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by hdevalence 12y ago
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/08/13/world/africa/ebola.html The first four paragraphs describe what happened: different decisions were made by different doctors, and the drug did not "get out
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by hdevalence 12y ago
There are, by definition, no Unicode characters that don't fit in UTF-16. UTF-16 has surrogate pairs; it's an extension of UCS-2, which doesn't. Incidentally, this is why UTF-16 is a poor choice for a character encoding: you
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by hdevalence 12y ago
Interesting. I suppose it makes sense, in a way: solar power captures solar energy directly, whereas hydro captures solar energy only indirectly, through the water cycle. Do you have any ballpark ideas about how the cost of producing the da
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by hdevalence 12y ago
Why is it a good thing to let more science be possible using Mathematica? The issue with Mathematica for science isn't that it's expensive, it's that it's proprietary and secret.
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by hdevalence 12y ago
Note that ZFS began development in 2001, not 2005, so ZFS itself isn't a new filesystem designed after 2005. The ZFS source code was first released in 2005, but it was announced a year prior. In any case, ZFS is actually somewhat older
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Graffiti Artists Use Moral Rights to Prevent Building Demolition(ipkitten.blogspot.co.uk)
1 points by hdevalence 12y ago|1 comments
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by hdevalence 12y ago
What the article points out is that (2) is actually not the case, which is why the question arises.
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by hdevalence 12y ago
> The systemd developers are responding to upstart and launchd and android init as things they must _defeat_, an establish a new standard by crushing all the competing implementations. This actually... isn't true. If you feel like w
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by hdevalence 12y ago
Well, untreated wood won't last, but --- "it's just wood", so you can build a newer, better, one when it rots away.
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by hdevalence 12y ago
Yes, they should. If your CPU lies about its feature support, there are far, far, far bigger problems for the end user than whether a binary is optimal or not.
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by hdevalence 12y ago
> a.k.a. macros No, macros are not what I'm talking about here: I mean that C++ provides abstractions that only impose runtime costs if you use them. For instance, the cost of vtable lookup is only paid if you are using virtual func
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by hdevalence 12y ago
> at the end of the day you're in the exact same place as if you'd never put the handcuffs and straightjacket on to begin with. Do you have any suggestions on what tools the people doing 'parlor tricks' with C++11 sho
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by hdevalence 12y ago
Ice axes and crampons are generally certified by the UIAA [1], but this certification is not legally binding -- it's just that consumers won't buy products that aren't UIAA-certified. [1]: http://www.theuiaa.org&#x
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by hdevalence 13y ago
Right, my point was just that there is a specified way for the server to tell the client not to use HSTS any more. Of course, the caveats you mention mean that to be certain, you would need to wait.
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by hdevalence 13y ago
There's no functional difference between craptive portals and a MITM attack, so this definitely seems like a feature...
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by hdevalence 13y ago
As per the spec, setting max-age=0 disables HSTS.
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by hdevalence 13y ago
I wonder if it's possible to use computer vision techniques on the video footage to calculate the position and altitude of the skydiver at the time, and then also estimate the trajectory of the rock?
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by hdevalence 13y ago
Literally has been used to mean "in the strongest metaphorical sense" for close to 300 years, so I think you're beating a bit of a dead horse on that. Source: OED
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by hdevalence 13y ago
More importantly, why does NVidia, who contribute practically nothing to Free graphics development (drivers or the rest of the graphics stack) think that the Wayland developers have any obligation to make Wayland work well with their secret
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by hdevalence 13y ago
http://blogs.computerworld.com/privacy/23698/google-customer... "Since when is removing consumer choice a good thing? Does Google really know better than you do what your security posture should be for your G
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by hdevalence 13y ago
You don't get to define what the word "hacker" means, though.
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by hdevalence 13y ago
No. It's not possible to prevent a malevolent pilot from destroying the aircraft. On the other hand, pilots need to be able to be in total control of the aircraft, including the ability to shut off any system on board. (See Swissair 11
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by hdevalence 13y ago
FTFA: > Yellow is awfully broad: In my mind, multimeters have always been yellow. I’ve never had the opportunity to own a Fluke-branded DMM so I’m not sure where my brain picked up this association. I can respect trademarks and company b
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by hdevalence 13y ago
I'll just point out this thing over here: https://github.com/mozilla/servo
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by hdevalence 13y ago
For me, I kept the hardware, and switched to the open-source driver.
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by hdevalence 13y ago
... owned by a heavily-regulated monopoly, which was banned from commercializing the research produced at Bell Labs.
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by hdevalence 13y ago
This is addressed in the proposal: Use a second type that defines __mul__ as matrix multiplication: As discussed above (Background: What's wrong with the status quo?), this has been tried this for many years via the numpy.matrix type (
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by hdevalence 13y ago
Whereas Pinochet implemented his "good intentions" without violence? Reality check, please.
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by hdevalence 13y ago
One easy way to get kernel lockups is to use fglrx. But agreed on 'just reboot': you should be using a resilient filesystem anyways, and MagicSysRq only works when it's enabked beforehand, and only for some kinds of lockups,
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by hdevalence 13y ago
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