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eganist
6y ago
> They are whitelisting the feature. So this is pretty easy to deal with. Government bans? Take off the whitelist. No more issues. Major services like Google Play will have to deal with this too. Most apps don't work the same way i
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6y ago
> They're violating their own CFAA law (accessing a computer without authorization or exceeding the access granted) to remove web shells. ... > I'm using CFAA as a moral definition of hacking, not legal. Please don't mo
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eganist
6y ago
Helpful, thanks!
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6y ago
> around 5 mm in air and 6 μm in water Interesting. My source re: beta radiation was (admittedly a nuclear promotion nonprofit) http://nuclearconnect.org/know-nuclear/science/protecting > β BETA – can only b
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eganist
6y ago
The water can stop beta particles far more effectively than the air (2in v. 10ft), which minimizes the risk to life forms save for those which directly interact with tritium water, but even then, there's far more water in the ocean for
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eganist
6y ago
Yikes, and here I am as a manager trying to create employee development plans for my team members so I can vouch for their promotions come end of year (or next, depending on the plan and the leveling-up needed). Sorry you all have had these
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eganist
6y ago
Sounds like: If you want to coast in your role without promotions but still want raises, object to the structure. Or quit. If you want promotion potential and the wider raise potential that comes with it, accept it. I don't know. Faced
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eganist
6y ago
Honestly, if all the compensation details are exactly as agreed and the title doesn't visibly look like a demotion or otherwise undesirable on your CV, I'd consider it a win. More runway for promotion, merit increases, RSUs, etc.
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6y ago
> Le Coq Formel I'm surprised this is a serious proposal. I can see everyone having fun with this at the project's expense. The concern around women, NBs, and others being harassed for mentioning their work on the project is go
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eganist
6y ago
Can we take a moment to appreciate the straightforward naming of graft-versus-host disease ? I couldn't find the history of its discovery beyond this ( https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pi
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eganist
6y ago
> Would be that non-profit trustworthy going forward, given their association? Kinda depends. If the money was authorized by a parliamentary body (with clear legal text around who's receiving funding, what the conditions are, etc),
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eganist
6y ago
Hey, advisor for a non-signal E2EE chat service here that also benefited from the Open Technology Fund. I recognize that you'd basically just be taking my word for it, but literally all they did was take an application from us, approve
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eganist
6y ago
So, a few things. 1) no indication that there's any rate limiting here beyond a 2 second cooldown (thanks for that, grenoire), but I only tested it using burp intruder community edition, and I only tested it on a set of numbers guarant
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eganist
6y ago
If there was a cost-effective cure, we could consider it solved. The only (functional) cure for it involves basically taking a sledgehammer to the entire immune system and replacing it with one from a donor with CCR-5 delta 32. As far as an
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eganist
6y ago
In reality, it's 5x worse than current LiIon tech(from the same article): > The battery has an energy density of 24 Wh/kg, meaning approximately 20 percent capacity compared to comparable lithium-ion batteries currently availab
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eganist
6y ago
The post is making the free-market argument: > In reality, this couldn’t be further from the truth. Bitcoin is actually one of the greatest financial incentives to transition the world to clean energy. without bothering to explain why an
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eganist
6y ago
@dang, in re: this comment, any hopes of editing the title to say "secret-scanning" with a hyphen? Might add some clarity.
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eganist
6y ago
> There are a number of approaches to Zero Trust from different vendors since Forrester coined the term. We at Saas Pass are of the opinion that you are always guilty till you prove your innocence to access any company application, regar
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eganist
6y ago
> given wikipedia's heavy progressive bias. Do you have a robust academic citation for this? None of the sources here ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideological_bias_on_Wikipedi... ) suggest a heavy bias, and
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eganist
6y ago
Not sure if the analogy I'm about to put forward is oversimplified, but it feels akin to "display Thing on Screen" being instructed to the GPU and the GPU doing all the heavy lifting to calculate what Thing is and ultimately
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eganist
6y ago
Considering our history of misrepresenting risk (2008), I'm not sure I agree. The alternative prior to lockouts was slimmer margins or higher rates over longer periods, not an absence of credit, because other controls to recoup losses
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eganist
6y ago
https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2940/greenlands-rapid-melt-wil... A human accessible primer for you.
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eganist
6y ago
Added a nuance in brackets that hopefully provides more detail while maintaining a concise summary > The plan? Write a .dll [that fixes dupe checking and adds caching to GTA's json parsing], inject it in GTA, hook some functions, ??
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eganist
6y ago
> better be in a Java shitshow with slow idiots than in a C++ shitshow with autist geniuses :D Please don't use Autism as an insult. It's exceptionally degrading to conversation here and presents no value; it does nothing other
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eganist
6y ago
> Hey, he was one of main answers in today's NYT Sunday Crossword today. Probably coincidence. For his hundredth birthday? Sounds less like a coincidence and more like a tribute.
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eganist
6y ago
I believe Jag and Land Rover (same company) both have this, and it's immensely helpful. It's basically the inverse of cruise: rather than setting a speed floor that the car cruises at, it sets a speed ceiling that you can't e
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eganist
6y ago
Personal questions: What initially attracted you to crafting typefaces? And what continues to fuel your attraction to this specific area of design?
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eganist
6y ago
They poured a ton of investment into it right after they saw the uptrend, but their mission was to drive steady adoption of secure messaging; other features were nice-to-haves that weren't core to their initial function. The massive ru
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6y ago
> I'm afraid I'm understanding this correctly: > Near 100% of Mozilla users would agree to get the $36/year subscription? No, not at all. And I'm surprised at how many downvotes this is getting, but the basic conce
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6y ago
> You realise how weird this sounds, right? Presumably you donate because you care about the Mozilla mission, and those ads are there because donations alone aren't enough, and relying purely on Google's money is also not a gr
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