grkvlt

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by grkvlt 9y ago
Since there are exactly zero [0] implementations of the JVM for Minix, your worries about Java applets running on ME while a machine is powered down can be put to rest. And 'powered down' activities of ME are very limited, and onl
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by grkvlt 9y ago
We actually have them in the UK too! [0] There are apparently 14 now, since the 90s, run by Sodexo Justice Services, Serco and G4S Justice Services. 0. https://www.justice.gov.uk/about/hmps/contracted-out
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by grkvlt 9y ago
I think the US had this 'retribution' aspect of imprisonment already. Even before the prison-industrial complex, which admittedly is doing its best to perpetrate long sentences to maintain profits...
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by grkvlt 9y ago
JPMC always seemed quite progressive - for instance they embraced open source and open standards, with AMPQ and the Apache Qpid message broker which was part of their tech stack and I worked on for a while there, commiting the code I wrote
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by grkvlt 9y ago
there is the doctrine of an 'attractive nuisance' [0] though, which gives precedent for making owners liable for damages caused to third parties by some dangerous object they did not sufficiently prevent access to... that easily h
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by grkvlt 9y ago
> embedded field [...] companies should be [...] compelled to release their embedded keys and source code awesome! my botnet malware that exploits and roots your smart meter or set top box can now install new firmware with a permanent ba
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by grkvlt 9y ago
If you were flying daily then you'd have to be doing something terribly wrong to spend 1.5h getting through security - with airline status it should take minutes at worst, and even without status LCY has pretty minimal waiting times.
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by grkvlt 9y ago
You seem to be agreeing pretty much 100% with the views presented by the author in the article. Can you explain more about what you feel is different about your experience?
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by grkvlt 9y ago
So, from the Southampton link below: > The information encoding is realised in five dimensions: the size and orientation in addition to the three dimensional position of these nanostructures. I still think this is a bit disingenuous, it
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by grkvlt 9y ago
What on earth are '5D optical storage techniques' when they're at home?
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by grkvlt 9y ago
Looks useful for QA testing of distributed systems. I can also see a use case where I snapshot the state of one container from a node in a cluster then pull it onto the next node as it starts up before joining. It could maybe make things co
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by grkvlt 9y ago
To save time in the future, bear in mind any time you think you are the only person that does or notices something: you aren't. This is due to the fact that people are all running on the same physical architecture, with very similar cu
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by grkvlt 9y ago
> better and more reliable ways to get yourself [...] killed I think it's also one of the more expensive ways of achieving this, too. Although I'd love to see some statistics on this, using some appropriate units. Something lik
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by grkvlt 9y ago
> people who dress [...] like dickheads How exactly does one do this? Asking for a friend...
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by grkvlt 9y ago
In this automatic-benefits-allocating world, there would also be no more fraudulent claiming of money not entitled to! It should overall result in a net saving, I believe...
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by grkvlt 9y ago
Good idea. This way, even if you die alone, you can know that you will still be providing a useful service to your pet even after you are gone, as food for it!
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by grkvlt 9y ago
This is not really about VLSI style hardware knowledge. The 'processor affinity and NUMA' config is all about minimising the cost of memory access, and maintaining cache consistency. They want to make sure that processes aren&#x27
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by grkvlt 9y ago
> Finland has 'baby boxes' Interestingly, Scotland now has 'baby boxes' too [0] - but not the rest of the UK, it is an initiative by the devolved Scottish government only it seems. 0. https://www.mygov.scot
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by grkvlt 9y ago
> pay $50/month in a heartbeat for access to a [...] Google type engine Never. And definitely not at USD 50 per month. That is a huge amount for this, although I suspect you're a pretty rare customer and/or exaggerating.
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by grkvlt 9y ago
Criminal? Not really. Usually in physical stores on private property 'management reserve the right to refuse admission' and they can do that any (legal) way they feel like, including stating that you can only gain admission once y
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by grkvlt 9y ago
No?
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by grkvlt 9y ago
Where are these people (apparently shoplifters who are too poor to purchase goods, and are therefore stealing them) getting the money to pay for these 'education' courses, in the first place?
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by grkvlt 9y ago
And then un-hid them...! For a PR agency they seem a bit unclear on the concept of optics and, indeed, the management of relationships with the public. > We're currently turning on all of our social media, sites, and lines of commun
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by grkvlt 9y ago
This is highly unlikely. There have been no occurrences of US military aircraft firing missiles at unidentified threats over Ohio, ever. To put it clearly - this did not happen. You didn't see what you think you saw.
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by grkvlt 9y ago
Exactly. If a thing gets reported in the news media, it is generally (by definition) newsworthy and therefore a rare or unusual event. So the news being reported about 'someone reported to the police for letting their children play out
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by grkvlt 9y ago
Me too. I discovered this paper: "Feeling the heat: Ground squirrels heat their tails to discourage rattlesnake attack" [0] which seems interesting and sort of relevant. It also turns out to have been cited only once so far. [1] 0
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by grkvlt 9y ago
if being long on BTC is actually being seriously described as 'HODLing' then it's no wonder many banking and finance people find it hard to take seriously.
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by grkvlt 9y ago
so, in the UK and EU things are pretty reasonable for electronic funds transfers. in the EU area SEPA instant (~10-20s) payments have been available since november this year between a limited number of member states, and should be rolling o
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by grkvlt 9y ago
But 'buying up used Teslas' is not some dodgy scheme, only to be considered by sketch operations. Buying used stuff is actually pretty common as a strategy for many businesses. It allows them to obtain things they need, but minimi
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by grkvlt 9y ago
> won't protect you from the lawsuits that result when a toddler drowns in your pool Good analogy. I wonder i operating fa poorly secured website that leaks private information could be seen as an 'Attractive Nuisance' [0]

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