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by jdsully 5y ago
They can license their changes and userland as MIT. They would have to dual license any kernel changes with GPL though
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The majority of your savings are from switching to gas from electric. Gas is significantly cheaper per BTU. Gas tank heaters are still pretty efficient. Especially if insulated.
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The best part was the warnings about how you could damage your monitor.
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Early Reddit had a large number of communities with their own rules. Before that you had message boards that had mostly homogeneous moderation. The moderation for /r/askhistorians was different from /r/humor and that was
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The title is misleading. It’s a weird law but it seems to require the universities conduct a survey. It doesn’t put any burden on students and faculty to actually answer as far as I’m aware.
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Reddit also grew to be one of the biggest sites on the internet with their low censorship policy before they started the crackdown. It’s not evidence crackdowns are necessary because they got successful first.
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Why would the auto companies care about profits for their dealerships? That’s margin going to someone else when that could instead be spent on higher priced vehicles.
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This allows us to focus our investment on one layer and have it apply to all applications on top "for free". I'm not saying this specific implementation is the right one, but having it below the app layer makes a ton of sens
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You can technically apply for a green card but border guards can and do use it as evidence that you don’t intend to stay “temporarily” and deny your TN as a result. They can reevaluate your TN status at every crossing, and there are many st
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"threat group" is odd phrasing, is it really the same actual group?
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When I was first learning how to program I felt this way. High level languages were unsettling in that I knew they were doing a ton of "stuff" but I didn't know what. Old 8-bit micros get you closer to understanding how co
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There is nothing illegal about storing cash for any duration.
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It wasn't reganomics (typically referring to the tax policies) but the central bank taking extreme action on interest rates to curb inflation. Prior central bankers wanted to do this but didn't have the political cover. As expec
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No assumptions are needed. He created a public divestment plan and sold 20 million shares per quarter since. While it’s normal for insiders to declare trades well in advance doing so decades prior is a bit notable. He was pretty upfront ab
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Bill Gates started selling off his microsoft stake in the late 90s. It took him more than two decades to get from 49% ownership down to the 1.9% he has today. It's hard for figure heads to divest without crashing the stock because it
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A startup is just so difficult that you really can't get away with stuff like that and survive. It's very rare you can fire your dev team and get away with it, your product will not be good enough for years on end while you learn
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That completely ignores acquisition as an exit strategy (it even works for public companies).
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This is highly misleading on a key proof: Microsoft was never venture backed in the common meaning. They did accept VC investment from David F. Marquardt to get him as an advisor while they restructured to go public. His firm owned 6% and
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> For a short period during this transition, cars with Tesla Vision may be delivered with some features temporarily limited or inactive I don't understand this, if its only a few weeks why not just wait? Tesla has been years late o
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HIPAA doesn't prevent you from talking about your own medical procedures. This is just a voluntary badge you can put on your profile.
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I see now my original comment was poorly written. I only intended to imply the SSD would be used for reverting encrypted files as part of a rolling snapshot. It would have to work in conjunction with traditional AV software to actually de
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The SSD is not there to do the detection but to allow fast reverts of encrypted files once it is detected. Remapping blocks is a core operation for creating COW snapshots and the SSD already has to do it quickly for wear levelling. Softwa
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Sure, but it could be use configurable. For the actual problem of a cryptolocker it's pretty easy to detect the entropy change. You'd really only need to see the diffs a few files to decide something bad was happening. In any ca
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If 5% of a drive was rewritten I think that would be a reasonable time to interrupt the accompanying software driver and determine a reasonable response. It is not necessary for the drive to revert the full size of the drive, merely enough
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To better understand this consider LVM - it does not understand the filesystems on top of it yet it can still restore from a snapshot. Unfortunately LVM snapshots suffer from performance penalties an SSD could avoid.
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It's actually a great place to perform some types of mitigations (I'm not sure if these are done by this specific product though). Here's an example: A ransomware attack will rewrite large sections of the drive. Initial pha
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Very few people were putting them directly in their offices, and they certainly weren't buying bigger spaces to fit them. Datacenters are the natural home for this stuff and the price was never exorborant if you're not insisting
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The amount of effort involved in making sure reads were sequential back in the HDD days was immense. It’s not surprising people dropped that as soon as possible.
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The wikipedia page on ticket locks has a good overview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ticket_lock Generally speaking you don't want to be dealing with this stuff unless you really have to. For 99.999% of people t
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They dated for a long time before then and she actively had to meet with him in a work context for the famous BillG reviews. She's done interviews talking about how it was managed and how she wanted to be seen as still pulling her wei

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