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by bartl 10y ago
Does iTunes even play FLAC files? Apple developers have one serious problem: the "not invented here" syndrome. As everybody was using mp3, Apple wanted AAC. FLAC? Apple didn't invent it. So they just support their own rubbish
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by bartl 10y ago
Indeed. The Perl `rename` is based on the module [File::Rename]( http://search.cpan.org/~rmbarker/File-Rename-0.20/ ). This name clash makes that the perl module cannot be easily used on CentOS, since the CentOS ut
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by bartl 10y ago
There's a mistake on page 4 in the structure diagram. It says the first block of a packet is 14 bytes == 84 bits. But 14 bytes is 112 bits, as is seen on the repeat of the diagram on page 15. A MAC address is 48 bits, so 2 MAC addresse
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by bartl 10y ago
I don't like the idea that this is tacked onto the "display" property. "display" is for the outer display properties of the div, but this flow-root is for the inside . You cannot have a div that is both `display:
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by bartl 10y ago
It's possible for any message that is not marked as delivered. All Facebook has to do is not mark messages as delivered, i.e. lieing to the device, which can probably be done easily. So they could ask a device to regenerate keys and
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by bartl 10y ago
> in many parts of the world, people frequently change devices and Sim cards. In these situations, we want to make sure people’s messages are delivered, not lost in transit. That quote sounds even more alarming to me than the description
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by bartl 10y ago
It's nice for him that he found out what was wrong with it, but I am still none the wiser.
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by bartl 10y ago
What about Rainbow Tables? ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_table#Precomputed_hash... ) Instead of computing the MD5 of a huge number of passwords looking for a match, you simply store the precomputed password and
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by bartl 10y ago
If that function is really supposed to return the square of a number, you took a wrong turn somewhere. Because it says the square of 16 is 56. Now here's a more efficient algorithm which does produce the currect result: int squa
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by bartl 10y ago
Article about the incident including the original comment in which u/spez admitted to what he had done: https://www.yahoo.com/news/ceo-reddit-confessed-modifying-po...
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by bartl 10y ago
Even if they plan on hiring new people it's still interesting to see what kind of people they fire. If you think you match their profuile, don't even bother to apply.
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by bartl 10y ago
>they will basically have all the same passwords for every site! Not if the generated password also depends on your username.
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by bartl 10y ago
The playing field is higher than the client area of my browser. (768px pix screen)
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by bartl 10y ago
There's another problem ,at least for Twitter's users: > from hundreds of personally chosen observers That's quite a daunting task, selecting hundreds of observers. It's not something for most people.
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by bartl 10y ago
Google attempted to mislead its audience. The contempt is understandable.
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by bartl 10y ago
And in this case, it's a false claim. Thus: it's an abuse of the DMCA.
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by bartl 10y ago
Python and PostGreSQL. Not exactly a tiny footprint for a tiny application.
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by bartl 10y ago
Russsia Today (rt.com) mentions it too, which is the source that Reddit linked to; but I doubt you would like it any better. https://www.rt.com/news/362985-julian-assange-internet-link/
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by bartl 10y ago
400V on non-isolated wires? Sounds dangerous.
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by bartl 10y ago
That sounds a lot like the trick that Digg used to pull... People didn't like it one bit. It might well have been the final nail in their coffin.
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by bartl 10y ago
I think it was sarcastic.
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by bartl 10y ago
Well ironically, in this case, Verizon's problem with Yahoo is allegedly about customers' privacy.
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by bartl 10y ago
"fork" is not a major problem in PHP. In Drupal, every single request compiles a file "common.inc", of several thousands of lines of PHP code. That is what slows it down. It's remarkable that PHP still manages to
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by bartl 10y ago
You can even do 'test'.match(/st$/) I don't see why people insist on doing all the low level shit themselves, and then still complain about "scalability" and "fitness for programming on the
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by bartl 10y ago
I'm a bit amazed he doesn't even mention [double buffering]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_buffering ), a system that was already used in old video games to avoid flicker, as a way to draw on scene scr
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by bartl 10y ago
"Get this person to the hospital ASAP!" "We can't, he's still stuck to the car so we'll have to wait another half an hour." Yeah, that really sounds like an excellent idea.
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by bartl 10y ago
Well, I have the impression he is a lot happier now. Google for "Bill Gates TED talks" to see what I mean. Microsoft may be what Bill Gates is most famous for, but I would say it is no longer his life work.
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by bartl 11y ago
Why is the author calling Windows 7 "terrible" and of Windows 8 he merely says it "has much higher system requirements"? To me, Windows 7 is the new XP and Windows 8 (as well as Windows Server 2012) are an abomination.
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by bartl 11y ago
You have to make a distinction between someone who's writing a research paper, and therefore constantly checking sources, and someone who's writing fiction. For the latter, a single monitor is less distracting, but for the former,
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by bartl 11y ago
Apparently this is one of the [Stupid Shit No One Needs & Terrible Ideas Hackathon]( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9558505 ) projects.

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