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by dlitz 11y ago
Does anyone know what's the latest news about long-distance superconducting cables?
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by dlitz 11y ago
It was 1981. To this into perspective, marital rape only became illegal in New York in 1984, and in all 50 US states in 1993: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marital_rape_%28United_States_... It was never okay, but peop
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by dlitz 11y ago
Great, so if I'm being harassed, and I accept donations or set up a legal defense fund or whatever, I'll have to dox myself. This is a real-names policy, just like Facebook currently has, with all of the problems and oppression th
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by dlitz 11y ago
With what, though? ITU-T wants to take over their role, but I can't imagine that being anything but worse.
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by dlitz 11y ago
Thanks. I replaced "patients" with "emergency patients" to clarify and to avoid derailing the topic.
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by dlitz 11y ago
Seriously, the tech startup model isn't always the best one. Here are some more points: 11. If hospitals were run like startups, 10% of emergency patients would be turned away ('not the target audience'), and any medical sta
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by dlitz 11y ago
A detailed history of what pages of what books I'm reading and when is certainly as sensitive as browser history, if not moreso.
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by dlitz 11y ago
Right, but it'll adjust to the point just above the "intolerably sparse" threshold.
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by dlitz 11y ago
I've been aware of XON/XOFF since forever, but I mostly just use my terminal's scrollback buffer.
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by dlitz 11y ago
No version of IP provides anonymity reliably. If you want anonymity, use something designed for that purpose, like Tor, use it from a coffee shop, and pay cash.
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by dlitz 11y ago
I remember the conversations people had back then. You had basically 3 business models if you were going to run a software company. It was something like: 1. Stay so small/niche that Microsoft won't notice or care about you. 2.
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by dlitz 11y ago
Um, wow, ok. Look, you also have to consider the information that was revealed during the discovery phase of the lawsuit, not just what the DoJ decided to actually pursue. Oh, and there has been more than one lawsuit to keep up with. A lo
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by dlitz 11y ago
How is EA to work for nowadays? Long ago, I heard that they had a pretty awful burnout culture, since every year, there's a new crop of novices who want to make games for a living.
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by dlitz 11y ago
Judging by the other replies to your post, apparently HN has forgotten, too.
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by dlitz 11y ago
This seems like a good argument for well-thought-out codes of conduct at conferences and whatnot. Sure, "just don't be a dick" sounds like a good rule on the surface, but spelling out the rules can make things run much mor
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by dlitz 11y ago
I'm not sure if this matches the description, but seL4 supposedly has a pretty well-developed proof system: https://sel4.systems/
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by dlitz 11y ago
> Some developers aren't great at gathering requirements, estimating costs, triaging requests, saying no, or any number of other things... To be fair, nobody is great at those first two.
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by dlitz 11y ago
No kidding. I don't know how many time I've tweaked my code after starting to write some docs (docstrings/JavaDoc/etc.) and realizing that my abstraction boundaries were wrong. If writing those docs were somebody else&
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by dlitz 11y ago
Signed how , though? A crypto scheme that Intel came up with 20 years ago is probably not secure, and if they haven't updated it since then, well...
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by dlitz 11y ago
> If the IETF wants to improve privacy, it should work on protocols that provide anonymous access to signed artifacts (authentication of the content, not the connection) that is independent of the user's access mechanism. He basical
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by dlitz 11y ago
> there's still many firewall features that one wouldn't want to reimplement app-level each time like rate limiting, network access logging One of the major things that was learned in the NCP->TCP/IP transition was that
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by dlitz 11y ago
The real story of the how the Internet became so vulnerable: NSA.
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by dlitz 11y ago
> Firewalls at the enterprise level are FULLY required for business to operate in a relatively secure manner today. They're also completely unsustainable, because "firewall traversal" will always be a thing. The result is
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by dlitz 11y ago
Every time I see stuff like this, it reminds me of Betsy Haibel's article, "The Fantasy and Abuse of the Manipulable User: When mistreating users becomes competitive advantage."[1]. Once I started to see how much a lot of cu
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by dlitz 11y ago
Hopefully now OpenSSH (and the SSH RFCs) will drop "diffie-hellman-group1-sha1" from the default list of allowed KexAlgorithms.
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by dlitz 11y ago
The NDP won because the conservative vote was split between two parties (PC and Wildrose) and the voting system is single-member-district plurality (FPTP). Federally, there is only one conservative party and several viable opposition partie
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by dlitz 11y ago
Is there a Python 3 version of this?
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by dlitz 11y ago
It's the online services network that telcos have been trying to build since the late 1990s, but nobody wanted because it wasn't the Internet. What irritates me most is that the Wikimedia Foundation is whitewashing the whole effo
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by dlitz 11y ago
Are police unions responsible for the widespread lack of adequate police training in the US?
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by dlitz 11y ago
> Microsoft has made a big push for getting developers to take a second look at Windows. This presumes that the developers' first look and decision to stay away from Windows was mistaken. It wasn't. I avoid Windows because mis

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