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by altfredd 8y ago
It's pointless to provide examples, because Google will quickly "recall" anything that is being searched by multiple different people. Unfortunately, it is no longer possible to use Google Search for searching in Internet. Yo
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by altfredd 8y ago
Sussman isn't "getting edits approved". He is literally bribing other editors in open. Ever wrote anything on Wikipedia talk pages? Unless you are commenting on article with hundred thousands of daily views, your comments wil
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by altfredd 8y ago
It is not: https://danielpocock.com/what-does-democracy-mean-in-free-so... The current Debian "developers" have reached uniform agreed that: 1) Neither of them will participate in election 2) People outside of &qu
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by altfredd 8y ago
He isn't necessarily lying, and there won't be a lawsuit. The "self-driving" will be made available, both in hardware and software. It just won't be usable on roads (because every state will immediately outlaw it).
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by altfredd 8y ago
> This is (RFC) valid JSON: You mean, "valid, according to the latest 2017 RFC". Such young RFC is still to raw, too immature to adopt, especially if it concerns data interchange formats. IPv6 was created in 1995, and it appare
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by altfredd 8y ago
The article seems heavily influenced by author's personal preferences. He starts from presenting false dichotomy (bit stream vs self-documenting text) and proceeds to apply his personal experience with proprietary GPS trackers to well-
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by altfredd 8y ago
> It is a shame that you are being downvoted. I (like a lot of people here) disagree with you, but you have a point of view shared by a lot of people. People are notoriously bad at acting in their own best interest. I recall reading a fo
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by altfredd 8y ago
I got the "love", because it was (and still is) advertised on google.com. Most non-technical people readily install malware when prompted. If malware is advertised on google.com, they will install it more quickly. Microsoft have b
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by altfredd 8y ago
> Those arguments are invalid. Your individual statements are correct, but they do not add up to valid argument in this case. Kazakhstan forces their citizens to install government-issued certificate to use SSL. This allows Kazakhstan to
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by altfredd 8y ago
> you are now letting everyone know what possibly vulnerable packages you have. Erm, what? The number of people, who can listen to (much less — modify) your traffic is very small. It is basically your ISP (who is supposed to offers you s
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by altfredd 8y ago
Actually, you can. This is called "spam". When someone stops visiting your site, make sure to send them a email. Ask them to return! You have their email address, right?
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by altfredd 8y ago
The real answer is that releasing source code means uncovering (some of) their cards. The company, that relies on selling identical hardware under vastly different prices, won't ever do that. Using game-specific speed-hacks to "fi
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by altfredd 8y ago
"Nouveau and amdgpu were always barely working" — nah, you are spreading misleading information and lumping together completely unrelated projects at different stages of development. Noveau has been almost close to usable at some
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by altfredd 8y ago
"Other app stores" do exist, but Google went to great lengths to destroy them. Publishing clients for alternative stores in Google Play/Android Market have been prohibited by Google's ToS for years (don't know if it
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by altfredd 8y ago
Isn't "keyless entry" basically same concept as "not locking a door"? You can trivially implement it on every vehicle without using any electronics at all.
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by altfredd 8y ago
There is nothing wrong with publishing rewritten package with same name under full supervision of original developer . Transferring control generally implies full trust, and Dominic haven't established any trust with new developer. He
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by altfredd 8y ago
NPM repository is not "open source community". NPM is controlled by commercial organization ("npm, Inc."), which is fully capable of establishing rules, preventing package authors from selling to black hats (or even gif
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by altfredd 8y ago
I don't believe, that Dominic (the former maintainer, who gave the control of package to complete stranger) is the sole party to blame here. The biggest responsibility lies with so-called "administration" of NPM, who have sys
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by altfredd 8y ago
The most alarming part about this story is that DeepMind's involvement is largely unneeded and their "accomplishments" are superficial to say the least: > DeepMind Health went on to work with Moorfields Eye Hospital, with
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by altfredd 8y ago
I have a heavily-patched version of less-popular sandboxing program (appjail). When I want to handle some files from questionable origin, I create a directory (~/jailboxes/gregs_avi_files) and use appjail to switch to that directo
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by altfredd 8y ago
Well, I have used it for years, and never encountered any issues. If you want to share a file between sandboxes you can hardlink it. Or use descriptor-passing. Or… But it feels like you are just looking for theoretical flaws in my personal
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by altfredd 8y ago
There is no reason to make it complicated. Sandboxed programs have their own $HOME. You can drag & drop files into their $HOME. Full stop. I have been using a directory-per-program sandboxing setup for several years (and still do). It i
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by altfredd 8y ago
Wrong. Splitting logic into separate threads is not necessary. In order to make the engine independent from FPS, you have to decide, how to handle excess/missing output. You can buffer, transform, average or simply drop excess frames.
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by altfredd 8y ago
> Content creators often look for middlemen to represent them. Oh boy. Bees are looking for badgers?! Content creators are looking for support and high reliability. "The middleman" can sometimes deliver those things... Until th
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by altfredd 8y ago
"Configure often detects features by compiling a binary and executing it" — I am not sure, where this impression comes from. Autotools as whole have excellent cross-compilation support. Autoconf has feature-detection routines, che
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by altfredd 8y ago
This post explains it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12282894 TL;DR: modern email providers don't care if you are in blacklists. If your IP/domain does not have established reputation, they will drop half o
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by altfredd 8y ago
> WHOIS is extensively relied on by spam fighters like Spamhaus Does anyone of importance still use those? Google and other major email hubs have long switched to AB testing and building user profiles as their primary filtering tools. Th
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by altfredd 8y ago
100% renewable as in "100% likely to be stolen or heavily subsidized with taxpayers' money".
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by altfredd 8y ago
> web apps are clunkier and provide a worse experience because they are not well supported by the OS No, they are clunkier and provide a worse experience, because most "web apps" are ported version of desktop bloatware, targeti
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by altfredd 9y ago
> Any full uninstall of a system app would require remounting /system as rw. Why do Google Apps have to be installed to the system partition anyway? I have tried several email clients and image viewers from Google's app store,

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