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by __jal 11y ago
I was responding to the parent comment, not the piracy. On piracy, of course you're absolutely right - given the existence of a storage mechanism, someone will put stuff in it. See also: hacks that use dynamic DNS updates to store and
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by __jal 11y ago
That, generally, is not the argument. The side you don't see goes a bit like this[1]: Folks in poor countries aren't stupid, and know Facebook isn't just being nice. Zero-rating strangles local startups who have to compete wi
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by __jal 11y ago
Well, in that everything is eventually a cost-benefit decision, sure. What I was getting at is that "under what conditions" is a baseline gating requirement that needs to reflect the nature of what you're building. If I'
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by __jal 11y ago
For workaday engineers (e.g., not people attempting to build distributed libraries), the appropriate question about dependency management is, "under what conditions is it appropriate for a person or group outside of your org to publish
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by __jal 11y ago
I still find it hilarious that, upon the bulk of SCM use shifting to a DVCS, the first[1] thing people did is run out to build a central hub. [1] For the pedantic, it probably was not literally the first thing; I'm sure some folks went
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by __jal 11y ago
Let's try that the other way around. What statements can you point to that lead to the conclusion that the FBI is acting in good faith?
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by __jal 11y ago
PG is, IMHO, probably one of the best code bases for this. I'm far and away not a database hacker, but have read parts of the code at various times to better understand what I was seeing. The codebase is incredibly well written and org
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by __jal 11y ago
This is really no different than OS X, except that it somehow is different. What I mean by that is that OS X has hundreds of small features, keystrokes and affordances that are probably documented somewhere, but that I and most other people
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by __jal 11y ago
Depends on what the goal is. If your Mars colony is just a PR^H^H national pride game - you've got a handful of people, some high-school kids' plant experiment and the Little Box with the Antenna some TLA agency asked you to leav
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by __jal 11y ago
The desire of others to stick their nose in your business will never go away. Long term, you can't argue with math, and the busybodies will lose on encryption. But as a smart man said in a different context, in the long run we're
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by __jal 11y ago
Off topic, but what are you talking about? Heller, which is when the supreme court first noticed an individual right in the 2nd amendment in over 200 years, was decided in 2008. Since that is currently the high-water mark in 2nd amendment r
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by __jal 11y ago
I'd suggest spending some time learning DDG. It is a very good engine once you get used to it. Another trick I use with Google, especially when I'm searching things that are outside of my usual interests, is clearing my cookies. B
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by __jal 11y ago
I see a difference. Not today, because military drones (as far as I know) are still human-piloted. But that won't last. And then... It is the same difference as exists between automatic license plate readers and people standing on a co
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by __jal 11y ago
Yes. I refused to do an exercise because it was quite obviously from someone's todo list, was a rather large endeavor, and didn't demand any particular skill aside from trying to find a sensible way to handle the many special case
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by __jal 11y ago
I've clearly been paying too much attention to politics. My first scan of headlines here left me asking, in which case before the Supreme Court was LLVM an issue? Although I must admit I would love to read the late Scalia's opinio
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by __jal 11y ago
Well, not really. What you're describing is the floor for any product I'll consider (depending on what "fundamental flaws" means), but that's not security. Security is process. - Do the engineers writing the code ha
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by __jal 11y ago
I fully agree. Social, like security, is a process, not a product. I'm still convinced that most of Twitter's problems would not exist if they had written an RFC instead of a business plan.
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by __jal 11y ago
I don't think anyone wants to discourage people from learning about, playing with, and trying to invent new crypto. The usual problem here is that people new to crypto frequently don't treat their whizzy new supercool algorithm as
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by __jal 11y ago
It is hardly FUD. If you want more horror stories involving wilderness and technical failure, I can set you up with as many as you like. There have been hundreds of cases people suffering in various colorful ways due to reliance on cell pho
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by __jal 11y ago
A thought experiment: suppose you are in charge of handling repairs for a multinational fleet of hundreds of millions of devices. One thing you'll probably do is triage: by looking at the numbers of devices that fail in various ways, y
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by __jal 11y ago
Let's suppose you can see in to Tim Cook's heart and this is true. So? I understand wanting to know people's motivations, from both the perspective of predicting future action and just because we're nosy monkeys. But fra
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by __jal 11y ago
> Debian already is at that point. I said "real world", where Debian is clearly not at that point: > but there’s very few packages which are being tested with these init systems, so expect to run into trouble. I've not
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by __jal 11y ago
This. I really would like to see at least Debian get to a point where init is actually a swappable component in the real world.
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by __jal 11y ago
In your experience, are web designers big consumers of continuous-duty air samplers and continuous-duty air sampler accessories? If so, the field has changed a lot since I've been involved.
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by __jal 11y ago
A long time ago, I discovered that there was a publication called Potato World Weekly. (No idea if it still exists.) It was a tabloid-size glossy, not terribly skinny, a weekly (as it said), and, perhaps not surprisingly, really expensive.
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by __jal 11y ago
As the joke goes, iTunes would be a great operating system, if only it had a decent MP3 player.
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by __jal 11y ago
You appear to have missed the part about this being my own mail server. And I don't need any more luck; my initial problem is solved (I no longer see spam from Facebook, and I am taking steps to ensure they are aware of their problem,
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by __jal 11y ago
PG HA really isn't difficult to set up. You have to know about your environment and how you use the DB, but if that's limiting factor then I'm really not sure why you'd try to set up HA.
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by __jal 11y ago
I am making an actual abuse report.
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by __jal 11y ago
Anything from a Facebook domain hitting my mail server is bounces them back to Facebook's abuse and postmaster addresses. I know categorically that it is abuse, because I am the sole user of my mail server and do not now and have never

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