geocar

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by geocar 9mo ago
> How would a modern OS implement this? fwrite only buffers because write is slow. make it so write isn't slow and you don't need userspace buffering!
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by geocar 9mo ago
Hah no. Nobody is running TCP on that link, let alone SSH.
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by geocar 9mo ago
> Their right to not do business with you is exactly the same as your right to not do business with them. You are incorrect about that. They are subject to the ADA. I am not. As a publicly listed company they have a tremendous number of
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by geocar 9mo ago
> > Ebay does not have the right ... to violate law even to protect themselves. > Yes they do, as they should. No they should not, and I cannot believe you could say any such thing in good faith. > if you're abusing their s
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by geocar 9mo ago
> But it is also ebay's right to decide whether or not its computer will allow requests from your computer. That is dangerous thinking right there: Ebay does not have rights. Of course ebay may do it anyway, and it may take time for
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by geocar 9mo ago
> and what is obvious to one can be surprising to someone else. That is how obvious things work. If you were not surprised that a[i:j] and :[a;i;j] are the same (: a i j) then it is because it was obvious to you, and now that you have
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by geocar 9mo ago
I was distracted by this too; I programmed largely in CL and emacs from 1999-2014. I highly recommend reading: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/358896.358899 One thing that helped me tremendously with k (and then AP
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by geocar 9mo ago
The "monograph game" as you put it, is not for mere funsies: We say x+y instead of plus(x,y) because the former is obviously better.
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by geocar 9mo ago
> The thing is, these may very well be good for environmental reasons, but it doesn't work if we just start importing from countries that do the opposite. Everything I have read suggests the EU has controls to "temporarily susp
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by geocar 9mo ago
Wherefore is "For what reason or why". Juliet is not asking where Romeo is physically, but wondering why does he need to be a Montague. So yes you can interpret it as "for what reason or why are you going to be" (this th
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by geocar 9mo ago
The problem is the subjunctive mood of the word "art". "Art thou" should be translated into modern English as "are you to be", and so works better with things (what are you going to be), or people who are alive
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by geocar 9mo ago
If you meet someone who understand business, it's going to color your opinion of other people who meet who seem to understand business, until you either learn business or die. That's how all prejudices work: We're wired up to
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by geocar 9mo ago
> Do you operate an AS? Are you a peering contact? > I mean, I only do it mostly for funsies now but for quite awhile that was part of my job. :P I'm retired now. I wrote some about my experiences on HN a long time ago: https:&#
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by geocar 9mo ago
So if you get your target to record (say) 1 hour of audio, that's a one-shot. If you didn't do that (because you have 100 hours of other people talking), that's zero-shots, no?
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by geocar 9mo ago
> This is why I think you're confused. I think you're confused. > I am not understanding what you're saying at all. And that is why; You seem to have a very strong opinion about something that you don't understand
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by geocar 9mo ago
> Please let me know of the scenario where route A is preferred, undesirable, long-path route B is advertised/leaked, and as a result traffic flows over route C. > ... I'm really curious what you're thinking That the ac
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by geocar 9mo ago
> This isn't how BGP works This is exactly how BGP works. https://bgplabs.net/policy/7-prepend/ > Leaking a new route isn't going to magically make some other route become more preferred. Not magic
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by geocar 9mo ago
> If a state actor were trying to intercept traffic (MITM), the last thing they would do is pad the AS path That's presumptuous: A state actor would (and could trivially) pad the wrong directions to flow traffic down to pops that
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by geocar 9mo ago
Making a dumb iphone game is a good excuse to send random HTTPS traffic, but receiving packets encoded as emails via (say) IMAP would be a good way to bring back large(ish) amounts of data. Someone watching closely might try to correlate th
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by geocar 10mo ago
> I am literally asking you to show me what you are talking about. Do you see these things -> ? <- Those are question marks. Now go look back at your last comment and tell me how many of them you see. > Was it actually something
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by geocar 10mo ago
I think you probably misunderstood me. You can use a better tool than someone who is using a worse tool, and take their customers, because it will be easier to solve the problems better and faster than that someone-else. Lisp is a great too
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by geocar 10mo ago
What do you care about? There are quite a few programmers who say lisp led to early retirement. That was a pretty interesting idea to me. I like going to the beach a lot. I am not so sure about people who don’t want to get done: if you like
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by geocar 11mo ago
I am so on this
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by geocar 11mo ago
Interests vary! Just because you can’t find something interesting doesn’t mean it isn’t interesting. That lesson once learned pays dividends
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by geocar 11mo ago
We will put a box containing a little light and a magnet into every home and people will lose their goddamned minds looking at it every day
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by geocar 11mo ago
> The GPDR is not criminal law While the GDPR does not directly prescribe prison sentences, it absolutely enables countries to establish criminal offences for severe data protection violations, and they will clearly extradite! https:&#x
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by geocar 11mo ago
> the only way to share these with a wider audience is to convert them to a slideshow and make a Rec.2020 HDR movie that I upload to YouTube i understand some of this frustration, but really you just have to use ffmpeg to convert it to a
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by geocar 11mo ago
> writing a blog post every once in a while will not provide meaningful income Should people receive meaningful income for writing a blog post every once in a while? I feel like that's the real question and not everyone agrees on
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by geocar 11mo ago
> I want to make sure that content creators are compensated for their work. Ad firms that employ fingerprinting stand between me and the content creator. This is false: We're the ones who pay the creator, because: > I'm no
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by geocar 11mo ago
I suppose it depends on what you mean by "modern" In Europe we have the GDPR which does exactly this

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