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by elwin 12y ago
Linode VPSs can boot custom kernels: https://www.linode.com/docs/tools-reference/custom-kernels-d... I don't know if this is possible with other providers.
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by elwin 12y ago
Paranoia is still around. There's a Kickstarter for a new edition that just finished. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1990654819/paranoia-rpg
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by elwin 12y ago
Making the information public reduces the excusability of the people responsible. It may lead to no action, but that inaction will now be complicity.
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by elwin 12y ago
The article did say the prosecution also claimed to have a confession from the defendant.
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by elwin 12y ago
It's significant that, rather than disclose their cell tracking methods, the police and prosecutors prefer to discard the evidence. This suggests that obtaining evidence is not the primary purpose of the tracking technology.
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by elwin 12y ago
> I understand the people who did the deed Maybe this was intended to mean that their behavior was logical, not that it was excusable.
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by elwin 12y ago
SDF has had one or two incidents with malicious people recently, but there was no damage. Low-quality hard disks have been causing bigger problems.
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by elwin 12y ago
That's true, but my point was that it's odd for the article to portray Uber as the exploitative capitalist when Uber does not own the capital.
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by elwin 12y ago
> Uber is just capitalism, in its most naked form. Considering that the workers own the means of production, this is a curious thing to say.
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by elwin 12y ago
In addition, the federal government was controlled by the Southern pro-slavery majority until about 1850. They would have tried to use any strong federal power to suppress the antislavery movement and prevent the question of slavery from ev
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by elwin 12y ago
> But when doing software development, you end up with multiple projects using multiple versions of the same dependency. That's what I wish the language designers had avoided. It would be convenient for users if there were never any
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by elwin 12y ago
Inability to install multiple versions of the same package can be a feature. It encourages the creation of stable, backwards-compatible packages.
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by elwin 12y ago
That's likely. The Intercept also cited fears of "increased violence", which implies the country is already undergoing some amount of violence.
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by elwin 12y ago
The award is given for contributions made at least 15 years in the past. Git wouldn't have been a factor in their decision.
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by elwin 12y ago
> I'm not entirely sure why variable expansion works inside double quotes but wildcard expansion doesn’t. That's because a double-quoted expression is supposed to evaluate to a single word. Wildcard expansion can result in mult
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by elwin 12y ago
I doubt the NSA's image problem is that large. I suspect many NSA recruits fall more toward the "black hat" end of the spectrum. They break into things without thinking about the consequences of their actions. The NSA can lik
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by elwin 13y ago
Ctrl-C stops the program because the TTY driver watches for it and sends an interrupt signal when it appears. It's a slightly different mechanism. There are more details in "man 3 termios", but be warned, the TTY layer is not
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by elwin 13y ago
I wrote a clone with a configurable grid size. https://bitbucket.org/ElwinR/ipv4-defrag I decided to give it a network admin theme, but don't be fooled, it's really the same game.
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by elwin 13y ago
CONFIG_X86_X32 and CONFIG_X86_32 are different. The first one, with the second X, enables the new X32 ABI. The second one, without the second X, is the "32bit userland on 64bit".
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by elwin 13y ago
> Though i wonder how well this chip would perform at 50w. Double the watts, maybe another 1.5ghz, might be viable for a cheap htpc. As a general rule, power varies with the cube of frequency. 50W will only get about 2.5 GHz.
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by elwin 13y ago
Bootstrapping from the previous version of clang would be easier. GCC cares so much about portability because the GNU project's goal was to replace the userspace on proprietary Unices, however ancient or quirky. There are few such syst
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LLVM 3.4 Release(lists.cs.uiuc.edu)
4 points by elwin 13y ago|2 comments
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by elwin 13y ago
The label stood out to me too. I can't remember seeing it seriously applied to anyone in any writing more recent than the 1950's.
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by elwin 13y ago
> Those characters do not live in your head. The problem with that argument is that this statement is simply not true once you tell me about the characters. Now they are in my mind too, and I want control over my own thoughts, just as yo
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by elwin 13y ago
The first one I saw was > The WorldWideWeb application is now larger than LinkedIn I had to follow the link to the code to convince myself it really was random and not satire.
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by elwin 13y ago
> Please explain how a bitcoin blockchain record can testify in court that a copy of a document is authentic. Hint, you're infront of a jury, you have a blockchain hash, and opposing council has a notary public with 40 years of expe
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by elwin 13y ago
DVCS is a relatively new technology. We're still figuring out the best ways of designing and using it. To continue your filesystem analogy, filesystems were invented sometime around 1960, but it was over 20 years before everyone settle
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by elwin 13y ago
It depends what it's doing. Other languages are much better at data processing. They make it more complicated to start child processes, use pipes, set environment variables, etc. If you're doing system administration tasks, you&#x
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by elwin 13y ago
> is it to preserve traffic by keeping the click-gravy-train going? If that were their intent, I would expect them to release slightly faster, at least one significant document per week.
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by elwin 13y ago
I called them analogous because of their potential effects and their development in secret by governments. I don't think a crime syndicate could do it so effectively; when the NSA "owns up the backbone", even if the operator

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