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by livueta 8y ago
> And their in store self service ordering kiosks are horrendously complicated already. Small rant: a weird pleasure in Japan is using restaurant touchscreen consoles that don't take several million very laggy taps to complete a sim
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Well, there are a variety of good reasons why real-name policies aren't always the best idea. The "authentic real self" approach works okay if you've got the social and political capital to weather any negative consequen
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by livueta 8y ago
I've been a happy Transmission user for a while now. - nice variety of clients/platforms - webui isn't completely terrible - works well in daemon mode - haven't encountered perf issues seeding 2k+ torrents&#
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by livueta 8y ago
Order of magnitude difference in cost, but one time I left my e-reader on a bench in Yoyogi Park when I got distracted by the baked sweet potato cart and wandered off without it. I came back an hour later to find an old lady, having occupie
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by livueta 8y ago
Are there are any games they play/might be interested in that have scripting facilities of some sort? I got into tech of various flavors by learning to write RuneScape bots circa 2005-2009. There were a few publicly available Java refl
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by livueta 8y ago
Having recently had a grandparent with advanced Parkinson's pass in a relatively peaceful and dignified manner after contracting pneumonia (compared to the living hell of their primary ailment), I've personally seen the truth in t
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by livueta 8y ago
> By removing anonymity a lot of this type of behavior is suppressed. Are you sure about that? This sort of thing is difficult to present hard data on, but I feel like arguing for real name policies as a way towards better user behavior
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by livueta 8y ago
> As I pointed out above, anyone can get a website and domain name. I wish this were true, but I don't think it is anymore. If you post or host anything remotely controversial, expect to have your site DoS'd off the internet. H
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by livueta 8y ago
Interesting. The concept is remarkably reminiscent of elements of The Diamond Age. Was that an inspiration?
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Firefox 65 recommends extensions based on websites you visit(support.mozilla.org)
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by livueta 8y ago
> It would probably be easy to cheat too. When I was in college a few years ago, one professor included this thing[1] in his (shell, spit and duct tape) auto-grading system. It works by generating an AST of the input and comparing it aga
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by livueta 8y ago
It's great community engagement for certain values of both "community" and "engagement". Personally, I find that (largely as a function of the consensus-manufacturing effects of Reddit) it leads to a distressing los
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by livueta 8y ago
Sure, assuming the definition of "average" we're using here is "not from a family with significant economic means", rather than "led an uninteresting life". One that immediately springs to mind as both rel
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by livueta 8y ago
Since this is apparently a verbatim repost of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18813468 , I'm going to repost my (lightly edited) comment from that empty thread since I think it's a crap article with some serio
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by livueta 8y ago
(don't have access to a linux box I can test this on at the moment, so sorry for the stupid question) In DTrace, you can specify a probe like syscall::*open*:entry / / { } to grab open(2), openat(2), etc. Does eBPF all
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by livueta 8y ago
This is a really disappointing article. I'd like to agree with the premise, but some of the specific examples they chose to use seem a more than a little unfair. > There were the agonizing video clips from April’s Facebook hearing,
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by livueta 8y ago
Video unavailable "Mythbusters banned from tal..." The YouTube account associated with this video has been terminated due to multiple third-party notifications of copyright infringement. The payment cartel at it agai
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by livueta 8y ago
> My “personal publisher account”, was terminated last August 1th. I probably will never know why. It was mostly abandoned, I had just a few old apps just for testing features or make experiments. That's distressingly vague, especia
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by livueta 8y ago
Sorry, what? The obvious phoniness of the website (shaky English, not the actual Rufus site[1]) made me initially think this was some sort of "yeah, download this executable, trust me, dude!" malware operation. But then: > Rufu
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by livueta 8y ago
Although that's amusing, there's a pretty good real moral to this story: > It appeared that Monteiro had been arrested on the basis of a misinformation campaign. > There had been warning signs for a while, at least since the
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by livueta 8y ago
> What’s gone from the internet, after all, isn’t “truth,” but trust: the sense that the people and things we encounter are what they represent themselves to be. I wonder if attitudes towards trusting content on the internet are partiall
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by livueta 8y ago
While the general thrust of this comment is accurate, especially if we only consider relatively recent 4chan, it does miss some of the subtleties of variation in anonymous-imageboard discourse quality. There are two primary differentiators
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by livueta 8y ago
Another example of this sort of hash function (where the hamming distance between the hashes of similar inputs will be small) is pHash[1]. I've been playing with it recently for deduping bit-different but perceptually-identical images,
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by livueta 8y ago
I don't think that's quite what the article meant to imply. > “Danny Meyer and Andrew Tarlow wanted to go one step beyond and eliminate tipping altogether,” Jayaraman says. “But it’s challenging to do that on your own without
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by livueta 8y ago
Neat! I haven't yet found the commit that did it, but it appears that dtrace's stop(), which was broken in 11.2-RELEASE, now doesn't cause kernel panics. Also interesting: > The dtrace(1) utility has been updated to suppor
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by livueta 8y ago
Is it? One of the unfortunate realities of running an online service is having to deal with cp. With centralized services, it's a mitigable annoyance - you, as the operator, can employ various hash blacklists and the like. However, thi
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by livueta 8y ago
> Also, though I understand there is disagreement about this, I think countries keep secrets for a reason and I consider it naive utopianism to expect everything to be brought into the open. The article obliquely addresses this concern:
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by livueta 8y ago
One possibility is that it's a manifestation of the broader realization that China will probably not end up democratizing as it continues to develop, in contradiction to years of mainline thought that hoped for the emergence of a neoli
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by livueta 8y ago
I do a lot of nfs builds at work as part of development on a proprietary OS. Some things will only nicely build on-OS, which for dev purposes is generally running in a non-local VM. The relevant git repos are massive enough (I'll frequ
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by livueta 8y ago
This may have been implicit in your comment, but it's not just dismissive: it's actively counterproductive if your goal is increasing awareness of the real harms of indiscriminate surveillance. In today's polarized political

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