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by anilakar 7y ago
The availability of old computers and other electronics varies hugely and tends to better if there are large tech companies nearby. We have an undergrad-run computer gaming club that used to operate with discarded lease hardware only, and
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by anilakar 7y ago
Five out of five signers from my country are well-known EHS proponents, and at least three have financial ties to the illness. Having a Ph.D. degree from a well-known university does little to prevent later involvement in quackery.
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by anilakar 7y ago
Some websites also strip EXIF data from user submitted content but do not rotate the image to match the now-missing information about which side is up.
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by anilakar 7y ago
X86 has also had saturation arithmetic since MMX was introduced.
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by anilakar 7y ago
A few countries actively try to hurt us, so let's spy on everyone, including our own citizens and allies!
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by anilakar 7y ago
SSN misuse will stop the moment companies are made responsible for all actions that result from using SSN as an authentication token.
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by anilakar 7y ago
In other news: Here deregulation of taxi services made people use taxi services less. Competition does not always mean more accessible or affordable consumer options.
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by anilakar 7y ago
> He could have probably discussed the age of consent in public pre-2013 and maybe get a few disgusted reactions but generally be fine. He did. People don't remember, but his home page used to have articles regarding age of consent,
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by anilakar 7y ago
You can always put on more clothes and work physically during cold weather, but there is a limit on how much heat you can dissipate and more importantly social norms that affect how much clothes you can remove :-)
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by anilakar 7y ago
I know I'm treading on dangerous waters here considering Sam Altman's involvement, but I'm gonna burn some karma regardless: Is there anything open about OpenAI or is it just a name?
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by anilakar 7y ago
I wish Python Software Foundation had worded their announcement differently – in the SW development context, even a plain "support for this version ends on dd.mm.yyyy" sounds more professional and friendly than the word "suns
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by anilakar 7y ago
I use a similar rule for those git commands that either take one or two branch names. The latter one must obviously be the current branch by default.
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by anilakar 7y ago
To me, military-grade means that you run it over a physically separated network and post armed guards who will shoot all intruders.
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by anilakar 7y ago
Alpine. Slow in particular? I don't have the resources to profile everything in our codebase and find the root issue, but others have already benchmarked it: https://superuser.com/questions/1219609/why-is-the-
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by anilakar 7y ago
Using musl as your standard library causes other problems, namely horrible Python performance and incompatibility with Valgrind.
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by anilakar 7y ago
A fast internet connection is like many other resources: It might be good 95 % of the time and you won't pay any attention to it, but when you notice it's not enough, it totally pisses you off. This applies equally to computer RAM
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by anilakar 7y ago
There's still one huge disadvantage with hardware-based FIDO U2F tokens: There's no good way to migrate from one to another. I've got three(!) Yubikeys of different generations on my keyring because I'm not sure whether
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by anilakar 7y ago
Yubico's OTP requires you to register your secret on their server and adds a mandatory third party to the authentication process, so it's literally the second worst authentication method a Yubikey supports right after a static pas
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by anilakar 7y ago
So... instead of Product Engineer and Software Engineer, the titles should be Software Engineer and Programmer, respectively.
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by anilakar 7y ago
Keeping local storage in memory might make sense if Incognito Mode had separate storage for every tab. However, it's just another browser session that gets wiped when the the last tab gets closed – you cannot have multiple parallel eph
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by anilakar 7y ago
Protip: When you use Google's handwriting recognition, all the texts you write are visible to people who have opted in to train the neural networks. I've already received tons of names, phone numbers and even something that resemb
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by anilakar 7y ago
Oh god. Two and a half out of twelve. Time to create that LinkedIn profile...
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by anilakar 7y ago
What's the patent being infringed? Surely "low-voltage components in series with their combined maximum rating above the mains voltage" by itself can't be patent-worthy, so there should be something more specific being i
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by anilakar 7y ago
I've written a touch panel UI for a next-gen sprinkler system. The valves themselves used high-pressure mist to bind smoke particles and minimize liquid damage often associated with sprinklers, and could be individually shut off when n
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by anilakar 7y ago
Does anyone still remember the times when MSIE actually warned you if you were POSTing anything over an unencrypted connection?
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by anilakar 7y ago
It could be argued that when all you had were AM/CW receivers, plain old SSB would have been an encryption scheme, if the definition of encryption is "there's someone who cannot demodulate it with the equipment they have&quot
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by anilakar 7y ago
YLLMV (Your Local Legislation May Vary), but reverse engineering and subsequent modifications are completely legal here, if they're more for compatibility than competition.
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by anilakar 7y ago
IRCv3 notwithstanding, the protocol from a software engineering point of view is horrible. It doesn't support asynchronous operations because responses cannot be tied to their corresponding requests, and many commands, successful or no
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by anilakar 7y ago
In 2005 Pepsi had a campaign where you would get a Sony laptop priced at 2000 EUR by buying some 850 EUR net worth of soda. When people started sending in their bottle labels en masse, it turned out that the company never expected anyone to
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by anilakar 7y ago
I was under the impression that banks were required to know their customers, which at least until this point has basically required you to visit a physical office with a passport and answer the standard anti-laundering questionnaire. This p

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