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by bcoates 13y ago
Given the massive, long-term and apparently ongoing breaches at major data collection agencies, a complete leak (to the public) of non -pseudonymous transaction history for any given credit card has probably either already happened or it&#
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by bcoates 13y ago
I've been playing around with a 1020 for a few days, that article is really lame. That first picture is showing it with the weird camera case accessory, you wouldn't normally carry the phone around with that attached. It looks jus
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by bcoates 13y ago
No, but since it's not difficult to detect that I'm running an adblocker they can feel free to paywall me or just tell me to go away and I will.
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by bcoates 13y ago
In what universe is having a big grin associated with being a humorist? The people in the top half of photos look more bored than serious, but Lincoln and Twain with their set jaws, intense stare, slightly tilted/twisted head and exp
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by bcoates 13y ago
Redshift is $0.43/TB-hour, it looks like HANA on AWS is around $59/TB-hour. You get a lot for the money (HANA software, in-memory, tons more CPU) but your workload had better really need it at that price difference!
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by bcoates 13y ago
If you're writing a filter, you probably want to use fileinput, which does most of the stuff you'd want in a "read lines from a bunch of files and do something" text-processing program. http://docs.python.org&
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by bcoates 13y ago
Looking at TFA, the Airbnb tenant was sharing the apartment with the renter, which is legal under NY law and not really the same thing as an absentee renter Airbnb-ing 24/7 and turning their place into a hotel.
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by bcoates 13y ago
The only right way to do it is left index finger, right index finger, forehead.
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by bcoates 13y ago
Twitter has a 30 day waiting period on account deletion to subvert this. What you need to do is set your password to something really obvious and disable two-factor.
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by bcoates 13y ago
My instinct is to agree with urbit here but I just wanted to thank you for the sudden enlightenment that many intelligent people probably find legalese, spec-ese and RFC-speak (or as I refer to it, "plain English prose") as awkwar
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by bcoates 13y ago
These days the thing that strikes me about games is not so much the texture and model quality as the jerky, buggy movement. A 1950s 12fps Warner Brothers cartoon has better walk cycles and way better dynamic action than any 3d videogame I&#
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by bcoates 13y ago
The problem with that is that there's also this thing called "adolescence" where children have to actually learn how to be adults, and like almost everything else in life, the way you become good at being an adult is to be
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by bcoates 13y ago
I'm not sure there is any relevant law. At the federal level it appears to require "obscenity" which is very hard to prove for anything short of child pornography.
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by bcoates 13y ago
That link is baffling, the first few paragraphs sound like bad things happening but they don't form any sort of coherent narrative and the link to the New York Times article is a story about someone else entirely. It has the form of an
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by bcoates 13y ago
This forum http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=2130 appears to be ground zero for that sort of thing. I don't have an RT handy to test it on.
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by bcoates 13y ago
I think it has a nearly-full port of Win32, it's apparently not hard to disable the signing requirement and run cross-compiled Win32 ARM binaries and turn the Surface RT into a useful computer. Not much commercial software but the regu
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by bcoates 13y ago
How much of the battery life on a tablet is RAM? I moved down from 8GB to 4 when I switched from a big laptop to surface, and the only performance difference I noticed was substantially improved hibernate times. I'd hate to get a bunch
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by bcoates 13y ago
Because I don't want to destroy my phone's battery and light my pants on fire.
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by bcoates 13y ago
Does ansible have some sort of REPL so I can use it for both manual administration and automated? I use shellscripts for a lot of stuff because they're just bash one-offs with seniority.
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by bcoates 13y ago
Since when is 'mean' not a reasonable way of averaging fungible goods like tax funds? They're directly comparable in that corporate welfare and a $6,000 annual check to every household in the US are directly competing goods.
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by bcoates 13y ago
It's the revenge of the weird taxonomic western culture. If you hate your users and don't know anything, you think systems should be designed logically. Logical, to you, will mean that similar things are put together. Likewise, si
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by bcoates 13y ago
Is there a textual input representation to go along with the visual analysis one? I love using flowcharts to explain and comprehend complicated things, but the UIs for actually drafting them haven't quite made it into the 1960s yet and
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by bcoates 13y ago
If the rapid obsolescence cycle of chip fabs end (ie, Moore's law ends and process nodes stop getting smaller so there's no reason to change processes), it will kick off a golden age of ASICs and a Cambrian explosion of chip diver
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by bcoates 13y ago
Looks like fingerprints have 30-40ish bits of entropy depending on how forgiving the device is, so unless they're doing some key stretching it should be practical to produce an image of a similar fingerprint by brute-forcing the hash w
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by bcoates 13y ago
A lack of entropy sources on some kinds of hardware is a real problem, and buggy attempts to work around it have resulted in defective, easily factorable keys being used in the wild on equipment like Juniper SRX gateways: https:/&#x2F
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by bcoates 13y ago
The Fed announcement may or may not have been known, but the fact that there would be an announcement at a given time was known. The market always jumps one way or another at the last moment before an announcement, because it's the las
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by bcoates 13y ago
I don't understand how you got there from the parent post. The github links look like idiomatic C# to me, aside from avoiding IIS. IIS has nothing to do with C# vs C++ vs anything else.
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by bcoates 13y ago
Every resource is finite, and if the people in the distant past had attempted to preserve the things they found scarce for us we'd probably be quite unimpressed at the results.
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by bcoates 13y ago
One thing a lot of the posters here complaining about "that's not how PRNGs work!" are missing is that for many traditional NES games, that is how PRNGs work: the game is entirely deterministic and based exclusively on user
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by bcoates 13y ago
Tech product messaging 101: Every technology you don't support is dead and useless, unless you're FUDding about how much better your vaporware version is than everyone else's actually existing product.

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