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by ajnin 10y ago
Laws are rules but they are not enough on their own to make decisions. They are written with the implicit cultural background and the intent of the humans who wrote them. Plenty of case law is around determining what the authors actually me
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by ajnin 10y ago
Read will return 0 when the peer has closed the connection, that's how you detect it. When there is no data, the call will block instead until some data arrives (unless the socket is set to non-block mode).
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by ajnin 11y ago
Yeah there is a certain dissonance in conducting research to create psychoactive drugs based on "anxiety-like symptoms", then giving that drug to humans and seeing that it does in fact cure anxiety, and the refuse to attribute tha
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by ajnin 11y ago
I believe we live in an extraordinary period in history. By that I mean a unique period that didn't happen before and that won't likely happen again after it has ended. We're able to make so much stuff because we're burn
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by ajnin 11y ago
I don't mind the back button behavior personally. This is intended mainly as a reference that you keep in your bookmarks, so you wouldn't have a previous page to go to in most cases. I can see how being able to move back/forw
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by ajnin 11y ago
> The Corvus species performed on a similar level to the great apes, despite vastly smaller absolute brain sizes. A chimpanzee brain is roughly 26 times larger than a raven's; nevertheless, both species achieve 100% success. I don&#
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by ajnin 11y ago
The problems seems to lie more with rampant state-level corruption in Zimbabwe than with multinationals per se. Not to mention that the company in question, Green Fuel, operates only in the domestic market. The end of the article reveals th
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by ajnin 11y ago
The message is perhaps a bit rude but the proposed patch is a real dick move, it would remove the warning while keeping all the contact info etc inviting users to send bug reports to upstream for this outdated version (which is what prompte
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by ajnin 11y ago
This is not very convincing. He starts off by saying that the "traditional" model where the data scientists do the thinking while the engineers do the doing is unsuccessful because the engineers need to get invested in other peopl
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by ajnin 11y ago
I doubt that most applications of the 555 are driving relays and lamps, it probably is mainly used to generate timing signals. But that's besides the point, the low power versions can function with low voltages, allowing to power the c
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by ajnin 11y ago
Not mentioned is the total cost of the project, estimated at around 2.7 billion Euro for 10-15 years of life expectancy according to the industrial manufacturer (Colas). There is a very long way, in France, between political declarations of
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by ajnin 11y ago
... which is a hack using undocumented/non-public APIs of the Java compiler, so that's not really a viable solution.
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by ajnin 11y ago
Let's Encrypt does not support wildcard certs but they do support SAN certs, so if your list of subdomains is fixed then you can still benefit from socket reuse with HTTP/2.
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by ajnin 11y ago
I'm wondering about that too since I'm running some very low power web servers (ESP8266) and I don't know if HTTPS is even feasible on these devices. I hope HTTPS become the preferred default but is not made mandatory by brow
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by ajnin 11y ago
Maybe they're actually right and they see connections on a broad scale that other people are too stupid to make. Intelligence is after all often described as the ability to discern the hidden structure behind things. (half kidding ;))
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by ajnin 11y ago
If you were cynical you could also say that's a pretty good way to give yourself the image of a good guy Robin Hood, for when the justice eventually catches up to you.
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by ajnin 11y ago
By that reasoning you should stop paying your taxes, since everybody else can compensate by paying a tiny, imperceptible amount more.
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by ajnin 11y ago
It depends on the country I guess, in France you do pay VAT on food (5.5%), clothing (20%), and for rent it depends on what you're renting but for most people you're right that they're probably exempt.
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by ajnin 11y ago
VAT is the most unjust tax there is. People with low income spend it on things like food, clothing, housing, entertainment, that are all subjected to VAT, whereas richer people have access to the stock market, investment, and tax lawyers, a
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by ajnin 11y ago
I'm not quite convinced by the article, but I was thinking something economically-related as I was reading it. The economic system is now capitalist, with the main objective being the search for profits, and it seems that it's bec
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by ajnin 11y ago
Another problem of DNA testing that is hinted at in the article is that as more and more people enter the databases the probability of false positives increases. A 1 in a million chance sounds reasonable when you are testing one person, but
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by ajnin 11y ago
That's not exactly it, the regexp does match both "Tarzan" and Tarzan, but the capture group 1 will only be set for strings that contain Tarzan without quotes. So by examining that group after matching you know in which case
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by ajnin 11y ago
That's a rather absurd set of constraints. Do you hire people to only work 100% alone on projects ? Would Linus Torvalds be a "red flag" because he's accepting contributions to Linux ? Why 10 people ? There is no link b
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by ajnin 11y ago
This looks like an open question to get to know the candidate but in fact it's another way to fit the candidate in a box. Distinctions like leader/follower don't always make sense, they are not opposites. Programming language
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by ajnin 11y ago
I don't think that "can be found on Google" is a very good criterion for commonness...
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by ajnin 11y ago
I can still use my computer, my bandwidth and my time as I see fit. I refuse to waste time waiting for ads to load, closing popups, stopping videos (with sound!), and sieveing through a visual mess to find the actual content on a webpage. I
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by ajnin 11y ago
The worst for me was the "monkey wrench" puzzle in Monkey Island 2 ... Being French, playing with the French version, I had no way to put this together. I ended up trying every item combination in the whole game world until I foun
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by ajnin 11y ago
We all know too well what happens when a backwards-breaking change is imposed without strong functional justifications : most developers don't actually put the effort to upgrade and as a result the vast majority of extensions break. Ca
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by ajnin 11y ago
> Negotiating and ratifying the deal are 2 separate things. Negotiating in secret is a non-issue and likely quite helpful. I don't agree, with secret negociations the ratifiers will be presented with a "accept everything"
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by ajnin 11y ago
Agreed, and now the headline reads more like "Hackers endanger people on public highways" instead of the more interesting (in its consequences) "Jeep cars can be taken over almost completely over an Internet connection while

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