jlg23

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by jlg23 9y ago
> The CCC always does interesting stuff like this, a couple of years they reproduced a politicians fingerprint just using photos of her hands. That was actually the same guy.
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by jlg23 9y ago
> It is very interesting to me why certain microphones and cameras are fine, while others are not. If you film yourself during sex that's one thing. If I film you during sex without your explicit consent that's a completely dif
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by jlg23 9y ago
Amen. Good ingredients, a love for food and the ability to tune out those that try to explain that one cannot cook or that cooking requires intense training and a container full of tools.
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by jlg23 9y ago
His grandson just did it again in 2006: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangaroa_Expedition
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by jlg23 9y ago
> as a public nonprofit research institute, they're expected to finance their research with patent licenses. Though they are not really a shining example of frugality either. Another institute they merged with was locally known as t
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US and EU reject expanding laptop ban to flights from Europe(bbc.com)
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by jlg23 9y ago
If you really want to annoy me, use soundex[1] as a final normalization step. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundex
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by jlg23 9y ago
Rust uses jemalloc.
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by jlg23 9y ago
Indeed a clear syntax. OTOH, a "loop .. for .. {upto, below} count" leaves less questions in a casual code review :)
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by jlg23 9y ago
Lesson learned: None. You use the same machine for development of commercial, closed source software and video transcoding for most probably private use. Your postmortem can be summarized as "[advertisement]". I get that real secu
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by jlg23 9y ago
Unfortunately, for the most part of the world, schoolbooks still are written the same way: Pretty long preparation phase, followed by a very short evaluation phase, followed by some politicians deciding whether the book will be the officia
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by jlg23 9y ago
Uhm. No. I am not lamenting an "educational innovation", I am saying that being presented a solution is not education at all. Education for me means understanding, understanding requires thinking, thinking requires time and taking
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by jlg23 9y ago
Because your locally hosted DB will run circles around it. And for 99.99999% of the shops out there a single, local DB instance is more than enough.
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by jlg23 9y ago
The real difference: When you found a crappy workaround, you learned . You were frustrated, felt stupid but you learned. You made the same experience every child has to make once: Dont', just fscking don't, touch the hot plate. B
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by jlg23 9y ago
e_context? but good luck anyway.
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by jlg23 9y ago
Where does all the hate come from? S/he never said all implementations are slow, just that most are (which is true if you count all those toy implementations done by hackers who did it just for the learning experience; I alone contribu
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by jlg23 9y ago
Can anyone tell me what "ACI"[1] stood for back then? I wonder why Lafayette had/has an "ACI Liaison Officer". [1] https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/B443/production&#x2F
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by jlg23 9y ago
This is by far the best introduction to D3 I've ever seen.
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by jlg23 9y ago
> I still believe you should be able to send files through email. Refusing to listen to what people have been telling you since the inception of email does not make you right, though.
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by jlg23 9y ago
They even have their own Silicon Valley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zelenograd#Industries
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by jlg23 9y ago
In cities that are not entirely built around cars (i.e. most European cities) you are much faster on a bicycle, esp. when you know the area. Last but not least, esp in dense traffic: With a good bike you can accelerate much faster than you
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by jlg23 9y ago
> Not sure it would be much more efficient It won't - and I don't have to measure to know. * OP uses standard optimization techniques. Their use has been justified over decades of actual research. * OP uses a compiled language.
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by jlg23 9y ago
The code review opportunities are joke. The only chance to review a mere million lines of codes thoroughly is to throw a million eyes on it and open communication about findings. The way those are done now, they are Valium for politicians a
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by jlg23 9y ago
Yes, the victims should have known. I strongly suspect (and hope) that you are just trolling, so in a very short form: * "It's an observation" that you eat babies. This statement is just as valid as yours. I mean, "it&#x
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by jlg23 9y ago
> Thus, I think the correct reaction to this is more towards the "oops... that wasn't a good idea" than "everybody panic!" "Oop..."? - Is that what you'd write on the graves of dissidents whose eff
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by jlg23 9y ago
> Looks like it's not intentional. Although really poor code-quality process I would say. OTOH, pretending incompetence has always been a pretty successful defence. This is a class of error that I won't easily attribute to inco
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by jlg23 9y ago
> the person [..] that hasn't in fact grown up yet. One of the greatest accomplishments an adult can achieve.
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by jlg23 9y ago
> If your users have to resort to this they are not getting the appropriate support they need. I don't see where this follows from. "private repos" and "testing" implies "local testing" for me. If that
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by jlg23 9y ago
Yes, you have to roll your own. But for hardened setups one has build hosts anyway, so it's just a single config setting to rule them all.
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by jlg23 9y ago
Me and all BSD-admins I know. Though after a quick glance at the CVE I doubt any of us is affected.

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