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721.
by joosters 7y ago
If a business needs a particular level of service, perhaps they should only deal with a company/reseller that offers an acceptable SLA.
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by joosters 7y ago
Yes, the article is not very well written, in that it blends factual statements about the new laws together with their own opinions, e.g. 'For that reason, the Chinese Cybersecurity Bureau does not plan to politely make a formal reque
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by joosters 7y ago
Mouse or trackpad? I wonder which is better for this...
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Can You Draw a Perfect Circle?(vole.wtf)
2 points by joosters 7y ago|2 comments
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by joosters 7y ago
Checksums are also a pain for larger files. If a 4GB movie has a checksum, is the app supposed to read all the file in to calculate and validate the checksum prior to playing the movie? That’s inefficient. It also doesn’t help programs deal
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by joosters 7y ago
Not quite the same thing, but Windows has the concept of multiple named streams in the same NTFS file - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/file-s... So you could write a log file with
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by joosters 7y ago
It might not be up to the app? If the phone has hardware-accelerated JPEG compression, then potentially the image will already be compressed in the 'wrong' orientation before the app gets its hands on it. So rotating the image dat
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by joosters 7y ago
Not a different number to call, but instead a shortcut through the usual automated phone menus - e.g. I've had a bank tell me to phone their number and then enter an extension to take me straight through to the right person.
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by joosters 7y ago
I had that same issue with Amex, they phoned, said there was a concern with my card and then wanted me to go through identity checks before saying more. They also got quite stroppy when I refused and asked them to prove their own identity f
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by joosters 7y ago
It’s missing “Show HN” in the list, surely this story also counts as a targeted ad?
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by joosters 7y ago
So you were lucky. Not everyone will have the same luck.
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by joosters 7y ago
Hopefully MS block their sandboxes from contacting known ports, e.g. < 1024, so it would be difficult to attack common services, but who knows?
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by joosters 7y ago
MAC addresses only have to be unique to your local network, they aren't used for wider inter-network routing.
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by joosters 7y ago
A bit off-topic, but their perl code is buggy. fork() returns undef on error, not -1. And you can use '$FH->autoflush(1)' instead of the eye-watering 'select((select($FH), $|=1)[0])'
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by joosters 7y ago
I take your point about Erlang, and its systems for restarting/replacing failed code & processes, but I don't see how this eliminates race conditions or their consequences. One problem here is that it's not always a simpl
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by joosters 7y ago
Do you mean that each driver is forced to be single-threaded, somehow? Or just that the drivers are isolated, so they can have as many race conditions as they like, but the microkernel will keep running? Because I don't see the advanta
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by joosters 7y ago
Thanks for the 'ish' recommendation, that is awesome!
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by joosters 7y ago
Summary of the judgment: https://www.supremecourt.uk/cases/docs/uksc-2019-0192-summar... Full judgment: https://www.supremecourt.uk/cases/docs/uksc-2019-0192-judgme...
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by joosters 7y ago
Ah but it was justified - by the need for a Queen's Speech, which hadn't happened for a very long time. As the ruling stated, preparing for this takes 4-6 days, not 5 weeks... What the Supreme Court has said here is that they d
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by joosters 7y ago
The article talks about interrupters, but I think it confuses two types of them: People who interrupt to say their piece, and people who interrupt to complete the other person’s sentence. Both are annoying, but people who complete others’ s
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by joosters 7y ago
I’d love to see a godbolt example of this optimisation, I’ve never heard of a compiler doing this sort of thing.
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by joosters 7y ago
If you don’t like HP because of the article, why do you like Google Cloud Print? Do you really believe Google is collecting less information about your printing?
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by joosters 7y ago
I think there used to be an Audi model with a solar panel on the roof that was used to power the aircon when parked. No idea how effective it was, but the concept was clever, since when there was little sunlight, you wouldn’t need the power
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Hide and squeak: scientists reveal the playful lives of rats(phys.org)
2 points by joosters 7y ago|0 comments
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'Red mercury': why does this strange myth persist?(bbc.co.uk)
38 points by joosters 7y ago|41 comments
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by joosters 7y ago
She has an uncle who was a mining company executive, I can't talk about him it's too dangerous. Really. Then why talk about him?
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by joosters 7y ago
“The trouble with tainted money is t’aint enough of it.” - William Booth. Playing devil’s advocate here: Accepting tainted money as charity is not the problem. Promoting the donors, giving them prestige, contacts, access or some other benef
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by joosters 7y ago
Yes, all their reasons for not joining a customer slack seem reasonable, but none of them seem related to the 25-year theme. They are all about problems in the here and now, you don't need a quarter-century-long stare to see them.
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by joosters 7y ago
A cross-platform filesystem that you could read/write from Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android I wonder if that is possible to implement right now... It’s simple to adapt something like a raspberry pi to become a usb device, pluggabl
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by joosters 7y ago
One of the ways to improve a betting strategy is to incorporate into your model the available odds for a race (especially near to the off), as the odds will to some extent reflect the hidden knowledge of other participants... Benter used th

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