manarth

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   by manarth 10y ago

   > Not having a viable USB-C -> HDMI adapter > Many users of MBP's…toss some code up on a projector Your projectors support HDMI?! I wish! Joking aside, my "presentation" adapter is Thunderbolt(2) -> VGA,
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   by manarth 10y ago

   > "they prioritized standardizing the connector but not the rest of the details" In this case, "they" are the "USB Implementors Forum (USB-IF)" [1], rather than Apple. It's the USB-IF who agreed
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   by manarth 10y ago

   Official Apple comment: The two right-hand ports deliver Thunderbolt 3 functionality, but have reduced PCI Express bandwidth [1] The full Thunderbolt 3 speed is 40MBPs (use the left-side ports to achieve that). I can't find any
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   by manarth 10y ago

   Lightning came out in September 2012 [1]. USB-C was ratified in August 2014 [2]. If we put the iPhone 6S model aside (because the -S models generally do not adopt a significant change in features), the only model released since USB-C is the
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   by manarth 10y ago

   > "You can't expect an off-brand USB-C adapter" Surely that's the point of standards : I don't have to purchase an Apple USB-C connector; I can purchase any USB-C connector, and it will perform correct
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   by manarth 10y ago

   I've used Netflix on a mac mini with 2 monitors, and a MBP with an external display, and haven't had any issues. Could it be related to the connection cable? I've been connecting to external monitors with HDMI and display-por
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   by manarth 10y ago

   Now imagine leaving it on a train: http://www.thelocal.de/20160108/violinist-forgets-24-million...
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   by manarth 10y ago

   For me, the overwhelming take from that article is that investors are bothered by it. Super Mario Run isn’t living up to the expectations for Nintendo and investors Many investors in Nintendo are worried about the overall profitabil
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   by manarth 10y ago

   5. Some peoples' environment is innately hostile to tech. A modern flat with plasterboard partition walls will give better wifi reception than a victorian house with stone walls.
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    by manarth 10y ago

    To offer a contradictory piece of anecdata, I had to disable 5GHz to maintain a consistent wifi connection.
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    by manarth 10y ago

    Well, $7.50 in 1996 dollars is apparently worth $11.67 today in 2016. $32,000 doesn't sound like too bad a return.
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    by manarth 10y ago

    I think kegamine is pointing to the grammatical oddity of using the singular "woman" in the title, rather than the plural "women": Pregnancy alters woman's brain The article introduction phrases this in a lit
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    by manarth 10y ago

    I think they are saying he parked his truck across the rails when it broke down The article isn't really clear on the events, but I'm interpreting it a different way. "he would have been less likely to misinterpre
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    by manarth 10y ago

    easier maintenance mechanisms It might cost more to put into orbit than to put up in a plane, but once there, satellites don't tend to need maintenance.
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    by manarth 10y ago

    I presume this is punished by Uber , rather than any regulatory body?
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    by manarth 10y ago

    Rich guy runs a stop sign, he gets a $5000 ticket. The poor man gets the current $500 ticket. I heard Switzerland is trying this? They've been trying this for a while - someone received a $290,000 speeding fine in 2010 [1].
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    by manarth 10y ago

    Currently only supported by Firefox (as of 49.0), according to Mozilla [1]. Interestingly, it's being used by the BBC [2], who have reported a 10.8% reduction in 304 responses as a result [3]. Google have also stated their intention to
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    by manarth 10y ago

    In general, browsers shouldn't even revalidate the file as long as it's younger than the max-age lifespan. They may choose to "evict" it from the cache, but that's generally based on a policy of recent usage and nee
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    by manarth 10y ago

    That's a fair point - I didn't consider that issue, because using a standard HTTP cache, that's taken care of. It's just become somebody else's problem (the developers of the HTTP cache), but it's fair to say i
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    by manarth 10y ago

    When JQuery is served by the official CDN, it's given a cache-header giving it a lifespan of 10 years.
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    by manarth 10y ago

    The quintessential hardest problem in IT: naming things. Polaris is also a missile. And a star. And a PowerPC port of Solaris. We're always going to have name duplication. At least it's fairly easy to disambiguate with a Google se
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    by manarth 10y ago

    Whenever someone posted a new commend, a static HTML file would get generated It's essentially still a cache, with the same concerns/issues - mainly cache invalidation - as a HTTP cache. An on-disk cache of that sort has o
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    by manarth 10y ago

    Many of those products - such as Zano - are too good to be true. People buy them because they promise features or a price-point that doesn't currently exist. Sometimes that works out, and the campaign delivers on its marketing promises
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    by manarth 10y ago

    From 2009: a preimage attack reduced the complexity from 2^128 to 2^123.4 [1]. It's still a big number, but it's less than the theoretical complexity. [1] https://www.iacr.org/archive/eurocrypt2009/547901
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    by manarth 10y ago

    > the complexity involved in finding a collision for a specific hash If it can be shown that a preimage collision can be computed in less time than an exhaustive search , the algorithm is generally regarded as having a weakness,
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    by manarth 10y ago

    Agreed, that the best reported rainbow-table attack on MD5 is 2^128 (i.e. the complete range of possible MD5 hashes). Personally, I'm willing to chance that my password will be discovered via a brute-force attack within the next 0.65 b
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    by manarth 10y ago

    > "Passing the password through MD5 reduces the complexity to 128 bits, you can't get that back." Assuming that the new hash is secure (and sha512 is generally agreed to be secure), then, given a specific sha512 ha
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    by manarth 10y ago

    The article is from Yahoo, it's a notification from Yahoo, announced by their head of security. They're not hiding the event.
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    by manarth 10y ago

    And to clarify, some Yahoo Groups require a Yahoo account to participate. You cannot participate with a regular email address, you must sign up to a Yahoo account. If you join a real-world social gathering which happens to use such a Yaho
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    by manarth 10y ago

    I don't trust any company to not send me spam. Even if they don't do it today, they may get bought-out, hacked, or otherwise lose control of the data. Even if everything suggests that they won't spam me, I'm not entire