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by cheeseprocedure 13y ago
I wonder if video input could be reduced to textures and geometry/transforms for low-bandwidth videoconferencing scenarios.
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by cheeseprocedure 13y ago
While Xen should make live migrations technically possible, it would probably reduce EC2's provisioning flexibility and introduce undesirable complexity. Migrations would be restricted to hosts running specific releases of the hypervis
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by cheeseprocedure 13y ago
I giggled at this, but a serious question for those in the know: is computer simulation a significant factor in the development of fusion experiments, and can it be distributed (a la SETI@Home, Folding@Home, et al)?
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by cheeseprocedure 13y ago
> death can be a traumatic experience, but it's also simply part of being a biological organism. This tends to be glossed over in discussions of his work, but Aubrey de Grey is specifically interested in reducing the (currently inev
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by cheeseprocedure 13y ago
Non-US citizen here. I bounce off a Linode in the US (which I require for other purposes anyway; there are surely cheaper options). SSH has a baked-in SOCKS proxy. Example: I SSH into my VPS with the "-D 55555" commandline option,
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by cheeseprocedure 13y ago
These tools let you focus on the bigger picture instead of the nitty-gritty. Docker and Vagrant are convenient for building (and distributing) consistent environments on top of (potentially wildly) different software or hardware platforms.
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by cheeseprocedure 13y ago
Have you tried Jenkins as a CI server? While the core Gitlab product is quite nice, the feedback I've heard on the CI component is that it becomes problematic once builds become non-trivial (though to be fair, I've heard this most
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by cheeseprocedure 13y ago
Can someone with experience mitigating an attack like this describe how it's done? A known set of hosts/address spaces is fine, but it's the "distributed" part I don't understand how to deal with.
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by cheeseprocedure 13y ago
I've spoken to Palantir folks about the libertarian angle, and their story went like this: by maximizing the utilization of available intelligence data, they could minimize the erosion of civil liberties that occurs in the pursuit of m
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by cheeseprocedure 13y ago
You're right, I misunderstood the behaviour of UK lines; however, it would still be workable in the US or Canada.
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by cheeseprocedure 13y ago
> "[...] call it and type in the following number: X X X X X. That will route the call directly back to me." I wish every bank did this as standard practice! Hang up, dial the customer care number on the back of the card, then
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by cheeseprocedure 13y ago
> * Not being blown up by terrorists Disregarding the fact that most of those items have nothing to do with government surveillance, this particular item has more to do with the fact that attempted (and competent) acts of terrorism are a
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by cheeseprocedure 13y ago
The article specifically mentions incarcerations skyrocketing as a result of the drug war. Throwing petty dealers in prison is not an effective use of taxpayer dollars.
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by cheeseprocedure 13y ago
I wonder how long it'll be before reports surface of authoritarian countries deploying anti-Loon lasers. In all seriousness, I'm curious how difficult it would be to jam this network.
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by cheeseprocedure 13y ago
The international reactions to Fukushima seem about as absurd as pulling every commuter car off the road because the Pinto was a terrible design.
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by cheeseprocedure 13y ago
Sadly, it is a business, and it's become an entrenched part of the political landscape. It's hard to read "Top Secret America" [1] and not come to that conclusion. A lack of transparency for intelligence operations mea
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by cheeseprocedure 13y ago
An exec in the renewables sector once told me that battery subsystems in electrics and hybrids were so proprietary and critical to design that the idea of standardizing them across major manufacturers would never happen in the near term. It
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by cheeseprocedure 13y ago
> However, there is hope but we cannot rely on the government to sort it out. Indeed: "A change in public policy saw the mass discharge of Riverview Hospital's patients as an effort to integrate them into the community while the provinc
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by cheeseprocedure 13y ago
Is there historical evidence to back the notion that, through market forces, employment standards would rise to meet workers' demands?
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by cheeseprocedure 13y ago
I had this reaction too, but if an offender is given opportunities to become a more conscientious and educated human being through hard work, it seems reasonable that we would want them released (and contributing to society in a positive wa
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by cheeseprocedure 13y ago
A preference for vinyl does not equate to ignorance of audio technology. Your article [2] mentions mastering issues. In many cases, the master for the vinyl edition of an album differs significantly from that of the CD or digital release; f
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by cheeseprocedure 14y ago
It would be really handy to have a table of common raw ingredients, the temperatures at which they become safe to eat (if applicable), and the temperature at which their various nutrients denature.
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by cheeseprocedure 14y ago
I would LOVE to export the game history to a screensaver.
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by cheeseprocedure 14y ago
This is a very nice breakdown: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/understanding-bash-fork-bomb/
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by cheeseprocedure 14y ago
I cut my Linux teeth on Gentoo stage 1 and 2 installs, which I found enormously frustrating and equally educational. Today, I'd recommend working through Linux From Scratch. You'll develop a rich understanding of how a UNIX-like OS fits tog
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by cheeseprocedure 14y ago
I only have a few small-ish mail servers under my care, and I couldn't agree more. Reviewing the history of the mailop list [1] shows how frustrating it can be when a behemoth (AOL, MS, etc.) stops accepting your mail. It's bad enough when
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by cheeseprocedure 14y ago
I do not. My limited understanding of wheat-free diets is that 1. the vast majority of people are not affected in any measurable way by gluten, and 2. there is too much anecdotal noise obscuring point #1.
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by cheeseprocedure 14y ago
"Wheat Belly" is probably not a shining example to use here. It (rightfully) attracted a lot of criticism over the author's cherry-picking of citations (even those of studies whose own abstracts contradict his claims) and failure to provide
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by cheeseprocedure 14y ago
I'm surprised to see ssh-keygen being called more often than ps. Perhaps this is skewed by history files being sourced from development boxes?
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by cheeseprocedure 14y ago
Disk encryption wouldn't defeat an attacker that had access to your keys (either by compromising a running system or through a cold-boot attack[1]). If the keys are available, the contents of the disk are accessible. Overwriting deleted fil

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