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by ajnin 9y ago
> Wait, did someone assume that Mozilla didn't have this ability? How did people think that they got security updates? The difference is that in one case the updates are released following a public process, with bugzilla entries, pr
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by ajnin 9y ago
With the substantial limitation that the source must be "legal", i.e. you can't copy something from a torrent for example since it is likely the uploader didn't put it here legally. Also I think this is a European law.
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by ajnin 9y ago
Initialisms are acronyms.
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by ajnin 9y ago
Industry people working at regulatory agencies is an obvious conflict of interest. Taking inputs from various parties, including the industry and the general public, to then make an informed decision about the best course of action in the g
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by ajnin 9y ago
At a quick glance, a few remarks about the onboarding : - the "I'm feeling lucky" button you mention in the comments here ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15861489 ) is nowhere to be found, maybe not on t
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by ajnin 9y ago
I agree with you here, to gain copyright a work must comprise a creative element, here this is a neutral photo of a VHS tape, which tries to be objective and by definition not creative at all, so it does not generate a copyright.
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by ajnin 9y ago
That's what the article is about, you can divide a circle in an infinite number of polygons, but, somewhat unintuitively, you can't do that with spheres, only 5 divisions are possible ! If you try with hexagons, for example, you&#
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by ajnin 9y ago
Quitting your job with only 4 month worth of savings, with a new mortgage, to enter an industry known for its oversaturation, extreme competition, and high luck element for indies ? That's insane. Maybe I'm just risk-adverse. That
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by ajnin 9y ago
A ToS is a contract between a service provider and a user, Google doesn't need to agree to that contract to use its own services, I don't even know if it makes any sense legally. Of course ethically one would like the same rules t
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by ajnin 9y ago
What you heard was probably not transistors but the flyback transformer that TVs use to generate the high voltage needed by cathode ray tubes. They generally operate around 16-18kHz, in the high range of human hearing that young people can
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by ajnin 9y ago
Historically competition has been one of the best ways to foster innovation, and as a society achieving a good "ability to detect bikers" is probably something we want in an automatic car. However, it is relatively wasteful since
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by ajnin 9y ago
Using private browsing is definitely intentional, it's activated by the user and not a default setting; besides it's actively preventing tracking from taking place, it's not politely asking if advertisers would be so kind as
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by ajnin 9y ago
I think that Chrome still has an edge in performance when you consider the UI globally. In Firefox when creating a new window keypresses and mouse clicks are ignored until some point in the new page initialization. Before that they events a
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by ajnin 9y ago
Ticks are not a new problem for birds, they probably started to incorporate insecticide plants into their nests long before cigarettes were invented. Maybe they identified through smell that cigarettes contain tobacco, a known insecticide p
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by ajnin 9y ago
It's keeping the adresses that requires the least effort, changing them would have implied to also change all calls and jumps in the rest of the code, which could mean a very large number of addresses to change.
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by ajnin 9y ago
No, it's incorrect, physics does not mandate that battery should heat up as you expend energy. Ideally all the energy would go into kinetic energy and be dissipated by friction losses due to air or contact between the road and the tire
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by ajnin 9y ago
Hey, they used the data that I made available on my website here : https://www.bidouille.org/misc/androidcharts Gathering the old data from archive.org snapshots was a pain, I'm glad I saved someone else the troub
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by ajnin 9y ago
The myopia is assuming that every Hacker News reader is American. Many are not, and only a few countries organize debates or science fairs.
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by ajnin 9y ago
Qualcom got working on 5G technology as soon as 4G was finalized. I'm not an expert but it seems that the standards are written to be very close to the technology that Qualcomm is developping in parallel, if only because they demonstra
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by ajnin 9y ago
I wondered the same thing. It shows up in Chromium but not Firefox. It is apprently character 0x14, or ASCII for "Device control 4". First time I come across this character !
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by ajnin 9y ago
Article on the IRSN website (in French) with a map of likely release locations : http://www.irsn.fr/FR/Actualites_presse/Actualites/Pages/201...
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by ajnin 9y ago
Maybe it has one. It just wasn't programmed to use it.
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by ajnin 9y ago
I'm glad more frameworks follow the simple and concise way of Spark. However, why support both Java and Kotlin, it seems that would create more work with no real need ? Admittedly, I've been burned in the past with Play! which sai
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by ajnin 9y ago
> These discussions were why we put MINIX 3 out under the Berkeley license in 2000 Is he implying that he chose that license specifically because Intel asked for it ? He claims that that license is the most user-friendly since it gives t
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by ajnin 9y ago
> side effects: with enough effort and discipline ruby can be very much functional and side effects are less of an annoyance. Not when importing a module written by someone else, as all non-trivial apps need, can impact your code.
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by ajnin 9y ago
OVH already put up a mandatory DDOS protection in 2013, with about the same price (article about the feature states 0.5 to 10€ per server : https://www.nextinpact.com/news/81703-ovh-protection-ddos-ca... ). Before that,
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by ajnin 9y ago
Gaussian blur is mathematically reversible, but in practice you don't have enough resolution to successfully deconvolve the original image. However in the case of video you have multiple images and you can reconstruct a "super-res
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by ajnin 9y ago
One of the date examples shows a box with "06/09/2016" in it, with an error popup which says "Please select a valid value. The two nearest valid values are 2016-06-06 and 2016-06-11". Seems incoherent to use US
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by ajnin 9y ago
How does an "Hello world" request on localhost take an average of 50~100ms using any framework ? 1ms would already be too much. Something seems way off with this benchmark.
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by ajnin 9y ago
To be willing to throw your own life away for $250M is one thing, but to impose that choice on others, so that the government or some large contractor company gets to save money, smells of an utilitarian view of society and is frankly immor

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