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by lgl 8y ago
Yeah I remember that. It was also at about that time that I started using and learning linux. Back then, just managing to setup XFree86 correctly was like a huge personal victory and running quake there was really the cherry on top. I seem
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by lgl 8y ago
At a time when pretty much every regular pc and internet connection sucked, here's what is definitely an historical moment in online gaming. The birth of Quakeworld, the internet optimized quake engine: https://raw.githubu
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by lgl 8y ago
the worst decision Microsoft has made since they hoovered up Minecraft for six billion dollars only to be left to watch PUBG and fortnight run miles past it How is Minecraft in the same bucket as PUBG or Fortnite? Also, Microsoft bought M
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by lgl 8y ago
When I pay for a diamond, I don't pay for its intrinsic value. I pay for diamonds because other people around me feel they are expensive and you've to be rich enough to set your money on fire (like you do while purchasing a diamo
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by lgl 9y ago
I don't think it's directly stated in the article. But with a little common sense we can probably safely assume that a company that is designed specifically to analyze huge amounts of data for law enforcement agencies, governments
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by lgl 9y ago
You can use some sort of configuration management tool to manage most of that from one centralized place. Some examples are chef, puppet, ansible, etc. I recommend ansible since it's pretty lightweight and uses plain old ssh (i.e.: no
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by lgl 9y ago
Sure. https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.857/2017/project/19.pdf https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1177.pdf
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by lgl 9y ago
A few months ago I read an article about Telegram and their related companies and individuals. [1] The article read like a mix between a nerdy James Bond story, a bad Law and Order episode, a Mexican soap opera and a Russian episode of Crib
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by lgl 9y ago
Still one of the best FPS ever made! The first time I switched from good old regular "netquake" to the quakeworld client I was completely mindblown with the lack of latency and huge playability improvement. Also, seeing glquake at
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Chromium issue 188 approaching 10 years unresolved(bugs.chromium.org)
2 points by lgl 9y ago|0 comments
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by lgl 9y ago
Having an important endpoint delay every response by 1 second (assuming the 1000 are ms) is a relatively common and easy way to delay brute force attacks. E-mail servers call this tarpitting.
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by lgl 9y ago
He's sacrificing his education because of some religion ffs... Logic, reality and common sense don't really apply so any answer you'll get will be just a bunch of judgmental backwards thinking bs that has no place anywhere (e
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AdBlock for Chrome Now Hides Facebook Ads and Blocks More Ads on More Sites(blog.getadblock.com)
2 points by lgl 9y ago|1 comments
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by lgl 9y ago
You should probably try to pool-mine Monero (XMR) or Ethereum (ETH). Pool mining is where a bunch of people mine to a common managed pool to increase the chances of finding a block and splitting the profits as opposed to solo mining where y
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by lgl 9y ago
So... the good old "if you build it, they will come" approach. The level of naiveness in your comment is off the charts.
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by lgl 9y ago
Someday, the first general AI will make good use of all that neatly organized, easily searchable and voluntarily supplied information and behavior patterns when it's plotting how to turn us into batteries or paper clips.
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by lgl 9y ago
"We think our current shopping results are useful and are a much-improved version of the text-only ads we showed a decade ago. Showing ads that include pictures, ratings, and prices benefits us, our advertisers, and most of all, our us
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by lgl 10y ago
Hi, not sure I understood what you meant by "messages" in this case but there are no predefined messages, customers can choose to show or write whatever they want. The system does use regular html classes to define zones and those
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by lgl 10y ago
Hi hn, I've built this as a side project. It's still in early stage and yes, I know it's a controversial subject and these types of systems are often frowned upon here and in more technical corners of the web. This is basical
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Show HN: Lama.io – Adblock Creative Manager(lama.io)
2 points by lgl 10y ago|3 comments