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by jlokier 4y ago
I think people read "flag" as "tell HN this article/comment has offensive content", so will not think it's appropriate to use "flag" for content that's merely shallow. We don't flag comment
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by jlokier 4y ago
That's surprising to me. Canada has a reputation where I am for being generally pro-immigration and friendly to immigrants. Is this not the case, or is it specifically different in Quebec?
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by jlokier 4y ago
I've set my default browser on Android to Firefox Focus, and found that many "in-app" sessions appear to be running an in-app variant of Firefox Focus. It's not quite the same as running actual Firefox Focus, but there&#
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by jlokier 4y ago
For example, if the engine is switched out (or made an option) so that Firefox 150 uses WebKit or Blink instead. Many Firefox users would not notice the difference, as long as the things they care about keep working.
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by jlokier 4y ago
VMs are perfect for that teaching scenario. That said, you're not supposed to be able to load kernel modules from a container. Which is exactly the sort of idea an enterprising rootkit author might think to take advantage of ;-) You
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by jlokier 4y ago
I use LXD for most of my dev and testing environments, as well as the container for most network services. Even my mail server runs in LXC, and it is a direct descendant of a Red Hat 5 server from ~20 years ago! I've often seen LXD vs
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by jlokier 4y ago
The EU appeal the article is about has nothing at all to do with GDPR, user data, or privacy. It's about anticompetitive behaviour, i.e. antitrust. Antitrust is not particularly about tech companies, and it has been around a long time
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by jlokier 4y ago
I don't think it qualifies as an "opposite", because enforced standards also create consumer choice sometimes. Case in point: The enforced standardising of mobile phone chargers has given consumers more choice of chargers
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by jlokier 4y ago
> Comments are right here in the code, If you write down in comments the history of why the code is written the way it is now, not just the current code but all the things that were tried before and why they had to be changed, you'l
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by jlokier 4y ago
Don't assuming io_uring is always faster or much faster. Sometimes it is. But last time I benchmarked io_uring, it was good enough, but I was able to get measurably faster from syscalls and a well-crafted userspace thread pool for st
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by jlokier 4y ago
:-) I used WordStar back in the 80s to write BBC BASIC and 6502/Z80 assembly.
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by jlokier 4y ago
The furlough money paid to salaried workers while they sheltered at home wasn't "extra" in the economy, in some sense. Those people who received furlough got it instead of their salary, and they weren't working while the
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by jlokier 4y ago
It depends on the project. Linux kernel commits often have excellent messages, because that's the standard expected.
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by jlokier 4y ago
Hm. I just checked and my ~/Mail/inbox has 1.38 million messages. That doesn't include most mailing lists, because those are sorted into their own separate folders using procmail. I use Neomutt with Notmuch, btw. It general
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by jlokier 4y ago
Given how important social eating is to you, I think you're lucky you have roommates that eat with you. I've lived in many different places in shared housing most of my adult life so far, and everyone cooked and ate separately. Th
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by jlokier 4y ago
*> In a TCP connection, the client initiates the connection so that firewalls aren't an issue and that isn't a thing with UDP That is a thing with UDP too. Firewalls (whether NAT or SPI) keep track of connection state with UDP
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by jlokier 4y ago
> ever put such a critical item as banking app on their phone? Laziness has nothing to do with it. Why? Three of my bank accounts cannot be accessed without a phone app, and some of my credit cards will not authorise payments without a
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by jlokier 4y ago
Don't assume io_uring is an automatic win. Last time I benchmarked io_uring, it was good enough, but I was able to get measurably faster from syscalls and a well-crafted userspace thread pool for storage to NVMe. (Note: the I/O th
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by jlokier 4y ago
> Is there a logical fallacy for this? I call it the "fallacy of the crowd" and I agree it is very common. I first noticed it enough to give it a name (and then see it everywhere!) about 12 years ago. Not just online, and it&
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by jlokier 4y ago
Your definition of pi gives incorrect values of pi... ("a set of points in a different plane" is not constrained to be a straight line.)
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by jlokier 4y ago
Revolut did this to me when I needed the balance to pay my rent. Locked account, no reason given. 7 days(!) of interactions with their support (chat via the app, the only option), sending numerous photos of cards and other things at their
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by jlokier 4y ago
"it's because of people sharing stories like this that we've been planning our migration away to a more responsible (and responsive) processor"
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by jlokier 4y ago
I would still recommend you change your payment backend to direct your customer payments via one or more "backup" processors asap. Perhaps leave Stripe altogether if you prefer, once that's done, or keep Stripe around as the
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by jlokier 4y ago
Sounds like private health insurance. Initial form questions like "tell us if you have ever been to hospital for anything serious?", you're thinking "I'm not sure if that time I dropped in to the GP 5 years ago with
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by jlokier 4y ago
In that case I suggest https://vitalik.ca/ and dip into articles with titles that appeal to you. He covers a range from high level opinion essays to (imho) good technical simplified explanations of the special kinds of low-
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by jlokier 4y ago
It has a much weaker version, it's just not called a difficulty bomb, it's called the 21M bitcoin limit and the halvings leading up to it. As that limit is approached, Bitcoin mining gradually becomes less profitable. https:&#x2
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by jlokier 4y ago
> Not 100% of users will accept the new software so after this event called "The Merge" there will be 2 competing Ethereum networks (actually 3 because there's already "ethereum classic" from the last time Ether
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by jlokier 4y ago
> What makes this one of the biggest upgrades in the history of software? > How many Ethereum nodes are there compared to, say, iOS or Android or Windows deployments? What’s their hardware diversity? What’s the complexity of Ethereum
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by jlokier 4y ago
> You chastise someone for protesting No I didn't, someone else did. HN is not one person posting under hundreds of usernames :-)
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by jlokier 4y ago
>> HF = hydrogen flouride > otherwise known as hydroflouric acid. nasty stuff indeed: Technically hydrofluoric acid is hydrogen fluoride dissolved in water. But yes, nasty stuff, and that fine distinction doesn't matter when H

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