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by adekok 9y ago
Sadly, no. Or, not anywhere near that level of BS. There are fields where the practitioners actively try to dis-prove themselves. Where they are aware of the limits of human psychology, and design experiments / analsyses to work ar
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by adekok 9y ago
FTA: (a cop could) ask them to devise a way to retrieve the requested data from that device. Like, say, pushing a signed update to the target handset that will be tied to that device’s UDID (Unique Device Identifier). That way there’s no c
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by adekok 9y ago
What about being forced to hand over passwords? https://9to5mac.com/2017/06/01/fifth-amendement-passcodes-pa... The Miami Herald reports that a child abuse suspect was jailed for six months for contempt of c
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by adekok 9y ago
A personal anecdote about Economics... A friend was doing a Masters in Nuclear Physics at the same time as myself. She decided she didn't like it, and went to do a Masters in Economics. 4 months later, she was back in Physics. Over a
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by adekok 9y ago
> If I had exactly 100 widgets to sell, I can't take payment for 105 in the hope that at least 5 people won't show up to collect their purchases. That would be straight up fraud People do this all of the time... It's calle
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by adekok 9y ago
> Clearly there is some sort of profit motive for the airlines, but how can this be legal. Because no one has done anything about it. There are any number of scummy beahviors which are still legal. In this case, if (say) 1% of people ne
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by adekok 9y ago
> f no such law exists, and everyone refuses up to like a million dollars, than what, the plane just sits there and nobody leaves? Or maybe, the plane leaves because it's full, and everyone has boarded? It's beyond me why anyth
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by adekok 9y ago
> I am not even sure if PVS-Studio is worth the money. They don't have prices on the web site A lot of companies don't do that. Last I checked, Coverity was the same. And likely 6 figures for large code bases. At this point,
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by adekok 9y ago
We can PVS-Studio against FreeRADIUS. It found things which were missed by Coverity, clang analyzer, and cppcheck. Sadly, they don't respond to my queries about paying for it. http://freeradius.org/security/pvs
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by adekok 9y ago
Good point. This is why legal issues are complicated. :( But the counter is that if you're offering the technology for sale, then lack of sales is an actual loss. The thieves could have paid your price, but instead chose to steal i
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by adekok 9y ago
While I agree it should likely be illegal, the solution to bad laws isn't more laws. A better solution would be to * do better examination of patents so that BS ones don't get issued * allow third-parties to invalidate patents by
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by adekok 9y ago
Which says to me that the game development culture of "work 80 hours per week for months on end" is largely about incompetent management, and/or deliberate abuse. It's not about getting things done.
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by adekok 9y ago
I appreciate the clarification, but I'm sure you understand how I understood "It was a reasonable decision by Eastlink." as supporting all of their actions.
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by adekok 9y ago
> There is convention that email addresses of the form 'noreply@xxxxx.yyy' are company notifications There might be such a convention now. There absolutely was not such a convention 20 years ago when he registered it. On to
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by adekok 9y ago
Because of the many years of development already put into them? Re-writing things in a memory safe language takes a lot of time. And that's even if the language is stable and available cross-platform.
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by adekok 9y ago
Yes... that should go without saying.
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by adekok 9y ago
i.e.: 1) convert code sample 1 to AST 2) convert code sample 2 to AST 3) do text-based diffs while paying attention to the ASTs A closing brace is really part of the function started by the function definition and opening brace. As such,
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by adekok 9y ago
Covering roadways with glass solar panels is a terrible idea. Asphalt is durable and flexible . It's OK with getting bits of gravel, glass, or steel ground into it. Solar panels deal badly with such abuse. Putting solar panels flat
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by adekok 9y ago
The utility of that depends on what your priorities are. Low-cost and longer flights, plus checking in again when you change airlines? Norwegian Air is good. If you want to get on a plane, go to sleep, and wake up at your destination, a e
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by adekok 9y ago
If they don't have room available to get cool air/water down to the tube, they don't have room available to get hot air/water up, either.
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by adekok 9y ago
LMFGTFY: http://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2011/study-finds-gender-differe... https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/media-spotlight/201505/... About 20% for men and 50% for women. Your c
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by adekok 9y ago
> I think that all these NSA problems show bad management. They should be reorganized, or maybe even abandoned. They cost more than they deliver, and even costed us our privacy. I.e. the average citizen. Q: Is the NSA there to support th
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by adekok 9y ago
And managers not understanding what their employees were doing. In this case, they understood the technical side, but were not paying attention to the financial side.
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by adekok 9y ago
I agree. I started out as a techie, and I now run my own business. The engineers half-serious mock me for continually talking about money, billing, etc. But they do know that's how their salaries get paid.
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by adekok 9y ago
> Part of me is curious as to what led him to believe that's an acceptable thing to do to someone else's property He doesn't think it's acceptable. The issue is he doesn't care . i.e. he doesn't pay atten
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by adekok 9y ago
i.e. I engage with what you've said, admit your point that I mispoke, and point out errors in your position. Your counter-argument is then "No YOU'RE a bad man! I'm taking my toys and going home". That's... not
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by adekok 9y ago
> You made a substantive false claim <sigh> If you're nit-picking over details, it's definitely the new HN. I've had people attack me vociferously over "back of the envelope" calculations being off by a fa
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by adekok 9y ago
Only from the experience of good people interviewing at bad companies. Interviewing bad people at good companies goes more like this: Q: Can you explain the difference between a noun and an adverb? A: I've worked at the UN for 20 years
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by adekok 9y ago
So... I said cheap rockets are a good idea, and your best counter-argument is to say "No, cheap rockets are a good idea" ? > you have a small number of highly educated, highly skilled people allowed to make a new society on a d
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by adekok 9y ago
Sure... saying it is expensive isn't much of an explanation as to why . But the why isn't that difficult to come up with. I've made more detailed comments on the other Mars story (see my comment history). But whatever my

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