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by cperciva 11y ago
This looks like it would be perfect for Tarsnap -- the data Tarsnap stores is almost always kept for 30+ days, and it's almost always in objects of 128kB or more. The $0.01/GB for reads would be annoying (one of the reasons Tarsn
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by cperciva 11y ago
I don't think it's necessarily accurate to say that people are complaining in bad faith. They might just be wrong.
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by cperciva 11y ago
Patrick doesn't seem to be here yet, so I'll deliver his line for him: This is the human version of making lots of small tweaks to your website and to your advertising. If you can find a 1% improvement to your advertising clickth
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by cperciva 11y ago
bsdtar does this, except by looking at the file format rather than looking at the extension. It supports tar, pax, cpio, zip, xar, lha, ar, cab, mtree, rar, and ISO images, compressed using gzip, bzip2, lzip, xz, lzma, or compress.
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by cperciva 11y ago
Perhaps, but wouldn't that affect FM reception too? I only get interference when tuned to the AM band.
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by cperciva 11y ago
Another example: Wireless phone chargers. Now, the fact that wireless chargers emit RF energy is hardly surprising -- that's how they work -- but I was still surprised when I found that my new charger completely obliterates the AM radi
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by cperciva 11y ago
To get rid of it entirely you have to declare that there is some point beyond which provides zero additional value no matter how much more money you add. No, you merely have to declare that there is some amount of utility which can never
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by cperciva 11y ago
Yes, HTTP cookies are so named because they're... well, cookies. The concept is more general and was around long before HTTP though.
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by cperciva 11y ago
A token is something you are given so that you can give to someone else. A cookie is a token where the "someone else" is the person who originally gave it to you. I meant cookie.
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by cperciva 11y ago
I did pay out a bounty of $200 for this.
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by cperciva 11y ago
Comments can easily get out of sync with reality This may be true, but I find that every other form of documentation becomes out of sync with reality even more easily, and/or is not in the right place to be noticed when some code is
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by cperciva 11y ago
What you call a "weirdly pedantic obsession" is me trying to not break the law.
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by cperciva 11y ago
a friendly guy reported to tarsnap that you could sign up without needing the emailed confirmation link by creating that same confirmation link yourself with the cookie/token being hidden, but present in the HTML code. That's a
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by cperciva 11y ago
Bogus file ownership won't prevent you from booting in single-user mode. And once you boot in single-user mode, you're running as root so you can change file ownerships back.
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by cperciva 11y ago
There's nothing being left in the background. It's one process which is calling exec repeatedly; no forking going on.
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by cperciva 11y ago
Another possibly apocryphal case of linguistic collisions resulting in governmental interest: When the MIT Media Lab started doing work on intelligent kitchen counters, they found that a lot of shadowy government agencies wanted to talk to
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by cperciva 11y ago
Fair enough. I find granting value to societal stability to be troubling, since it tends to privilege people who are already privileged - wealthy whites, for example.
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by cperciva 11y ago
I'm also curious. I hadn't seen S3QL before it appeared at the top of HN. Two things jump out at me from a quick glance at the site: 1. "S3QL splits files in blocks of a configurable size (default: 10 MB)" <-- this i
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by cperciva 11y ago
I don't get why there's so much agreement here that that's the desirable outcome. I never claimed that it was. I was just refuting the claim that removing rent controls would result in everybody paying the pre-rent-control-
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by cperciva 11y ago
What you mean to say is that market rate would go down for the average new arrival. I was taking the words "market rate" to mean "rate negotiated by people operating at arms length" as opposed to "rate dictated by
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by cperciva 11y ago
Another point is that it still works if you're inside a chroot / jail / container / with no devices visible.
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by cperciva 11y ago
If $3000 is the market-clearing price for people chasing 5% of SF's housing stock, I can guarantee you that the market-clearing price would be less than $3000 if 100% of SF's housing stock needed to be cleared.
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by cperciva 11y ago
There are literally not enough apartments for the people who want to come into the city "Want to come into the city" isn't a yes/no proposition. How much are those people willing to pay to come into the city? I'm
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by cperciva 11y ago
every rental in the city would be renting for at least $3000 per bedroom per month No, because there aren't enough people who are willing to pay $3000. Rent controls push the average rent down temporarily (until supply drops to re
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by cperciva 11y ago
To elaborate on this, here's (as accurately as I can remember it) what a librarian I know in Vancouver said recently: "Hardly anyone comes in wanting books any more, and the people who do already know how to find them. But nobody
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by cperciva 11y ago
I don't worry about people being turned off investing in startups. I think that would be a very good outcome, both for retail investors (they should be investing in broad indices, not picking individual sectors or stocks) and for the
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by cperciva 11y ago
the wording struck me as really unfortunate You're right. In hindsight I should have been clearer about the issue I was trying to address there. I am clearer in the bug bounty page on the tarsnap website, but my blog is written i
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by cperciva 11y ago
As elahd hypothesized, this is the trade-sanctions thing -- if someone from Iran would win and there's some way I can legally pay out the bounty, I'll do it, but I don't want to be in the position of owing someone a bounty bu
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by cperciva 11y ago
That's part of why I have code in libcperciva which is shared with other projects -- the new AESNI code in tarsnap was all tested via its inclusion in spiped and scrypt before it came into this tarsnap release.
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by cperciva 11y ago
Yes, I might reassess that bounty.

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