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by avian 10y ago
Another case I've seen where TCP checksum failed was in old Eee PCs. There, the TCP checksum check on incoming packets was offloaded to the network interface. Unfortunately, some Linux driver and/or hardware bug occasionally corru
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by avian 10y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13456357
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by avian 10y ago
The "sysvinit" binary package has had a total of 2 bug reports tagged "security" filed in Debian's bug tracker. That's over the entire history of the package that goes back to at least 2004. If I extend the sea
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by avian 10y ago
Interesting. Note that these numbers are per quarter, so according to this, average revenue even for Google is only around $3 per user per month.
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by avian 10y ago
Is there a way to actually estimate how much money I would have to give per month to compensate for the ads I see on the web? Perhaps some browser plugin that counts ad impressions? I doubt that any one web site makes $20 per month from my
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by avian 10y ago
Is it possible to read these articles and stories somewhere? I remember years back when I first heard about Thiotimoline I tried to find the collections where they were published. It turned out they were all out of print and none of the loc
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by avian 10y ago
Previous discussion of the same graph with data up to mid-November last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12992777
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by avian 10y ago
I believe this restriction was put in place to limit searching for accidentally committed AWS keys.
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by avian 10y ago
Some Wi-Fi hardware does allow access to signal before demodulation, for debugging purposes or channel monitoring (e.g. [1]). But this is usually limited in some way (e.g. you can only get a limited number of samples or FFT bins). The autho
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by avian 10y ago
The article says that the possibility that this was an object reentering the atmosphere was dismissed. Why? There is no sense of scale here. It could be something very fast and far away, like a bolide leaving a trail of debris.
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by avian 10y ago
This post explains it. It's related to Medium's "Highlight" feature, not the ordinary text selection: https://blog.medium.com/introducing-highlights-a4df69e8ed43
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by avian 10y ago
I'm slowly finishing up my PhD and I tend to agree with you. However, he will probably be reading quite a different selection of papers than what you encounter during a PhD. In my experience, time required varies quite a lot between pa
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by avian 10y ago
> Wait, do you really think that embedded Windows versions behave the same as end-user ones?! After having to install anti-virus software on an 100k+ EUR oscilloscope, yes. Yes, they do behave the same as end-user ones.
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by avian 10y ago
To me, the most obvious motivation for registering the domain would be to basically make a domain squat. Redirect anyone visiting "letsencrypt.cn" to their own, similarly named (and now defunct as far as I know) service "Star
856.
by avian 10y ago
I guess it depends on the field you're working with. I'm definitely more at home with 0-based languages, although at this point I have worked a lot with MATLAB/Octave code as well. In my case, it is very common that i-th elem
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by avian 10y ago
> Iterators have largely replaced the explicit specification of integer ranges in loop control. Yes, explicit indices are less common than they used to be due to iterator support in languages. However they are far from being obsolete. I&
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by avian 10y ago
I very much suspect that a lot of those ping6 packets are ignored. At 300 Mbit/s that would be around 400000 pings per second or less than 3 μs/flash. At that speed the camera would not register individual flashes.
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by avian 10y ago
My first thought upon seeing this is that I was not aware that Firefox sends this kind of data to Mozilla. Under "how is the report created" [1] it says that "Firefox automatically collects information [...] unless users disa
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by avian 10y ago
> as it approached the ring plane, Cassini closed its canopy-like engine cover as a protective measure. This part caught my eye. I was not aware Cassini had this feature. I found a paper about the engine cover mechanism, which is quite i
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by avian 10y ago
My understanding is that punycode wasn't originally meant to be used by humans. It was just the workaround used to encode non-ASCII names in ASCII-only DNS records. Later browsers decided to show punycode in the URL bar instead of the
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by avian 10y ago
Let's see. 4 million pounds is around 1800 metric tons. Density of concrete is around 2 tons/m³, so 1800 tons is the mass of about 900 m³ of concrete. This is a volume of a disc about 1 m thick and 35 m in diameter. Seems plausibl
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by avian 10y ago
Link to the original PDF that does not endlessly nag you to subscribe to the newsletter: https://www.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/interstellar.pdf
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by avian 10y ago
Old Samsung ARM Chromebooks used to have a similar problem where some ALSA settings would overload and destroy the built-in speakers. Mine actually started smoking and melting after I installed Debian. https://marcin.juszkiewicz.
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by avian 10y ago
Reading this reminded me of polywater. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywater
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by avian 10y ago
Another sci-fi novel about a manned mission to Titan is Stephen Baxter's Titan. It's somewhat depressing though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_(Baxter_novel)
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by avian 10y ago
> If these models break down somewhere I would expect it to happen under much more extreme conditions and not with a 'table-top' experiment like this one. I agree and I'm skeptical myself. But note that models just barely
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by avian 10y ago
Google image search found this post as the source of the graph: https://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/article.html Edit: the post gives image credit to Wipneus from https://forum.arctic-sea-ice.
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by avian 10y ago
I don't know what these are used for, but secret keys generated from current time are easy to guess. You only have to try around 2^24 values if you can estimate installation time within a specific year. https://github.com&#x
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by avian 10y ago
I guess this is the plugin you are talking about? Interesting. http://registry.gimp.org/node/11742

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