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by gruturo 8y ago
But those tend to be the people who make or break your strategy. You know, the ones who pick the right vision and how to get there, which the others then can help implementing. You don't really have a good army without decent generals.
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by gruturo 8y ago
While I'd be absolutely certain they both spy on me (for various degrees of "spying"), I trust Google to better safeguard the data it collects about me. Huawei is more likely to do a poor job of keeping said data to itself, e
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by gruturo 8y ago
s/month/day/
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by gruturo 8y ago
Not a scandal. A scapegoat, for a change I'm sure they actually wouldn't mind. Less dongles, more uniformity. Yeah a few less MfI certification fees (they would still have plenty of "officially certified" cables and char
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by gruturo 8y ago
I think Apple may have even been eyeing a migration to USB-C for its phones and tablets, but held it back to avoid pissing off their customers after the (relatively) recent switch from the old 30pin connector. This provides them with the pe
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by gruturo 8y ago
If you consider “hardware” as sensor suite only (quite a stretch of an interpretation, I know), then it’s kind of true, especially if they will replace the brains at no cost once they have an actual use for them
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by gruturo 8y ago
Indeed happy anniversary, congrats, and thanks to Patrick Volkerding and crew. I'm leaning towards FreeBSD lately, and when it's Linux at work it's necessarily RHEL due to company standardization etc, but Slackware is where t
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by gruturo 8y ago
Yep, got that part. I'm just amazed that TNT, a compound dating back to 1863 (just googled it) is in active use 155 years later. Of course it works well enough, but I'd imagine the military to go for the absolute most bang for the
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by gruturo 8y ago
It might be the result of a PR firm doing something utterly inconsiderate and completely exceeding their mandate.
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by gruturo 8y ago
If this article is genuine (there are many comments arguing it might not be) I would consider it an excellent endorsement of RISC-V. If a company with an awesome engineering, like I consider ARM to be, is scared to the point of authoring so
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by gruturo 8y ago
I'm surprised that this is being compared to TNT. I was (naively, maybe) under the assumption that weapons moved away from TNT already since long time - to HMX and RDX, mostly, which should be already 50-60 years old. Also - at 8.18km&
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by gruturo 8y ago
Basically turn the speaker’s voice into a “font”, and then render text with it. Pretty sure it’s been done. Large initial delay while you get the whole font download, then basically just the text to be rendered and the occasional hint to t
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by gruturo 8y ago
or calling sir Tim Berners-Lee a web developer. Oh wait, that actually happened: https://twitter.com/MSalt69/status/476684833221926912
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by gruturo 8y ago
I for one am extremely happy if they work on stability rather than gimmicks (or worse, breaking my workflow which pointless changes for the sake of change). The problem is, it's difficult to be excited in advance about a stability whic
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by gruturo 8y ago
Amazon knows I just bought a fridge. How many fridges per month do they think I need? I keep receiving fridge ads and even on their own website, when logged in, they show me fridge offers.
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by gruturo 8y ago
> What very few people talk about is eliminating taxes on diesel fuel. Oh no, a thousand times no. Individual trucks hauling goods around the world is awful to the environment (and to the roads) and if the pollution was somehow priced in
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by gruturo 8y ago
I pay my provider (in Germany) 29 EUR/Month, and that's for a premium offering (it's actually a business contract, not a consumer one). Sooner or later, despite the ridiculous monopolies, the lobbying power, the borderline il
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by gruturo 8y ago
Yes they were friends. Steve Jobs was even Larry Ellison's wedding photographer: https://inshorts.com/en/news/steve-jobs-was-the-photographer... https://petapixel.com/2010/10/08&#x2F
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by gruturo 8y ago
I found an openly accessible link which gives you at least an overview of each of the security controls. Everything else is behind a login prompt, sorry. https://www.swift.com/myswift/customer-security-programme-cs...
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by gruturo 8y ago
> I mean, can you actually convince execs it's a good idea, no matter how charismatic you are? As a citizen, an engineer, and a consumer I think software and infrastructure security needs to be taken much more seriously due to how m
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by gruturo 8y ago
I'm responsible for a SWIFT installation and the stuff you quote is outright horrifying. I am not formally in charge of security - we have dedicated teams of professionals for that - but it's been a past occupation of mine so I st
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by gruturo 8y ago
Frankfurt, although all my colleagues from Berlin keep reminding me that Frankfurt is crap and Berlin is way nicer :)
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by gruturo 8y ago
Frankfurt, hired fulltime.
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by gruturo 8y ago
7 years and counting. Italy to Germany. Not going back. Everything works. You get hired simply by having the right skills and coming forward - no need to "know someone influential". Weather sucks as bad as I had imagined (but this
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by gruturo 9y ago
...and it boils down to a glorified horoscope. Dinans are impulsive Teklans are reliable etc etc. sigh.
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by gruturo 9y ago
[1] Still flunking Fictional Narrative Endings 101, but apparently that's intentional. How is that intentional, I’m curious? I love his books but I hate hate hate HATE how he can’t ever finish one properly. I just went through se
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by gruturo 9y ago
Not in any meaningful way with just the sun's light hitting the panels. On the other hands, if you were to beam a few hundred kilowatts by (carefully!!) aiming at the panels with a massive laser, you could power it this way, yes. Bonus
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by gruturo 9y ago
> how is Notepad not a good editor? - Line endings. It mauls anything not "windows line endings" format - Crappy undo (it will occasionally eat 5 lines of text instead of one word) - No redo - Barfs on large files (on a modern
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by gruturo 9y ago
I would be fine with this narrative if it were true - but it's a load of bullshit to justify plain greed. Most of the people actually doing the research and the boring (but thorough, and necessary) test studies are paid a pittance, whi
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by gruturo 9y ago
Oh the memories. And there were many more. Fujitsu. Hitachi. CDC. Quantum - the amazing scsi fireballs, the ridiculous (but cheap) bigfoots.

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