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Testing dark matter in the Milky Way (2020)(arxiv.org)
2 points by fpoling 6y ago|0 comments
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by fpoling 6y ago
The article indirectly pointed out that the reason for previous overestimate was model error about solar system light background. The biggest source of uncertainty with the new estimate is modeling of background light of our galaxy. Too bad
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by fpoling 6y ago
My experience is that a brand of knife is less relevant than having a good sharpening tool that can be used instantly to regularly sharp the knife. Surely a knife with good balance and grip helps, but any knife requires regular sharpening,
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by fpoling 6y ago
People underestimate the utility of good sharpening tools.
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by fpoling 6y ago
It is highly non-trivial to extract private key from Apple encryption chips, last time I heared the price is at least 100K USD, and probably much higher now. So unless one values own secrets that high, a short password could be OK.
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by fpoling 6y ago
At least with 10.15 and earlier you can configure MacOS to hybernate after certain amount of time when it will ask for FDE password on wake up and load everything from the disk.
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by fpoling 6y ago
Hm, isn’t the trick is to have a separated account just to boot into with a strong password and remove the primary account from a set of accounts allowed to unlock the disk? I have used that on older macos not to bother with reinstallation
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by fpoling 6y ago
I have found Slack search at work just sucks. Whenever I tried it gives wrong priority to results. Plus questions and replies are too short and search can not pickup on context.
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Haskell is a Bad Programming Language (2020)(blog.shitiomatic.tech)
340 points by fpoling 6y ago|307 comments
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by fpoling 6y ago
How the authenticity of IP address is established then? Wouldn’t the server need a certificate for its IP?
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by fpoling 6y ago
In Norway WhatsUp is popular, but my dentist still use SMS and email, and so other businesses that I interact with. My son’s school has own app for communicating with parents and teachers use Teams to present online lectures. My son uses Di
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by fpoling 6y ago
I have found runnaroo gives often nice results especially on technical topics. Combining with DDG removed the need to use Google.
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by fpoling 6y ago
I presume that was with 16 bits per pixel, which is not available in consumer cameras.
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by fpoling 6y ago
At my previous work I was involved with processing of data from 1024x800 cameras with 16 bit per pixel and nice optics. After proper calibration and trivial image processing they were not particularly blurry since they were able to resolve
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by fpoling 6y ago
Depending on the nature of the business it can be cheaper to run own servers even for smaller companies. I see that in Norway quite a few places see that and the pool of qualified people to run them is not small.
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by fpoling 6y ago
We do not know if the distillation was not known. We just do not have evidence that it existed. Technology necessary to produce distilling equipment was available.
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by fpoling 6y ago
There is even speculation that he referred to some distilled spirit in which case the color was indeed blue.
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by fpoling 6y ago
Yet consider if root certificates would expire in max 1 year. That by itself long time ago forced if not the phone vendors but at least app developers to deal with the need to update the root certificate DB. And the LetsEncrypt issue would
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by fpoling 6y ago
As long as one uses a single parser to read a particular input it matters little if it produces a result that is different from what some other parser generates as long as the parser has no security bugs. And JSON is simple enough to cover
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by fpoling 6y ago
I do not agree about JSON. As a format it is so trivial one can cover it with few test cases. SQL dialect that SQLite uses is vastly more complex.
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by fpoling 6y ago
At work we used a library that relied on Expat XML parser. After 20 years it still gets exploitable bugs. As the software was Windows-only we patched the library to use OS API for XML parsing to delegate to Microsoft the job of fixing secur
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by fpoling 6y ago
The problem is to write a reliable file database. Firefox got a lot of bugs related to history file corruption until it was replaced with SQLite. The same story was with Subversion where they replaced Berkeley key DB due to reliability iss
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by fpoling 6y ago
Lem has a story from Pirx the Pilot series about a robot accidentally transmitting Morse code messages that was related to people who died long time ago. Pirx thought initially that messages were just a recording, but then he asked a quest
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by fpoling 6y ago
I have a shell script that either symlinks dot files from my git repo or writes them. Then I use git normally.
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by fpoling 6y ago
The problem with basic Vim is that it does not support out-of-the-box tools that can run longer than an invocation of a single command, like language servers, project indexers, tree synchronizers etc. ctags etc. just does not scale. And on
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by fpoling 6y ago
Checkout chromium and try that on its tree. Or rgrep. Then try searching it with vscode and compare the timing especially with second and following searches. And vscode is smart enough to search files that where opened recently firs
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by fpoling 6y ago
Without plugins Visual Studio Code in principle is just an editor. Yet even without any plugins or language-specific support it still a better tool for development out-of-the-box than Vim or Emacs. It can quick open and search across a deve
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by fpoling 6y ago
Few reasons to leave California - https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2020/09/12/leaving-the-ba...
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by fpoling 6y ago
It will be possible, just harder. I will not be surprised if there will be services where one can get a database of IP addresses of bad domains and one could block that, the same way one does with spammers. Surely it may block sites that
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by fpoling 6y ago
The problem with space probes is that the radioactive fuel is highly radioactive plutonium. If probe explodes and plutonium disperses in atmosphere, that causes thousands deaths via lung cancer. Uranium does not causes that.

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