lokedhs

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811.
by lokedhs 7y ago
I figured out the proper meaning of the expression only a few years back. Before then, I was incredibly frustrated at it, not understanding how anyone could come up with such a ridiculous expression. Now I know it's just people repeati
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by lokedhs 8y ago
It may be a performance hack. Varargs results in an array being allocated. I've seen this trick in the past, but they usually stopped at a handful of arguments and let the rest be handled by varargs.
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by lokedhs 8y ago
The last sentence is ironic. Given the amount of effort it took to just barely understand what he's selling, I'd say he has some work to do if he wants people to buy into his idea.
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by lokedhs 8y ago
I'm not sure many boards feel the need to hack around it. If you were to ask any all-male board why they don't have any women on it, I'm pretty sure a very small minority would be doing it because they intentionally want to k
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by lokedhs 8y ago
I promise that was a real typo, and it's too late to edit.
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by lokedhs 8y ago
I think they were just called Dick Packs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_pack
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by lokedhs 8y ago
Microsoft also has Lync (now renamed to Skype for Business in what must be one of the worst naming decisions since Javascript). Then there is Teams, of course.
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by lokedhs 8y ago
Also, it's no secret that Zuckerberg has preferred stock, and anyone deciding to invest in FB goes in with their eyes open knowing that they will have no say in how the company is run. It is indeed really difficult to sympathise with t
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by lokedhs 8y ago
How much of that are real transactions and not just miners trading with each other?
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by lokedhs 8y ago
I referred to both, actually. It's about whether I own my own presence on the network. Of course, I'm not hosting my own server, so I am in some way in the hands of its administrator, just like I was in the hands of Google when I
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by lokedhs 8y ago
I'm mostly ambivalent to the censorship debate. What I mean by that is that I can see valid points on both sides. Most Mastodon instances have pretty strict policies with regards to the speech that is allowed on them. Many instances bl
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by lokedhs 8y ago
> Decentralization is not a feature for the end-user, it's a feature to developers. On one hand you are right, it's a huge benefit to developers as they are able to create new services that leverage the strength of the existing
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by lokedhs 8y ago
That's a good point. Clearly I still use this platform, but I do see a difference between them. I don't “post” on Hacker News. I do comment, but I don't think anyone who are interested in following whatever it is that I may h
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by lokedhs 8y ago
I switched to Mastodon about a year or so ago. I fully agree with the grandparent post in that the atmosphere is very different compared to the major social media platforms. As you allude to, discovery is harder since you don't have an
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by lokedhs 8y ago
Why do people compare Uber to Apple, Google or Facebook? Why do people talk about them as if they were a tech company? It's a taxi company. They have a web site and a mobile application, but so does several retailers as well as pretty
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by lokedhs 8y ago
To be fair, the Swedish Academy is only responsible for the literature prize. While the Academy has done some fantastic things (for example, Svenska Akademiens Ordbok) they have been a social club for the intellectual elite for a long time.
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by lokedhs 8y ago
Same for me. I've kept my account, but I only log in once every few months or so when I feel really bored. Whenever I do, it only takes minutes before I start to feel bad, mostly for the same reasons you do. I then realise that literal
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by lokedhs 8y ago
Perhaps people are not convinced Google is committed? I wouldn't be surprised to hear that they decided to simply shut down their cloud efforts. I'm wondering if their practice of dropping products isn't coming back to bite t
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by lokedhs 8y ago
After so many years (20?) of talk about graphene, and we haven't really seen any of the predictions come true. As far as I understand, it's because it's turned out to be really difficult to make it at an industrial scale. The
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by lokedhs 8y ago
With a salt and enough iterations of PBKDF-2, even easy passwords should be reasonably difficult to crack. The problem of course is deciding what a reasonable number of iterations is, but given the time it takes to decrypt my password I&#x2
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by lokedhs 8y ago
This is the paper that was previously referred to here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19526679
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A seismically induced onshore surge deposit at the KPg boundary, North Dakota(pnas.org)
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by lokedhs 8y ago
I recently experimented with Living Computer Museum's CDC 6500. It has Basic available, and it's remarkable how similar it is to C64 Basic. In fact, if you have experience with the C64 you can use the CDC without any documentation
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by lokedhs 8y ago
You might be thinking of the Atari ST, which became popular with musicians for that reason.
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by lokedhs 8y ago
Singapore is a good example. Every household has two fibre pairs supplied by a single (I believe, government owned) company. ISP's can then sell service over these cables.
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by lokedhs 8y ago
That wouldn't be much different from operating a server yourself, so while it's not impossible, it's more a question of what benefits it provides.
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by lokedhs 8y ago
I don't use Whatsapp, so I don't actually have first-hand knowledge. Now that I think about it, it may be that I was told that it automatically regenerates the key more often than they need to, which would have the same effect.
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by lokedhs 8y ago
What's worse is that Whatsapp doesn't tell you if they changed the key, so there is no protection against MITM.
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by lokedhs 8y ago
As other people have mentioned, it's for historical reasons. If Unicode was started from a clean slate, without the need to be compatible with existing encodings there wouldn't be any precomposed forms.
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by lokedhs 8y ago
The problem is that diacritic-insensitive search is locale-dependent, so it doesn't do the right thing anyway. Specific example: in English, you'd want a search for ‘a’ to find ‘ä’ while this is the entirely wrong thing in Swedish

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