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by mbq 15y ago
Fully agree; computer is something on which you can write, compile and run a native program without using external machines. And TeX is a computer typesetting system.
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by mbq 15y ago
Sure, thanks.
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by mbq 15y ago
3) Tiny stable wormhole or other anomaly under Alps (casualty saved, doubtful that it gives stable results) 4) High energy neutrinos spontaneously teleport themselves (casualty saved, new, very odd physics needed) ... n) Subtle measurement
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by mbq 15y ago
Time for occupyoccupysites.com...
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Computational science/Scientific computing StackExchange is near beta(area51.stackexchange.com)
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by mbq 15y ago
Anyway, this is a proof that siri is a pure cloud service and as such may work even on 5-yo Sagem...
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by mbq 15y ago
Use few layers of public services and you won't find who to use rubber hose on... the real (and fundamental) problem is how to securely sneak the key in a way that you can still trust it.
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by mbq 15y ago
This only depends on image size.
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by mbq 15y ago
XFCE's terminal can do it too. And you can use Gnome applets.
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by mbq 15y ago
It seems that nothing made more for the spread of minor linux distros than the introduction of Gnome 3...
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by mbq 15y ago
Flash was how it was, but it was quite one -- HTML has never managed to be consistent and predictable technology, and I doubt HTML5 could change anything...
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by mbq 15y ago
The worse is that people expect such language to perform dumb high-load operations rather than use its expressiveness to conduct chunks of lower-level language to do the dirty job, such as with <canvas> over SVG. R is from an anothe
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by mbq 15y ago
Again, I'm not against adding seemingly redundant additional security layers, I'm against calling sandbox an universal cure for everything and using it to constrain the user in morally ambiguous way. Android system is also damaged because i
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by mbq 15y ago
MacDefender?
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by mbq 15y ago
The main problem is that it comes with a obvious loss of functionality which I doubt that can be leveraged with security gain -- the other thing is that it gives a faux sense of security to the user (i.e. yes, I have agreed for full file sy
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by mbq 15y ago
Because it is like X-raying people coming through front door to check if they are hiding anything metal having opened and unsupervised kitchen door. Plumbers are banned, yet you can still be killed with a ceramic knife by a polite assassin
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by mbq 15y ago
Knowing Apple's achievements in pwn2own, this most likely won't increase the real security... Whatever you do, security always boils down to aware user, thus it is in fundamental contradiction to this company philosophy.
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by mbq 15y ago
This is precisely how it looks from this "microallocating" perspective.
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by mbq 15y ago
Zawinski's point is true iff "large application" means an application which allocates and frees plethora of tiny chunks -- however I will argue that this is not a necessity, rather a style coming from a try to port scripting experience to l
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by mbq 15y ago
In other words, yet another frustrated Mac user converted to Linux.
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by mbq 15y ago
tmux is 4 letters, screen is 6 =) And splitting view sucks less.
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by mbq 15y ago
...and thanks to the fact those are Open Source projects they can be now easily fixed.
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by mbq 15y ago
Does it have a shell? Can you write, compile and run a C app on it? Connect to OpenVPN without breaking warranty? Open few app windows side by side? Run another OS? I did all this on my windows mobile (very closed OS) devices, maemo would a
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by mbq 15y ago
Yup, it is horrible and has some serious design flaws. But it can deal with low-level graphics, an in general hopeless and horrible activity based on numerous quirks and hacks -- and this makes a value overcoming most of its problems. Not
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by mbq 15y ago
This sadly also applies to Windows; Win Mobile was just Windows-on-the-phone, Win Phone is a crazy Silverlight slideshow. Thank you, Apple, for showing the market that dumb smartphones sell better than the real ones )-: