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by i336_ 9y ago
I think https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/compression is interesting and relevant here: > While our API is HTTP based, we chose to diverge from standard HTTP in one particular area. During normal operation, we gua
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by i336_ 9y ago
The lead singer in Midnight Oil sung "How do we sleep / While our beds are burning" in 1987... and in 2009 the same person (Peter Garret), in his position as Minister for Environment Protection (among other things), was the d
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by i336_ 9y ago
For people actually sad about the NBN: this mentions that people who want 1Gbps "will have an upgrade option" (I think they said it something like that). This was from Feb 12 this year. http://www.abc.net.au/radion
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by i336_ 9y ago
Concurrently occurring Creation -> Obsolescence produces overlap: DOS Win3.1 Win95 Win10 Creat. Obsc. |---------App----------| |---App---| |-----App-----| ~
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by i336_ 9y ago
Google search results frequently use 200MB+ on my machine. It's like the Internet has collectively decided nobody has 2GB of RAM anymore. (Yep.)
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by i336_ 9y ago
Well, this used NW.js: http://www.computerworld.com/article/3018972/security/ransom... I vaguely recall something that used Electron, but I can't find it. It was 30MB+.
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by i336_ 9y ago
Ah, very interesting. Thanks for the link.
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by i336_ 9y ago
Okay, not really - but it can be tricky to know where to draw the line. I guess I was uncertain.
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by i336_ 9y ago
Coming from the standpoint of a very curious independent researcher, I'm curious what I might query/search for to learn more about these data brokers. Not at all out of anything that might be categorized as malice, just to add thi
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by i336_ 9y ago
I've heard that you can disable RFID readers (not tags, readers) with an appropriately-resonant coil and an EMP circuit. I'm not sure if the same can be done to tags, but considering the size of the tiny electronics, and the fact
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by i336_ 9y ago
Update: Someone got in touch via email to let me know about something interesting that was only donated 3 months ago: http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102726903 On the one hand, this is the sour
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by i336_ 9y ago
NOTE! NOTE! NOTE! Some of the slides have annotations attached to them! These provide extra detail, or links to research papers. Tap/click the gear icon at the bottom and select "Speaker notes", or press S. Alternatively, if
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by i336_ 9y ago
I get happy when I see SketchPad on here. I consider it the hands-down best software system that ever existed. If anyone has any ideas as to where/how I might be able to track down the actual SketchPad code I would love to hear it. T
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by i336_ 9y ago
I guess not. I'm just still running Slackware, so I haven't needed to grapple with it just yet - and I'm holding out hoping to find that one other distribution that also doesn't use systemd so I can use that instead. :
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by i336_ 9y ago
vi[m] is interesting because - people talk about how rapidly they can perform complex edits with few keystrokes, which is something I most definitely can't do with Geany (a Notepad++ clone that made me wish Notepad++ worked on Linux)
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by i336_ 9y ago
Interesting tidbit to file away, thanks. Irrefutable point though - it's one thing to want something for free as a consumer, but quite a different story as a creator or developer. I totally get the rationale behind charging to keep qua
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by i336_ 9y ago
Yeah, fair point. I guess I was erroneously looking at that from the standpoint of the financial scale I'm working with right now (don't have a job, etc) and didn't catch myself. (Hmm. I'll keep an eye on that.) If distr
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by i336_ 9y ago
Oh TIL, thanks. Nice name :)
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by i336_ 9y ago
> Yes, examples of minimal ELF files are good starting points for getting the back end part up and running. Mmm, one of several components. > I'm not sure that reading real-life code will get you very far, because it often deals
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by i336_ 9y ago
Hmm. Alright then, I'll keep it in mind. One question: can I remove systemd? :)
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by i336_ 9y ago
Here's my problem. I breezed through your explanation with great interest and became more curious than ever to try Nix out at some point - I've heard tidbits about it over the past few months and found it to be a fascinating proje
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by i336_ 9y ago
I think this is for signing arbitrary EXEs. I'd always been curious how that worked, TIL it's that expensive though :(
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by i336_ 9y ago
What might you recommend to someone who wants to to learn more about these subjects? For example, http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.htm... is extremely interesting, but a lot of it is o
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by i336_ 9y ago
Some random thoughts from someone who is not in the industry but has read too much HN: The devs in question may have real issues with confidence. Straightforwardly saying up front that their feedback is hands-down not going to get them fi
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by i336_ 9y ago
You could write a project-finding app using JS and Ruby/Elixir/JS for the backend I'm thinking of scraping GitHub, Bitbucket, HackerOne, etc for metrics that correspond to projects that a) need help and b) need the kind of he
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by i336_ 9y ago
FWIW, I've compiled Chromium (which took a while because the build needed more RAM and swapped) and accidentally left random scripts erroneously chewing 100% CPU for hours (woops) on Contabo's $9 offering (6GB RAM, couple cores, 5
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by i336_ 9y ago
Not at all a problem.
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by i336_ 9y ago
Whoops , this is now at -2. My apologies, and thanks for the feedback; I won't try this again.
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by i336_ 9y ago
>> I'm curious how much of this depends on the driver behaving sanely at load and unload time, cleaning up after itself, gracefully handling unexpected initialization-time state, etc. > Well, drivers are just processes. So as
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by i336_ 9y ago
The sad thing with that is that - releasing the source doesn't tell you what's on the chip. - PSP is kind of "Ring ∞", so there would be no good outcome from providing general-purpose access to it. So, the keys will neve

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