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by ivoras 10y ago
>> a home-made public key signature format instead of PGP > How is 'openssl rsautl -sign' a "home-made" signature format? It's RAW RSA DATA. You could argue it's more pure that way but if that were the
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by ivoras 10y ago
You'd be supried how few people actually work on issues such as security in FreeBSD. Unfortunately, instead of using existing solutions to reduce their workload, there's a lot of NIH-ism. Like writing freebsd-update in POSIX shell
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by ivoras 10y ago
The thing is, there's not much documentation on where each index type would be applicable, what their upsides and downsides are in particular situations. For example, the hash index is (currently) not WAL-logged, which means it's
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by ivoras 10y ago
On the other hand, we haven't directly observed the universe for a long enough time (billions of years) to say it's not changing, so we simply don't know. We don't even know if the universe is homogeneous. For example, a
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by ivoras 10y ago
It's very likely that there's no higher purpose in any universe's existence - a/the universe could just be a set of random "rules and laws" which happen to not die out as soon as they are randomly created. Of c
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by ivoras 10y ago
As a poster said, the fitness filter may as well be "whatever works" in the sense that it's so rare to stumble upon stable combinations of energy, space and time (if they are at all separate concepts) that whatever works, con
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Elon Musks Hyperloop: BUSTED(youtube.com)
1 points by ivoras 10y ago|0 comments
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by ivoras 10y ago
It's important to remember that Turkish military in the post-empire had practically a mandate of rebelling against unconstitutional and Islamist governments. Their power to do so was largely removed recently ( https://en.m.w
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by ivoras 10y ago
> It's still a big effort, learning a language properly is not something you do for 2 hours on the weekend and get proficient at it. There's a big difference between being really proficient and knowing enough to be productive.
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by ivoras 10y ago
> We'd rather just grab US and Chinese cash then vacation in Mexico than actually work. That's hardly unique to Canada. It's the default human state to prioritise short-term gains. See e.g. the phenomenon of obesity.
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by ivoras 10y ago
Are there any studies which show process sandboxing to improve security in practice?
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by ivoras 10y ago
For the elucidation of the audience: one thing which I found out can kill PostgreSQL (and luckily there are few of those) is temp table over-use. Imagine a busy app where most page loads create and work on wide temp tables. What isn't
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by ivoras 10y ago
That particular case - upgrading everything - is actually supported pretty well. Of course, there's the distinction between the base system and app packages - the base still needs to be upgraded another way (freebsd-update). It's
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by ivoras 10y ago
... is not ANY LONGER a fundamentalist religion ... it's almost like it takes a 1000 years, give or take, for a religion to blow off its steam and become reasonably peaceful.
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by ivoras 10y ago
Believe it or not, Lazarus is probably the single most-cross-platform-compatible GUI builder for native apps that exists, anywhere. Neither Java, nor Qt nor anything else come even close. And the apps are native! As for the "I don&#x27
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by ivoras 10y ago
One more thing: the UK was the official reason English is one of the languages of the EU (same as, on paper at least, with all the other languages). It will require some more fiddling to keep it so.
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by ivoras 10y ago
Since when was "Concorde regulated out of existence"? Wikipedia says it's simply because of economical reason it was retired: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concorde#Retirement Not every failure is an ant
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by ivoras 10y ago
Oh, I can just imagine how the process went at MS: * Exec A: Social things are Good (coming to the conclusion about 10 years too late) * Exec B: Shall we create our own Google+? * Exec C: No, that didn't turn out that well for Google.
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Berghain Trainer [face detection / emotion analysis](berghaintrainer.com)
1 points by ivoras 10y ago|0 comments
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by ivoras 10y ago
Ok, I have read the page at https://daohub.org/ and I still don't know what "the DAO" is? Is it a blockchain-centred crowdfunding platform?
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by ivoras 10y ago
Ok, so what strategies do people use for coping with their development / build environments (even entire languages and stdlibs) changing every 6 months? Is stability out of the window?
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by ivoras 10y ago
The thing is: whenever you see it on-screen, the people using it are happy with it, not frustrated, not fighting it, and that is truly "good UX" (within the suspension of disbelief of the show). In other words: it shows that, if p
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by ivoras 11y ago
This isn't specific to Apple Watch, it's about all smart-watch thingies: the way we interact it them is just too limited. The screen is tiny, so you cannot use it to read / watch content, and there's no way of interactin
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by ivoras 11y ago
It certainly exists, and in unexpected places, like system catalogues. It's especially visible if a (wrong) mgmt decision has been made to switch off autovacuum - then everything tends to blow up, and fast. In short: explicit bloat man
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by ivoras 11y ago
Here's a more direct post about various Iceland-related myths: https://studiotendra.com/2012/12/29/what-is-actually-going-o...
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by ivoras 11y ago
When they say "exploited", is it actually some sequence of words which was interpreted by Tay as learning commands, or was it simply repeating to it "Hitler is love" a thousand times? Any records of how it learned?
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by ivoras 11y ago
It sucks allright. The performance numbers are actually mediocre at best in "real world" conditions. When I tried using it in a project where both high performance and concurrency were needed, I also discovered that it doesn'
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by ivoras 11y ago
"When I started programming, I heard a lot about how programmers are down to earth, not like those elitist folks who have uniforms involving suits and ties. You can even wear t-shirts to work!" This alone dates the author to begin
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by ivoras 11y ago
I think the issue is more high-level, a question of "how to start and sustain a small-ish infrastructure-ish open-source business?" There are successful open-source projects, sure. The predominant MO seams to be for the main devel
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by ivoras 11y ago
I think it's about finding substrings which are (very) likely to appear in passwords. Like substrings "pass" and "word" in "password".

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