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by corty 6y ago
Also, water-free Ammonia is gaseous at room temperature, you have to transport it in pressurized containers. Should one of those rupture, all the Ammonia will boil off, creating a nice cloud of fun for all involved. Neutralizing it works by
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by corty 6y ago
Ammonia is one of the less pleasant chemicals one could use. I'd rather have Hydrogen-exuding paste than Ammonia in an accident. The Hydrogen might explode. But the Ammonia definitely will hurt you.
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by corty 6y ago
But all compilers will close(). Compare compile times on tmpfs and you will see an improvement.
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by corty 6y ago
Process improvements are perfect CYA. You hand it in in writing, get a written turndown because too expensive/annoying/whatever. When shit hits the fan, you are covered. I like process improvement. Other than that, I only saw one
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by corty 6y ago
Calc handles CSV far better, period. Excel has language-dependent unconfigurable separators, quoting problems, whitespace problems, charset problems, BOM problems, weird expansion problems (like interpreting stuff as dates randomly), etc. I
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by corty 6y ago
The intended impact of hiring a CxO is a press release about how important 'x' is and how great they are for recognizing that, whatever fashionable new thing 'x' might be. Anything more is bonus.
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by corty 6y ago
It is actually one of the big, unfixable, conceptual problems of Wayland that all the effort is duplicated in each compositor. The Wayland concept pushes out most of the work to the DEs. That of course will result in tons of predictable inc
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by corty 6y ago
The database throwing an exception can be unexpected, but is usually safe in that it usually doesn't create a lot of exploit opportunities. Allowing null bytes in strings is far worse, it is well known to be exploitable in numerous sit
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by corty 6y ago
JSON strings must conform to UTF8. Storing plain non-base64 blobs in them is abuse of broken JSON parsers.
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by corty 6y ago
json carrying important and meaningful data in strings (i.e. blobs in strings) is usually just an exploit on the non-conformance of parsers. JSON strings are defined by ECMA-404 to be UTF8 codepoints. Arbitrary binary data isn't a sequ
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by corty 6y ago
A log containing binary chunks is not a string, because it will probably contain invalid characters, at least if your string encoding has the concept of invalid characters like UTF8 has. Since logs usually are not in any fixed encoding but
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by corty 6y ago
Thanks, fixed it.
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by corty 6y ago
Oh no please don't. Null characters in strings wreak all kinds of havoc on applications. Smuggling data in and out of somewhere because the validation only looks at the start of the string? Padding for fake checksums and signatures bec
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by corty 6y ago
I think it is quite obvious. "I guarantee NOTHING about this oil filter" still claims that it is an oil filter. Not just a mostly oil-filter-similar object.
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by corty 6y ago
For "real" servers and anything containing HDDs, definitely. But for a switch, some 1U el cheapo half-depth server and a power rail, the particleboard is sufficient. But one-time use only, the holes you drill into it wear out when
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by corty 6y ago
While this might be useful in certain cases, don't get your hopes up: i18n will break your carefully laid out equal width layout. E.g. many german terms will be longer than the english equivalent, causing all the same problems, just ev
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by corty 6y ago
Not every device is under MDM in a big corp. Often you have people like external consultants bringing their own devices, who need to participate in (semi-)internal communications. You cannot just MDM those and you cannot just issue bigcorp
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by corty 6y ago
I guess at some point Google will close the F-Droid loophole in Android and only allow installations through the Playstore anymore. You know, for security reasons... winkwink Maybe the real reason will be pressure from the government to h
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by corty 6y ago
Mishandling of COVID is on the EU to a large part. Not only for the vaccine procurement. The EU also, for a very long time, actively prevented meaningful border inspections and border lockdowns that would have prevented a lot of spillover f
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by corty 6y ago
About a quarter of the long list of vaccines was developed by public universities. Almost all were developed with billions in public subsidies.
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by corty 6y ago
Don't talk, even with a lawyer. Get written questions and give written testimony through the lawyer.
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by corty 6y ago
They don't. They just distinguish between playing good cop and bad cop.
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by corty 6y ago
They are only legal if the reviewer attaches proof of all claims made in the review and the interest of the reviewer of publishing the negative review outweighs the interest of the reviewee of not having it published. Which is the courts wa
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by corty 6y ago
Problem is, the losses will never really be known. Shorts have an arbitrarily high loss potential, but nobody knows how high GME would have climbed without Robinhood manipulating it down.
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by corty 6y ago
Scanned images are totally PDF/A-compliant. The standard is just about reproducible archiving, nothing else. Bitmaps are perfectly reproducible and pass every compliance check. That PDF/A is more accessible than any old PDF is jus
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by corty 6y ago
I also think they should adopt the gas station law of displaying the general price big and readable for passing cars. Currently often even customers in the network don't know what they will be charged because mostly nothing is displaye
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by corty 6y ago
It isn't just CCS vs. CHAdeMO vs. "normal plug" vs. CEE that is the problem. The worst problem is actually paying for the juice. You cannot use credit or debit cards or even cash. No. You have to sign up with a charging netwo
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by corty 6y ago
PDF/A isn't necessarily accessible. First, PDF is very hard to impossible to scale for people who need big writing, due to reflowing being unavailable or not working properly. Text in PDF/A can still be a big image, e.g. in a
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by corty 6y ago
Just shoot everything in 20mm, because that is roughly equivalent to the human eye. Mark every photo with a different lens as distorted and potentially misleading. Journalistic integrity saved ;)
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by corty 6y ago
Yes, of course. That would be ideal. That's what we do for everything we can control. But as someone in the IT dept., far too often you get some container that either was built by someone who long left the company or an external consul

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