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by drclau 5y ago
Netflix mobile apps allow you to download most content, too, so you can compare the quality to streamed content. However, then you are limited to phone/tablet screen size for comparison.
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by drclau 5y ago
Worked for a bigtech well known name, large and extremely important project, literally the core of a service serving an enormous number of users, and feature flags were mandatory, no exceptions. I can't imagine working without feature
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by drclau 5y ago
% python3 --version Python 3.8.9 macOS 12.2 (Intel), Xcode 13.2.1, no homebrew, no macports
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by drclau 5y ago
I always wondered, how safe from tampering during manufacturing are devices 'designed in US/Europe/etc' that are built in China? Can anyone shed some light on the processes/practices that keep these devices safe, bo
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by drclau 5y ago
> The stock market at 2x US GDP has concerned many for quite some time Genuinely curious, since the stock market is global, can’t it be twice the US GDP without it being a significant problem?
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by drclau 5y ago
That’s great to hear. Are you aware of any data on vaccinated vs unvaccinated hospitalizations for Ireland? If so, can you share please?
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by drclau 5y ago
Strange timing, with Omicron going through the population like wildfire. Maybe they are accepting they can’t fight Omicron? In any case, this experiment will inform other countries on how to proceed further. I sincerely hope the results wil
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by drclau 5y ago
jfyi, HDDs do break occasionally, even when rarely used. I had an external multi TB drive that one day just stopped working. It just wouldn't spin up. The heads got stuck to the platter. Stiction, it is called. Luckily, I got it fixed
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by drclau 5y ago
> There is only one way to fix that issue, but unfortunately telling millions of people that the social security system is over and that they need to sort themselves out isn't something that gets people elected. That is essentially
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by drclau 5y ago
I worked in two different countries in European Union, and in both as far as I can tell (ianal) it’s perfectly legal to share salary information. Labor code states what the limits of what you can do are, and also that the contract can not b
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by drclau 5y ago
Not so fast! 2. The same games played on imaginary boards. [...]
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by drclau 5y ago
Unless the code hidden there is magically executed, this is just a way of hiding data, and not exactly a malware attack vector. To make this work, you need to already run on the host the code that extracts the hidden malware and executes it
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by drclau 5y ago
This creates an incredibly unbalanced view of Bucharest, honestly. Bucharest is a very diverse city, with a rich architecture, and the authors of the post seem to have focused strictly on poor neighbourhoods and communist-built apartment bu
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by drclau 5y ago
> Did you imply that claim? No, I didn't. I was comparing full virtualization to Jails. However, I realize now that there may not even have been a full virtualization solution available back then anyway, at least not for consumer ha
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by drclau 5y ago
(noticed your reply to my other comment too, please consider this a reply to both) I wasn't aware of HP-UX Virtual Vaults, thanks. However, I'd say FreeBSD Jails still had an advantage, due to being free and running on various har
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by drclau 5y ago
Note that FreeBSD Jails were introduced in 1999, while Solaris Containers and Zones were introduces in 2004. At the time FreeBSD Jails were introduced, probably the only alternative that was wildly available was chroot, which is really far
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by drclau 5y ago
FreeBSD Jails were so much better than everything else out there, for a long time. I'll just copy&paste part of a comment I wrote on another HN thread some time ago, since it's relevant here: [...] In fact, many years ago, whe
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by drclau 5y ago
> eavesdropped conversations seem pretty useless unless you also have the whole context and information on the person you're targeting to be able to effectively misuse that data Keywords (i.e. "perfume", "car", &
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by drclau 5y ago
If you are in doubt about this being revenge, because you think revenge is exclusively a human behavior, then have a look at the Gombe Chimpanzee War [0]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gombe_Chimpanzee_War
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by drclau 5y ago
> It's important to remember that it's also YOU interviewing THEM. I agree with what you said in the rest of the comment, but I'd like to go one step further with the idea of "YOU interviewing THEM". Let's a
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by drclau 5y ago
> Especially the insects that form colonies are capable of some sort of rudimentary communication based on body language Honey bees definitely do it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waggle_dance
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by drclau 5y ago
I’m not a lawyer either. I was thinking that this may fall under false advertising [0]. That is, claiming N people are interested in the product/service while that information is clearly made up. To be clear, I’m referring to an implem
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by drclau 5y ago
> competitors just put a random number that looked nice Is this even legal? It seems this is used to mislead the customer.
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by drclau 5y ago
> It's in large part an escape hatch for those who are fed up with technocratic debasement of money Those fed up with technocratic debasement of money, and organized crime. I just read here [0] that Bulgaria is the second largest ow
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by drclau 5y ago
It’s actually an Estonian startup: Starship Technologies. Engineering teams are in Estonia and Finland. You’d think they are familiar with snow there. :) “Starship Technologies is an Estonian company developing small self-driving robotic de
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by drclau 5y ago
Rather, be more selective about what you drink, and when. :) Typically, you want to avoid even water some time before going to sleep, such that you won’t wake up to go to the bathroom.
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by drclau 5y ago
I second Huberman Lab podcast. He has now a monthly newsletter too, and September’s was about sleep. You can read it here: https://hubermanlab.com/toolkit-for-sleep/ Thanks for the second suggestion, I’ll have a look.
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by drclau 5y ago
> This article would benefit from being more specific. Take on that un-named "decentralized" system directly rather than side-swiping it as is done here. It's a cop-out. The author is probably just trying to avoid attacks
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by drclau 5y ago
GEM came with my first PC-XT, 8086 8MHz (or maybe it was even 8088, not sure), 640KB RAM, 20MB HDD, 5.25" floppy, monochrome display etc. It worked on top of DOS. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEM_(desktop_env
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by drclau 5y ago
While this is amazing technology and there will no doubt be useful applications for such devices (for lack of a better word) in various fields, do we really need to play with fire and make them self-replicating?

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