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by jo909 11y ago
Privacy wise it makes no difference if they read your contacts once a day or once a minute. If the want, they have your contacts either way. Actually this is a hint that they actually might not store your contacts names, pictures, addresses
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by jo909 11y ago
where do you create that checksum? If its on a computer without ECC, you will just checksum the data including the error, then write that data including the error to disk. What happens to the data after you have read it to memory and succes
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by jo909 11y ago
I would not call it trying to be a "manager", that is a narrow role with a formal place in the org chart. Let's call it "taking responsibility". I agree that you should be smart about it, and not blindly do unassign
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by jo909 11y ago
Backup/archive storage is a use case where storing your data far away from any processing power does not matter. Far away in the sense of bandwidth, latency and transfer costs. For (nearly) everything else, the opposite is true. Google
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by jo909 11y ago
The Martian by Andy Weir (Fiction)
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by jo909 11y ago
Car parking is unique because you can always (well ok with certain exceptions in some countries) connect it to a licence plate and thus to the car owner. Where I live the car owner is (again with some exceptions) held responsible, even if h
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by jo909 11y ago
> His friend was notable enough to have already been mentioned on Wikipedia. The criteria to have an article about a specific person: there are other articles focusing on that specific person in other publications. The criertia to be men
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by jo909 11y ago
I sit in a chair, in front of a panel with many lights, and another panel with many buttons. And I press the buttons rapidly in some specific order to make certain lights go on or off. No idea what should be the name for that job.
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by jo909 11y ago
Transporting electrical power over long distances is expensive. If most demand is in cities, most power plants need to be relatively near cities.
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by jo909 11y ago
Very true. Most servers are multiple processors (sockets) interconnected via a high speed network (QPI, HT), and each processor has links to its own memory and some PCI lanes. You could almost see that as multiple distinct computers on one
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by jo909 11y ago
At the end it comes down to trust, laws and maybe occams razor. We can't personally check what exactly they do with our data (not limited to this particular feature), so either we trust in what facebook assures us, or trust that they f
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by jo909 11y ago
I'm not saying I'm comfortable with this either way, but I do see a difference between recording a conversation with the intent to keep that recording and extract the spoken content, and processing the audio "on the fly"
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by jo909 11y ago
Potential buyers want sources to learn about products, compared them, have uninfluenced and honest reviews to help them make decisions. Vendors want their products reviewed. And I think they understand that reviewers need to be financially
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by jo909 11y ago
You are right, but the cgroup manager should still be something that starts very very early, so you can start components that make use of it. If literally everything your init system starts should automatically use cgroups, you have to star
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by jo909 11y ago
You will see very very many Apple devices at every CCC event, used by the hackers themselves.
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by jo909 11y ago
I think genetic diseases (aka "runs in the familiy") will stay as a selection factor. Would you prefer to have offspring with someone who has a family history of severe cancer or some autoimmune disease? I wouldn't. So once g
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by jo909 11y ago
There are deeper mines than that. The long time the project is taking is also an indicator that it is mostly about repeating a certain set of tasks over and over and over again. Certainly there were big challenges, but I imagine they were m
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by jo909 11y ago
This shows that Rackspace Support really is exceptional. They are a direct competitor to AWS, but manage to put the customer and the customers needs first. A former boss struggled with that. Our customer needs X? We shall build and sell the
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by jo909 11y ago
When my Lenovo Thinkpad has a hardware problem, a technician comes to my home or office to repair it.
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by jo909 11y ago
Where I live it is very ususal to just hire an architect and then a general contractor. So the party that commissions the project (has the "idea") really has little knowledge at the start of the project. But of course they depend
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by jo909 11y ago
But somehow you can build a house without knowing much about static loads, roofing, plumbing, insulation, heating etc. Of course the less you know the more you risk that someone sells you crap, but that is nothing special to outsourcing. I
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by jo909 11y ago
Whatever the nomenclature, if a pet repeatedly kills wild animals that's just not acceptable A dog that uncontrollably kills wildlife would not be allowed outside unleashed, and where I live can (legally) be shot by the next hunter tha
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by jo909 11y ago
I think that is just a function of military vehicles being excempt from that law in the first place. To force them to also use the standard font would mean changing a totally different law, maybe even add a whole new one if the current stat
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by jo909 11y ago
Well that is probably never going to happen. And that's totally fine with me, there is not mutch to gain from that anyway. Unikernels running on hypervisors is a very cool thing, but I wouldn't call it "bare metal".
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by jo909 11y ago
Not meant as criticism, but a (maybe fruitless) theoretical discusson: Even with RumpRun on true bare metal, should that be called "Bare Metal Erlang"? It's not like the erlang code manages the raw memory, contains a driver f
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by jo909 11y ago
Code running as a VM in the Xen hypervisor is not really the traditional sense of "Bare Metal".
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by jo909 11y ago
I would guess they can "force" him to no longer teach that class, even if they can not dismiss him. I don't think its bad that the university has the final say in what and to a certain degree how certain elements of the ciric
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by jo909 11y ago
I guess nobody is happy that chromium opens a undocumented network connection to transfer unknown data. But the biggest problem is that we don't (yet) _know_ exactly why and what is happening. Fortunately we can understand it by lookin
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by jo909 11y ago
To make some sort of (of course flawed) comparison: You want a nice house. You can drive around the neighborhood, look at what houses exist and inspect the house you are interested in from roof to cellar bevor making an offer. You adjust yo
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by jo909 11y ago
If you are messing with virtualization setups, hypervisors and low level os/kernel things you often can't (or at least don't want to for speed, stability etc) be in a virtualized environment as your base layer.

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