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by arantius 10y ago
Is it "more readable" or "more familiar to you"? They're both familiar to me and I find them equally readable. Concision gets you fewer places to possibly have a bug, and fewer things to possibly miss/misunder
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by arantius 10y ago
Super-e-c-l-enter. (Could probably get away with just "e" but habit and all that.)
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by arantius 10y ago
This is of course specifically how to reveal these features in the OpenSSH client. If you're using another client (e.g. PuTTY) there's a different way to get to these features (click the menu).
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by arantius 10y ago
FYI: "mAh" or milli-amp-hours is a unit of capacity, in this case it makes no sense. Perhaps you mean just "mA", a unit of current, which does make sense in context?
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by arantius 10y ago
See a recent episode of The Allusionist ( http://www.theallusionist.org/allusionist/please ) discussing the difference between American and British English, when it comes to the word "please". Brits use it w
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by arantius 11y ago
I'm not OP but sometimes I'll do a high def video render that's only practical to run overnight. If I lose several hours of processing because Windows decided to reboot itself somewhere in the middle of the night I won'
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The Sneaky Life of a Shapeshifting Plant(phenomena.nationalgeographic.com)
2 points by arantius 11y ago|0 comments
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by arantius 11y ago
Bob: Wash the dishes! Fred: Fuck you! Bob: Wash the dishes and fuck you!
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by arantius 11y ago
There's only one external storage. And in an attempt (irony alert!) to make permissions "easy" for users to understand, some Android people decided to call the permission that grants access to external storage "Photos&q
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by arantius 11y ago
Thanks! A hands-off (on?) manual client is what I always wanted. I've just finally used Let's Encrypt for the first time, with manuale.
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by arantius 11y ago
From the Intel section ( https://libreboot.org/faq/#intelme ) > If the manifest isn't signed by a specific Intel key, the boot ROM won't load and execute the firmware and the ME processor core will be halt
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by arantius 11y ago
What is the behavior of gettext() if the message is not found? (This question is the answer to your question.)
163.
by arantius 11y ago
Google's current Python style guide absolutely calls for two spaces. All of the languages I'm familiar with (at Google) do this. Except golang ...
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by arantius 11y ago
Couldn't help but notice this. The next page down, in the image, they get it right. And are similarly loose with their terminology throughout the article.
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by arantius 11y ago
Wouldn't Solitaire [1] be a better argument (of this vein) against banning encryption? It's reasonably strong and doesn't even require a computer. Much more practically memorized. [1] https://www.schneier.com&#x2
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by arantius 11y ago
It's not about amount of time, it's order of operations. Taxi: already on the street, driving around, I try to get flag one down by essentially luck. Pre-arranged: I contact you, tell you where I am, you specifically set out to pi
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The Curse of the First-In First-Out Queue Discipline (2012) [pdf](ctic.au.dk)
16 points by arantius 11y ago|8 comments
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by arantius 11y ago
I agree, I've seen lots of fun things like this on the internet. But good ideas are hard to come by. I did something like this a few years back, for favicons: http://tech.arantius.com/favicon-survey
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Axel: a minimal paralellizing wget replacement(blog.linuxjunkie.com)
3 points by arantius 12y ago|0 comments
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by arantius 12y ago
At least the bulk of the article was discussing data explicitly described as being generated by Mathematica, which is capable of arbitrary precision. It seems just as likely that this mode was used.
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by arantius 12y ago
My guess is they're using the standard approach for deriving an encryption key from a password: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBKDF2
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by arantius 12y ago
> it's kind of like when people are surprised that a standard way of saying "hi" in North America is "how are you?" even though the person doesn't actually wanna hear it and will be weirded out if you reply
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Software Obviousness: The Disconnect between Engineers and the Patent System(papers.ssrn.com)
1 points by arantius 13y ago|0 comments
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by arantius 13y ago
https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/privacy?hl=en "We built Google Public DNS to make the web faster and to retain as little information about usage as we could, while still being able to detect an
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by arantius 13y ago
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stylish/
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by arantius 13y ago
Recently learned of http://convergence.io/ (talk: http://youtu.be/UawS3_iuHoA ) which sounds quite promising. It's not perfect (private, non routable sites?) but removes the certificate authority olig
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by arantius 13y ago
These ideas are inextricably linked! If you cannot verify the identity of the other end, you cannot verify that a man in the middle is decrypting, monitoring or altering, and then passing the data on to the real endpoint.
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by arantius 13y ago
I believe you need to include arriving at your location and finding your directions were wrong/GPS was out of date/were given the wrong address, and need to re-do most of that last 20% drive again.
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by arantius 13y ago
The words you're using make it sound very much like you know what you're talking about. And it sounds interesting. But I can only make sense of bits of it. Do you have a good suggestion where I can read a bit more about this? I
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by arantius 13y ago
This release prodded me to look into Firefox OS again. I have a Nexus S lying around unused, and that's one of the supported "tier two" devices. So I installed it. I really want to love it. I love Firefox, but Firefox OS i

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