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by gwillen 14y ago
Bad? _Bad_? The whole concept of SellAring is completely absurd. Why would anybody tolerate a random app putting ads in their phone calls, when the app isn't even running? Whose insane idea was this? I cannot imagine ever using an app you'v
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by gwillen 14y ago
Google translate says "emergency decrees" for "Notverordnungen", which I would agree with. "Emergency law" is an ok but (to me) slightly confusing translation. I think a more common American English phrasing would be "abuse of emergency pow
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by gwillen 14y ago
The claim appears to be that they are intercepting queries to 3rd-party DNS servers, yes.
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by gwillen 14y ago
This is the second time I've seen this story this week, and this version is subtly different from the previous one I saw. This is making me wonder whether either version of the story actually happened. I wish I remembered where I saw the ot
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by gwillen 14y ago
The problem with self-help books -- and I don't think this applies to "How to Win Friends", which is a classic -- is that their authors make money by selling books, not by taking their own advice. The average self-help book does not contain
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by gwillen 14y ago
Er, that 1/833 is not a lifetime risk though, it's a yearly risk. So more like 1/10 lifetime risk of a GI bleed. Which is not great, but it depends on how often they're fatal I guess.
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by gwillen 14y ago
I'd like to say "well, that's fine with me; it just means that Hulu will die and be replaced with something else." But I guess I should keep in mind that most people _have_ cable, and won't be deterred by this sort of move; the market of ca
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by gwillen 14y ago
This is horrifying. :-(
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by gwillen 14y ago
> decoded the string into UNICODE I think you are quite confused. 1) Unicode is not an acroynm. 2) You cannot "decode into Unicode". I think you mean "decode into codepoints". 3) If that is what you mean, then you are wrong about sortin
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by gwillen 14y ago
The BOM is not legal UTF-8. Do not put a BOM in your UTF-8 documents. (Accept a BOM in other people's UTF-8 documents, because Postel's Law, and because other people are dumb. But don't perpetuate it...)
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by gwillen 14y ago
Ok, let me be the first approving top level comment: This document is correct. The author of this document is smart. You should follow this document. As jwz said about backups: "Shut up. I know things. You will listen to me. Do it anyway."
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by gwillen 14y ago
> When the program was being designed, the report says, it included the following “to do” item: “Discuss privacy considerations with Product Counsel.” > “That never occurred,” the report says. From what I remember, it's very plausib
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by gwillen 15y ago
That usage of 'timeless' is more or less unrelated to this.
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by gwillen 15y ago
Thanks; I was hoping someone would comment and save me the trouble of figuring out whether this is as bullshit as it appears, on first read, to be.
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by gwillen 15y ago
Quantum entanglement works over any distance, but can't be used to transmit information. They most likely did not try further separating the atoms; the fact that entanglement is an unbounded-distance effect is just a statement of the physic
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by gwillen 15y ago
Wow, this is great. I recently spent a bunch of time integrating Lua and ObjC for a project; I'll have to see if I can replace all that glue with this library, or if I have something I can contribute to it. EDIT: What's the license on this?
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by gwillen 15y ago
The only thing I have to firmly disagree with here is putting your name in the From: header. If the company name does not appear, either instead of your name or in front of it, I will probably throw your message in the trash without ever fi
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by gwillen 15y ago
Maybe I'm just a sore loser, but I don't like the common trope in TD games of not telling you what kind of opposition you'll face until you're already committed in terms of what defense you'll put up. It doesn't make the game fundamentally
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by gwillen 15y ago
If it can get a million dollars for a _video game_, you don't think it could get a hundred million to cure all viral disease? The difficulty, of course, is convincing the donors that the likelihood of success is high; with a video game from
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by gwillen 15y ago
I dunno about that. This clarifies to me that what I just read was not about "some guy's language", but "that language I saw on LtU, that's on the top of my stack of languages to look at." :-)
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by gwillen 15y ago
Causes the file to evaluate to 'true' when loaded as a Perl library, which is good form to indicate no error.
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by gwillen 15y ago
Reading public Google+ posts on a mobile device doesn't work without a Google+ account. Try it.
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by gwillen 15y ago
Bad luck... or evidence of officials being systematically bad at their jobs.
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by gwillen 15y ago
The point is not who is more dangerous _in battle_. The point is who is more dangerous _to me_, who poses no threat. An untrained operator is far more dangerous _to me_, as compared to a trained operator who will be aware that I do not need
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by gwillen 15y ago
Oh dear. Thanks for the heads-up; this is sort of unfortunate since (as far as I know) HN doesn't provide any other way to be notified of comment replies.
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by gwillen 15y ago
It's more than that, though -- the bitcoin private key isn't _encrypted with_ the passphrase, it's _generated directly_ from the passphrase. So there's no data on disk; only data in your mind.
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by gwillen 15y ago
Is anybody else having problems with notifo-based comment notifications? I am receiving them, but the links stopped working sometime between Jan. 22 and March 8.
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by gwillen 15y ago
I find it interesting that I was downvoted to the negatives, then you posted this reply, and then I got upvoted to the top. I wonder what the causation is there. I suspect I know why I was downvoted; I used unnecessary emotive language ("du
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by gwillen 15y ago
This is dumb. The fact that one pixel subtends a particular visual angle does not imply that N pixels subtend N times that angle. It should be very plain to anybody implementing or using a rendering engine that pixels are intended to be lin
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by gwillen 15y ago
As I recall the story, it's because some large donor many years ago demanded it as a condition of a donation. (And of course so that students don't die if they fall in the Charles.)

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