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by cbr 9y ago
What distribution? (I don't think I've ever used a system that didn't have ed installed by default.)
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by cbr 9y ago
They ask for details about many voluntary activities: travel, education, work, etc.
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by cbr 9y ago
Human vision has much better dynamic range than the dashcam video they released.
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by cbr 9y ago
In the literature you see small margins because many of the things that really matter in practice (data quantity, data quality, engineering) aren't generally of academic interest.
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by cbr 9y ago
Probably automated tools doing things like golding an enormous number of requests drives up the average.
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by cbr 9y ago
My guess is that it opens them up to legal liability not to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOSTA (I work for Google, but I don't have any inside information on this; it's just speculation.)
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by cbr 9y ago
The standard argument for why student loan debt survives bankruptcy is that otherwise students would declare bankruptcy on graduation. At least with our current system, where bankruptcy is wiped from your record after 7 (or 10) years this
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by cbr 9y ago
But it may be what the grandparent recalls receiving
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by cbr 9y ago
The email reminders I get look like: Subject: You are using Google Location Sharing to share your real-time location. Hi Jeff, To protect your privacy, we would like to remind you that you are sharing your real-time location using Google Lo
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by cbr 9y ago
"objects normally fall at the same speed (9.8 m/s^2)" That's ignoring air resistance, which in the case of flying machines is substantial!
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by cbr 9y ago
If these are automated, though, they can be done in parallel. A camera pointed at the propellers can be checking them for cracks at the same time that another camera is checking that control surfaces actually move.
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by cbr 9y ago
15 minutes? If you flew in a small aircraft regularly, you would know it takes 40-60 minutes to prep a plane from park to airborne in zero traffic How much of that prep is eliminated by going full automation? Isn'
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by cbr 9y ago
I like calendar notifications, reminding me it's time to go do something
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History of HTTPS Usage(jefftk.com)
3 points by cbr 9y ago|0 comments
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by cbr 9y ago
"Making your children more aryan looking, not so much" People strongly consider race in dating; we're kind of already there: https://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/race-attraction-2009-2014...
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by cbr 9y ago
Could you say more about how you expect this outcome would be harmful to people?
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by cbr 9y ago
They have a lot of trouble too: https://timtaubert.de/blog/2016/09/tls-version-intolerance/
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by cbr 9y ago
When I was working on mod_pagespeed I wrote some about how we decided to parse the UA: https://www.jefftk.com/p/why-parse-the-user-agent (Summary: feature detection requires more round trips, and slows down pages.)
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by cbr 9y ago
That was a DRM thing. Eventually Firefox added support for EME: https://www.pcworld.com/article/3183742/data-center-cloud/ne...
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by cbr 9y ago
a web performance best practice (for non-H2 sites) is to inline images into the HTML... and there are some auto- optimizing libraries that will embed SVG as <SVG> tags instead of as a data: URI... When I worked o
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by cbr 9y ago
How many of those $10B companies are actually really worth that, not just an inflated result of funding rounds? The parent is talking about S&P 500 companies, which means publicly traded ones. The thing where private
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by cbr 9y ago
This is why Chrome is going to be marking all HTTP pages as "Not Secure" in v68+: https://security.googleblog.com/2018/02/a-secure-web-is-here...
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by cbr 9y ago
Most sites are built on lots of unaudited untested (by them) third party code sever side. Adding some client side isn't great, but also isn't a fundamental change to the dynamic. (I used to make web server software)
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by cbr 9y ago
That doesn't really solve this problem, it just slows down both the rollout of the subverted version and the rollout of the fix. People aren't auditing the (minified) javascript they put onto their sites. SRI is good for use with
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by cbr 9y ago
Want to know how you can easily stop this attack? What I've done here is add the SRI Integrity Attribute and that allows the browser to determine if the file has been modified, which allows it to reject the file.
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by cbr 9y ago
I wonder why we didn't go for stronger legal protection for these symbols? Water bottles with the biohazard logo on them and other gratuitous uses reduce how much caution it induces and diminish its value as a symbol.
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by cbr 9y ago
I don't know, these lyrics make about as much sense to me as most songs written by English speakers.
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by cbr 9y ago
This is also the game people in click fraud vs click fraud detection are playing.
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by cbr 9y ago
It sounds like you're describing a Content Delivery Network (CDN). Many sites use CDNs in order to serve content from as close to the user as possible, often from within the ISP's network. This is unrelated to Net Neutrality, an
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by cbr 9y ago
Expanded this into a post: https://www.jefftk.com/p/google-losing-its-memory

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