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by georgerobinson 11y ago
Wow, that's incredible, thanks for the link!
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by georgerobinson 11y ago
It's not just their size, but wouldn't all arrays need know the address of their first element too? For example, consider a simple char buffer: char buf[512]; where we want to read x number of bytes from a file descriptor
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by georgerobinson 11y ago
> There's no grades and pressure there's just things you've learned and things you're still learning. I'm incredibly naive when it comes to homeschool, so I hope you don't mind me asking: if you don't g
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by georgerobinson 11y ago
Is there anything about the Boeing 707 structurally that makes it possible to do a barrel roll that would not be possible in later generation jets, such as the 757, 767, 777 and 787?
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Ask HN: How do you store Unix passwords for your servers?
5 points by georgerobinson 11y ago|5 comments
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by georgerobinson 11y ago
Virgin Media is the only UK-based ISP that uses cable (DOCSIS). All others use VDSL2 where available, ADSL2 or just plain old ADSL (g.DMT) if you're sufficiently rural. The trouble is that Virgin Media have much cut out for them if the
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by georgerobinson 11y ago
Wait wait wait.. what!? How can it be illegal to say "I don't like paying your tax rate, so I'm leaving your country and move to another country with lower tax rates. Here is my citizenship."
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by georgerobinson 11y ago
Envy! We have a 3.0/0.5 DSL connection which can support 1 high quality or 2 medium to low quality Netflix streams. Web browsing is tolerable when everyone is online, but the second the uplink bandwidth is saturated (0.5Mbit/s) ev
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by georgerobinson 11y ago
I must be admit I've never got past the start screen with the floating circles of genres: '80s', 'Indie', 'Rap', etc. I had no idea these led to human curated playlists.
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by georgerobinson 11y ago
I've been using Apple Music since it launched here in the UK. I recall cancelling my Spotify subscription the same day and promptly signed up for my 3 month free trial to Apple Music. Whilst there is nothing I particularly dislike abou
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by georgerobinson 11y ago
That's if it works at all! I've found that pdf.js fails to print entirely when the document is sufficiently large. For example, when printing a scanned white paper from 20+ years ago.
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by georgerobinson 11y ago
Could you write a blog post on this? I want to learn more!
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by georgerobinson 11y ago
It still pains me that OSX ships with the firewall disabled by default. I don't think its reasonable to presume that every OSX device will be on a private network behind a NAT, and that everyone else will know to turn their firewall on
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by georgerobinson 11y ago
Someone else commented on here that: > FYI, this happens because SSH automatically presents a public key to the server when trying to authenticate. If the server doesn't know that key, then SSH tries the next one. You can enumerate
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by georgerobinson 11y ago
> Flash in Chrome uses PPAPI plus some private APIs that were necessary to support Flash-specific features Thanks for the authoritative reply! If Flash doesn't run under NaCl why use the PPAPI? Wouldn't libc be much more conven
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by georgerobinson 11y ago
Can you expand as that? Did they break out via the service runtime, or through an implementation defect in the validator? I recall that Chris Rohlf presented an implementation defect in one of the two at a Black Hat conference some years ba
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by georgerobinson 11y ago
This is clever, and very sneaky! Let's say I downloaded every public key from GitHub to ~/.ssh. Would this identify me as everyone on GitHub, or just the owner of the first public key to match? Furthermore, I wonder how Go channel
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by georgerobinson 11y ago
I don't use Chrome either. I like Firefox - even if it is less secure (in principle) than Chrome (no process separation between domains or sandboxing of plugins). The reason Native Client exists extends well beyond Adobe Flash Player.
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by georgerobinson 11y ago
I don't know if you use Google Chrome, but Adobe Flash Player in sandboxed in Chrome as a Native Client module. All interaction between a Native Client module, the host process, and the host the operating system must be mediated via th
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by georgerobinson 11y ago
I see your point, and point taken! I should rephrase my original sentence. When I said what I said I didn't mean that fringedgentian could guarantee he/she would never be unemployed - but that these steps would minimize his/h
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by georgerobinson 11y ago
> After a few months I realized I was unemployable and set out to change it. First, as 20 something I can't imagine how hard it must be to wake up with the realization that you no longer have a job. Second, I think you deserve some
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Poll: Do you create seperate email addresses (or aliases) for each website?
4 points by georgerobinson 11y ago|4 comments
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by georgerobinson 11y ago
Always
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by georgerobinson 11y ago
Sometimes
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by georgerobinson 11y ago
Never
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by georgerobinson 11y ago
Don't know
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by georgerobinson 11y ago
I'd like to see cPython without a GIL first. It would be really nice to take advantage of multi core CPUs without having to use subprocesses.
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by georgerobinson 11y ago
This is not correct. TCP does not know the total amount of bandwidth available on a network link just like it does not know the total amount of unused bandwidth available on the same link - hence the need for additive increase. What will ha
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by georgerobinson 11y ago
I could not agree more. I run Fedora on my desktop, and iOS and OS X on my iPhone and MacBook respectively. When I read posts like this, I can't help but think "How long will it be until I'm unable to do any compute without b
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by georgerobinson 11y ago
Since an optimizing compiler is free to go to town on functions such as string comparison, are these functions typically written in assembler per-architecture? I.e. one for x86 and x86-64, another for MIPS, RISC, etc?

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