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by ajnin 8y ago
Isn't this because of the various safe harbor provisions ? If you start policing content then you cease to be a mere pipe and your gain much higher legal responsibility for whatever content passes through your systems. In general I thi
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by ajnin 8y ago
It doesn't necessarily follow that preventing death would cause an increase in population. A high mortality rate is corelated with a high fertility rate so that population grows nevertheless. In fact, it is when the mortality rate is t
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by ajnin 8y ago
I have 2 issues, first is that it looks more like a popularity contest. Popupar points of view get propelled at the top where they get more exposure and get all the discussion and votes, like on any other discussion site with threads. Secon
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by ajnin 8y ago
As the article states, they lost their competency. Here in France, the reason is poor planning, focus on cost-cutting and lack of long term vision by top management and government. EDF, the historical state power company turned into a priva
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by ajnin 8y ago
Crucially people miss the word "premature", that I interpret as meaning that you should not optimize before you've measured that the piece of code you're considering is actually causing performance issues in your program
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by ajnin 8y ago
Which "compromises" the key, according to current Certificate Authorities policies. Once again the problem boils down to CAs being the sole "anchors of trust" in the current certificate system.
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by ajnin 8y ago
They mention they're hosting it in a EU datacenter, that may be your issue. It works fine from France, actually appreaciably snappier than Youtube. I think Google has many mirroring servers everywhere to mitigate the issue.
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by ajnin 8y ago
For some reason this links redirects me to a blog article about a dispute between archive.is and their registrar. Replacing .li by .is works.
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by ajnin 8y ago
On the TIOBE index homepage it seems to be currently (June 2018) listed in the 61st place.
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by ajnin 8y ago
The raw recovered files seems to be available here, in any case : https://pds-imaging.jpl.nasa.gov/data/lo/LO_1001/DATA/
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by ajnin 8y ago
> Shouldn't there be an API for that? There is one : https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Page_Visibi... Although I think it can be a privacy concern and somewhat of an anti-feature.
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by ajnin 8y ago
An invention is an actual thing that implements the idea.
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by ajnin 8y ago
Any tips getting into mechanical design ? I love designing PCBs, creating a schematic, then laying out the component and traces in the most elegant way is very satisfying. However when it comes to 3D stuff I wouldn't know where to begi
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by ajnin 8y ago
Relevant : https://xkcd.com/1319/ and : https://xkcd.com/1205/
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by ajnin 8y ago
"Using neural networks" is the new "on a computer"
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by ajnin 8y ago
The train has window. In my experience tunnels are always lit a little bit and you can see the wall passing by. Also it's rare to stay in a tunnel for more than a few minutes.
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by ajnin 8y ago
This is just nonsense. A display is merely a projection. you don't have any sense of depth, you can't shift the point of view, you don't have the dynamic range or resolution of the human eye. The only way it could be better i
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by ajnin 8y ago
What if the static site is hosting some information banned in a specific country ? Simply accessing it might put a person at risk. I'm being very general here as you can find examples for practically anywhere.
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by ajnin 8y ago
Is this an ad for Netlify ? It's cited 10 times in the post. There are plenty of reasons not to use a CDN, not the least being that you might not want to give a third-party access to your traffic. Even static information might be sensi
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by ajnin 8y ago
Based purely on numbers CO2 capture seems like a plausible idea. The article cites a cost of $0.22 cents per liter of fuel to capture an equivalent amount of CO2. Based on the current 93 million bbl or roughly 15 billion liters of oil consu
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by ajnin 8y ago
Usually DCs use AC for cooling, which needs electric power, which needs far away power plants and tranmisions lines. Here, you have a practically endless source of cool water that you can just pump directly.
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by ajnin 8y ago
If you just need a simple way to host git repos and don't need much UI, look into gitolite ( http://gitolite.com/gitolite/index.html ), I'm using it to manage my own repos and it's been really nice to use.
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by ajnin 8y ago
I bet all registrars are stoked when any new gTLD comes out, that auction and "valuable word"-based system must bring loads of cash. This one of the most outrageous, user-hostile things I've ever seen. It only preys on the ne
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by ajnin 8y ago
There are several points in this article : 1/ stuffing random ints into your user functions : that problem can be solved with typing and tests. I'm hoping that extensive testing of any piece of code which would have a drastic effe
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by ajnin 8y ago
> 100% of those software engineers have a plethora of safety checks Well, this is simply not true. I suspect you conjured that figure out of thin air. Case in point, the famous Therac-25 accidents caused by a software bug causing large o
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by ajnin 9y ago
Here's the original page where the video was posted, with some context information, in French : http://paillard.claude.free.fr/ If you're interested in this sort of thing, I found other similar videos by another u
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by ajnin 9y ago
I'm not sure how they would fix that, assuming that's even a bug. The email protocol is completely unverified, anyone can send the header they please, including spoofed From: headers. The GMail client itself even allows it, when y
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by ajnin 9y ago
It's not that bad if they're keeping the originals. Scanning in 4k HD in 1998 would not only have produced files too large to be processed and stored practically by computers of that time, but there was no scanning equipment capab
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by ajnin 9y ago
> djb's proposed Internet Mail 2000 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Mail_2000 ) in which initial storage is the responsibility of the sender Seems even better for spammers and advertisers of the world si
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by ajnin 9y ago
> What if browser would provide us just abstract DOM with minimal HTML/CSS implementation and some extensibility/plug-ins That's what Houdini layout extensions are about, if that work ever comes to fruition that will indee

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