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by kbart 9y ago
More correct title would be "All 500 of the world's top 500 supercomputers are running Linux kernel ". Of course nobody uses off-the-shelve Ubuntu (or another distro) to power supercomputer. I'm not an expert, but I bet
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by kbart 9y ago
"This is the real reason for a maximum of 2 or 3 terms. Power corrupts." It's still easy to be gamed, see Putin-Medvedev-Putin switch.
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by kbart 9y ago
"And what do you think that proves exactly? Did you prove that the kids using the old textbooks actually absorbed the more advanced material?" Well, yes, at least some pupils did. See my comment about degrading exams difficulty
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by kbart 9y ago
"Then you're probably not using C either." In fact, I do - daily. I'm not stating that this exact issue is the key reason, but because C is very simple with not much of an abstraction layer between software and hardwar
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by kbart 9y ago
You are right. Soviet education system was aimed to teach only basics to the average pupils. They were not expected to continue studying after 8-9th grade and went to vocational schools or stayed in army (it was mandatory back then at the
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by kbart 9y ago
It would be more surprising if they had accepted.
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by kbart 9y ago
This is why we will still have C for times to come.
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by kbart 9y ago
Their "download" page is also HTTP which is a bit more concerning. Pretty sloppy for a company that provides security tools imho.
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by kbart 9y ago
I'm not the OP, but I'm from another Eastern Europe country where education level falls fast and dramatically. Few key indicators of that: 0. I was attending an elite gymnasium and we deliberately used old "hard science"
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by kbart 9y ago
I personally know few quite technical people who even own some Bitcoins and tried to confront me in recent discussion when I stated that all BTC transactions can be publicly seen. They knew that BTC doesn't provide complete anonymi
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by kbart 9y ago
I'm not intimately familiar with UK labor laws, but isn't they key difference between contractor and a "disguised employee" is that who gets the payment money? If you get all the payment (excluding tax etc.) for a work
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by kbart 9y ago
Just a nitpick, but Samsung is Korean company.
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by kbart 9y ago
Yes, but it doesn't answer the OP's question. What if government, official bank or other strong entity with virtually unlimited resources starts a fork (something like Ecoin for those who watch Mr. Robot)? I wouldn't call suc
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by kbart 9y ago
Call me cynical, but I don't believe it's uncommon for them to take forfeit money after an arrest. This time the only difference was that Bitcoin transactions could be publicly seen, as opposed to cash/wire transfer, and the
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by kbart 9y ago
"I like the taste of cheap Japanese blended "scotch" more than any $500 bottle of 23 year old from the highlands." Really? I've found whisky unique in regards that its price correlate with quality quite uniformly
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by kbart 9y ago
I'm still skeptical about such claims. I've also seen "scientific" claims that chemically smoked meat/fish is identical to naturally smoked one. Hell no, I've done plenty of blind tests to disprove that -- whil
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by kbart 9y ago
You are right, of course, statistics without context cannot possibly be racist (how could it be? it's just a bunch of numbers after all). That's why I said "deemed as" not "can be".
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by kbart 9y ago
Statistical fact: there's higher rate of naturally blonde people in Scandinavia than Africa. Do you find it racist/offensive too?
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by kbart 9y ago
Off-topic, but sometimes statistics can certainly be deemed as "racist". For example, in many European countries it would not be tolerated to report crime rates by nationality. Not sure if it's illegal or falls under media se
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by kbart 9y ago
I hope somebody dumps all the code from CSME and reverse engineers it to a higher level language next. I'm sure few more surprises can be expected to be found.
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by kbart 9y ago
I certainly would be pissed finding out that my city officials effectively donated billion to a private company.
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by kbart 9y ago
I somehow suspect that Snowden was smart enough not to keep all eggs in a single basket. His laptop might as well has been mugged or stolen.
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by kbart 9y ago
I thought modern HFT machines run on FPGA/ASIC's?
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by kbart 9y ago
What would NSA spooks have achieved besides confirming that hardware backdoor are real (to those remaining few who still doubt)? Snowden could have simply took out HDD, put in into the new machine and resume his operation.
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by kbart 9y ago
That's a very niche advice. You can use the same reasoning to book hostels vs hotels -- it's ok if a bed and shared bathroom is all you need, but it doesn't always work.
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by kbart 9y ago
EU mandates to show real price (including taxes)[0][1]. From my personal experience, it works with all major EU-based airlines when booking online. Of course, if you want extra (travel insurance, priority, luggage etc.) you pay separately (
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by kbart 9y ago
I've noticed recently (few years maybe) that Google "punishes" results from blogs and less known domains. Searching for some specific keyword combination often results in skipping first few pages of cruft from popular sites j
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by kbart 9y ago
My job is well defined and "delivery" is physical devices, but it's problematic to work remotely as I work with an actual hardware and it's not feasible to have my own, dedicated, expensive equipment at home. "Well
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by kbart 9y ago
"Closing the premission request is almost always the safest response." Except when it isn't: https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/229040-microsofts-latest...
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by kbart 9y ago
We already have such prompts when trying to connect to a HTTPS website with an invalid/expired cert. It does a good job at discouraging to proceed, as it should. I see no reason similar prompt couldn't be shown when trying to inst

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