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by brute 12y ago
I found great joy in reading about Quake3's networking model [1]. It is build on top of the assumption that the network is unreliable: most of the packets will be dropped and those that make it are not in sequence. [1] http:/&#x2
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by brute 12y ago
The efficency is said the be 80%, just like any other pumped storage system. It just uses considerably less space than a water reservoir (actually close to none, as the top of the cylinder remains untouched) and is scalable by adjusting the
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by brute 12y ago
You just need more mass. Have a look at this concept: http://eduard-heindl.de/energy-storage/index-e.html (unfortunately the english version is very sparse, the german version has some more images and videos: http:&#x
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by brute 12y ago
With great power comes great responsibility.
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by brute 12y ago
Rows 4 and 7 are identical
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by brute 12y ago
typo in Readme.md: "Instead of writing $\displaymath \int_i^\infty$, just write d\int_i^\infty$" should be d$, right?
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by brute 12y ago
It always bothered me, that the colors of twm are so ugly. Here is a recolored screenshot using the UI colors cited above: http://oi60.tinypic.com/140yiqr.jpg Now it only needs some font aliasing and it is fit for a revival
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by brute 12y ago
The website could be replaced by a much shorter version simply stating "I dont like SystemD. -anonymous". The author is essentially making a threat, that there will be a fork of Debian if the project does not give in to his demand
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by brute 12y ago
This would mean that on one hand (literally) you count the phalanxes (12), while on the other hand you use a completly different system and count your fingers (5). Why would you ever use 2 different counting systems? It seems that your argu
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by brute 12y ago
Leap seconds can be positive or negative (never happened) and are irregularly announced up to two times a year. The wikipedia article on leap seconds[1] is worth reading and has this[2] great figure showing the variations of day length over
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by brute 12y ago
Not only OSX but OSX 10.10 That are a lot of 10s.
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by brute 12y ago
In this particular example, they don't. They encourage you to define a Cookie struct, construct it with all the fields you know, pass it to the method with gok.SetCookie(Cookie{name: "blub", duration: 5000}) and the metho
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by brute 12y ago
What the article does not mention is, that in Germany every email provider with more than 10.000 customers is by law (TKÜV) required to install technical equipment, that enables authorities to access all stored telecommunication data of a p
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by brute 12y ago
I wouldn't bet on it. http://pwnyoutube.com has been around for quite a while now. Although if I remember it right, youtube blocked some IPs associated with tools that let you download/convert videos, as these services
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by brute 12y ago
HUSL was already mentioned, so I bring up HSP [1]. The idea is to adjust the lightness (the L in HSL) by something which is closer to the percieved luminescence. Also I wonder if HSL will ever manage to replace HSB/HSV as the default c
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by brute 12y ago
Or try blendoku: http://www.blendoku.com/
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by brute 12y ago
In the case of the alleged steroid dealer, the feds seemed to compel Hushmail to exploit this hole, store the suspects’ secret passphrase or decryption key, decrypt their messages and hand them over. http://www.wired.com/2
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by brute 12y ago
Read the comments here[1] and have a guess how 'upfront' they were of the risks involved three weeks ago. Pay attention to the dates. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7757420
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by brute 12y ago
For TC we have this story: http://wroot.org/posts/daniel-dantas-hard-drive-encryption-w... And for MS there is this story: http://www.geekwire.com/2013/report-microsoft-nsa/ This is of course
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by brute 12y ago
Pass: The standard unix password manager 150 points by po 58 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7495337 Still a very nice tool.
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by brute 12y ago
> "122079103" and "toldulbal" (tolerably dull ball) are equally hard to attack. I believe this is only holds if the attacker has no further information on the password generation procedure. In the generated passwords,
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by brute 12y ago
Blocking the flash plugin in FF(as I am confident many here do), results in a black "click to activate" box, which overlays the generated URL and effectively renders the service unusable. Entering ycombinator.com yields "The
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by brute 12y ago
Different markdown editors seem to be in disagreement how to parse the following: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/810ae1f7d52bcfffa1ef If the second empty line marks the end of the list block, the indented html (code
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by brute 12y ago
http://www.wired.com/2012/08/wired_opinion_patrick_ball/all/ It's about cryptocat (secure chat) but the same principles apply. Note that cryptocat has switched to a browser addon-based design afterw
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by brute 12y ago
This is a browser addon, right? Is everything loaded locally? If no, what prevents you from putting up some javascript that transfers the decryption password (or the plain text) to you. Sorry, didn't bother to download and look for the