bdonlan

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by bdonlan 16y ago
Perhaps the problem is that it was, in fact, adaptable, meaning that if all the supernodes your client knows about go down you're no longer able to bootstrap. In fact, I found I was able to reconnect faster after the outage by deleting the
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by bdonlan 16y ago
Or, to put it another way, they want people to have to click before reading your story.
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by bdonlan 16y ago
It's better than having the site be completely inaccessible. You'd only deploy this when you come under load. Additionally, many of the more important robots can be identified reliably (eg, googlebot has a DNS handshake that can positively
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by bdonlan 16y ago
I think the idea is you won't bounce a job from your computer, up to google, then back to your printer - instead, google will generate the job directly, then the printer will download it from google and print.
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by bdonlan 16y ago
A reasonable fallback would be to look at the proportion of commits that touch files under each directory - the more active a directory is, the more likely it is to be of interest. Still probably not worth it in the majority of cases though
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by bdonlan 16y ago
The exploit is specifically designed to only work on a small subset of kernel builds, as indicated in the header: * In the interest of public safety, this exploit was specifically designed to * be limited: * * * The particula
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by bdonlan 16y ago
That requires the data the government employee has to be byte-for-byte identical to the one already in dropbox, which is unlikely for an unintended leak.
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by bdonlan 16y ago
If the integers cannot be guaranteed to be distinct, and all of them must be presented at the end, then no algorithm which restricts itself to O(1) memory usage can be correct. Since the problem restricts you to using 4KB of RAM (O(1)), and
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by bdonlan 16y ago
Or you can keep a backup linode in a different datacenter. Or better yet, have redundancy with a completely separate provider, so you can deal with a complete failure of either one provider.
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by bdonlan 16y ago
Typically by that they mean they take the hard drives out and slot them into some spare servers.
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by bdonlan 16y ago
On the contrary - there's a few things they can do. They could examine the difference in results between the two tests at the individual-student level, for example. Or, using the set of students who admit to their cheating as a training set
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by bdonlan 16y ago
Or perhaps they consider the skills needed to pass the test easily to be the bare minimum needed for the job, and anyone who can't pass it quickly isn't qualified (but hey, if you learned something from it, good for you!).
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by bdonlan 16y ago
If we're going to push OpenID support into the browser, then why not just use the X.509 client certificate support that's already available?
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by bdonlan 16y ago
Note that the performance benefits for TRIM only affect write performance, _not_ read performance.
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by bdonlan 16y ago
Linode doesn't use SSDs (yet) - the founder has been spotted on their IRC channel in the relatively recent past mentioning the cost/performance isn't where they want it yet. hdparm only does sequential reads, so don't expect a night-and-day
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by bdonlan 16y ago
Looks like the video's been removed - anyone have a mirror?
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by bdonlan 16y ago
There's only so much resources on each physical host - when you hit the resource usage of an additional Linode, you've effectively used up the space that could have gone to another customer. So you have to pay their rent as well. Although t
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by bdonlan 16y ago
Only a copyright holder can bring legal action in this case. If you're just a customer, you can't bring action by yourself, as you're not a party to the violation or license agreement between HTC and the copyright holder(s).
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by bdonlan 16y ago
You could put data on there, sure, but typically the OS won't try to execute garbage data left over from a previous boot - it'll just get overwritten. I suppose you could have it swap out data after boot, but there are easier ways when you
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by bdonlan 16y ago
HDCP keys can be revoked. It just won't do any good - this matrix lets you create _new_ keys, just as valid as all pre-existing ones.
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by bdonlan 16y ago
Perhaps they just mean that it won't work out-of-the-box on real, physical servers (due to the lack of a bootloader, hardware drivers, etc)
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by bdonlan 16y ago
That said, keep in mind that if you need to keep at least one instance up, you need to put them in multiple availability zones, or vary the max spot prices - if there's a load spike that leads to your spot instances being terminated, it'll
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by bdonlan 16y ago
Remember, though, you still need to pay for EBS and bandwidth seperately.
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by bdonlan 16y ago
However "cell" refers to a portion of the infrastructure running the cellular network, so that's not a good option.
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by bdonlan 16y ago
Converting everything to a touchscreen seems like it'd cause problems for blind users - no way to give braille feedback then...
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by bdonlan 16y ago
More likely, you'd be unable to consume the caffeine in a such a diluted form fast enough to exceed the rate at which the liver clears it - it takes time to empty out the stomach of all that water you're consuming along with it. Remember th
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by bdonlan 16y ago
What else would you suggest? This is equivalent to randomly generating a username and password.
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by bdonlan 16y ago
Nor does http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/ColinWright.html?Personal - though I'm not sure that Colin Wright even wrote that, given I've yet to find a link to the article from the root, and the article doesn't have the author's name ...
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by bdonlan 16y ago
The specification states that "your routine should modify the given zero-terminated string in place". This implies that a zero-terminated string is passed in, and that it is mutable. If this is not the case, it is impossible to perform as s
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by bdonlan 16y ago
Sodium ferrocyanide sounds like it might be somewhat toxic and/or need FDA approval...

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