mehrdadn

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by mehrdadn 6y ago
It's not the prettiest word, but just saying he called it cancer leaves out important context. He wasn't trying to bash Linux itself so much as (his interpretation of) its GPL license. If its license had been different (say, MIT o
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
I guess we're saying the same thing then, because my point wasn't that you'd never build anything new, but that your old stuff would remain just as useful and you wouldn't need to destroy any part of it.
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
You're saying it's better to get something wrong and fix it than to just do it right the first time?
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
I would've thought in an ideal world you would do things sufficiently well the first time so that you don't have to tear down the old work and redo it again. Not the opposite.
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Related: https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/14015/does-gibb...
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
I thought the only service being provided is just basically insuring the income. If they have to deal with finding/maintaining contractors/clients and other kinds of overhead then of course that changes things—I just didn't i
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
So basically they're paying 30-40% of the salary for a payment insurance service? That seems a little... excessive? Just how often are payments missed to warrant this kind of a premium?!
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
It appears most people here have't read the article. Unlike what the title states, Windows is not losing the ability to automatically find drivers. Take note of this bit: > The option to manually browse your PC for a driver is stil
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
I fully understand that and that's still clearly still better than going straight to HTTP, which it's already doing.
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Thanks, but then what do I do about HTTP-only sites? Why can't it default to HTTPS and then auto-fallback to HTTP when HTTPS connections fail for sites that aren't in the known-HTTPS list? It seems like a logical thing to do inste
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Does HTTPS Everywhere actually work for you? It's utterly useless for me as far as I can tell. Try going to some site (say, example.net) in Chrome and watch it just load HTTP.
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Ah ok that makes more sense, thanks.
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
It's fairly new (maybe 1-2 years old, I forget), that's probably why you didn't notice it.
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
> I think most people were pleasantly surprised by how the "get into a stranger's car" and "go stay with a stranger for a few days" models worked out for AirBNB and Uber. Most Americans for the former, maybe. &qu
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
I don't get how XOR helps here? Isn't this stuff based on timing + length information?
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
I asked this as a Windows question rather than an x86 question. I was wondering if there's any Windows API that could help with this. (This includes kernel APIs.)
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
A bit off-topic, but do you happen to know if there is a way on Windows to intercept syscall instructions? (aside from dynamic analysis/recompilation/etc.?) If there isn't, I assume that's why cheat engines do this?
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
A few days ago someone here point out the numbers aren't actually "receive-only" for IBANs either, but anyway, the point you're making is a separate point from the one being made here. If anything, it's the opposite
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
I assume you mean because of the time it'll take to trickle down to production kernels? Does that take 5-10 years?
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
If you're interested in async I/O, keep an eye on the io_uring changes.
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
I never said he was the only one who warned the world about the next pandemic. Nor do I believe he sees himself as some kind of prophet on this either.
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Don't forget he gave a TED talk warning the world about the next pandemic. And obviously he knows a thing or two about high-level issues dealing with epidemics (which extend beyond just the medicine). Why would they just ignore him?
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
The plus operator in the page appears to be binary rather than unary. I've never used it. Is that affected as well? (Though I'm confused why AND is necessary. Isn't it implied normally?)
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
> What objective norm does this product violate? Privacy. Also, traditionally, hosts go out of their way to help their guests feel welcome, not the other way around. > People should be free to share (or not share) their personal infor
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
I think I miscommunicated my thoughts, but I was neither trying to say there aren't left-handed folks who push, nor that there aren't ones who pull with a weird pose. Rather, I was wondering if these are actually needed, or if one
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Do you actually push instead of pulling for English as a leftie? I ask because you definitely don't need to "push instead of pull" for RTL languages if you're right-handed (though I'm not suggesting nobody does; I&#
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
I can't speak to the merits of the family relations, but telling people to "keep an open mind" to continuous monitoring is quite the ask. The right to privacy isn't some kind of pizza topping to be "open-minded&quot
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Re: Vox (and allegedly BuzzFeed [I assume News], etc.), there was an interesting discussion about them last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18895136
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
I can imagine lots of reasons. To build on PowerShell means either integrating your changes upstream (not likely, given fixing some of the clunkiness would require breaking changes) or maintaining a separate fork and incorporating patches f
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
You're right about the slowness! I just noticed it now. I'm confused why though -- I don't actually see it spawning a lot of processes, and the slowness is far beyond what could be explained by that. Even a single process cal

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