is "forgone", what is there to gain by decrypting the contents?
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Apple's objection isn't to paying for bandwidth, it's to fast lanes: "Paid fast lanes could replace today’s content-neutral transmission of internet traffic with differential treatment of content based on an online provi
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by Veratyr 9y ago
> Apple has time and time again demonstrated to be reasonably ethical Along with the things others have mentioned, their campaigning against right to repair seems pretty unethical to me.
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by Veratyr 9y ago
The EU can exert as much force as it likes on any assets within the EU and as exmicrosoldier pointed out ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15137258 ), Google and Facebook have many of their assets outside the US to avoid
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by Veratyr 9y ago
My government is far more democratic than the US but I still wouldn't trust it with that kind of power. Democracy is nice and all but the representative democracy most of the world is ruled by puts people who are good at getting electe
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by Veratyr 9y ago
I totally agree that Google, Facebook and Amazon have too much power and too little accountability. However they're all global companies and as bad as they are, I trust all of them more than I trust the US government (I am not American
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by Veratyr 9y ago
It doesn't seem to say anything like that. Looking at it again, I see this: > It is also worth mentioning that increasing the bit depth of the audio representation from 16 to 24 bits does not increase the perceptible resolution or &

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