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by geofft 5y ago
That's not how either Bitcoin or electricity pricing works. Bitcoin is secure only under the assumption that a 51% attack is computationally difficult, i.e., that it is not cheaper to acquire more mining capacity than the non-malicious
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by geofft 5y ago
First off, I don't know that for sure. (Do you know that for sure? Have you read every law and every binding precedent in your jurisdiction?) Second, I'm not saying that possession of cash is a crime, I'm saying it might be p
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by geofft 5y ago
Thanks, next time a cop wants to search my vehicle I'll be sure to wait for you to reply with a link to a website and then read it in its entirety. And yes, that website says they can search with probable cause, and it doesn't say
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by geofft 5y ago
I think the claim here is that Atlassian's post-sales account representatives ("customer success"?) would have proactively reached out to the technical contacts of large companies with a personal email - and known exactly wha
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by geofft 5y ago
I would imagine that a vet has plenty of reasons not to trust the government.
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by geofft 5y ago
I don't understand why this is downvoted - not only is this correct, it's also in accordance with the experts quoted in the article. > Fortunately, it’s difficult to have too much protein. While we do have an upper limit of pr
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by geofft 5y ago
These two paragraphs are very confusing: > In the early 20th Century, Arctic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson spent a collective five years eating just meat. This meant that his diet consisted of around 80% fat and 20% protein. Twenty yea
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by geofft 5y ago
Right. Actually, since it's hard to tell if the earth is round y observation, I'd say it's more like a debate on whether the Sun goes around the Earth. You can just look up in the sky and see it move - the folks saying otherw
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by geofft 5y ago
What's the advantage of binary packages through GitHub releases? How do you audit them? I'm aware of the fact that you can detect curl | bash server-side, and it's a neat trick, but I don't understand the security risk o
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by geofft 5y ago
It's not "Open Source" except by the literal definition that the source is open to read (but by that definition, the software is free to access, too). It's just freeware / sample code. The license for this code htt
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by geofft 5y ago
It's very rare for rape to be a legally mandated punishment, which I think makes it an "unusual punishment," even if it's not a particularly unusual occurrence (either among the punished, or among the world at large).
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by geofft 5y ago
What alternative pattern would you suggest?
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by geofft 5y ago
I'm not sure - but I see this: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/my... > Be on the lookout for any of the following symptoms: > Chest pain > Shortness of breath
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by geofft 5y ago
I thought that they warn for these symptoms nowadays and ask you to get medical attention immediately and that you're basically fine with medical attention, right? (In the early days of the vaccine, like ~March in the US, I think there
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by geofft 5y ago
Well, yes, in human dosages from human formulations. (Is anyone serious disputing this?) Ketamine is also safe for people who aren't infants or pregnant when administered by a physician at an appropriate dose for a legitimate medical u
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by geofft 5y ago
Well, I have to say, as someone who's not politically aligned with the sort of people who tend to be the loudest defenders of "controversial" ideas and the loudest opponents of deplatforming (because they somehow always come
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by geofft 5y ago
WebCodecs has Mozilla and Microsoft coauthors: https://w3c.github.io/webcodecs/ WebGPU was chartered in 2017, with more Apple people in the initial membership than Mozilla or Google people: https://gpuweb.gi
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by geofft 5y ago
I didn't downvote it, but I strongly suspect it was because of the sarcasm, the meta-sarcasm, and ultimately the unwillingness to believe that interesting opposing arguments might exist. That is, the post didn't encourage intere
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by geofft 5y ago
Kubernetes supports this too - CPU "requests" are implemented as a) input to the scheduler (it will not over-schedule a box) b) configuration of CPU shares in the kernel CPU cgroup. So that's effectively what we're relyi
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by geofft 5y ago
http://www.arrl.org/news/view/fcc-agrees-to-90-day-pause-in-... > The Commission's proposed changes differed from the ARRL's initial filing and caused the ARRL to be concerned about possible interfer
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by geofft 5y ago
I see the appeal, but, I work at a couple-thousand-person company (an electronic trading firm) where we have a few diehard MATLAB users (we officially support the scientific Python ecosystem) and a small handful of folks doing FPGA work. If
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by geofft 5y ago
Linux has a "direct map" of all physical memory in kernelspace, which I guess makes things easier. See https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt "direct mapping of all phy
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by geofft 5y ago
I'm very excited for the better CFS quota enforcement mechanism in 5.14 ( https://lwn.net/Articles/844976/ ). Kubernetes implements CPU and memory limits for containers ( https://kubernetes.io/do
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by geofft 5y ago
The target audience of FLEXlm is large companies with the ability to pay for many licenses of expensive per-seat software. For instance, MATLAB, AutoCAD, and various commercial FPGA and hardware design tools (Altera, Xilinx, Synopsis, etc.)
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by geofft 5y ago
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/negligence
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by geofft 5y ago
Not having written Ada, but having seen many HN naysayers saying "Why do we need Rust when Ada can do this" and having tried to come up with a well-researched rebuttal, my sense is that there are three options: 1. Your project is
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by geofft 5y ago
Well, first off, if you're providing all the software for medical devices or an airport, you probably don't care everything in the OS. You care about the software going into your platform, and from a minimal-trusted-base /
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by geofft 5y ago
No, I mean contributing to the packaging codebase. That graph is from https://trends.debian.net/#version-control-system , which has information about Debian packaging codebases ("source packages"). If anyone other
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by geofft 5y ago
That sounds theoretically possible, but it doesn't happen in practice, does it? (Which means that something is missing from this model of how squatters work.) Most of us leave our homes for the day to go to work and come back (or did,
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by geofft 5y ago
I do mot think that what you wrote and what I wrote intersect in any way, to the point where I'm wondering if you replied to the wrong comment. (So, yes, they're consistent.) I'm discussing how Debian handles versioning for t

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