bdonlan

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by bdonlan 13y ago
Turn up the compression level: $ curl -s http://danlec.com/st4k | gzip -cd | gzip -9c | wc 14 80 4096
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by bdonlan 13y ago
Hm, is there no system-level app installed by default that provides an implementation of DocumentsProvider that provides read/write access to the external SD card?
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by bdonlan 13y ago
I don't see why you couldn't have a file management app that uses the new storage access framework to access external storage in the same way as online or internal storage - shouldn't it just be a matter of switching to the n
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by bdonlan 13y ago
The reversibility of bitcoin is no different from passing around physical dollar bills. If you want to reverse a transaction involving actual cast, you must convince the other person to give it back, or physically wrest possession of the cu
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by bdonlan 13y ago
Why not convert it and sell it? Spending BTC doesn't destroy any evidence, you'll still have a record of the original BTC to trace. I imagine there is some legal procedure to go through before they can dispose of the assets, but I
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by bdonlan 13y ago
Aborting after ignition is only possible with liquid engines. The F9 in particular is designed to light and stabilize all nine engines before removing the restraints holding the rocket down - this gives them very robust abort capabilities.
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by bdonlan 13y ago
It should be noted that the additional overhead from performing lazy quicksort (all those additional thunks) make it an unlikely choice for the standard sort function; you'd suffer a large constant factor overhead in the typical case o
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by bdonlan 13y ago
Repeated requests for the i-th element will not become 'faster and faster' but instead would simply be Θ(i) - they'd traverse i list pairs, then read the memoized data component.
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by bdonlan 13y ago
Autoland is already quite safe. However it requires special procedures on the ground to ensure the ILS signals are of sufficient quality, and so it is normally only used either in inclement weather where visibility is to low to trust human
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by bdonlan 13y ago
How about: The report hasn't been disclosed because they are busy with normal operations. The report hasn't been disclosed because they were pulled away from it to do some more urgent business, and since then it has been forgotten
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by bdonlan 13y ago
Some modern airliners have computer-based checklists that will verify that all checklist steps were completed correctly for you. They also have alarms that will go off if the aircraft configuration is egregiously wrong on takeoff (eg, http
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by bdonlan 13y ago
What happens if the computer malfunctions in mid-flight? Many modern airliners actually have computers which will display common checklists and check off items that have been completed automatically. The reason they don't make this ful
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by bdonlan 13y ago
It's under the MIT license and in a public github repo - shouldn't that be enough? If you don't want your code public, don't put it in a public repo (if you can't afford a private one, just use git locally) and cert
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by bdonlan 13y ago
There actually is a point to parallelizing cracking across users. Consider: You're testing a specific password, say, "2398fje#f", and want to see if anyone is using that password. If there are no salts, you can hash this, the
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by bdonlan 13y ago
4.2.2.[1-4] is not openDNS, it's Level3's anycasted DNS (and is not officially open to the public)
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by bdonlan 13y ago
Just because someone's an engineer doesn't magically make people throw money at their project. It's _understandable_, perhaps, that an engineer might overlook the need for good marketing, or not know how to go about marketing
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by bdonlan 13y ago
IANAL - but it seems to me that in the link's scenario, you're not amending that contract. You're ignoring or rejecting the initial proposed contract (including this amendment clause) and instead proposing another (different)
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by bdonlan 13y ago
When your engines stop, you trim for best glide ratio, point yourself at an open field, and fly the plane all the way to the ground. Failure to do so is a great way to get yourself killed.
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by bdonlan 13y ago
Don't forget that employee stock compensation also involves repurchasing shares off the market - which means some of the company's earnings do make it back to investors.
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by bdonlan 13y ago
Sounds like the first denial was due to an automated fraud check with a false positive. When that happens, it's a good idea to call your credit card company right away - if it was such a fraud check, they can usually reactivate it righ
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by bdonlan 13y ago
You can put the private key on a few HSMs, and have the HSM enforce a security policy (eg - access must be authorized by a quorum of operators). Never allow the private key to leave the HSM, ever again, except when initializing a new HSM (i
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by bdonlan 13y ago
If you're going to use remote pilots to deal with anomalous conditions, you'd better have an emergency electrical supply that'll keep your remote control running for however long it'll take to glide at the plane's m
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by bdonlan 13y ago
Actually building and running the thing, though, seems to be quite tricky - app engine forbids importing syscall, but half of the dependencies of this app seem to import syscall.
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by bdonlan 13y ago
How are they getting the DH keys without cooperation from at least one of the SSL endpoints involved? They're newly generated at every SSL handshake, you can't just get a mole to hand you the keys once and be done with it. If you
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by bdonlan 13y ago
If the battery fails, you still have power from the engine, APU generators, and if all else fails the ram air turbine, no? According to [1], one battery is used only for ground operations or backup braking power (so the primary braking ough
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by bdonlan 13y ago
There are ways of providing market makers without quite as much waste as the existing system of HFT. For example, instead of having the first trade order to arrive win, group them into generations of, say, one second, and execute them in a
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by bdonlan 13y ago
According to http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/space/rockets/elon-m... : > "The payload penalty for full and fast reusability versus an expendable version is roughly 40 percent," Musk says. "[But] propellant cost is less than 0.
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by bdonlan 13y ago
Does that download posterous as well, or only upcoming?
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by bdonlan 13y ago
Search is (mostly) stateless. They can copy the search database to hundreds of DCs around the world, and each can operate independently - so if one of them has a problem, it's not likely to affect the others (unless it's bad data, but that'
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by bdonlan 13y ago
It's income, just like any other income, and is subject to income tax in the US. If you're paid more than $20,000 and had more than 200 transactions, you'll get a 1099-K, but even if you don't, you still have to report it as income on your

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