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by ekimekim 6y ago
Specifically with PNG it has a concept of "private" chunks which you can use to store arbitrary data. Conforming decoders will ignore these chunks, and may or may not drop them if the file is modified. See https://en.wi
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by ekimekim 6y ago
> Asked if there is a clear leading candidate explanation for 'Oumuamua's acceleration, Loeb referred Live Science to a not-yet-released book he authored called "Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond
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by ekimekim 6y ago
I'm going to copy-paste from an older comment of mine ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22332136 ) that I think captures my opinions on this question: Client-side tracking, if you need any at all, should be a) high
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by ekimekim 6y ago
Sounds like you're taking advantage of the politeness of others to foist an unwanted interaction on them.
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by ekimekim 6y ago
Because good platforms that allow adult content are in very short supply, so they can charge a premium. To a certain extent, they MUST charge a premium because being in the adult industry makes everyone else charge YOU more also. None of th
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by ekimekim 6y ago
The simplicity of the tar format has certain advantages, such as ensuring an implementation in a variety of languages and platforms. The seperation of "group files into an archive" and "compress these bytes" can also be
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by ekimekim 6y ago
I can't speak directly for BEAM but in most languages with built-in green threads (like BEAM's processes), one of two things happens: 1. If the call is a short, syncronous operation (like stat() (well, mostly), open(), getpid()),
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by ekimekim 6y ago
Their website was itermittently 500ing for me, but the video was just embedded from youtube anyway so here's a direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdDuHxwD5R4
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by ekimekim 6y ago
"Storing" needs some context here I think. It's a factory producing 385kt of AN a year, so 6-12kt is approx a week's worth of production. I don't really see how you can avoid needing that kind of buffer storage at t
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by ekimekim 6y ago
It's a prototype to test the materials, engine, process etc. Since it's only ever going to do little hops like this one, it doesn't need to be aerodynamic.
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by ekimekim 6y ago
This is a problem that is both solved again and again, but also all the available solutions are bad. In my experience what happens is: 1. you start with a "ship logs from X to Y" product 2. you add more sources and more destinatio
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by ekimekim 6y ago
Yes, you're very unaware. Anti-immigration has been a signifigant part of the current administration's agenda (and longer term than that, politics in general on both sides of the aisle). I won't venture into the exact motivat
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by ekimekim 6y ago
Or perhaps even better: let iterations = 3 // We need to iterate 3 times for the value to stabilize
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by ekimekim 6y ago
STAR sounds very reasonable. And yeah, I'm definitely open to ordinal systems besides IRV. I guess my argument is about letting the perfect be the enemy of the good (which is of course the whole point of voting systems to begin with).
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by ekimekim 6y ago
> This is somewhat subjective, but I think they've got it backwards. Under approval voting, strategic voting and honest voting are basically the same: you vote for as many of the candidates as you can tolerate, and maybe if there&#x
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by ekimekim 6y ago
I did a BSc(Comp Sci) in Australia (USyd) starting in 2010. A lot of my friends were doing the Software Engineering degree. We did the same courses and went to the same lectures, the only real differences were a) what faculty we were offici
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by ekimekim 6y ago
> There is nothing of the original design grandiosity of the first batch of internet protocols here. I'd be interested to know how you feel TCP and QUIC differ in this regard. It seems to me that they're both reasonably similar
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by ekimekim 6y ago
Wouldn't you then hit issues where a single dropped packet can cause noticable problems? In an intraframe solution if you lose a (part of a) frame, you just skip the frame and use the next one instead. But if you need that frame in ord
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by ekimekim 6y ago
Previous discussion (8 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23442998
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by ekimekim 6y ago
> Zoom needs either Chrome or a malwarey desktop program ...and the malwarey desktop program is also Chrome.
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by ekimekim 6y ago
I think there's been a thing called "Hermes" at every single company I've worked for, and I know of several more at other companies. Something about the name is just irresistible to people, it seems. Though it's mor
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by ekimekim 6y ago
The third approach, which Signal uses as a privacy preservation measure, is for the sender to generate the link preview on send. Of course, this then opens up abuse where the sender can arbitrarily control the "link preview" to sa
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by ekimekim 6y ago
This came up in several other threads here: Don't use RabbitMQ's clustering. It's surprisingly brittle and hard to recover from. The accepted wisdom that I've seen is to run a single broker with a completely independent
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by ekimekim 6y ago
I do this by running my browser in its own network namespace, with NAT to the outside world. A couple more firewall rules explicitly add forwarding for specific localhost ports.
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by ekimekim 6y ago
I tried this in their tool, "shitwat" comes out as "s *wat"
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by ekimekim 6y ago
I think this is a matter of coding style. When I'm writing something I'm generally "top down", breaking the problem into sub-tasks. In this mindset I'll often start a sub-task with a comment describing what it needs
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by ekimekim 7y ago
WTF-8 and WTF-16 are a thing: https://simonsapin.github.io/wtf-8/ Basically WTF-16 is any sequence of 16-bit integers, and is thus a superset of UTF-16 (because UTF-16 doesn't allow certain combinations of integer
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by ekimekim 7y ago
You abandon the server-side processing part and have all 50 participants share a single key. The server then acts as a dumb broadcast network. It's definitely not easy, which is probably a big reason no-one in this space is doing it.
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by ekimekim 7y ago
It looks like WebRTC doesn't support it, so basically no-one can because all these browser-based technologies end up just being WebRTC in the end. From the Jitsi Meet README: > WebRTC does not (yet) provide a way of conducting multi
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by ekimekim 7y ago
Often the turing completeness comes not from the config _format_ but from the semantics. A good example of this is Logstash config, where your config is an array of steps to apply, each of which can filter things in certain ways based on ce

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