labawi

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by labawi 6y ago
So you refuse to accept the fact, for which there is evidence[1], that in given time and place, courts ruled object code not to be copyrightable, and furthermore it was not a solitary ruling and it was consistent with the rules of law at th
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by labawi 6y ago
Maybe it should say "connection not secure d ". It would be much more factual.
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by labawi 6y ago
> As far as I see for the general case, being "very careful and really knowing what you're doing" consists of just avoiding direct overwrites. That's a dangerous thing to say. There are many ways to mess up your data,
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by labawi 6y ago
> I'm not going to hold "encrypting a file format so that people can't easily reverse engineer it" against folks who are trying to sell software. I think I'd mostly disagree. Selling an application is one thing,
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by labawi 6y ago
Similarly, asserting a court erred in a spectacularly ridiculous way is not an argument. Note that before 1989, rules in USA were quite different. Instead of: everything is IP, almost forever - explicit copyright registration was required f
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by labawi 6y ago
The server should hold the unhashed salt, as is standard. One for client, one for server.
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by labawi 6y ago
That's true, but only to a point. You can actually server-side check username/password equality, and a not overly long list of other unwanted passwords. You just have to check each one.
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by labawi 6y ago
Unfortunately, this battery still contains significant amounts of cobalt and nickel in the cathode, and battery electrolytes don't tend to be the type you want circling in your blood system - far from non poisonous. It's valuable
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by labawi 6y ago
> Arbitrary rules like line width help exactly 0 people per day I use a linter, it warns about long lines (adjusted to 100), so I reformat or split them and the code seems more readable. Also, it has consistent formatting (other rules),
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by labawi 6y ago
> Flushing down 40-60 hours a week on a useless piece of knowledge That is only if it's actually useless. I haven't programmed in haskell for many years, yet I am very glad I did. It was hard at first, but it made me think abou
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by labawi 6y ago
That's tricky. LLCs exist for a reason and the wealthy have have better means of obscuring ownership/control, so a simple take would only get the small businesses and their owners, possibly shareholders. Nevertheless, I do agree m
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by labawi 6y ago
So .. you go through GS to make remdesivir and it then goes through GS to be activated? (I thought you were disputing this point) If so, then in what way is remdesivir better?
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by labawi 6y ago
Linux and BSD distributions seem to manage.
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by labawi 6y ago
Depends on framing. If you divide the population by an arbitrary standard with a very high health bias (employed, in big co), and adjust payments accordingly, then those on the wrong side of your arbitrary standard get shafted. The second g
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by labawi 6y ago
I understood the article as: most remdesivir is converted to GS, hence most of the effects should presumably be from GS. That would give a good chance of being actually upstream for most relevant purposes. > In multiple studies testing r
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by labawi 6y ago
Malware authors can register a dozen or thousand throwaway accounts (probably not super easy but not hard either). It's the honest developers that get their meaningful accounts banned.
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by labawi 6y ago
Sales tax, not profit (% of value, not margin). Their real margins could have been negative - it's easy to undercut competition if you're selling at a loss. They could have 'earned' hundreds of thousands, only to owe mil
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by labawi 6y ago
Wow, you're allowed to ride side-by-side. Is that common in other countries? Over here cars honk, even if 2 cyclists take only 1/2 a lane of 2 same-direction lanes and <5 cars pass in a minute. OTOH, if you ride the same, excep
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by labawi 7y ago
It might not be a good idea to temperature cycle your freezer contents, as it speeds up degradation.
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by labawi 7y ago
To generate electricity you need a hot side and a cool side. The huge towers on power plants are for cooling the warm (waste) output. If you can get someone to cool your warm waste water even further than the cooling towers would, it would
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by labawi 7y ago
It limits the rate at which you can dump energy without excessive temperature excursions. If you have the space, you can put thermal mass (e.g. water) between the cooler and produce, acting as a cheap thermal battery dampening temperature o
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by labawi 7y ago
In theory, SMR drives shouldn't have issues with reading and they should also write fine if you write entire stripes. With HMSMR it should be possible. With DMSMR - I don't know. Do DMSMR drives partially skip staging area on larg
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by labawi 7y ago
I presume you quoted a part of the end-to-end fees. A random link[1] suggests about 3% effective rate for USA. I think in EU fees are legislatively capped at 2% or so. > In general, merchant processors will likely offer you an effective
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by labawi 7y ago
Disks "failing" is the problem. If you treat drive state as binary (flawless / eject), you can easily eject too many drives for errors on different 0.000001% of data, crashing the array along with the data.
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by labawi 7y ago
OCSP with server-side stapling and must-staple marked certificates should work fine for most use cases.
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by labawi 7y ago
Thanks. List for those interested: https://www.iana.org/assignments/special-use-domain-names/sp...
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by labawi 7y ago
The mere existence of squatting is not as much an issue, as the scale when most domains are speculators and it's hard to get a reasonable name. Also, some TLDs have prior rights and domain dispute processes for speculators. Namespaces
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by labawi 7y ago
It ossifies the namespace. As in, you can't have a name that is both reasonable and can coexist with the current DNS model. Any of .onion, .bit, .coin, .eth, .crypto, .zil, can expect the .dev treatment, or, in time there won't be
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by labawi 7y ago
Yes it is a system design. Backblaze's main reliability system is erasure coding[4] of shards of files, which is not RAID[1][2]. RAID mirrors disks or volumes on block or filesystem layers, not files in userspace. That being said, I st
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by labawi 7y ago
They do not use RAID. They use userspace erasure coding of data stored in files on plain ext4 IIRC. Maybe they use RAID for the OS.

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