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by magnat 9y ago
> But your OS does come with lots of packages and features you may not use. Sure does. And I can remove them if I want to. I can apt-get remove libc6 if I really really want to and I accept the consequences. I can't remove non-essen
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by magnat 9y ago
Sync, Pocket, Dev tools, Screenshots etc are not required to display and interact with HTML pages. They are useful and it's nice they exist, but I don't see a reason to have them installed if I don't need them - just as I don
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by magnat 9y ago
> Firefox Quantum enhances Firefox’s integration with Pocket, the read-it-later app that Mozilla acquired last year. When you open a new tab, you’ll see currently trending web pages recommended by Pocket users so you won’t miss out on wh
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by magnat 9y ago
Why bother with providing userland tool then? If you have complete chain of trust, the tool can just MsgBox("Everything's OK") because you wouldn't be able to boot OS if EFI didn't pass the check. If you don't
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by magnat 9y ago
There kind of already is audio equivalent: MIDI. It supplies low resolution timing and pitch information and it's up to synthesizer to produce audio output matching those data.
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by magnat 9y ago
Surely a firmware rootkit can prevent eficheck from accessing TPM altogether or force the program to report everything is OK. If eficheck is not unsealing secrets stored in TPM, what would be benefits of checking PCRs?
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by magnat 9y ago
* Hold down LMB on the title, release LMB, before title starts to scroll hold down LMB once again. After ~1s title starts scrolling even though you're holding LMB down. * After scrolling the song title a few times, when I hold down LM
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by magnat 9y ago
So many minor things work just slightly different than in original that it's really unsettling to use - song title scrolling, window snapping distance, mouse wheel volume control, etc. I guess there is uncanny valley in UX too.
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by magnat 9y ago
Depending on who you ask and which technical details you omit or include: * Quadratic scaling in signature checking * Increased storage requirements for full node operation * Higher risk of mining empty block and/or creating minor fork
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by magnat 9y ago
String generated using default parameters has ~0.1% chance of containing four letter english profanity.
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by magnat 9y ago
Other interesting technique is using halftones/dithering to embed picture in readable QR code: PDF paper: http://vecg.cs.ucl.ac.uk/Projects/SmartGeometry/halftone_QR/... Javascript demo: http:/&#x2
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by magnat 9y ago
> since they're not backed by a central authority (government or bank) Neither are shares, yet banks are trading them on regular basis. Thinking of bitcoin as a currency makes as much sense as using shares/stock exchange to pay
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by magnat 9y ago
> Explain how this is the best use of their still-limited power Weapon. I suppose you could ask the same question looking at our nuclear tests - why someone would waste so much energy in a single event? Maybe it's just remnants from
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by magnat 9y ago
> What else can the UK Government think of taxing? Thingie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmOHx5Ftez8
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by magnat 9y ago
"Sorry, you need to enable JavaScript to visit this website." with "position: fixed" and 100% size covering perfectly rendered article body. This is ridiculous.
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by magnat 9y ago
> Perhaps they should just allow explicit weights on the rules? Wouldn't that be equivalent to order-dependent format, but with more noise?
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by magnat 9y ago
For Intel CPUs, it's most likely based on Architectures Optimization Reference Manual published by Intel - https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents...
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by magnat 9y ago
I was going to say that 30+ years of experience as a programmer isn't that uncommon. Then I've read comments...
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by magnat 10y ago
Why on that ping screenshot RTT to 127.0.0.1 is >2ms?
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by magnat 10y ago
> These were arranged by using different margin settings and then running the paper through the printer multiple times. Erk. Still better than CSS.
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by magnat 10y ago
If there is no circuit concept in the IPv4 and IPv6, then the value of the field could (in principle) vary wildly from packet to packet. In real life condition it most likely wouldn't - and even if it would, maybe that would be actuall
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by magnat 10y ago
IP is based on packet switching and has no concept of a circuit/connection. Each subsequent packet sent between same endpoint can take different path with different PMTU. Also, dedicating even two bytes in each and every IP packet just
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by magnat 10y ago
"Oops, your Javascript is not enabled." after page (consisting of static text and a few images) loads and renders correctly. Why?
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by magnat 11y ago
It's a ceramic disc. Since there is no wind erosion, if it doesn't get direct hit, it should last quite some time. Footprints from first landing are still there - and are expected to be for at least next 10 million years - so you