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by lcampbell 7y ago
I've always thought of PDF as an opaque format. How do you search and/or browse your collection? Does the subject show up in grep [e: without being diligent with filenames]?
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by lcampbell 8y ago
Eh, I've been running FreeBSD on my primary desktop for about a decade now (and have been running it on every server I can get my grubby hands on). It's equally painful for me to use any other OS because of similar workflow issues
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by lcampbell 8y ago
This sounded interesting and I had trouble looking up the details. For others, the Voter Action site is available on archive.org[1] and from there the court deposition for the Lopategui v. Vigil-Giron case and several other documents are av
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by lcampbell 8y ago
Just pulled up their filings[1], and I'm almost certainly misreading it, but in Q3 2017: NA Retail Revenue: $25,446M NA Retail Profit: $ 112M AWS Revenue: $ 4,584M AWS Profit: $ 1,171M Pedantically, it seem
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by lcampbell 9y ago
I can't speak for GP, but I switched to Hacker's Keyboard[1] which doesn't support gesture typing. I'm pretty happy with it, though it's pretty barebones (it doesn't even turn on the phone's radio). Took a
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by lcampbell 9y ago
FWIW, Netflix and Facebook each donated gold-tier (25-50k USD) this year[1]. I would be very surprised if none of those companies employ engineers submitting patches upstream -- obviously for some things it doesn't make sense (propriet
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by lcampbell 9y ago
> This is not the correct comparison. I think comparing the code quality of the AMT to that of another OS is a fair comparison, given that the current-gen AMT is running a modified version of MINIX[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia
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by lcampbell 10y ago
Looks like you can either set browser.tabs.remote.autostart=true to soft-enable it, or browser.tabs.remote.force-enable=true to force it on. The wiki[1] does not encourage the latter, but suggests the former may only be available for beta (
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by lcampbell 11y ago
I don't disagree with the spirit of your comment, only the primary example. Most of the dynamically-sized containers I end up needing are one of vector, map, set, or list. For the latter three, there's <sys/tree.h> and
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by lcampbell 11y ago
> Most newer languages have built-in syntax for "iterate over collection". C++ does not. Huh? C++11 includes a range for: for ( auto i : results )
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by lcampbell 11y ago
Is it really 100% Go? It does not seem that the UI bits are written in Go -- they likely just pull in the Ivy bits via JNI (e.g., via [1]) and implement the rest of the application in Java. The language on the page also seems to indicate th
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by lcampbell 11y ago
> Is thst possible, in general? (Deterministic|reproducible) (compilation|builds) are a fairly recent endeavor; though they're not yet common they are technically feasible. The two efforts I'm aware of are Debian[1] and Chromiu
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by lcampbell 12y ago
It's a C99 feature (I think?) -- designated literals. They're absolutely wonderful.
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by lcampbell 12y ago
> it is not by default vulnerable to malicious CAs Well, in this particular case, they're using ssh [..] -o 'StrictHostKeyChecking no' -o 'UserKnownHostsFile /dev/null' [..] So the remote authent
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by lcampbell 12y ago
> "using ssh as a transport mechanism for a web service is one of the worst practices you can use. SSL vulnerabilities are being spotted more frequently than ever now" Just wanted to note that SSH doesn't really have anyth
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by lcampbell 12y ago
The article calls out <noscript> messages as a bad practice, but as someone who routinely runs without javascript enabled, I much prefer webpages to explicitly point out that the issue is on my end, not theirs (rather than, e.g., a wh
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by lcampbell 12y ago
> Cannot call abort() because some systems have unsafe corefiles. Huh, FreeBSD has MAP_NOCORE which allows the program to map pages that will explicitly not be included in the core file. I never realized that this was FreeBSD-specific ex
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by lcampbell 12y ago
> Previously, all pointers to incomplete struct types translated to the Go type *[0]byte This makes me really happy. I end up writing a lot of bindings to C libraries (libjpeg, libpng, etc), some of which use incomplete types to hide the
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by lcampbell 12y ago
Not only that, but there appear to be potential buffer overflows which involve the data pulled from the wiki page[1]. I'm not sure why asprintf wasn't used here (and in other places). The partial re-implementation of libc[2, 3] is
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by lcampbell 12y ago
> should Comcast now give my and my hoster free access If your hosting company has paid Comcast for 100Mbps transit, then Comcast should honor that agreement with your hosting company. Your uplink to your hosting provider is completely i
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by lcampbell 13y ago
In an <img> context, your browser should send an appropriate Accept header[1]; this can be switched upon in the backend to select the appropriate representation (e.g., to serve an image rather than HTML). So hotlinked images should co
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by lcampbell 13y ago
Given the plethora of AWS services, the author may have been referring to S3 or RDS. The whole piece read like fire and brimstone, so I wouldn't necessarily give it the benefit of the doubt. There's plenty of other hyperbole in th
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by lcampbell 13y ago
> You can upload any application from Mainframe2 in 10 minutes. With Citrix or VMWare, it takes at least four months to do the same thing.[1] Four months? I am at a loss for words. -- [1] http://www.mainframe2.com/infogra
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by lcampbell 13y ago
I hear a lot of people talking about the need to shift decimal points, but never really understood -- what's the benefit of this over just using SI prefixes? To me, it's clear how 1mBTC relates to 1BTC and 1µBTC. I think people un
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by lcampbell 13y ago
On many sites, an unauthenticated user gets content faster since it's much easier to very aggressively cache unauthenticated content -- since there is usually no user-specific page customization (e.g., so the entire response can be eas
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by lcampbell 13y ago
Looking further into it, it seems pretty much any forex in the UK is subject to VAT[1]. Even though Bitcoin is classified as a single-purpose voucher, I suspect it comes out to being the same amount of taxes (from the perspective of running
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by lcampbell 13y ago
I wouldn't say InfluxDB (or Graphite, or whatever) is something you'd develop a side project around (though you could probably implement some novel data visualization), but rather, they provide a backend for your side projects to
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by lcampbell 13y ago
Cloudcrack has a 40-core FPGA solution that allegedly can break MS-CHAPv2 in a day[1]. Looks like they charge $100/lookup[2]. -- [1] https://www.cloudcracker.com/blog/2012/07/29/cracking-ms-cha... [
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by lcampbell 13y ago
Presumably that's atypical behavior for a BIOS, so an analysis of the dumped firmware should turn up where it's getting the location of and method to decode the data. That would give you enough to keep digging.
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by lcampbell 13y ago
For Photoshop, at least, I suspect most of their cool image manipulation tech is patent protected, and that they've got a legal team rigorously enforcing those patents.

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