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91.
by mbq 12y ago
You can make a btrfs NAS; then you can eject and add disks as you like, irregardless of their size.
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by mbq 12y ago
Well, you can make dvi and convert it into svg with dvisvgm; taking the inconsistent, usually terrible browser rendering and absolute lack of a proper typesetting in HTML into account this is probably the only way to achieve a nice web-publ
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by mbq 12y ago
Also you can, in principle, write a robust, automatic converter of systemd units into init scripts.
94.
by mbq 12y ago
Except we have to deal with a lack of IPv4 addresses, DDoS attacks, load balancing, NATs, firewalls...
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by mbq 12y ago
The niche for fast HWRNGs actually exists in the stochastic simulation business (physics, statistics, machine learning, finance, to some extent CG); "real" randomness helps in scaling over tons of cores and specialised hardware mu
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by mbq 12y ago
Well sure, but DKIM can sign the sender so it can do the SPF work connected with an envelope spoofing filter. Still, my idea was that a spammer who can put a valid DKIM signature won't likely have any problems with SPF.
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by mbq 12y ago
From my experience, Gmail will send to spam everything from a small server that has no SPF (even when DKIM is on and OK -- which is strange because it basically has SPF built-in) and when the sender is not in the address book -- this is pre
98.
by mbq 12y ago
Assuming that we can breaks nothing; particles will concentrate, but without the barrier they will spread again and this would be a disturbance that simply averages out.
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by mbq 12y ago
This is nonsense; entropy and the arrow of time are essentially a many-body effects and require no quantum effects to occur. A simplest way to see it is to make small simulation of a, say, 1000 gas particles with only classical bouncing in
100.
by mbq 12y ago
I just think that invisible hand of the market is an equally virtual limit effect as the many eyes ensemble. The stream of closed-source vulnerabilities is also substantial and a time-to-fix is much larger there, what effectively pays for t
101.
by mbq 13y ago
Note that while open source can be used blindly, closed source have to be used blindly.
102.
by mbq 13y ago
The worse problem is that once you get the private key you can MITM the traffic or, if forward security was not used, decrypt a sniffed one -- this will limit the casual attacker to a directed attacks, though.
103.
by mbq 13y ago
But please don't paginate a 500 word text into 10 pages either...
104.
by mbq 13y ago
It is just that "scripting" is now called "managed" because it hurts ego to be a scripting programmer.
105.
by mbq 13y ago
Most likely no since SSH is a different protocol than TLS.
106.
by mbq 13y ago
Onyx made something like that already; the software is terrible (although hackable) and there is no place to attach stylus to the reader, but it is only ~300USD http://www.amazon.com/Onyx-M92-Black-Pearl-Edition/dp&#x2F
107.
by mbq 13y ago
Still, most *SV parsers can use arbitrary char or even regexp for a separator.
108.
by mbq 13y ago
Randomness is not any physical entity and thus "entropy" here is just a word for data that cannot be derived from a system state. When it is not available, the attacker still has to know the seed of kernel's PRNG to be able t
109.
by mbq 13y ago
True, although you have the code (;
110.
by mbq 13y ago
Attic implements the same idea but seems more stable; https://attic-backup.org/
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by mbq 13y ago
Maths people always complain about the fact that cross product is reasonable only in 3D, but from a physical point of view this may be an argument why the universe has 3 spatial dims (;
112.
by mbq 13y ago
Note that I am criticising the idea of "general" or "intuitive" correlation; actually useful correlation measures (like Pearson or Spearman) will be just always tied to some model of dependence. This way it cannot be dir
113.
by mbq 13y ago
Questions on StackOverflow: 49 878 R, 2 191 SAS; on Stats StackExchange: 5 524 R, 260 SAS.
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by mbq 13y ago
Two problems: first is that casual association may be invisible to even hand-waving criteria; think good crypto PRNG output which is fully determined by seed and is serial number, but the parameters are practically unfittable from the data
115.
by mbq 13y ago
In the good old times quantum computer used to be just a circuitry that processes qbits with gates that perform quantum operations (this is what can run Shor's RSA breaking magic); D-Wave machines have nothing to do with this. As far a
116.
by mbq 13y ago
In fact, it can actually help killing nationalism as it shows that most cultural nations have a very diverse ancestry and thus are purely cultural phenomena.
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by mbq 13y ago
I guess EU would require Sony to certify the player for food contact and that would be expensive enough to be not worth the trouble. Or require to wipe any suggestions that the water is drinkable.
118.
by mbq 13y ago
0) Keyboards.
119.
by mbq 13y ago
One can also import csv to R and use sqldf package.
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by mbq 13y ago
...which was called such because the painting got dirty and buried under tons of varnish; the actual title is "The Company of captain Frans Banning Cocq and lieutenant Willem van Ruytenburch preparing to march out."

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