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by fred256 5y ago
"adopted Google's [...] CDN" Google's CDN was largely written for YouTube.
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by fred256 5y ago
I think it might work if you display both the hash and the image, and ask the user to compare both. If the hashes are very different, it doesn't matter that the images are similar (assuming the user indeed verifies both). If the hashes
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by fred256 5y ago
> What technically prevents them to run away with all stocks? SIPC insurance is supposed to protect you in case they run away anyway.
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by fred256 5y ago
What I meant was that I thought any system that required some form of distributed locking or consensus, did so by building on top of Chubby (which does Paxos), not by implementing Paxos directly.
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by fred256 5y ago
> The Paxos, paxosdb, and related libraries (despite the name, all are multi-paxos) are solid and integrated directly into a number of products (Borg, Chubby, CFS, Spanner, etc.). Maybe things have changed, but I thought the bottom turtl
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by fred256 5y ago
(2010)
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by fred256 5y ago
Beautifully illustrated in this comic: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/the-wireless/373065/the-pencilswo...
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by fred256 5y ago
There are a few others on Tindie, e.g. this one: https://www.tindie.com/products/tindiescx/sc131-pocket-sized...
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by fred256 5y ago
Looks like q4inc.com is the corporate website. (Oh I see this was mentioned in a sibling comment already)
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by fred256 5y ago
The FB investor relations site links to the exact same URL.
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by fred256 5y ago
> The important thing about the M1 iPad is that it’s the first time iOS is running on M1, and therefore M1 is the first chip that can rup both iOS and OSX. The Apple Silicon Developer Transition Kit contained an A12Z that ran macOS, so t
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by fred256 5y ago
Not just Chinese companies. I know of one FAANG company that used internal IP addresses in the 11.0.0.0/8 space (in addition to, not instead of, RFC 1918 space).
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by fred256 5y ago
a, b := 1, 2 If either a or b (but not both) were already defined, this won't re-define (and reallocate space for) them.
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by fred256 5y ago
From the language specification: > Numeric constants represent exact values of arbitrary precision and do not overflow.
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by fred256 5y ago
2008, it was a T-Mobile G1 which was the first Android phone on the US market.
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by fred256 6y ago
Sorry to be pedantic, but there is no such thing as an ALIAS record. It's just the DNS server doing the indirection for you.
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by fred256 6y ago
The monospace font used has a ligature for “fl” making the keyword “float” look weird.
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Studying Chaos with One of the Fastest Cameras(caltech.edu)
3 points by fred256 6y ago|0 comments
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by fred256 6y ago
Reading about separate row and column addresses reminded me that the Apple II had its address lines arranged in such a way that the video circuitry would naturally read every row of memory, thus obviating the need for a separate refresh cir
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by fred256 6y ago
The second author, F Thomson Leighton, doesn't just work at Akamai Technologies, he's the co-founder and CEO.
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by fred256 6y ago
If you always take a branch, it's not a branch. Or did you mean by "taken" that the branch instruction has to be executed regardless of whether the branch is taken or not?
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by fred256 6y ago
The acquisition closed as of yesterday: https://www.morganstanley.com/press-releases/morgan-stanley-...
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by fred256 6y ago
"π seconds is a nanocentury." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Duff
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by fred256 6y ago
I hope you are running an up-to-date Splunk version: Beginning on September 13, 2020 at 12:26:39 PM Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), un-patched Splunk platform instances will be unable to recognize timestamps from events with dates that ar
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PlotterFiles: SVG files for plotters and 2D CNC machines(plotterfiles.com)
12 points by fred256 6y ago|2 comments
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by fred256 6y ago
See the first example on the web page: % sed "s/root/toor/" /etc/passwd | grep -v joey | sponge /etc/passwd If you tried this as: % sed "s/root/toor/" /et
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by fred256 6y ago
It's not the NAT part on the easy side, it's the firewall on the easy side that needs to be open. Even if the easy side knows (through STUN) that its public address is 2.2.2.2:1234, that doesn't mean it'll accept any pac
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by fred256 6y ago
It looks like this is using the ATmega 1284 which has 4 times the flash (128 kB vs 32 kB) and 8 times the RAM (16 kB vs 2 kB) as the 328.
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by fred256 6y ago
It's interesting to see all signal names in that early version had six letters (SIGQIT instead of SIGQUIT, even) but SIGPIPE was the exception. Was that one added later? (Also funny how the article says "this is from around 1978&q
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by fred256 6y ago
In the Netherlands, I remember electronics stores carried DIY kits with names such as "TV signal quality enhancer". I only later realized what these were actually for.

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