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by clhodapp 8y ago
The cables absolutely do fray but the flex neck you are referencing clearly is a strain reliever, just one that was designed with a lot more focus on aesthetics than function. I do sympathize with hating the cables because I used to go th
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by clhodapp 8y ago
They didn't remove strain-relievers, they just moved to ones that look better but don't work as well. That they didn't remove the strain relievers entirely is plainly clear by just looking at their cables. The lower durabilit
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by clhodapp 8y ago
> Then again, in the US, everything requires a phone number, which is problem number 1, even having mail sent to my house. Why exactly? So they have the option to SMS-spam you and resell your info (thus creating robocalls), of course. Ev
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by clhodapp 8y ago
Personally, I would call it "time" as a dual-meaning single word that references both the ability to go to a specific day and the fact that it is computed based on time spent (and maybe also "go here if you find yourself with
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by clhodapp 8y ago
Unless you have a really old OS version, you actually don't get your driver from AMD, you get it as a part of your Linux kernel: most Linux drivers aren't managed as standalone open source software projects, they are simply merged
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by clhodapp 8y ago
I believe that the Linux folks don't want a stable ABI because they want to be able to smoothly redesign the internal architecture of their kernel whenever they want. Once you have a stable ABI, you have to worry about continuing to su
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by clhodapp 8y ago
It's not about old vs new, it's about strong vs weak. WAF was too weak to be your primary line of defense against SQL injection when it was first popularized and it's still too weak now.
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by clhodapp 8y ago
Humorously, someone in this thread has now actually made the claim that their open source database product has flawless crash reliability: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19127011
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by clhodapp 8y ago
There is absolutely way to prevent this. We could enact laws to clarify that tips are between the customer and the employee and have no effect on the company's legal obligation to pay minimum wage. That is how the law actually is writt
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by clhodapp 8y ago
One reaction to discovering that a company you do business with has been exploiting you or its workers is to come up with a strategy for exploiting the company back (within the bounds of the law), ideally without hurting the individual empl
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by clhodapp 8y ago
The question is: which direction does the arrow of causality go?
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by clhodapp 8y ago
The like button may have kicked the journey off, but in my opinion the point of no return for a social network turning bad is when they start treating "like" as "maybe share" (which all the big ones have eventually done)
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by clhodapp 8y ago
We do have a technique for battling the second issue you point out at least: open enrollment periods. Of course they are kind of annoying and aren't generally viewed as acceptable for individual policies.. Maybe the some of effect cou
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by clhodapp 8y ago
Common techniques like relative paths will allow the proxy-cache to see much deeper into a site than the end user is aware. The url bar might say that you're on some site you trust but your traffic may all still be openly readable by G
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by clhodapp 8y ago
From the parent: > ... then Chrome gets to decide what name to show you in the address bar - potentially a name that has very little to do with the actual location of the document That doesn't seem to be the opposite of what the par
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by clhodapp 8y ago
The Supreme Court isn't an unquestionable authority on what is right. They are our pragmatic system of determining what our laws (including the constitution) actually mean in a given context. Sometimes they do great at that. Sometimes
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by clhodapp 8y ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18735492
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by clhodapp 8y ago
I think that with GitHub the "unlimited" is understood to mean "in repo count". You can create as many repos as you want and still get the same quality of service. You are not punished for creating more repos, you just h
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by clhodapp 8y ago
To split, you can duplicate the repo and pull trees out of each dupe in normal commits.
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by clhodapp 8y ago
Pedantically, that rule of thumb is actually getting more true right now: Mickey Mouse is still under copyright but the small set of older things that are actually still under copyright is shrinking.
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by clhodapp 8y ago
Division by zero isn't necessarily a runtime error. You could define your division operation to only admit divisors that are statically known not to equal zero. You just need a type system that is strong enough to track whether a numbe
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by clhodapp 8y ago
I think the problem here is that nothing at a higher layer is mitigating the effect of the attack. It's not so much a choice to put the complexity where it is cheapest as it is a total ball-drop on overall composite system correctness
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by clhodapp 8y ago
Ah, fair. I guess I should say "can require".
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by clhodapp 8y ago
Hoping for DDR 5 or PCI-E 5 support in Zen 2 is equivalent to hoping that Zen 2 is at least a 2020 architecture rather than a 2019 one. This is because: 1) PCI-E 5 isn't even standardized yet 2) Mass production of DDR5 memory chips mi
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by clhodapp 8y ago
Almost certainly. Zen 1 supported ECC on everything down to low-end consumer chips. It's unlikely but within the realm of possibility that ECC support will move up-market slightly with Zen 2 but is almost unthinkable that Zen 2 won&#x2
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by clhodapp 8y ago
Since "will never" describes the future, the statement was never true if the event happened (which it did) or ever end up happening, hence the PR-speak "we have no plans".
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by clhodapp 8y ago
I believe the motivation is that it eschews a lot of convenient crutches that would defeat the purpose of using nix (e.g. impurity) and adds a lot of convenient crutches that don't (e.g. a lot of implicit coercion for derivations).
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by clhodapp 8y ago
The simpler explanation is that Apple simply wants to move to USB C because they see benefit in being on the "standard" mobile device port now that it does not have marked drawbacks vs their proprietary solution and can used for t
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by clhodapp 8y ago
Perhaps you had 16 megabytes of memory? It's a bit tough going but my research seems to show that in-period, people commonly ran Pentium 75 systems with anywhere between 8 and 32 megs of RAM.
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by clhodapp 8y ago
Windows doesn't scale down quite as far and thus Microsoft's lastest answer for IoT is actually Linux: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azure_Sphere

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