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by ascar 7y ago
I think that's technically incorrect. The BND (and it's military sibling MAD) are mostly concerned with foreign intelligence, while the Stasi was mostly used for internal surveillance. The subdivision HVA inside the Stasi would be
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by ascar 7y ago
Maybe that's just me, but I read hackernews comments for the usually insightful additional information and related discussions that are often more interesting than the article itself. GP comment provides no useful information nor spark
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by ascar 7y ago
The whole point of the rule is that it's more expensive to not run the flights than to run them with few passengers. So the fine would need to be higher than the cost of operating the flight resulting in the exact same outcome.
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by ascar 7y ago
While I absolutely agree you shouldn't reuse passwords across services, it's a reality for many users and I'm convinced it's not an acceptable point of view to tell your user his password might be leaked, if there is no
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by ascar 7y ago
> Of course if you get hits for all your bloom filters, you still have to do a real lookup to positively confirm that the key is in the database. As I replied elsewhere, please do not ignore this part for good user experience. I've
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by ascar 7y ago
> Personally, when I implemented this in a web service, I used a bloom filter. When I was working on blocking leaked passwords, I found projects using bloomfilters for this (e.g. Keycloak). I find false positives completely unacceptable
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by ascar 7y ago
> I have mixed feelings around documentation because I can often read the code faster than the docs, and docs are often incomplete, inaccurate, and out-of-date. The problem I have everytime time I read or hear this statement, is that cod
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by ascar 7y ago
I recently had a discussion with someone who complained about the Gmail permission dialogue when adding his Gmail account to the Windows 10 mail program. He was absolutely convinced that he will not agree to giving Windows permission to vie
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by ascar 7y ago
So any non-public company would be exempt? There are multiple private multi billion dollar companies and I wouldn't be surprised, if they all have less than 100 shareholders.
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by ascar 7y ago
I like the metric system and would love to see the US switch to the metric system, but this comment is just wrong on so many levels. One litre of water only approximately weighs 1kg and density is relative to temperature and pressure. Furth
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by ascar 7y ago
That's not what the report is comparing at all. The report is comparing all vehicles driving in all conditions vs Teslas driving in all conditions (separate for with and without autopilot). The numbers show that Teslas experience a low
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by ascar 7y ago
Based on tesla's safety report [1] it's already less dangerous than letting humans drive (alone). The error rate of human drivers tends to be downplayed, while the perceived risks of automated driving is exaggerated, distorting th
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by ascar 7y ago
It's called loop unrolling and improves performance by eliminating loop control overhead and reducing branch mispredictions. Maybe they had a compiler background :)? /s
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by ascar 7y ago
Could you please elaborate how that ends up as a Merkle tree? In a merkle tree the leaves are not linked and they have a tree structure of parent hashes on top. Git and Blockchain nodes are linked and the fundamental architecture doesn&#x27
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by ascar 7y ago
I know Git and Blockchains are said to be examples for (usage of) Merkle trees, but I fail to see how they're actually (using) a merkle tree. Using the hash of a parent node as input to a nodes hash alongside the nodes data creates a l
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by ascar 7y ago
I don't think their 10 minute update interval is based on the performance limitations of the HTTP protocol, but used because it's simply not necessary to do it more often. Maintaining an open full duplex connection for a single fe
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by ascar 7y ago
I'm probably missing something, but isn't it simpler to just make both available separately and allow users to still reference by sha1, if they want to, while sha256 can be used for collision detection by git operations internally
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by ascar 7y ago
> It’s not even Agile. Agile is about tight loop upfront planning, and avoiding last-minute distruttive changes and meetings... That's an abomination definition of agile, probably influenced by scrum. In the agile manifesto it says
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by ascar 7y ago
The problem I have with a whitlisting approach is, what if it's actually some legitimate and damn important call? When my father was in the hospital close to death I got informed by phone from an unknown number. You get these calls hop
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by ascar 7y ago
Bill Gates and Warren Buffet apparently know each other pretty well, maybe they can even be called friends, and Buffet trusts Gates enough to give his foundation $3.6 billion. Imho the Netflix documentation "Inside Bill's Brain:
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by ascar 7y ago
Fun to read. Thanks for sharing! With the risk of sounding a bit arrogant, am I the only one who immediately thought about a timeout issue on the first description of the problem? As a fan of online gaming I'm painfully aware that ping
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by ascar 7y ago
I'm really interested in how you benchmarked that? Is there a "simple" way to specify the physical location on a HD data should be written to?
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by ascar 7y ago
The karma thresholds and losing karma on downvotes also helps a lot to sustain the culture. Having to gain at least a bit of karma before being allowed to upvote yourself is hard, if unthoughtful comments are downvoted by the community. And
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by ascar 7y ago
> For instance I will never understand the people who buy plastic-wrapped pre-sliced "salami" Well, if I don't buy it presliced from the butcher I always buy packaged presliced milano salami, because it's nearly impos
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by ascar 7y ago
> proloxify the feeblegarps Did you just invent these two words? I googled them separately and your comment is litterally the only hit. Chapeau!
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by ascar 7y ago
Reading this, the 2 hours of physical exercise per week in school make a lot more sense now from an physiological point of view. I always just took them as fun time and some kids took them as annoying burden that should be avoided. I not on
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by ascar 7y ago
Maybe that's just me, but I get really annoyed by other people using (freakishly loud) mechanical keyboards in the office. It disrupts me from doing my work and some keyboards even penetrante my Bose QC ii with quiet music on...
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by ascar 7y ago
Unethical, immoral, obviously. Criminal? Not at all. Starting with different laws in different jurisdictions, over the difference of criminal acts and civil offenses to the point where an AirBnB is your private home and not a hotel ("o
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by ascar 7y ago
If you mean with "you" the operator of the tool, then yes I agree partially. But in this context it's more like "you" the user and then using open source alternatives doesn't make a big difference. Updates (whi
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by ascar 7y ago
Ah, interesting that they tried to remove it. Edit: i just read the proposal to remove it and it was mainly, because vmf was classified as "mainfranconian" and "upperfranconian" spoken west of the city of Mainz. I agree

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