dannypgh

32 ms·

271.
by dannypgh 12y ago
Limiting the fraction of bandwidth used is a much harder problem than it sounds like, thanks to torrents. When you join the torrent you're inviting lots of UDP traffic to you. You can keep it from getting to the endpoint by traffic sha
272.
by dannypgh 12y ago
I didn't say they were a government. They are a resistance movement in an occupied territory. I suppose you could consider then a stateless government, but they most certainly aren't running a state. They're running something
273.
by dannypgh 12y ago
I didn't say that there was a legitimate democracy in the OPT- I said they won elections. By the 4th Geneva Conventions the security of Palestinian civilians rests with the occupying power. Gaza is similar to Area A - the PA has polici
274.
by dannypgh 12y ago
"[The other side is] going to cave eventually, if we keep shooting rockets at their citizens" is exactly the logic Bibi is using with the current campaign in Gaza. It's absurd and insanely biased to pressure only one side of
275.
by dannypgh 12y ago
Hamas won free and fair elections. Peace must come from negotiations with Hamas; it can't be predicated on their destruction.
276.
by dannypgh 12y ago
I think the increased role that technology is playing in warfare - e.g. drones, computer-assisted missile defense, etc. is most certainly relevant to our industry. Ignoring the moral questions won't make them go away.
277.
by dannypgh 12y ago
It does seem kind of odd to criticize the release for having -Werror on by default and also for having a fallback if /dev/urandom is unavailable. In the former case they are sacrificing portability for increased confidence of corr
278.
by dannypgh 12y ago
In my experience it helps if you can demonstrate the impact of your maintenance work. "Cleaned up the configuration" is worth something. "Improved the configuration to make a certain class of misconfiguration, which has cause
279.
by dannypgh 12y ago
Curious, but what by metric are you judging welfare to not work? I'm pretty sure fewer people die of malnutrition and more people can eat better food as a result of welfare. I'm pretty sure more people have the ability to keep a r
280.
by dannypgh 12y ago
"The fact that people like you can escape is very encouraging: it means we still have class mobility" Sorry, my analogy is perfectly apt. Your argument was that the fact that there were survivors means there is mobility, but in no
281.
by dannypgh 12y ago
How "advanced" is a society without shirts? I tend to think the idea that some people "advance society" is bull. Society advances as a whole or not at all.
282.
by dannypgh 12y ago
I guess the fact that some people have successfully escaped from prison means that prisoners are really free, right? Your reasoning is lousy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
283.
by dannypgh 12y ago
Why would you cd somewhere and then do rm -rf * when you can just rm -rf somewhere? Having your shell expand * is just asking for trouble; on most systems you'll have no problems creating more entries in a directory than you can specif
284.
by dannypgh 12y ago
An ad hominem argument is one in which you reject a position not on its merits but because of who is making it. They took a position that copy/pasting code leads to unmaintainable code, therefore his argument is not ad hominem. He&#x27
285.
by dannypgh 12y ago
Converting electric power to and from a battery requires an electrochemical reaction to occur. That is a conversion just the same - I don't really buy this "no conversion required" argument, just because you started and ende
286.
by dannypgh 12y ago
Power does not need to be stored as DC. Flywheels store rotational energy, and starting with a spinning flywheel it's pretty simple to get AC out of it.
287.
by dannypgh 12y ago
A written description of a recipe (that you'd find in a cookbook, for example) can most certainly be copyrighted. As I understand it, what can't be copyrighted is the proportions/ingredients/cooking methods. So if someo
288.
by dannypgh 12y ago
Where's your pessimism? Climate change can no doubt be considered a factor in stoking conflicts over resources. It's quite possible we'll start seeing larger and more dangerous conflicts being fought over water, going into
289.
by dannypgh 12y ago
Given energy constraints and the economics of things, meat should be more expensive everywhere. But the US also has massive agriculture subsidies, so what determines the cost of food here is Congress more than any market. Dried beans (my f
290.
by dannypgh 12y ago
Yeah, but here's the thing - if there's a connection point between cogent and comcast that is saturated, and it's degrading the netflix experience for comcast users, then netflix has incentive to pay for the upgrades (as if t
291.
by dannypgh 12y ago
Sure, but it doesn't have to be that way. Something built around multicast groups could be used to stream multiple people the same content in a drastically more efficient manner, and then it could be stored locally on clients for ti
292.
by dannypgh 13y ago
Reputation is a form of infrastructure.
293.
by dannypgh 13y ago
Because then you'd need different menus for takeout, in-restaurant, and delivery.
294.
by dannypgh 13y ago
I'll take it one step further: don't talk to the police at all. Had he said nothing and asked for a lawyer who knows what the outcome would have been? Obligatory: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
295.
by dannypgh 13y ago
Triangulation requires an angle and only two observers. What you're proposing is trilateration, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilateration I suspect it'd be challenging to get reliable and precise enough mea
296.
by dannypgh 13y ago
No, it's an acoustic wave. Salt water is a good conductor of electricity, as such only ultra low frequency radio has any chance of penetrating more than a few feet, and the antenna needed to pull that off is prohibitively large for an
297.
by dannypgh 13y ago
Humans aren't good judges of how often they dream. You have REM sleep several times a night and generally if you're woken up during REM sleep you will say that you were dreaming. It is probably more likely that you are simply reme
298.
by dannypgh 13y ago
Not sure if you saw http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/6299 but even before then I'm not sure I would imply that Broadcom hasn't been supportive. The thing was designed by someone employed full-time as a Bro
299.
by dannypgh 13y ago
With a distributed storage system you should be able to read said terabyte file using far more disk heads. It would also be easier to engineer it so the terabyte file was entirely in RAM by distributing it across multiple machines (although
300.
by dannypgh 13y ago
So do quite a lot of other people. Consider the rates of fatal injuries and salaries at http://www.businessinsider.com/most-dangerous-jobs-in-americ...

More ›