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by dmm 8y ago
> Considering that you are a DNS spoof away from installing packages from a compromised server, This is false. Debian packages are signed. If the signature fails to validate the package will not install.
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by dmm 8y ago
I was attempting to point out the grandparents error by elaborating their argument in an outlandish way. I clearly failed. Sorry about that.
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by dmm 8y ago
I agree. All aspects of the world only stay the same or improve with time. When society changes the consequences are never a compromise. Instead the result is universally positive. So when someone expresses their appreciation of something f
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by dmm 8y ago
The Ford F-series trucks are the best selling vehicles in the US. People want trucks.
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by dmm 8y ago
Very good cameras are available in the US, people are bad at placement and choosing appropriate cameras. They install cameras too high up to capture faces and choose cameras with extremely wide views. If you concentrate your pixels on a sma
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by dmm 8y ago
> It's baked into evolution and sexual selection. Human attraction is way more complicated than this
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by dmm 8y ago
That's something I hadn't considered. I'll have to do some benchmarking. Thanks!
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by dmm 8y ago
Just to add another dimension to your analysis, if you're sending large binaries the 33% overhead of Base64 adds up pretty quickly. It may not apply to your use case but if you are delivering images or video over a websocket it can mak
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by dmm 8y ago
I'm working on a product where I had to serialize 100KB+ BLOBs in two places. The first was over stdout from a c program to an elixir application and the second was over a binary websocket, specifically a Pheonix channel. In both cases
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by dmm 8y ago
Even with these issues the main browsers are going to be the most secure because it's very easy to screw things up certificate validation. A way to prevent these sort of attacks is to use a javascript whitelist using an extension like
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by dmm 8y ago
Similarly I run StumpWM as my main WM. I just run a full gnome session on a separate x server and when I want to setup a printer or whatever I just switch to gnome with ctrl-alt-F2.
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by dmm 8y ago
You're invoking a logical fallacy know as whataboutism[0]. The actions of the west cannot justify the imprisonment of hundreds of thousands by the chinese government. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
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by dmm 8y ago
You try out stumpwm. It's a tiling window manager that allows you to take full advantage of your big screen. Simply entering "Control-t s" would vertically split your screen and make that unpleasantly wide page readable. Stil
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by dmm 8y ago
DNA evidence is often collected from fingerprints and it has been shown in many experiments that people can pick up and deposit DNA from other people. As a result your DNA can be found at a location you have never been to. If DNA evidence i
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by dmm 9y ago
> Everybody was doping. Lots of people weren't doping. In fact the vast majority of humanity wasn't doping. Many of those non-dopers may have been competitive had cycling not been full of dopers. The cheaters drive the honest o
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by dmm 9y ago
LVM provides CoW snapshots. But why would you use this instead of ZFS's native compression or dedup ?
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by dmm 9y ago
Here's a great example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I3iNr1myG4 A driver on her phone strikes a cyclist stopped for a light because the driver cuts the corner and enters the wrong lane. The cyclist is wearing high-
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by dmm 9y ago
My state's employee pension is funded with a investment return assumption of 7.5%. You're not going to get that with govt bonds unless inflation is crazy.
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by dmm 9y ago
> Our industry is very much in need of a temporary visa program for the low-skilled, essential workers I think this is interesting because I hear a lot about a shortage of tech workers and the consensus I hear is that there really isn&#x
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A Worker Shortage Is Forcing Restaurants to Get Creative(nytimes.com)
11 points by dmm 9y ago|53 comments
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by dmm 9y ago
LVM can do snapshots and Redhat is working on its own hybrid storage management solution based on xfs called stratis[0]. Redhat deprecated btrfs recently. I don't think that means anything more than Redhat has lots of xfs devs and no b
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by dmm 9y ago
Debian Stable(jessie) is on 0.6.5.9 and Debian unstable(sid) is on 0.7.6 so they shouldn't be affected.
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by dmm 9y ago
> doesn't automatically mean it's unhealthy nor that it will harm you. Examples: sunshine, candles, birth control
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by dmm 9y ago
> generally degenerating into gerontocracies. Solution: You can't vote your first 17 years and you can't vote your last 17 years. The average life expectancy in the US is ~78 years so you can't vote after 61, periodically
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by dmm 9y ago
How did corruption harm the Illinois pensions? Were governors using pension contributions to buy yachts? People keep using the word "corruption" but I think this situation arose simply because pension funding was continuously defe
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by dmm 9y ago
> filing for bankruptcy Illinois has significant assets and the power of taxation over a large economy. I can't see a court just allowing them to discharge their obligations. It's also not clear that states _can_ declare bankru
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by dmm 9y ago
Why don't browsers just try https first? So if I type "example.com" into the box it tries https://example.com . Why is implementing HSTS and preserving the current behavior more useful?
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by dmm 9y ago
In a world with affordable and effective birth control having children is a choice so it's really a question of why young people are choosing not to have children. Why do you think that is? Birth rates in the US are plummeting. They pe
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by dmm 9y ago
> I can't see any reasonable argument for putting more carbon in the atmosphere for such a speculative asset/business model. I can't see any reasonable argument for putting more carbon into the atmosphere for heating mcman
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by dmm 9y ago
Newegg has plenty of unbuffered, ecc ddr4[0]. The cheapest registered 16gb ddr4-2133 module is $192. The cheapest unbuffered 16gb ddr4-2133 module is $189. So the price is about the same. [0] https://www.newegg.com/Product&#

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