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by joosters 6y ago
Patent number 1 should be for a time machine :(
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by joosters 6y ago
Another annoying trait of padded out news stories: "President Trump tweeted today that '...[full quote of tweet]...'" then inevitably followed by a screenshot (or two!) of the tweet, often together with a caption that re
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by joosters 6y ago
While the main concept (Don't change your URIs!) is good, I can't agree at all with their advice on picking names, in particular the 'what to leave out' section. No subject or topic? The justification for this is flimsy
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London’s National Gallery was hit by the biggest art heist in history(wired.co.uk)
1 points by joosters 6y ago|1 comments
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by joosters 6y ago
The technology is just about here today. If your PC has secure boot, you can theoretically lock it down to only allow booting a suitably restrictive OS, which then is responsible for restricting the apps and games that can run & the per
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by joosters 6y ago
If you implement the sandboxing very thoroughly and only permit signed code to run, you can make it even more difficult to cheat. e.g. on iOS, it would be very hard to change the client code of a multiplayer game without being detected.
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by joosters 6y ago
Oops, my bad. I saw the '--secret="secure-secret"' part of the command and assumed that was the secret itself! Thanks for the correction.
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by joosters 6y ago
/proc/x/environ is similar, but has more restrictive permissions: user-readable only, whereas /proc/x/cmdline is world-readable.
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by joosters 6y ago
If you think that putting secrets in ENV is bad, you probably shouldn't take the advice of running ' docker service create --secret="secure-secret" redis:alpine ' either! Putting secrets in a command line makes the
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by joosters 6y ago
This argument seems fairly unconvincing. If your chosen optimisation is size, you probably don't care so much about being 100% POSIX-compliant, which means you can leave out even more stuff and save room. At which point, EDITOR might a
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by joosters 6y ago
From the zkSync website: "WARNING: zkSync v1.0 is in alpha. Blockchains and zero-knowledge proofs are still experimental technologies with rapidly evolving attack vectors. zkSync relies on cutting-edge cryptography that has never been
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by joosters 6y ago
The draft spec mentions DHT in several places long before it defines what exactly it is (in section 4) Perhaps the spec would be better if it added a table of definitions at the top, just like it has a table of names for the cryptographic p
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by joosters 6y ago
Presumably the creators already have their videos, since they uploaded them to youtube in the first place. Hopefully they don't delete their own copies and rely on Google to safeguard them, though!
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by joosters 6y ago
I don't think he makes his point very well or convincingly. You could, if you wanted, make a plugin for a browser that blocks non-simple tags, blocks cookies, blocks images, blocks scripts, etc, and I suspect he's wrong to say tha
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by joosters 6y ago
I don't know who told you that, but they were weirdly confused. The bitcoin whitepaper told them that, in more than one place too, so it's not a simple typo, e.g. ...we implement the proof-of-work by incrementing a nonce in the
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by joosters 6y ago
I see it as the opposite... the ad industry are specifically worried here that people are going to be given the choice, and they believe that the peoples' choice won't be good for them.
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by joosters 6y ago
Twitter understands this and has begun restricting amplification In what way, exactly? All they seem to have achieved so far is to make Trump's posts more reported on, that's the opposite of restricting amplification.
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by joosters 6y ago
Why should that mean its not nefarious? Just because other apps are doing underhand privacy invasion doesn't make it any better - they are all scum! Everyone is talking about TikTok because the video that went viral showed TikTok.
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by joosters 6y ago
Faster than bitcoin, cheaper than bitcoin, easier to use than bitcoin, more reliable than bitcoin, far more widely accepted than bitcoin. Hmm...
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by joosters 6y ago
Have you not heard of M-Pesa? Very popular mobile phone-based money transfer service, low fees ( far less than $3 or the 30% you claim), you can even pay companies directly with it
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Freegle junked Google Maps for OpenStreetMap and saved £700/month(linkedin.com)
17 points by joosters 6y ago|0 comments
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by joosters 6y ago
Another way to possibly get better accuracy is to pump the tyres to several different pressures, and for each pressure, re-measure the tyre contact surface. From there, you could then simply average out the results - or better still, the da
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by joosters 6y ago
Really interesting comment from the linked article by one of the Acorn developers, Paul Fellows: ... we had one of the machines that we just could not get this thing to boot reliably. You could boot it, turn it off, reboot it and sometimes
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by joosters 6y ago
Over half of your libraries are used by fewer than 0.1% of your executables That's a very misleading reference and graph. First of all, what did they expect to find? As you add more executables, of course the % usage of a library w
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by joosters 6y ago
...which is specifically explained in the article! Did it get something wrong?
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by joosters 6y ago
By 'barely even a footnote', you must mean front page news on most newspapers today: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-53173316
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by joosters 6y ago
You are going to end up perpetually unhappy if you always assume that people designed things the way they did just because of stupidity / incompetence. Perhaps instead you should take a while to think about the reasons why they might h
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by joosters 6y ago
Because perl improved over time, but they didn't want to break people's existing code needlessly. No-one ever deliberately invents 'senseless' things, we just discover better ways over time. Sure, if we could somehow m
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by joosters 6y ago
Sure, it's got lots of historical baggage, but there are more sensible alternatives to $| - like STDOUT->autoflush(1) - it's not like you have to use the obscure versions of every feature.
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by joosters 6y ago
Cryptocurrency doesn’t look good when it is inevitably compared with the early days of the web. The internet got rapidly better each year, whereas crypto has been around for years without any real improvements, in usability, safety, or effi

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