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by homeomorphic 13y ago
Grab the source packages from Ubuntu and build debs with debuild (see the man page). Most of the time, the build dependencies match up well (the dependencies for the Ubuntu-built debs don't). With pbuilder and friends it's also
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by homeomorphic 13y ago
This is taught around day one of the mandatory theory course kids take before being allowed to even try for their licenses here. And it's on the theory tests that also need to be passed.
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by homeomorphic 13y ago
Wouldn't this make nice foundations for hardware cryptographic tokens such as CryptoStick?
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by homeomorphic 13y ago
Who decides what that is? The Internet is a network of peers, not a network of "real hosts" serving "simply clients". Without honoring that, an ISP isn't really an ISP, is it? It's more of an "Internet cli
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by homeomorphic 13y ago
I feel differently. While I am well-versed in computers and know nothing about cars, I feel that my attitude towards cars is different than that of many computer illiterates towards computers. I envy the knowledge of the mechanics. If som
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by homeomorphic 13y ago
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130626/00193023622/suppo... is pretty chilling (but at least it has an entertaining picture) if you haven't seen it.
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by homeomorphic 13y ago
In my opinion, no, but you do raise a question that legitimately is in the realm of politics: how much free reign should the secret agencies have, and how much security (measured in kilochildren?) should we get in return? A huge problem w
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by homeomorphic 13y ago
youtube-dl ( http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/ ) is a nice cross-platform solution. It also works with vimeo and a bunch of other services.
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by homeomorphic 13y ago
This is wonderful . Thanks for sharing, and thanks to prof. Anderson for taking the stand he took.
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by homeomorphic 13y ago
A nice exhibition of Mars Direct can be seen in the documentary The Mars Underground [1]. There's also Zubrin's book [2]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDWvsdEYSqg (I don't know the copyright status of
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by homeomorphic 13y ago
This is the culmination of a very nice subthread. While there is certainly a huge need for a systemic fix, the subthread shows how technology can help us fight the problem on a temporary case-by-case basis. Brilliant!
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by homeomorphic 13y ago
> A. it is clearly what they want. We all encounter at times fellow humans who want something that clearly is based on lacking information. Of course we respect such things, but only up to a certain point. We often do try to help people
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by homeomorphic 13y ago
I don't know… suppose some highly advanced aliens with for the most part benign intent found us. Would you really like them to "stay the fuck away"? I, for one, would love for our technology to leapfrog ahead centuries, eve
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by homeomorphic 13y ago
I've said this before, but I'll do so again: forget about the cars. How long before your friend can type in a person's name and get a similar record of that face's movement based on data the general public continuously r
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by homeomorphic 13y ago
So you've understood the Finnish national mood - the exact opposite to how you felt after swearing :)
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by homeomorphic 13y ago
This is great.
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by homeomorphic 13y ago
Then surely they must logically also assume that when the prime minister's FM radio is tuned between channels he is receiving encrypted transmissions from terrorists. Are they going to xkcd-538 him for the key then? This stuff is not o
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by homeomorphic 13y ago
This is disgusting. White noise is all around us - how is possessing a recording of it in any way a crime? I'm sorry I sound so naive, but I'm still incredibly flabbergasted by this.
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by homeomorphic 13y ago
If you hadn't provided a link I would have assumed you were joking. What happens under this law with people who carry USB sticks with truly random noise files on them?
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by homeomorphic 13y ago
That was a wonderful read. Thank you.
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by homeomorphic 13y ago
Forget the cars. How long before people accept discounts on Google glass (or similar) in exchange for continuously running face recognition software and streaming the information back to some company providing a similar service where you ca
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by homeomorphic 13y ago
Re 4: Only under incredibly optimistic models of the future survival and expansion of our species! The IPv6 address space has about 10^38 addresses. Earth's land surface is about 150*10^18 square meters. So in a future where the planet
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by homeomorphic 13y ago
> Face recognition, voice recognition, biometrics, kinematics, writing style, and of course metadata will make public an astounding amount of information. A video of a random group of strangers will be trivial to index and identify every
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by homeomorphic 13y ago
GHC doesn't use Clang. It has two backends: native and LLVM. AFAIK there is some work going on to combine the latter with emscripten to get JS output, but apparently it doesn't work for the runtime yet.
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by homeomorphic 13y ago
> This shows crypto is much too hard. You can configure a bunch of things, but half the choices you can make (key length, exponent, etc...) will render your encryption worthless. I shouldn't have to know about the chinese remainder
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by homeomorphic 13y ago
> From a while ago: http://i.imgur.com/62WBzVZ.png Firefox 22 on GNU/Linux looks a lot better, but still not as good as IE: http://imgur.com/GOCmiN9
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by homeomorphic 13y ago
Good point.
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by homeomorphic 13y ago
Tell me, what in economics plays the role of identical particles?
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by homeomorphic 13y ago
Thanks.
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by homeomorphic 13y ago
I've been meaning to finally get around to doing this myself, so I'll shoot you a question: Do you have a fallback MX? I'm thinking of getting a super-cheap VPS running only Postfix as a mail fallback in case my primary host

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