kedean

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by kedean 12y ago
That's terrorism, and thats dealt with by law enforcement. This is a group trying to manipulate the existing system to their whim, and that's a more insidious problem to deal with.
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by kedean 12y ago
This is really more of a practical demonstration of using the thermal channel for transmission than any sort of security news.
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by kedean 12y ago
The problem is that these particular college students are too far left, its that the ones who are being extremely leftist are also trying to silence everyone else and remove the intellectual environments from universities. It's not abo
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by kedean 12y ago
Honest question: what's the defense that makes this not monopolistic behavior? This is MS going around trying to get all of the vendors for hardware to switch over to a system for which they are both the client AND the gatekeeper. The
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by kedean 12y ago
Good point, 2 is the optimal integer base.
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by kedean 12y ago
It's completely possible, but it's just not worth it. The information density of ternary is higher than binary, sure, but you now need 3 states to represent it. This applies to ternary vs base 4, and so on. As it turns out, it&#x2
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by kedean 12y ago
I'm not a google apologist, but the list definitely has a few undeserved products. The most obvious is Writely, which was simply rebranded to Google Docs, then further rebranded to Google Drive. The writely.com domain even redirects to
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by kedean 12y ago
Don't forget everyone working for a consulting company.
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by kedean 12y ago
The reason you gave is exactly what he argues against. The author is saying that a) people DID drink lots of water, just as much as now, but thats uninteresting and nobody would record that, and b) nobody in the past drank because of sanita
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by kedean 12y ago
Yes, wine was weaker, but that only explains willingness to drink so much, not the actual practice. Romans and greeks generally watered their wine down to about half/half if I remember right, and considered anything higher to be barbar
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by kedean 12y ago
I got the impression that he's not upset about all the dotfiles, he's upset that they put them on external media. Most unix programs will only create those in the users home, which is usually not external.
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by kedean 12y ago
A library can't depend on other libraries unless there's a strong guarantee that those other libraries will work everywhere. If you go using tons of dependencies, you limit yourself on porting. If you go crazy with apt dependencie
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by kedean 12y ago
I think you did kind of just prove his point though. 2007 was just about the time that Haskell started seeing its big boom in popularity and the unending series of 'how to monad' articles starting popping up, so when this was writ
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by kedean 12y ago
Correction, Ada is a language specifically for writing correct code. Correct is only a subset of secure.
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by kedean 12y ago
My immediate question, which I don't see an answer to on the site or Github page: is it self-hosting yet?
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by kedean 12y ago
That's pretty heavy security through obscurity. A more robust solution would be to have all of those passwords encrypted with a master key. You can make the script prompt you for the master key when you start it up, then it runs withou
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by kedean 12y ago
I believe you need the account to be co-owned by a parent until you are 16. I know that when I was under 14 with a paper route and needed a checking account (early 2000's), I needed my mother to be on the account as well. While that do
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by kedean 12y ago
It's not about whether you'll leave for a better opportunity, it's whether you're actively looking for them. John Smith the high school dropout is glad to just have the job, he'll stick with it as long as he can. Th
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by kedean 12y ago
It's not about whether you'll leave for a better opportunity, it's whether you're actively looking for them. John Smith the high school dropout is glad to just have the job, they'll stick with it as long as they can
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by kedean 12y ago
Ah ok, interesting. I've been contemplating converting my toy kernel (which doesn't do all that much yet) into Rust, since it doesn't use a GC for everything, could be fun.
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by kedean 12y ago
That's not what I mean. I mean that any C you write will run with no problems as long as it doesn't depend on an outside library. It's not possible to do anything that needs interrupts, IO, or memory without an external libra
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by kedean 12y ago
That sounds kind of like what I mean. I consider it having a runtime if anything that can be used without importing the standard library won't work out of the box when you boot a machine to it.
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by kedean 12y ago
I define a language without a runtime as one that can run on bare metal without restricting yourself to a subset of the language. To use C on bare metal, the only thing you can't use is the standard library, which is not a part of the
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by kedean 12y ago
Which layout? The x86 boot process is pretty well documented and not something that needs a source at this point. Either way he says he learned this all by studying MSDOS.
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by kedean 12y ago
Recipe's is a good one. I know a huge number of people who browse Pinterest when, for example, they want a good chili recipe. It's especially good for them because of the bookmarking functionalities, if they see something like thi
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by kedean 12y ago
And yet they're surrounded by the last king of men (aragorn), a low level god (gandalf), a prince of elves (legolas), a prince of dwarves (gimli), and next in line to rule the biggest kingdom of men (boromir). Even after that, I'd
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by kedean 12y ago
For what its worth, Chrome does the same thing and has for quite some time.
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by kedean 12y ago
Sure you could use an entirely different storage medium for backups, that's not my point. I'm saying that if someone happens to drop the disc on a carpet, that could be enough to erase big portions of data. It's not about los
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by kedean 12y ago
I'm skeptical that this won't be extremely fragile, physically. With details that small, the slightest scratch could erase large swaths of data.
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by kedean 12y ago
The article isn't saying marijuana should be in schools, or that we shouldn't keep it out of schools. It's saying that there is clearly not a correlation or causation between marijuana usage and graduation rates. If someone i

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