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by adekok 11y ago
An argument from ignorance is not good. "I don't understand how he saved that money, so it's probably via some nefarious means". No, a thousand times no. The government has billions of dollars to spend on prosecuting me
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by adekok 11y ago
"The weapons shops of Isher" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weapon_Shops_of_Isher ) are good in theory. They aren't very practical, though.
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by adekok 11y ago
Charge people for support? It works for ISC. Why wouldn't it work for OpenSSL? Heck, it works for me (FreeRADIUS). Why wouldn't it work for OpenSSL?
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by adekok 11y ago
> Most open source infrastructure tools lack a business model to capture revenue from its users. Like youtube videographers? Who start off doing it for fun, and then later monetize it? That evidence shows you're wrong.
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by adekok 11y ago
> Open source projects need donations in talented engineer time, not in money. I'm willing to believe that most open source projects could make substantial improvements if they had funding. See how Patreon has made a huge differenc
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by adekok 11y ago
Absolutely, many non-engineers are unaware (or in denial) that they benefit from open source projects. In one previous company I worked at, a VP told me how terrible it was that an open source project was competing with them, and that open
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by adekok 11y ago
> In both cases the accuser turned out to be an unreliable witness. No. In both cases, the accuser turned out to be lying through her teeth. > It seems quite possible that one or more rapes occurred in both cases, but I am not one of
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by adekok 11y ago
Or see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5MPzQnokMU In which SJWs physically shove a journalist around, all the while claiming the moral high ground. And a professor at the university shoves a journalist, and then calls f
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by adekok 11y ago
> people horrified that someone they disagree with might be allowed to have a voice on the national stage. You haven't been paying attention to events of the past few years. The SJWs have been very clear that the only permitted vo
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by adekok 11y ago
Never attribute to maliciousness what can be better attributed to stupidity. I've worked with managers who simply couldn't comprehend that a particular issue was a problem for the engineering department. No amount of examples, de
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by adekok 11y ago
> Physics used to be "hard science" - Physics is still a hard science. However, the edges of physics are difficult to test. > In cosmology, you can only observe, not experiment Saying that is like saying "we don&#x27
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by adekok 11y ago
GNU Make macros can't really replace "configure". They can replace "automake". I've never understood why anyone thought automake was useful / sane. Going back 20 years, a few carefully written GNU Make
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by adekok 11y ago
Even worse, autotools doesn't have the concept of modularization. Look at the nginx configure scripts. They're hand-written, and modularized. Check for "foo"? There's a shell script. Autotools does the same thin
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by adekok 11y ago
A related issue is "If electricity and magnetism are so strong, why do we feel the effects of gravity more?" To see why this is the case, let's look at magnetism first. Every magnet is composed of a north pole and a south po
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by adekok 11y ago
Think of requirements vs implementation. One groups designs the tests, and the other who implements them. The test designers don't really know a lot about how the systems work. The implementors are ordered to follow the design... no
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by adekok 11y ago
Read the article again. > Nevertheless, because both eDellRoot and DSDTestProvider are installed in the Windows root store for certificate authorities together with their private keys, they can be used by attackers to generate rogue cert
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by adekok 11y ago
The ISC DHCP server is "open source", in that the source is available. It's "free" in that anyone can download it and use it. But... try getting patches in. Unless you're a paying member of the ISC consortium
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by adekok 11y ago
> ... they shouldn't need a warrant to seize that gun. Temporarily. If they're not going to charge you, they should return the gun. The alternative is to declare "gun free" zones near the location of all gun crimes.
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by adekok 11y ago
A large corporation accedes to the wishes of a rich elite, and helps them deny access to a public park? Say it ain't so... I wish there was some company around which had a motto of "Don't be evil". I'm sure tha
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by adekok 11y ago
> People who hate ads tend to say fuck you, I'm blocking the ads but taking the bandwidth anyway. You ever see stats on ads taking the bandwidth? http://betanews.com/2015/08/25/ad-blocker-crystal-mas
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by adekok 11y ago
> If we take a random, representative sample of people, we're going to see women make up approximately 50.8% of that sample. Sure. If we take a random, representative sample of people . But you weren't talking about people
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by adekok 11y ago
> Genuine meritocracy would ideally see women in positions roughly commensurate to their percentage of the population i.e. meritocracy means having people in positions based on their incidence in the general population... not on their me
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by adekok 11y ago
And more, for support, not fines: http://www.alternet.org/economy/debtors-prisons-are-alive-an... http://www.nbcnews.com/id/44376665/ns/us_news-crime_and_cour... I can't find the re
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by adekok 11y ago
> I can't help but think a male contraceptive that is not visually verifiable by the women is not entirely trustworthy. Uh... how is that different from what we have today? Women take a pill. It's not visually verifiable by m
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by adekok 11y ago
> It is that smtp is fundamentally broken. Because the SMTP cabal is fanatically opposed to changing it. The response I had 15 years ago was "It takes 10 years to deploy any serious changes to a protocol". Uh... so? Does that
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by adekok 11y ago
A standard physics question is to calculate the electrical flow between two points on an infinite square grid of resistors. Not surprisingly, the flow isn't large. The electricity takes many path through the circuit. Here, too, having
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by adekok 11y ago
My take-away is the following: * systemd tries to solve a complicated problem * systemd has a lot of complexity * some of that complexity seems unnecessary * parsing is hard (see DJB). Parsing (as systemd does) in PID 1 is bad. Complex sy
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by adekok 11y ago
Once the relatives get wind of this, there is a simple solution. Get a new phone number for the person in question. And even more critical don't cancel the old one . Put an answering machine on the old one, and have a "safe&q
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by adekok 11y ago
As you get older, you lose some discrimination ability.
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by adekok 11y ago
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/201... "for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass” Which indicates that he won it for work resulting from t

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