eriknstr

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by eriknstr 9y ago
For future reference, the show is Silicon Valley.
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penis land
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>anything on disk Not if the file system is isolated per app as I said.
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Sweet! I've been wondering how much work PXE boot would be.
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I am powering the Raspberry Pi from the usb port of my router and would prefer not to have an additional power adapter. However the SD corruption issues also happened previously when I was using the Raspberry Pi for something else and was u
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>I've configured it to boot off of the Hard Drive. You don't even need an SD card in it to boot. Woah, that's awesome! I had no idea the pi 3 could do that. I have a Raspberry Pi 2 B and a 3 B at home. I host my website us
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I'm am very much in favor of open source always but let's not pretend that embedded systems don't end up with out of date software just because it's open source. In the case of WannaCrypt0r, the vulnerability had already
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Because since the only way that a program can have access to information is by explicitly handing that info to the program from another program the only place you enter a password is on your login screen.
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Not sure if you're being sarcastic about how users feel or about that kind of configuration for UAC, but personally it's one of the many things I dislike when I'm on a Windows computer. For power users it's annoying and
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They are jumbling the labels for the training data before giving it to the network. Thus they are misinforming the network about what it is supposed to learn.
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> Little pictograms for buttons are often extremely vague and open to interpretation. True. I remember Lynda Weinman refered to this as "mystery meatball" navigation in one of the books she wrote on web design somewhere between
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>Personality change after TBIs is not a good thing. Reminds me of a documentary I saw recently about snowboarder Kevin Pearce called The Crash Reel (2013) [1]. Kevin Pearce was changed by his TBI also but the one I came to think of whe
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> Feilding wasn’t interested in performing the operation as an extreme form of body art, but because she believed it would have a life-changing effect on her. She hoped that a hole in her head would increase what she terms "cranial
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Someone on /r/linux said, and I agree, "it's like putting sugar in your cup full of piss".
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>That's a long introductory way of saying: KBFS on phones will be fantastic - but I've long intended to move my (pretty much personal use only, but still) app to using a database rather than raw files, so is there any plan for
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>It's important for people who are dissidents or engaging in criminal activity to be aware that their brain is more secure than their fingerprint, although that seems entirely obvious to anyone capable of maintaining a high security
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>You're still also only considering false negatives (user is erroneously rejected). You have no data points about false positives (user is erroneously allowed). As far as I understood, the system is distinguishing between its member
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>I'm working on and off on an ear training app that randomly generates them that musicians can use to train their musical ear. Sounds interesting. Please do a "Show HN" post when your app is ready for it.
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What he's saying is, IPFS will never be useful if it gets blocked before it has a chance to spread. If IPFS is blocked and the people that need anti-censorship tools can't use it then they might as well not have bothered.
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>JSON Web Token Thanks, I didn't know what JWT meant. When I first read the title I thought it would be about the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) which I incorrectly remembered as being named Java Web Toolkit (JWT) because with GWT you use
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>Nothing can grow forever. Sooner or later, something is going to happen that causes the donations to decline instead of increase. It could be a scandal (real or perceived). It could be the WMF taking a political position that offends ma
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Looks ok for the most part. Not going to use it myself. For those that do use it, don't you find the jumping around of the news items distracting?
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Pretty neat. Would be useful to be able to restrict the blocks that are searched. For example I might know that the character I'm looking for is Japanese, so if I could let it know that I was looking for is Japanese then it could restr
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by eriknstr 9y ago
Looking at it that way, I think it's possible to make "expect" more comfortable to read by how you phrase your error messages. Instead of let mut file = File::open("conf.json") .expect("could not
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While it's too late to change the name "expect", could one create an alias for it and call it say, "on_error"?
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Any time someone makes a choice, that is automatically the correct choice. It never happens that someone makes a choice, like what license to use, because they are only familiar with a subset of all choices, or because they have been misinf
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Someone had the same question as you in a comment. >Wouldn't returning an object containing the array, instead of the array directly, also solve the problem? And someone else replied >No, that wouldn't solve the problem sinc
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The statement "there are far fewer ways to attack a machine behind NAT with no user interaction" is true even though NAT on it's own is not designed to be a firewall.
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For a library LGPL would be a better choice than GPL.
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>He still spends quite a bit of time finding keys on the keyboard, so that'd be a major distraction and would break flow. I don't have kids yet but I am wondering if perhaps letting your child use a keyboard that is without pri

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