dingaling

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by dingaling 13y ago
Indeed, and first flew in 1964. Note that the follow-on MiG-31 was considerably slower despite sharing the general aerodynamic platform. Since then Vmax has been declining, as the aerodynamics and mechanical complications ( e.g variable in
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by dingaling 13y ago
> I don't like feeling like an unproductive schlub at work. I am very jealous. Some of us have very boring, unchallenging, crap corporate-drone jobs in which the 30% social distraction is the only way to make it through the day wit
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by dingaling 13y ago
> solely to broadcast that don't-bother-me signal. Current workplace has a no-headphones rule, exactly because of that. Many people were donning headphones as soon as they arrived in the office and not taking them off until home tim
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by dingaling 13y ago
> You don't press a button to sit in your chair, you just sit on it because you know how to do it. A microwave oven might be a better example, since a chair is inert. On a microwave one has to have discoverable controls. Imagine if
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by dingaling 13y ago
> "bi-weekly"... Do you mean twice a week or fortnightly? On a previous team we developed the mental image of a bicycle, consisting of two cycles. It seemed to help at the time.. but now I think about it I'm not sure how i
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by dingaling 13y ago
> So, would we use Chinese hardware? It probably has backdoors too.. Indeed, but at least the backdoors aren't used to feed an establishment that has a track record of rendition, UAV assassination and technology-based lethal sabotag
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by dingaling 13y ago
As an alternative to ( 4 ), only expose your SSH servers over IPv6. Initially I thought this worked because the overwhelmingly huge address space, but even when I published come-get-me DNS records ( ssh.example.com ) there was not a singl
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by dingaling 13y ago
> Everyone loved the housing bubble. Well, everyone other than people just trying to buy a house for their family. A house in which to live, not to flip-off in ten years time.
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by dingaling 13y ago
> Some firefox add-ons to help defend against mitm: In theory yes, but not more than 10 minutes ago Cert Patrol noticed that Amazon have changed the CA for the SSL cert for an image server. What am I supposed to do? It is interesting
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by dingaling 13y ago
> If I'm about to buy a washing machine, I would go search on google Actually we've just bought a washing machine in the past week and Google's ads didn't really have anything to do with it. Selecting a machine took a
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by dingaling 13y ago
I understand the point being made ( running a personal server can be frustrating / time-consuming /annoying ) but the principle of the Web is peer to peer hyperlinking. Consolidating onto 'easy' vended services may wor
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by dingaling 13y ago
> The moment you start to market these things as real computers at a low price point somebody's grandmother buys one and starts calling support because they can't run Office Why are they even providing a support line? I'm
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by dingaling 13y ago
The author's comments aren't correct for the UK, either. He writes: "A charity (except in special circumstances) cannot pay a salary to anyone." Charities ( unincorporated, companies or CIOs ) can of course pay salar
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by dingaling 13y ago
IPSec is one of the few instances where I have encountered consistent ( irregular ) kernel panics and when a panic ensues from a containerized app.. it is of course the 'host' kernel that is panicking. So all your containers are
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by dingaling 13y ago
Current estimate for the QE Carrier project is £5.5 billion, or about 60% of what the Olympics cost. In comparison to a few weeks of enabling professional athletes 'perform' , the carriers should give at least 45 years of service
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by dingaling 13y ago
I'll be the fool here since I'm not mathematical: how is it sustainable to mix any potentially flawed source into the entropy pool? For example if my RNG just outputs a series of 5s, surely that would weaken the pool even if the
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by dingaling 13y ago
Excuse Number Five: who is going to pay my mortgage for the next 18 months? Unfortunately, the Western world's mindset of house ownership means that most people who want to do something different generally can't do so until the
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by dingaling 13y ago
> Gentoo and Archlinux also appear to have experimental support and plans to switch. Indeed, but the problem with Wayland is that one can't just 'switch' from X. Wayland provides graphics multiplexing; that's it. Pos
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by dingaling 13y ago
On a slight tangent, this story sent me off researching the alleged German time-manipulation project ( Die Glocke ) which led to a report about Mr Hitler's last surviving bodyguard, who died last week: http://www.bbc.co.uk&#
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by dingaling 13y ago
> Chrome at over 40% marketshare? 43% of web traffic , apparently, though I haven't yet tracked-down the exact source of this story: http://www.economist.com/news/business/21583288-what-googles...
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by dingaling 13y ago
Gandi.net offer VPS with virtual networking between your instances, it's decent and inexpensive. Flexible pricing. But ensure you choose their French data center and not the one they now have in Baltimore... No affiliation other than
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by dingaling 13y ago
> Nobody's forcing anybody to use Gmail, after all. I think there are a couple of audiences who are; ( 1 ) employees of companies ( or students of institutions ) that have migrated to Gmail / GApps and ( 2 ) senders of e-mails