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by kanox 7y ago
Leak contains photos of identity documents from many different countries and some include information about parents.
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by kanox 7y ago
Reserving CPUs for your application definitely qualifies as "extreme measures". In general you should expect userspace code to be scheduled out at any time and use locking primitives that the kernel knows about.
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by kanox 7y ago
> those comments tend to get lost over time That's fine, they don't need to be tracked. There are other systems for issues that need tracking.
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by kanox 7y ago
> TODO, as the name implies, should be things that must be done. A lot of people use them for things that "could" be done.
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by kanox 7y ago
> This code is functional, but if you are going to do another iteration you may want to consider the following improvement or optimization. I assign the same meaning to TODO or FIXME markers but a lot of people see this is as a measure o
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by kanox 7y ago
> And this is why Debian exists. What this means in this context is that Debian is still relevant and useful rather than a relic. It's the biggest community-based rather than company-supported distro and rejects such features.
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by kanox 7y ago
> These planes cannot fly without a computer adjusting them to keep the balance, something that is not true of any other major aircraft. The problem can be solved with software, but its more like a bandaid. Why is it wrong to rely on sof
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by kanox 7y ago
The ability to convert any object to a string is very useful for debugging and most languages support this. Even in C it's frequently useful to print %p to identify objects. Serialization should require involve separate APIs.
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by kanox 7y ago
So I guess commit messages support emojis now. I've seen this before, but not quite so consistently.
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by kanox 7y ago
> actively courted assertive people with opinions Is that something that companies do on purpose? Because such an environment sounds like absolute hell. I want to spend my time dealing with technical problems not arguing with people&#x27
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by kanox 7y ago
I'm looking forward to .old
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by kanox 7y ago
It's in low earth orbit so ground track changes every ~90 minute orbit. It flies over all countries with latitudes.
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by kanox 7y ago
> So the end goal even according to SCOTUS is for these measures to eventually become unconstitutional. This shouldn't be an acceptable justification, "righting historical wrongs" is a highly subjective policy goal which s
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by kanox 7y ago
Those are really shitty illustrations.
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by kanox 7y ago
> Starship is just a bigger version of the Falcon 9 second stage No way, that's where most of the differences are. The Falcon 9 second stage is a classic expendable stage but Starship is a brand new design which aims to be fully reu
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by kanox 7y ago
I play a lot of games but never used voice chat. But I never play multiplayer either.
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by kanox 7y ago
As far as I can tell a bunch of people are upset because they got fired - so what? Companies fire people all the time.
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by kanox 7y ago
The distinction between corporate and government censorship is a legalistic workaround. It would be reasonable to ban companies who act as "platforms" from any sort of editorial discretion. NYT should be able to decide what to pub
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by kanox 7y ago
State-sponsored misinformation should be protected by freedom of speech.
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by kanox 7y ago
The code is already 90% include headers and microsoft has supported walking through it for debug purposes for a very long time.
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by kanox 7y ago
Almost all spacecraft carry propulsion and can change their orbit. There are even known cases of spysats deliberately shadowing comsats.
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by kanox 7y ago
What exactly happens if a CA is compromised (private keys stolen etc)? Wouldn't existing certificates before the compromise date still be valid?
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by kanox 7y ago
> Linus Torvalds was the only person who've noticed the problem in the final merge and applied a fix manually before merging it to the mainline The fix was done as part of the merge commit itself, it should have been a separate patc
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by kanox 7y ago
> What's True: The standard U.S. railroad gauge is similar in width to the wheel spacing of Roman chariots. > What's False: That similarity is based much more on coincidence and inherent physical limitations than a direct li
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by kanox 7y ago
The Raptor engine isn't just "more powerful" but uses an advanced "full-flow staged-combustion" cycle which has never flown before. The Merlin is highly optimized but it uses a simpler "gas generator" cycl
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by kanox 7y ago
> breaks record of orbital spaceflight It broke it's own record of "time-in-orbit" and as far as spaceflight records go this is one of the least relevant. Once a spacecraft gets to orbit it is very easy to stay there almos
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by kanox 7y ago
On a distro like debian you can even use it to build-and-run userspace binaries for an unrelated architecture (some chroot magic was required last time I checked).
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by kanox 7y ago
Found this https://www.securityweek.com/enterprise-vpn-vulnerabilities-... > An attacker can gain the root shell on the target SSL VPN system with no authentication required! The only thing he needs to do is to send seve
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by kanox 7y ago
> graphics performance went up substantially Maybe this is due to design improvements unrelated to the process node?
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by kanox 7y ago
I wish they could restore Raymond Chen's old CSS.

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