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by bcook 11y ago
Those in power have attack helicopters. My Glock is useless against that. Edit: This post was somewhat tongue-in-cheek. I had no idea it was such a hot-button issue.
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by bcook 11y ago
Nobody knows all of any language's pitfalls. Even the greatest programmer with the safest language will still code security vulnerabilities.
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by bcook 11y ago
lol. Regarding the tenuous connection between tomatoes & ketchup, a friend of mine once posed me the question: "have you ever tasted a tomato that tasted anything like ketchup?". Nope.
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by bcook 11y ago
That only tunnels traffic through Tor, right? If the browser leaks identifying client information through HTTPS or other encrypted protocols, the proxy (torify) will not be able to help. That is why Tor Browser is important.
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by bcook 11y ago
A proxy cannot anonymize encrypted traffic.
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by bcook 11y ago
Though it may seem fallacious, information garnered through the interweb is commonly infallible. -Abraham Lincoln Edit: Honestly, downvote this. HN is better than stupid, panderous posts like this.
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by bcook 11y ago
Maybe I am out of the loop and missed something, but I did not get a "this guy thinks he is superior to us" vibe from his post (and I am usually the first to notice such slights). I really like his post and he has piqued my intere
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by bcook 11y ago
As hesitant or ashamed as I am to admit it it, I must agree... convenience is king. PGP/GPG comes to mind. Yes, technically superior but good god is it arduous.
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by bcook 11y ago
Kernel updates probably need a restart (or use kexec), but most other updates only require a service to be restarted, right?
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by bcook 11y ago
In Neil deGrasse Tyson's StarTalk radio show he interviewed The author of "Salt: A World History"[1|2] who said (paraphrased) that statistically, it makes some sense to tell the public to not each too much salt, but on an ind
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by bcook 11y ago
I must disagree. Some ads do introduce me to new things that I am truly interested in.
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by bcook 11y ago
pfSense-tools is no longer used in pfSense 2.3 (which is in beta). https://blog.pfsense.org/?p=1842
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by bcook 11y ago
Why is this downvoted? To a laymen (me), this seems like like an interesting post.
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by bcook 11y ago
Judging others is an impossible task. We use the word "unlucky" because we do not truly know that person. Yes, they could be lazy, but they could also have mental or physical problems that are beyond their control. So, we say &q
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by bcook 11y ago
I was hesitant as well. Thankfully, HN is usually quick to downvote crap posts like mine. Lesson learned. Honestly though, I do get kinda tired of looking in the comments to see so much conversation about off-topic things like the color-sch
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by bcook 11y ago
Heh, sorry. I was trying poke fun at your post by doing what you did, regarding the article; focus on the wrong thing and disregard the the entire article/post because of a small, arguably unwise choice (gifs/misusing "litera
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by bcook 11y ago
"literally"?
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by bcook 11y ago
I think "need" is a strong word. I have 20/70 (maybe worse) vision, but I am fully able to do most any normal task. I am even a better shot with a gun than most of my friends, with their contacts & lasic. Yes, everything
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by bcook 11y ago
That's the worst of the mainstream. That is not a valid or logical argument against the position that the mainstream's best is better than academia's best.
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Interview: Jens Axboe, CFQ Author (2007)(web.archive.org)
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by bcook 11y ago
NetBSD: The OS that can even run on a "toaster". :) https://www.embeddedarm.com/software/arm-netbsd-toaster.php
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by bcook 11y ago
My point was that they are equal from the fstrim perspective.
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by bcook 11y ago
Regardless of the differences, the Nexus 7 used trim (introduced in Android 4.3) on it's flash-based (SSD also uses flash) solid-state memory and my Nexus 9 does not. The trim "bug" is well known for some Android devices, but
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by bcook 11y ago
A quick Googling shows it exists only in high-end SSDs, but the information is from 2013. Just anecdotally, my Nexus 9 does not even have the fstrim command anymore, nor do I see any discard options in the fstab. My Nexus 7 2012 had lots of
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by bcook 11y ago
Perhaps not, but I have lost power for a week during a blizzard and it was nice to have a fire-place (redundancy). Disregarding the power-loss scenerio, if my any part of my HVAC system fails, I have space-heaters.
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by bcook 11y ago
I thought SSDs were integrating TRIM into the drive's firmware/controller nowadays.
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by bcook 11y ago
The BSD tcp/ip stack is well respected. Maybe the most respected? What is your definition of "quality code"? (Without going in to a huge rant.)
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by bcook 11y ago
GM?
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by bcook 11y ago
Does it matter? Theoretical physics is more of a game of logic rather than facts. Edit: I apologize for being argumentative. Your question is somewhat intrinsic to the foundation of theoretical physics; given what we "know" now, w
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by bcook 11y ago
Stock firmware is known to have the best wireless. If you want a more featureful alternative firmware, try AsusWRT-merlin. It is practically an enhanced stock.

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