andrewcooke

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by andrewcooke 13y ago
for fucks sake. this is tasteless exaggeration.
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
spies don't work like that, do they? there's something of a "tradition" of people who have exposed corruption / illegality in american power through the press. those people seem to form a separate group from spies
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
other countries don't seem to have the same attitude that america has. in general terms, in most places, the law is applies equally to everyone in the country[+]. in contrast, in the usa, many things apparently depend on whether you ar
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
love the racism(?) at the end - "We should have expected a famous cable manufacturer to make its best sounding cable the most expensive, but this is not always the case I can assure you. Sometimes cables are made more and more expensiv
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
fwiw, julia's package manager is interesting - it's a wrapper around git. i don't know the details, but it seems to work well and allows you to have both "standard" and "in development" packages.
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
you make a good point, but adding the word nazi pretty much ruins it. if you want to win an argument - particularly over issues related to the holocaust - you have to remain polite and avoid abuse like that. there's no alternative. i
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
fwiw, with linux md, you can (and should) scrub the array periodically. for raid in /sys/block/md*/md/sync_action; do echo "check" >> ${raid} done which will check and fix errors
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
fascinating.
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
nope. look at what the "A" in MAD stands for.
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
not it wouldn't. it takes no effort at all to see what people expect or game these tests.
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
stackoverflow (which was the only place i used this) have their own provider that you can switch to - http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/05/stack-exchange-is-an-o...
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
yes you're right. so replies will now switch to how they don't stop you from deleting data, because... well, i have no idea why. it seems to just be a law of nature.
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
will linux run on these things? what's linux support for the new connectors they have?
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
context - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7002720
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OpenSSL Says Breach Did Not Involve Corrupted Hypervisor(informationweek.com)
1 points by andrewcooke 13y ago|1 comments
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
looks like you were right - http://www.informationweek.com/security/vulnerabilities-and-... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7009529
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
in the uk you can be imprisoned (up to 2 years) for not revealing your password. i am surprised the bbc didn't mention that (maybe i missed it?) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law#United_Kingd... (al
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
i may be misunderstanding (there seem to have been at least two famous hacks on linode), but why would you use the word "hypervisor" to explain that someone had hacked your host's admin account? isn't the presence of th
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
i left so a month ago, and while i agree with one point here (creeping authoriarianism) i am completely opposed to "teach a man to fish". for me, as a professional programmer, that site is useful because it has direct, simple answ
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
his (daniel brown's) position seems consistent to me - it may have had a backdoor, but it wasn't obvious that it did, it was documented how to avoid the risk, and it's the only prng with a proof (apparently - i wouldn't
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
was it disinterred and reincarnated in the last few days, or is this a repost?
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
i think the x230 (still available) could, but the x240 can't for some reason. but check before buying...
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
the asus 1015 that comes with ubuntu installed works just fine, although the trackpad is pretty bad (i use an external mouse). opensuse 13.1 runs with no issues that i've noticed. 10 inch screen, looks like a netbook, 2GB memory, cele
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
it's not mysterious at all, it's the "controversial" filter - it got more comments than votes.
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
why didn't it catch fire? brakes at 900C and a lake of jet fuel...
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
i would probably try using pandoc's markdown http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html#pandocs-markdow... and then generating latex from that. but that's because (imho) markdown is easy to edit / rea
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
NO BECAUSE IT'S USEFUL. (also doesn't that little green light with no meaning bug you?)
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
some info here http://earth.nullschool.net/about.html it's weird it's so complex. just feels like such a low viscosity system should be simpler than that .
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
eh, no need to apologise. i think we're used to you here and there's a level of tolerance given the contributions you make. also, did you see http://www.jakoblell.com/blog/2013/12/22/practical-
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by andrewcooke 13y ago
i know you have the intellectual curiousity of a sausage, but some of us are simply interested. we don't all need to be motivated by logic. how would you derive it? tagging pairs of hex digits and sorting doesn't cut it. would

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