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by ak217 11y ago
We have recently selected Sophos for endpoint protection, and so far it has been working great. Its admin console is a SaaS with a very decent interface. But to be honest I'm not sure how good Sophos is under the hood, either. They hav
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by ak217 11y ago
Of these, only += on tuple elements and indexing with floats strike me as WTFs, and many others are evidence of the author really going out of their way to look for behaviors to nitpick on. The absolute majority of these are things that Pyt
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by ak217 11y ago
Just to add some anecdata as a pile, I run about 1200 miles a year (half pavement, one third trail, the rest track). I regularly get a sort of runner's high after covering 5+ miles at a hard (7 min) pace, or 10+ miles at a moderate (8-
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by ak217 11y ago
iFixit, I love what you do, so please don't compromise your integrity by breaking license agreements that companies try to get you into. You have the power to refuse those agreements and post them for the world to see. If you find your
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by ak217 11y ago
It's worse than that. The California government is in a long-term constitutional crisis precisely because of the proposition system. The legislative burden from politicized, poorly written, un-repealable propositions paralyzes the stat
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by ak217 11y ago
There are many places in your stack where data corruption can and will occur. You are correct that TLS provides payload integrity on a per-packet basis - but it doesn't protect you against silent truncation (to fight this, always decla
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by ak217 11y ago
The CRC in TCP is weak. CRCs can be made arbitrarily powerful and still retain their key advantage: they can be computed independently and then combined when concatenating the parts. That key advantage, combined with a strong CRC, is what p
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by ak217 11y ago
The CRC in TCP is not powerful enough, but CRCs can be adjusted to be arbitrarily powerful. The main advantage of CRCs is that they can be independently computed for multiple parts and combined when concatenating the parts.
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by ak217 11y ago
The gearbox is an extremely heavy, failure prone, and complicated part of all helicopters. The gearbox alone typically weighs between 10 and 30% of the total dry weight of the helicopter. So replacing it with electrical drives does sound ve
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by ak217 11y ago
This mirrors my experience precisely. I was very excited about async/await, hoping that this would integrate coroutines into regular Python scripts, without the need to manage some complex dispatch engine. I was equally disappointed to
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by ak217 11y ago
Meditation does not exercise the brain by deliberately pushing cognitive tasks on it.
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by ak217 11y ago
> “It’s the first real attempt to meaningfully harness the power of games in a dedicated cognitive enhancement tool,” commented C. Shawn Green, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and experts on brain training This st
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by ak217 11y ago
If Apple wants to move off Intel for desktop CPUs in the near future, good luck to them - the laws of physics apply to Apple, too. Intel has invested tens of billions of dollars in process technology, owns key IP and assets, and (after a lo
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by ak217 11y ago
Jason Scott is doing an incredible public service here. Presuming this gets scanned and released to the public, it will over time result in many pieces of recycled electronics, inspired engineers, and derivative art.
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by ak217 11y ago
I wonder if NASA is going to end up buying plutonium for RTGs from Russia years down the road.
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by ak217 11y ago
It seems more likely that this fell out of recent advertised updates that offer read-after-write consistency in US STANDARD.
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by ak217 11y ago
The Matrix and Miyazaki's movies. Maybe didn't change my life, but had a lasting impact.
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by ak217 11y ago
My experience has been the opposite. To me Windows 10 is the continuation of the 8/8.1 trainwreck, with the ridiculous Metro skins, a broken start menu, the half-assed fragmentation of the UIs into Metro/non-Metro, ham-handed app
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by ak217 11y ago
> What citizens would accept attacking their brothers and sisters in another country, attacking their trading partners with whom they make their livings? The bitter truth that Russians have to deal with is that most of the population is
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by ak217 11y ago
Good to know, thanks! I hope this gets ported to Debian/Ubuntu... I wish it shipped with built-in 2FA capability.
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by ak217 11y ago
This also seems to be the motivation behind the already available Titan X with its 12GB of RAM. Some of the gaming hardware reviewers are scratching their heads as to why anyone would need 12GB attached to one die. I chuckled when I saw tho
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by ak217 11y ago
Key problem: aside from PAM, there is no way to use TOTP-based 2FA on your SSH server. And any modern security setup requires 2FA.
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by ak217 11y ago
You omit a key point. The oxygen event (initial uplift from near zero at 2.3Ga) is not directly related to plate tectonics. Instead, plate tectonics appears to have helped the oxygen boost at 1Ga: increased volcanic activity released large
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by ak217 11y ago
"Toyota, in particular, argued that its systems were “robust and secure” against wireless attacks." That's what they said about unintended acceleration. It turned out they were lying. http://www.edn.com/design
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by ak217 11y ago
Blackboard is also known for harassing and suing its competitors based on frivolous patents, and for fixing prices. A mobile app and a UX redesign are nice, but hardly sufficient, when they're funded by those kinds of practices.
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by ak217 11y ago
Yes, also known as unsprung weight. This is one of the reasons airless tires have a long way to go before they can hope to replace regular tires.
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by ak217 11y ago
Which is a nice way of saying that Greg Miller is putting on airs without running his work by a native speaker.
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by ak217 11y ago
+1 to that.
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by ak217 11y ago
Boto3 was made using a much more principled design approach, while Boto grew organically and frankly got a bit out of control. I love boto3, it makes AWS a joy to use.
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by ak217 11y ago
What defines "unusual"? The CPU/GPU split is a distinction without a difference there. NVIDIA and ATI have both been selling massively parallel architectures in their GPUs for most of a decade now, and NVIDIA has great tracti

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