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by bcoates 12y ago
Please don't use or implement this "work in progress", it is terrible. For starters, the fundamental idea is backwards. People don't evade port enumeration to hide from attackers, they evade it to hide from auditors. Thi
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by bcoates 12y ago
Why not SNMP? It seems to be the protocol everyone loves to hate but there's a ton of ecosystem around it and it directly solves the status/discovery case
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by bcoates 12y ago
I think the advantage of the "We don't have to share any infrastructure" mindset is that standardization is a process, not a destination. A living system will always have some diversity of libraries, versions, languages, et
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by bcoates 12y ago
That article makes the same conflation of "health-care workers" and "people who know they're dealing with ebola patients and are following bloodborne pathogen protocol" that VLM is. There are tons of healthcare work
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by bcoates 12y ago
If you double-click it, it closes the application. It was converted from a picture of a spacebar to the application's icon, but still functions the same way.
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by bcoates 12y ago
It would be pretty easy to assign any image an arbitrary value. Compare the image's current (unquantized) DCT values to the desired ones, find the value that differs from the target but is closest to being quantized as the desired bit,
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by bcoates 12y ago
I've used this technique before for image searching, here's some tips: The algorithm presented here can be summarized as "Take the low-frequency DCT components of the luminance channel, quantized down to one bit". Hashin
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by bcoates 12y ago
You had me until "Duplicate dependencies are bad". The reason every package manager except npm and Apple's bundles are a piece of shit is because they attempt to install random dependent garbage globally and by default.
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by bcoates 12y ago
If I understand right (I may not): In Python, the (complex, generic) iter() protocol is how every container provides a method to iterate itself, and reduce is a trivial application of a reducer (like your add function) to a container by usi
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by bcoates 12y ago
You realize that two out of three of those issues are archtype culture war distraction issues, right? Political types call them 'squirrels'. They're a great way to get people to watch your network, vote for your candidate, or
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by bcoates 12y ago
I suspect this is an industry-specific thing -- I don't see a lot of public hate for Fortune 100 CEOs Marillyn Hewson or Phebe Novakovic, both leaders of companies much more significant than Yahoo.
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by bcoates 12y ago
That's a nice, subtle way of fucking with someone: spoofing messages that trip these pedo-sensors won't result in an obvious mistaken raid, because the police will want something more solid to go on (like the case in the OP) -- th
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by bcoates 12y ago
if the drive is propelling something to get tens of µN, you could float strips of thin plastic film across the supposed path of reaction matter and it'd be visibly accelerated by collisions with that something, at least if my math is
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by bcoates 12y ago
Of course, but there's still a lot of things consistent with the experiment that are less improbable than reactionless thrust. This is still an important experiment, though -- if your testing methods are discovering 'impossible&#x
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by bcoates 12y ago
“The important fact is that this man’s DNA is the same as the DNA found on Yara,” he said, noting that the odds of anyone else sharing the same genetic profile was “one person out of two billion of billions of billions” or prac
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by bcoates 12y ago
There are many more glyphs than there are codepoints -- a font contains a ton of information that would be needed to reproduce a script that is not present in unicode tables.
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by bcoates 12y ago
At-least-once[1] queues are sound under bounded partitioning and can withstand any specified amount of data loss[2]. Uncorrected data corruption errors cause whole-system failure in non-distributed systems as well as distributed ones and th
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by bcoates 12y ago
I'm not sure I understand the issue here: If you have an at-least-once queue, it might still be reasonable for the application to directly write to a transaction log somewhere that can be reconciled for auditing, but that audit should
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by bcoates 12y ago
If someone lies about the things you can check, you should automatically assume the things you can't check are lies too.
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by bcoates 12y ago
I think they mis-adjusted their ranges and it's probably a fat-tailed power law distribution. When you survey people there's going to be a peak around "smoke weed every day" but there's a gigantic range of usage bet
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by bcoates 12y ago
Ah, there it is: https://twitter.com/search?q="so+hype" Looks like that one can apply to both someone's emotional state in general and the thing they are hyped about without the negative connotation.
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by bcoates 12y ago
264 million joints worth, enough to give one RAND Corporation standard 460mg joint to each adult in the US.
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by bcoates 12y ago
The areas around Colorado are almost entirely unpopulated, most people going to 'heavily visited mountain communities' are either local to Colorado or travelling in from a long distance.
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by bcoates 12y ago
It is good for a person to be hyped about a thing, to hype something (≈ to trick other people into being hyped about it) is bad.
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by bcoates 12y ago
How does Snabb Switch compare to the Linux kernel's openvswitch/openflow combination? Are there any advantages to Snabb for forwarding/counting appliances or is it just for packet-consuming applications?
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by bcoates 12y ago
Sure you can: as a random example, AWS supports SR-IOV today: you can directly communicate with a NIC from a userland linux process if you set everything up right. The general idea is to have hardware with direct virtualization support (whi
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by bcoates 12y ago
> But they may also assume that more roads cause more travel, and decide to prevent trips by destroying roads. Politicians in the city I live in are literally doing this, installing "traffic calming measures" (destroying perfec
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by bcoates 12y ago
If I was Uber, I'd get cozy with the Teamsters and use them to defend my interests against competitors, regulations, and the medallion owners.
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by bcoates 12y ago
I understand the idea, but I don't have a lot of faith in the kernel to make the right decision under memory pressure--and neither do server application developers, hence the proliferation of massive userland disk caches in processes.
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by bcoates 12y ago
Are there people running servers that actually swap without it being a disaster? For regular 'cattle not pets' servers I just decline to create a swap partition and vm.panic_on_oom = 1. Java's bloated heap, for example, has e

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