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by alphager 3y ago
No, they don't. The banks know perfectly well that this doesn't catch terrorists. But by law they are liable if a terrorist uses their services if they don't have a program to detect terrorists. A key-word match on Iran, bomb
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by alphager 3y ago
The large address space and thus the king addresses are an artifact of optimizing the routing. I think just saving the endless discussions of "my Xbox only got nat type 2, how do I change it?" alone saves more lifetimes than are l
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by alphager 3y ago
There's no reasonable minimum wage. A minimum wage that would be appropriate for restaurants is nonsensical for electricians. The swedish model basically sets minimum wage by sector. Much more tailored to the employers and employees.
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by alphager 3y ago
I was highly skeptical (and especially didn't like the nature of having a limited number of searches per month), but decided to try it for a few days. I'm blown away. They really are that good
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by alphager 3y ago
Only available in the ultimate plan.
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by alphager 3y ago
How is it worse in Europe? Where in Europe is it worse? I can't remember the last time the grid failed.
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by alphager 3y ago
There's mainly three kinds of patches: * make the software behave like Debian needs it (configuration is stored somewhere in /etc/, no additional downloads at runtime, use the system libraries instead of vendored ones) * secu
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by alphager 3y ago
Pretty sure you had to configure both devices for it to work.
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by alphager 3y ago
And you'd be fine in Germany. HN paints an overly gloomy picture of Germany. All points mentioned contain a kernel of truth but also a pessimistic linear regression concerning the outlook of the future. We've got a very minor rece
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by alphager 3y ago
No. You can have multiple DKIM DNS records (each identified by an id called selector). Each DKIM signature includes the selector. When you change keys, you create a new DNS entry with a new selector, then change the settings of the mailserv
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by alphager 3y ago
That seems insecure; just chmod -R 777 /
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by alphager 3y ago
Obligatory zkcd: https://xkcd.com/1217/
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by alphager 3y ago
The same way the US prevents me from buying cuban cigars here in Germany over the internet: * execs are liable for breaches of the law if/when they travel to the US. * companies in the US are forbidden to do business with companies in
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by alphager 3y ago
Their USP was that they had no revenue share. Somehow they thought that the current retroactive per-install model would go over better than reneging on that promise.
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by alphager 3y ago
What did he do? The Wikipedia entry seems harmless.
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by alphager 3y ago
This is the core problem. Everybody is discussing the crash dump and the exfil, but the core problem is that Microsoft neither validated the validity of keys (the leaked key was already invalid) nor the context of the key usage (the key was
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by alphager 3y ago
6 digit years are a solution for a problem we have today. Think geologist simulating continental drift.
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by alphager 3y ago
Look, I paid you your asking price for the /full/ spec; now you're telling me you will only deliver it partially and have the gall to say I get to decide how much money on top I pay you after the deadline for the full spec ha
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by alphager 3y ago
Yup, 1970. The Mythical Man-Month was published in 1975. Our industry is well on the path to ignore the obvious truths for 50 years...
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by alphager 3y ago
As a parent, I welcome this. Although a child-free area on a plane sounds about as effective as a non-peeing area in a public pool.
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by alphager 3y ago
Age is pretty mutable (until death).
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by alphager 3y ago
In case of a detachment, the train will automatically perform an emergency brake (without the possibility of manual intervention by the conductor). Trains are fail-safe. They only run because the brakes are held open by a pressured air syst
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by alphager 3y ago
Yes, which is why your flight sometimes is delayed until the refueling truck comes around. Pilots calculate the needed fuel depending on weight of the cargo, distance to target, and meteorological conditions on the path. They can only calcu
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by alphager 3y ago
On the flip side, Debian doesn't upgrade to a new version when a vulnerability is found in the shipped version. Instead, they try to backport just the fix. If Debian shipped version n and the upstream fixes the vulnerability in version
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by alphager 3y ago
In this parallel comment, the first paragraph doesn't make any sense and seems like LLM-output: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37192872
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by alphager 3y ago
The enjoyment is key for it to make sense. If it's a chore like laundry or vacuuming, it makes sense to outsource it.
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by alphager 3y ago
I own a full modern kitchen (your mid-range appliances; full induction stove and a modern convection oven that even steams). My no-name air fryer makes crunchier fries than my convection oven.
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by alphager 3y ago
A lot of comments regarding the browser as the platform, but I remember it differently. I remember it as a push for IIS. Netscape didn't make money with the browser; the business model was giving away the browser to sell the server.
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by alphager 3y ago
The booksellers at the Seine are a well-known fixture and a minor tourist attraction (not for the Paris-in-24-hours crowd). They have a long history dating back to the 16th century: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouqu
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by alphager 3y ago
You've gut the nail on the head: dig was designed with the needs of the 90s in mind, where terseness was a virtue (if your ram can be usefully conveyed in kilobytes, you need terse tools). Due to backwards compatibility, the output won

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