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by elsjaako 11y ago
He addresses this point: But apparently, many managers create havoc by discouraging thinking and urging their subordinates to "produce" code. Later they complain that 80 percent of their labour force is tied up with "program
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by elsjaako 12y ago
I built a BTU-measuring device for a british customer, and he explained they had been using the metric system since the 70's.
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by elsjaako 12y ago
No of course not, but I'm not sure what the comparison is. Do you feel legal immigration is as bad as liquidating your family? I could imagine you saying "Illegal immigrants are bad for my family." Then I would ask how you kn
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by elsjaako 12y ago
As opposed to your comment, which lacks the math. Could you point to harder evidence on the subject, from a harder schience? Or are you claiming that there has been no real science done on the subject?
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by elsjaako 12y ago
> I don't see any way to protect users against forgetting their encryption passphrase, or losing their private key, without offloading trust somewhere. Private keys are obviously an issue, but I don't really get why passwords a
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by elsjaako 12y ago
Mathematics doesn't use the scientific method. A lot of people think that makes it not a science. A bachelors degree in mathematics can be a Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Arts, and some institutions give out a Bachelor of Mathemat
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by elsjaako 12y ago
In the GNU narrative, you are the bad guy. You are depriving your users of freedom by releasing closed-source software. I have heard Stallman literally say that stealing food is bad, but working on proprietary software is worse.
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by elsjaako 12y ago
It looks like they haven't got any logic, they just did the experiment on a bunch of known systems and checked what the resulting image was.
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by elsjaako 12y ago
There was a powerpoint where they implied they could sometimes get around ssh protections. Most people assume it's not actually the protocol that's broken, but it seems like a good excuse to clean up ssh anyway.
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by elsjaako 12y ago
And I think django tends to have more downloads than numpy. For django I tend to have a separate virtualenv so I know what to deploy on the server (so that's at least 2 downloads, plus one more for every new project I start). When I us
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by elsjaako 12y ago
Just because 90% of the country is technologically impaired doesn't mean they can't do this. This would be like saying the USSR couldn't go into space because they still did agriculture using horses. NK has made their own Lin
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by elsjaako 12y ago
> But for certain usage patterns, that doesn't get you a lot. Even if you're popping up disposable shell windows left and right, you might also do that within screen/tmux, where the window manager doesn't come into pl
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by elsjaako 12y ago
A lot of these points seem weak. #5: Maybe they were trying to avoid the Streisand effect? #6: Why would a disgruntled insider be more media savvy than a state famed for propaganda? #8/#9: while this may be true, neither provides much
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by elsjaako 12y ago
I was expecting some kind of subgenius material. Please tell me JR "Bob" Dobbs is at least mentioned.
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by elsjaako 12y ago
I recently spent an afternoon trying to get a webapp to accept drag and drop emails from outlook. I didn't manage. I am considering making a native app to interact.
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by elsjaako 12y ago
I had a friend that used the wikipedia page on the silk road to get the silk road address, and he fell for a fake version of the website (someone had changed the wikipedia entry). A cert could protect against that.
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by elsjaako 12y ago
Someone at the eevblog analyzed the file. It's setting the PID to 0 in a way that on genuine chips it will only buffer the change, and not actually apply it. If it wasn't a manufacturer with signed drivers pushing this on windows
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by elsjaako 12y ago
Maybe it would be better to make you type some characters on the keyboard. Similar tricks with outher human interface devices. That way the user physically can't do it with fake USB sticks. It would require that all these devices have
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by elsjaako 12y ago
I think that electrical cables have pretty low current. The fiber optic ones need to power amplifiers, so they have quite a bit of power going through.
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Nicotine overdose would be more common if people injected it. Smoking heroin isn't actually that dangerous (though admittedly, more dangerous short term than smoking tobacco). Why don't people smoke it then? Because the illegality