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by hrjet 13y ago
To wrap my mind around it, I try to imagine astronomical objects as everyday objects. For example, if Sun was a base-ball in my hand, the earth would be a mote of dust some throwable distance away. My favorite one is: if Sun was the size of
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by hrjet 13y ago
A child is generally more mentally vulnerable than a grown up. So the effect of a crime on the former is generally larger and hence considered more heinous.
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by hrjet 13y ago
Familiarity is more of a problem for the older generations of people. But they are a receding market share. And my hunch is that newer generations are more adaptive to new interfaces, having grown into a world where there already many optio
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by hrjet 13y ago
> We strictly include only critical fixes for issues for which there is no workaround. For Go point releases, most people should just install them and move on. For 99.9% of Go programmers there is "nothing to see here". Isn&#
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by hrjet 13y ago
The original website seems to have gone offline. But based on the title, I think the lesson should be to have more stringent reviews and tests. Things which can't be checked statically at compile time have to be thoroughly reviewed and
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by hrjet 13y ago
A better idea might be periodically changing and random MAC address.
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by hrjet 13y ago
Open-source isn't very different from closed-source in terms of security unless users compile from source. Even in the case of the original app, most people are downloading a pre-compiled binary from the Play store, which has a similar
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by hrjet 13y ago
Not a bad idea, thanks! It would be sandboxed to boot :)
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by hrjet 13y ago
Yeah, but that is always a threat with any code ever written by anybody other than oneself. The only assurance against that is if one writes their own code compiled with their own compiler and run on their own fabricated hardware. Oh, and i
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by hrjet 13y ago
There could be three explanations for fake FB likes: 1. As mentioned in the story, click farms trying to cover their tracks by clicking FB ads. 2. Competitors creating fake profiles and fake likes. It seems like a cheap way to drain out the
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by hrjet 13y ago
Yes, Line 15: /#{eval eval if eval==instance_eval}}/.i rescue##/ They are checking the two instances and rescuing the corrupted one. But how exactly it works is beyond me.
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by hrjet 13y ago
I completely agree with the examples you cite. However the parent was giving examples about auto-correction for user's contacts. That is user-specific data and there's no need for it to be shared with a third-party.
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by hrjet 13y ago
> I'm not saying that Google is evil. Google probably isn't evil, but is getting naughty. On Android, they make it so difficult to avoid data collection. One example, which frustrated me yesterday: To access the Play store on
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by hrjet 13y ago
A decentralized solution for that would be to have user's data stored in user's private cloud, encrypted and cached on the client.
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by hrjet 13y ago
Yep, quite so. There is a lot of legacy cruft. There are even bugs in prior versions which have now become features[1]! [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A20_line
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by hrjet 13y ago
I am not sure of that. Some discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6701321
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by hrjet 13y ago
There exists a simple solution to WebGL spam: Click to play! Not having WebGL is not a feature.
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by hrjet 13y ago
Indian telecom sector is highly regulated by the Govt. And it is very competitive. So there's no way such an all-or-nothing deal can be introduced so late in the game. Edit: Moreover, the telecoms do make money on the data plans don&
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by hrjet 13y ago
This is how you optimise software as well. Find the function that is the bottleneck and optimise it. After doing that, some other function will be the bottle neck. Rinse and repeat. We seem to be in the first iteration of optimisation right
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by hrjet 13y ago
Somebody has already explained it in the comments in the article: "The light coming in the from sun is pretty directional, and a parabolic setup will focus it down to a handy point. The photons being emitted by the the chip are more di
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by hrjet 13y ago
I read this several decades back but it has stuck with me: Attitude, not aptitude, determines altitude.
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by hrjet 13y ago
I take back my comment. I am not familiar with Docker; I was confusing it with a raw lxc container, and when I setup an Ubuntu lxc image, I didn't have to do anything special for the init. That's probably because the Ubuntu image
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by hrjet 13y ago
Why not just use CMD ["/sbin/init"] And start your app through an init.rd script? The article says "upstart" is designed to be run on real hardware and not a virtualised system. If that is true, then perhaps th
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by hrjet 13y ago
This is not a driver problem, nor a case of hardware not reporting back correctly. The decibel information is not available in many sound setups. And it's never going to be available for these setups. Even for setups where decibel in
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by hrjet 13y ago
Thanks for the pactl tip. I was not aware of it. I am not saying the problem is un-surmountable. And it is not just me I am concerned about. Every person that I introduce to linux (via Ubuntu) is going to face this problem. A simple setting
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by hrjet 13y ago
I am not sure I understand your argument. Using a high-level language doesn't mean one wouldn't follow other best-practices.
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Exactly; and for all intents and purposes this amounts to a wont-fix, although it is still marked as "new".
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by hrjet 13y ago
A higher level language could have relieved the programmers from low-level details, thus giving them more cognitive space for avoiding logical bugs in other sections of their code. In general, the more DRY the code, the more mind-space fo
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Why GNOME 3.x sucks: A potentially hazardous bug is marked wont-fix(bugzilla.gnome.org)
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by hrjet 13y ago
This is nice! I recently came across another similar project: http://cesiumjs.org/ How does this compare with it? Is ViziCities more focused on political / city data, while Cesium is focused on geographic data?

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