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by eksith 13y ago
I once worked for a retailer which was connected via Megapath (they outsourced to whatever local ISP is available at the store location). The internet setup was so abysmal in security, in some cases the stores used wifi to connect to the fr
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by eksith 13y ago
That's the syntax equivalent of removing guardrails from a dangerous mountain pass to scare drivers into slowing down. This is probably going to sound like asking someone to catch sunlight in a teacup, but wouldn't it have been mo
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by eksith 13y ago
If anything this really is the time for the club to reunite (and for some new fresh blood to join in). If you think about it, homebrew has really exploded without the benefit of meets like this; all thanks to the internet (YouTube et al in
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by eksith 13y ago
This part stood out : "The ideal of 3-4 instructions per clock cycle can only be achieved in code that has a lot of independent instructions." And a bit later : "3.Modern CPUs do crazy things internally and will happily execu
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by eksith 13y ago
Wow! This is some seriously cool work. Very, very nicely done. Thank you!
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Isn't this basically Bill Gates exemplifying the "Rockstar Programmer" persona? "I did X in Y time so why don't you follow my lead" may have been a motivational tactic at the time, but it did backfire. I'm
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by eksith 13y ago
I can surmise out of this (probably wrongly) that when the likes and dislikes of a language are similar, they may be due to syntax issues more than a failure of the language's capabilities. E.G. Ada, R, D etc...
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by eksith 13y ago
I can verify that compliance requirement for older versions of PHP is still going strong. Last project for a charity completed with PHP 4.4 because "we have too much to rewrite" despite most of the platform being brand new. Also s
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by eksith 13y ago
True. But then again, you don't need that much anyway. I doubt they scanned his entire email archive at least first. Just the fact of including his real email and that one post on SO seemed to have been enough to establish probable cau
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by eksith 13y ago
That was wonderful. Thank you! :D
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by eksith 13y ago
All invalidated by corroborating the times with the call log where you were not present. Your edit is a better option in that regard, but as long as online is blended in some way with offline, anonymity is impossible... which is why I don
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Russian designer Artymy Lebedev visits North Korea(imgur.com)
4 points by eksith 13y ago|0 comments
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Wow! I do also like that. I like that very much! Thank you for pointing me to that.
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At the risk of arousing some people's ire, I really like these tidbits that try to squeeze maximum functionality (albeit a bit dangerous) into a minimum span of characters. It feels a bit like the underhanded C contest in a way since t
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by eksith 13y ago
Article shows a "Thor Data Center" in Iceland. This looked awfully familiar and it turned out to be owned by Advania: http://www.advania.com/datacentres Found via: http://www.datacentermap.com/icel
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by eksith 13y ago
"Backup generators have failed numerous tests, according to project documents, and officials disagree about whether the cause is understood." Backup generators are magical unicorns that sit around all day and night unti
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by eksith 13y ago
Actually I saw script #2 on an interview question a little while back (not that the interviewer knew what it did; he didn't seem to have a programming background). Don't exactly recall what the question was, but it was something t
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Guilloché(subblue.com)
2 points by eksith 13y ago|0 comments
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by eksith 13y ago
There comes a time in someone's life when it's time to admit that the whole point of assigning a label is so that [whatever it is] which is assigned said label fits under it and all things that fall outside it are ancillary to sai
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by eksith 13y ago
"It's not like Bitcoin is the only currency that undergoes inflation..." You mean "deflation"? ;) The nice thing about BTCs (aside from anonymity) is that you can always subdivide to tiny increments.
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by eksith 13y ago
It just means that lower bit keys are less secure as was known. Folks have been trying to get people to switch to higher bit keys as a result. RSA-210 is just the name of the challenge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA
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by eksith 13y ago
I usually select and dump my photos/videos to a shared drive on my laptop over wifi, so cloud is still an ancillary feature for me. After all, what if I'm in an area with no reception? I can still use Bluetooth to transfer files.
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by eksith 13y ago
With all the solutions thrown about here from multiple SD drives, cloud storage and even a "simple web server and web interface" (while I agree that would be a fun project) to sync between them, I'm forced to wonder why old-s
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by eksith 13y ago
But there is still a marked difference between trusting an executable that only resides on your system vs. one that phones home search results. It's true, I can't conceivably pour over an entire source library even if it's op
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St. Mary's Janesville Hospital laptop stolen (with patient data)(stmarysjanesville.com)
1 points by eksith 13y ago|0 comments
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by eksith 13y ago
I can tell you one of the easiest ways to corrupt an SQLite db file is to not let a library specifically designed for file operations, handle file operations. And of course, not using provided libraries for db access (E.G. PDO if you'r
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by eksith 13y ago
There's an additional trick possible to dissuade these types of attacks, but I'm not sure if everyone is up to that type of dedication. I once worked with an admin who would setup a script to enable SSH passthrough on the firewall
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by eksith 13y ago
Proving once again, machines are several orders of magnitude better at calculation than humans. This is both awesome and a bit disheartening at the same time since I still haven't been able to solve mine for the last year or so.
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Death by incompatibility: A Samsung Galaxy Gear review(arstechnica.com)
2 points by eksith 13y ago|0 comments
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I think this really is the focus of it. This is also the big reason there is an increasing delay on nested replies as you go to deeper. It forces you to calm down and think a bit more before coming back with an emotional reply instead of a

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