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by gioele 12y ago
For the non-US, could somebody please explain what W2 and 1099 are?
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by gioele 12y ago
Samsung Series 9, now ATIV. No longer sold in EU.
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by gioele 12y ago
> [nginx] uses custom memory allocators (for performance reasons) and it is wrapping or replacing standard C library functions all over the place. This could eliminate some of our built-in security mechanisms. Isn't this what made m
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by gioele 12y ago
For general programs, i.e. programs not meant to be run a exact particular machine, it is better to focus on better algorithms rather than better code. In this case it is useful to look at "Cache-oblivious algorithms": Cache obliv
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by gioele 12y ago
You are meant to use one of their sanctioned devices. Those devices connect to their servers, do some arcane handshake and receive a copy of the book.
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by gioele 12y ago
> It even has a “tinfoil hat” to prevent RF interference Isn't this a problem in the US, being against the famous part 15 of the FCC rules: «Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) this device may not cause harmful
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by gioele 12y ago
> You can provide additional guarantees and proofs, but showing me the source is item number 0. And item number 0.5 is allowing me to build the source and upload it to a pristine EEPROM chip.
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by gioele 12y ago
You are right, but almost all the GTK applications I know are designed by and for people that use GNOME. The same holds for Qt/KDE. Could you please post other clean Qt applications? This is not a provocation, just sincere curiosity.
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by gioele 12y ago
> Well, I won't deny that there's some truth in what you said, but first a couple of comments about the examples. Well, your comments are on the screenshots, not on the applications. Try to use these applications for a while &q
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by gioele 12y ago
> what makes GTK a better goto choice in respect to other frameworks (QT, FOX, FLTK). I do not have an answer but I would like to show a different angle to this question: why do Qt applications often feel overly complex and GTK applicati
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Mystery photos from CERN's history(cds.cern.ch)
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by gioele 12y ago
> In this specific case, I think Germany is the only exception, but to me it makes perfectly sense: sensitive personal data like medical records should not circulate outside the country. Having a computer on German soil does not mean tha
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by gioele 12y ago
> I wonder if it's possible to create a blood-producing machine (with bone marrow culture and whatnot). People have been trying since the 17th century: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_substitute
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by gioele 12y ago
My takeaway lesson is that end users should never trust closed source drivers. Can you picture a Linux or *BSD driver in which there is an intentional if (counterfeit) { do_damage(); }
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by gioele 12y ago
<body> <main> <p>It can be much better if you avoid abusing HTML classes for style.</p> <p>Classes are meant to describe the role of the tag, not its presentation.&lt
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by gioele 12y ago
> > Web services are 'in' because that's the only way software can't be pirated. > That is cognitive dissonance. If your revenue is derived from advertising then users installing ad blocking software is revenue-
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by gioele 12y ago
This is going to be helpful to many students, but... But the constraints imposed by not being able to pay for third-party services during my years as a student have been the main motivator behind tinkering with setting up my own services an
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by gioele 12y ago
Presentation by Hans Reiser on Reiser4. Reiser just explained the new Linux VFS layer introduced by Reiser4 and the ability to see each file a small directory or a set of records. Audience: Then what is the difference between a DB and a fil
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by gioele 12y ago
> Nowhere in EU countries there a requirement for their citizens to _carry_ a legal ID. To all the downvoters: please PROVIDE A SOURCE (bill, act, legal review, any language is OK) that states that a citizen of a EU country must _carry_
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by gioele 12y ago
> AFAIK, having a legal identification document at all times is a legal requirement even for citizens in the EU, or at least in Slovenia. Nowhere in EU countries there a requirement for their citizens to _carry_ a legal ID. Some may requ
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by gioele 12y ago
> He's clearly talking about the "thin client" approach to providing computing - he was wrong, Aren't Chromebooks, tablets and smartphones thin clients to Google's mainframe, Facebook's mainframe, Apple&#x27
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by gioele 12y ago
Argh, it is horrible when you have to explain jokes. Matthew Garrett (mjg59 on HN) is a well known Linux developer. [1] He has a real talent for discovering and fixing weird, _weird_, problems with hardware firmwares, especially issues rela
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by gioele 12y ago
In all the practical applications I've seen of RDF or OWL, all the queries rely on some form of the closed-world assumption.
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by gioele 12y ago
> My favorite lecture-style classes were ones where the prof (or more often a TA) would post notes for each lecture online. > I've never understood why every lecture-style class doesn't work this way – except for the minimal
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by gioele 12y ago
This project is a threat to the Linux kernel. Matthew Garrett may become interested again in fruit flies and stop finding and fixing the moist weird bugs in the ACPI/PM implementation of Linux.
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by gioele 12y ago
I have been working recently with a PHP application whose installation instructions are "Run this VirtualBox image inside your network, and without a proxy in front of it because we are not properly configured". This PHP applicati
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by gioele 12y ago
> I will note the author appears to have aesthetic reasons to reject creating a PDF/e-book/etc version of the book, despite people literally offering him money to do so I am one of those that offered money to buy the ePub versi
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by gioele 12y ago
Commercial consumption peaks at noon, residential consumption peaks at 21, but with a much less prominent spike. In addition, the price of energy and the economy behind new plants is based on the commercial peak ("please run your washi
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by gioele 12y ago
> Relatedly, "many eyes makes all bugs shallow" is, and always has been, totally horsepuckey. Consider that the contraction of the more complete saying "Many eyes make bugs shallower than they would be if there were only f
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by gioele 12y ago
> I purchased 1450 Hitachi drives. Isn't using very similar drives a problem because their failure rates are not statistically independent, so there is an high probability that they will all fail at the same time?

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