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Ask HN: Help with a design review for encrypted TAR files program "tarcrypt"
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by derekp7 6y ago
Even today, computers are useful to average people only because there is software that is available that solves a wide range or problems, combined with the fact that there is really only a handful of problems that people want computers to s
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by derekp7 6y ago
Reminds me of a study showing that a reusable coffee mug wastes not water (from washing) than a styrofoam cups.
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Sounds a lot like lambdatheultimate.org.
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by derekp7 6y ago
But bluetooth earpieces made it look like people were talking to themselves. For me, if I'm not by myself, I'll often have my phone in my hand while talking on bluetooth.
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by derekp7 6y ago
I've always felt that when dealing with hard real-time requirements, the real-time functionality should be offloaded to a separate dedicated processor that acts as a buffer. As another option, it would be nice if modern OS's could
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by derekp7 6y ago
If your immune system failed to get trained by the virus, wouldn't that apply to the vaccine also?
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by derekp7 6y ago
When you first start off programming (or any other skill based activity), you don't know what you don't know. That is, when starting a project you don't realize at the beginning how much effort goes into every subsection to
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by derekp7 6y ago
Maybe Scientific Linux can get revived.
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So if SpaceX shuts down their entire operations (and lets include all rocket companies), then that would completely fix health care and the climate crises? I'm not following the logic of how that would work. It is basically a larger v
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by derekp7 6y ago
The counter argument to that, is that it is worth while to do things, even if there are other things that are worth while to do. For any single item one can pick out "Why spend on X, when Y has a need", someone else can come alon
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by derekp7 6y ago
I'm not a gamer, so I'm curious which games use 120 - 160 GB when downloading them? Or is that the usage when playing them for a period of time (i.e., downloading assets on the fly)? And I thought that DVD games were huge (4.5 -
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by derekp7 6y ago
To put this in perspective (Hopefully I got the numbers correct, assuming everyone follows the convention of B=Bytes, and b=bits, and 8 bits per byte) -- I believe it is 1.2 TB, not Tb (bytes, not bits). A quick google search shows that Ne
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by derekp7 6y ago
I signed on to Amazon's Mechanical Turk as a worker just to see what it was all about (and to evaluate what the workflows were, so I could recommend it to others). I think I ended up doing a couple bucks worth of work, and applied it
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by derekp7 6y ago
On the other hand, a number of people have gotten so used to the lock down and risk aversion protocols, it may be a long time before they feel comfortable letting anyone else in their personal space.
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by derekp7 6y ago
This is basically a "loss leader" business model -- take a loss on selling milk, hoping that brings in customers to buy your cookies. So in open source, there are some things you can do -- sell support (where the software is the t
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by derekp7 6y ago
I run Fedora, and update to the latest release about a month or two after it is released. Mostly because my job is with RHEL / CentOS, and Fedora keeps me up to date with what will be in the next RHEL major version. However I should
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It is strange to me how different people have different experiences. I wonder how much is hardware / driver related? In my case I have an AMD video card, and my system runs for weeks at a time (I reboot when applying kernel updates i
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by derekp7 6y ago
This is going to sound a bit weird, but if I am in the middle of a moment of deep despair then eating something with hot peppers snaps me out of it. Something like Tabasco on popcorn, or Buffalo wings. Or sometimes just munching on sandwi
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by derekp7 6y ago
I think that for me, at this stage in life job satisfaction boils down to how well it feels I'm respected, or if the management I work under is constantly looking for an excuse to fire you from day one. I've been at organizations
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by derekp7 6y ago
However, WE can't drive when looking directly into a setting sun. So we have sunglasses and sun visors to help. Is wearing sunglasses a crutch when driving?
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I don't think that really will, or should happen, if you compare to similar systems. For example, the owner of an aggressive dog breed will be held liable for attacks from that dog, even though the dog is acting "autonomously&quot
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I'd even be happy with a single filament that gets UV cured by a light source on the print head.
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The printers also need to get less fiddly for the average person. Things like setting the bed temperature, print head temp, fan speed, etc and watching the first couple layers to make sure they don't curl up on you. And those setting
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by derekp7 6y ago
I thought the same, but the wife bought one for me for Christmas. After initially printing things I found on thingiverse, such as cell phone holders, I started learning to make my own models (mostly from OpenScad). And that opened up the
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by derekp7 6y ago
If I could get a prescription for some quality placebos, then I'd be on board as long as I get relief.
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Even the Ford Mustang Mach E has copied the Tesla center-screen design. At least they also have a short-wide screen behind the steering wheel too, and they've included a big knob embedded into the bottom of the center console screen.
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So kind of like trying to read the original blotch manuscripts from Beethoven vs reading clean modern sheet music. Or better yet listening to a modern orchestra playing it.
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After watching both versions, my brain processed a different story between the two. In the colorized one, I see a bunch of people having a random good time, then some passerby gets caught in the middle. And although he tries to escape, he
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by derekp7 6y ago
Or, a local ISP or the coffee shop you are visiting has an appliance that injects ads into http web sites. And those ads come from an ad network, that doesn't do a good job of policing malware that gets into the ad's javascript.

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