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by lozf 8y ago
Why not another Thinkpad? What don't you like about it?
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by lozf 8y ago
Being "peer-to-peer distributed" (aka "decentralized") is a fundamental part of the definition of what a blockchain is. This article explains it well: https://berk.es/2018/09/19/the-privat
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by lozf 8y ago
Win 10 fees will probably come in the future, after these upcoming Win 7 fees have caused a decent percentage of current users to "upgrade" to 10. </cynic>
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by lozf 8y ago
There are cases where "inaudible" watermarks in paid audio downloads are actually audible[0], meaning that buying the FLAC download gives a worse experience than a properly ripped CD. [0]: https://www.mattmontag.com&#x
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by lozf 8y ago
Even 720p videos can include up to 192kbps AAC audio, but who knows how many times it gets transcoded between upload and delivery in various sizes and formats.
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by lozf 8y ago
Would love to learn more about that, do you have a blog post or any pointers please?
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by lozf 8y ago
Then think only in UTC! Global Infrastructure has been using this single timezone for over 40 years. Also, once you know the easy-to-remember-or-lookup offsets of the locations you interact with you can even translate in your head to save o
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by lozf 8y ago
No, it just shifts the problem to needing to know which are the working hours at each location you want to interact with. Timezones and Daylight Saving are completely different issues that appear related. Both have flaws, but at least loca
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by lozf 8y ago
In Telegram: "Settings, Security, Groups" has options to allow everyone or just your contacts to add you to groups. Contacts alone is usually adequate, but you can add exceptions.
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by lozf 8y ago
For some perspective, the bills that were revoked were the 500 and 1000 Indian Rupee notes. 500 INR was worth around 7 to 8 US Dollars at the time, so the comparison to 100 USD bills is around an order of magnitude too great, despite things
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by lozf 8y ago
Huge queues at ATMs and banks even months afterwards. As a Westerner with high value rupee notes getting change was a nightmare too.
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by lozf 8y ago
He's saying that the Gnome night-mode doesn't adjust brightness ... not that it can't be changed at all.
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by lozf 8y ago
> if you start it using the desktop GUI, systemd is not used, so I have to “ps aus | grep redshift“, copy the PID (or process name) and use kill or killall. Or, since you started it with the GUI, you could just choose "quit" fr
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by lozf 8y ago
You'll probably find that times are synced fine due to NTP... It's more likely to be colour temps, or possibly redshift's "location" setting that are different.
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by lozf 8y ago
Not giving all your metadata to Facebook (Messenger, WhatsApp) or Microsoft (Skype) for a start. The message may be e2e encrypted, but damn sure these companies are logging as much as possible about who's chatting with whom, when, &am
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by lozf 8y ago
You might like RedShift instead of f.lux on Linux.
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by lozf 8y ago
Thanks for posting that - I was thinking about it the other day when I saw this[0] posted in another thread here. Great for sense of scale, but no "street view" in this one. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1
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by lozf 8y ago
> Honestly at this point I've been waiting for the inevitable article about how GPG has been maintained by one starving guy in his basement for the past 20 years ... Perhaps you missed it in 2015: https://www.propublica.o
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by lozf 8y ago
Previous discussion last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17589240
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by lozf 8y ago
Dividing in half 10 times comes pretty close (976562), but kinda defeats the point of getting a spontaneous answer as the what they feel it would be. On a 1 meter scale the 1 million mark would be just 1mm along. On a piece of paper, it&#x
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by lozf 8y ago
I should have specified linear instead of even.
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by lozf 8y ago
The point of the exercise is that many people don't really grok that a billion is a thousand times bigger than a million, - or rather just how much bigger a factor of 1000 actually is, when talking about big numbers that they're n
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by lozf 8y ago
"Gait DNA"? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspon...
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by lozf 8y ago
> we're pretty good at understanding "big" numbers, say somewhere between a million and a billion. When we stop and think about it, maybe. But try this experiment with a friend (or a few times with different friends): ta
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by lozf 8y ago
or just buy a Kobo or some other non-Amazon ebook reader if you don't want to support them at all.
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by lozf 8y ago
But then you're in the territory of "unsafe defaults", as have been discussed elsewhere.
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by lozf 8y ago
Previous discussion (earlier today) : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17586411
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by lozf 8y ago
Similarly, `bsdutils` exists for Linux.
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by lozf 8y ago
Gotta get these last vulnerable processors (Spectre, Meltdown) deployed in businesses for a good few years, before the next gen fixes come out.
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by lozf 8y ago
Interestingly, the BBC have been working towards this for some "nearly-live" events for a few years. https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/projects/nearly-live-production

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