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by fps_doug 6y ago
Don't get the downvotes either. This is a somewhat valid point. I feel like many people, even here on HN really like to paint the world black and white in this regard. Everything bad we hear about Russia & China must undoubtedly be
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by fps_doug 6y ago
The only reason I'd work on it would be the learning experience. Sometimes to understand why things are done the way they are, you just have to build your own version of it. Windows sure has a bunch of interesting architectural propert
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by fps_doug 6y ago
Longer yes, healthier... Hard to judge. We weeded out a dozen nasty things, but got others in return, for which "chemicals" might be an explanation. Parkinson's and Alzheimer's come to mind here. We were smart enough to
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by fps_doug 6y ago
Any ELI5 for people who know close to nothing about NN, AI, machine learning etc? Like, how does one letter it doesn't know how to write well make it skip/mess up the following ones too? I mean, "derail" seems a fitting
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by fps_doug 6y ago
I set a solid purple background because I feel unused screen space is a waste.
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by fps_doug 6y ago
colleague is using Windows Phone to "prevent distraction". He says the only usable app left is Mail.
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by fps_doug 6y ago
But here, no proof was provided at all. It's just accusations. Whenever there's an article about privacy issues with Facebook, WhatsApp, Google etc. there's in most cases a real name attached to the findings, and in all case
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by fps_doug 6y ago
As far as I can tell, the root parent tried to address the various posts here, but mostly on other (social media) sites that immediately jump to the conclusion that do connect 1 and 2. That this was indeed covered up for months, and that th
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by fps_doug 7y ago
At least for China, the requirement is no fever for 10 days and two negative swabs. Only then they can get discharged. I'm not a doctor but I'd be surprised if you still need oxygen by then. You probably won't run a marathon
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by fps_doug 7y ago
I disagree. I haven't lived in China (for more than two months at a time), but traveled there multiple times, which was an eye-opening experience. I've met several foreigners living in China, some of them since before 2010. There
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by fps_doug 7y ago
And now we got this fragments ecosystem of classic bare metal "Win32" apps, WinForms, WPF, UWP, and obviously a handful of 3rd party GUI libraries so vendors can completely redesign their UI so it is a special snowflake. C# in 200
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by fps_doug 7y ago
Yes, it's like "it didn't work this one time, let's just scrap that idea entirely" I wish they would apply that logic to whenever they implement more surveillance measures.
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by fps_doug 7y ago
From a practical standpoint, how easy would it now be to e.g. create a "signed" bootloader (say, custom GRUB) that will boot on those affected chips with the default secure boot configuration? Or is this just for information exfil
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by fps_doug 7y ago
That's exactly what I expected. Now I'm really curious whether this is possible. Monsieur Bellard to the rescue please!
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by fps_doug 7y ago
Agreed. I did a lot of reading about the NT architecture 10+ years ago purely out of interest, and it's pretty amazing. And I'm saying this as a Linux person. The only reason Linux is so successful is actually the fact that it&#x2
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by fps_doug 7y ago
No no no. This is an isolated incident. Developers at Google are absolute Wunderkinds that know everything better than the stupid users out there, and never make any mistakes. Except this one time. So don't worry, just leave those fiel
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by fps_doug 7y ago
No, for the love of god, no! First, let me be clear: I have my issues with systemd. The "exmbrace, extend, exterminate" fears from the article are justified to some degree. I don't like Poettering's personality (ok, this
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by fps_doug 7y ago
Win98 didn't have auto-defrafg. IIRC the first one to ship this was Vista. Win98 still had that atrocious defrag program that would restart every time it noticed that any program modified the file system in any way. So you had to mak
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by fps_doug 7y ago
Tried installing Debian 8 or 9 with 128MB a while ago. The installer warned that this wouldn't be enough to finish setup, and sure enough, during installation the OOM killer got in the way. I restarted the installer, spawned a shell an
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by fps_doug 7y ago
I pay for quality software, not visual appearance. Consistent UI yes, eyecandy no. Slapping on a theme instead of using the native GTK/KDE theme the user has configured? -1! Have a well designed UX, make frequent workflows easy to acce
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by fps_doug 7y ago
Source? If that were the case, what should I even be mad at first? China doing the hacking or our "own people" (I'm not Australian but generally speaking) betraying us? What would be so outrageous is that it's the politi
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by fps_doug 7y ago
Thanks, that's great! I wouldn't mind if those articles got longer. :-) In case you're gonna post somewhat regularly, any plans for Patreon etc.?
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by fps_doug 7y ago
It's probably still much more time than people would spend reading it if it were sent to them beforehand. Maybe quickly skimming it for five minutes. And not necessarily due to malice, but because most people are having a hard time set
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by fps_doug 7y ago
It's probably safe to say this applies to most westerners, and not just limited to totalitarian regimes, but developing countries in general. I woudln't say it's the majority, but a lot of people seem to run around there thin
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by fps_doug 7y ago
Heh looks like you're exactly the kind of person described in the first sentence. ;-) I'm astonished how many people need to paint the world black and white in order to function. Chinese people have to be all evil and bad so I can
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by fps_doug 7y ago
But please keep in mind that today's compilers are (most of the time) very smart. Hacker's Delight is somewhat outdated today. There's no need anymore for writing "x << 2" instead of "x * 4". I recom
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by fps_doug 7y ago
It's a cool DIY project though. I've been wanting to do this for ages (though I might want to get such a bike first and actually use it), and a while ago I saw this big nose YouTuber actually do this and they (barely) managed to r
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by fps_doug 7y ago
Never been in such a car, but just reading this drives me mad. How can things go that wrong in pretty much every regard? Sorry for this ranty attitude right now but how do so many things that we technically figured out perfectly get shitt
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by fps_doug 7y ago
The improvements in JS performance over time is crazy. I was an Opera user (started with 5.x IIRC) and its JS engine was pretty slow. I mean so slow that even in the early 2000s some pages with just a few animations were annoying to use and
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by fps_doug 7y ago
Define "professional". If "professional" == "projects that have tests" you're probably right. ;-) Otherwise, you might've gotten lucky with your previous jobs/open source projects you contributed

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