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by mjw1007 9y ago
That's good to know. I think the author could have emphasised that more. «Yes, nftables replaces iptables. You are highly encouraged to migrate from iptables to nftables.» sounds a bit too much like "expect iptables to stop work
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by mjw1007 9y ago
One interesting note in the article: « unauthorized accesses typically aren't logged by the PC because AMT has direct access to the computer's network hardware. » That's unsurprising now I think about it, given how AMT works,
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by mjw1007 9y ago
I agree. And I think it was wrong for the UK to end up as part of the EU, as opposed to a more limited "common market", without at least one of the successive governments which signed up to additional treaties demonstrating such g
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by mjw1007 10y ago
That doesn't explain the «Some allocations were much larger than anything ZeroTier should need.» part.
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by mjw1007 10y ago
The right-hand side of the menu bar can be helpful in application-like modes (like gnus or M-x list-packages). I agree you might as well turn it off otherwise and regain the space.
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by mjw1007 10y ago
It can be good for more than debugging, too. If I have a difficult design problem, I imagine talking to someone smarter than I am and explaining why what they're asking me to do is impossible.
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by mjw1007 10y ago
If the article's author understands that it's often reasonable to use a shorthand which isn't supposed to be taken literally, it's hard to see why they're unhappy about Google's use of the term "Family&quo
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by mjw1007 10y ago
There used to be POSIX standards for both Ada and Fortran as well a C (POSIX.5 and POSIX.12). Though I don't think they can be described as successful. If I remember right, the Fortran one was defined in terms of the C one, but the Ada
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by mjw1007 10y ago
As far as I remember, in the one study that got reported users were asked to select a number of words scattered through a document and make them bold.
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by mjw1007 10y ago
I wish people would stop citing that old AskTOG article. The $50 million (in 1989) research figure sounds impressive, but they don't say how much of that was keyboard-vs-mouse research and the answer is quite likely "very little&q
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by mjw1007 10y ago
The first two studies described have roughly the following form: 1: The researchers tell the students "X is true". 2: The researchers tell the students "statement 1 was a lie". 3: Many students report they still believe
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by mjw1007 10y ago
I make it 63%, including the "service fee" and delivery fee but not the taxes or tip.
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by mjw1007 10y ago
Airtable looks like exactly what the world needs for a modern system to let everyday users manage data well rather than bunging it all in a spreadsheet. But the row limits are too low for many obvious uses. I assume this is for technical re
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by mjw1007 10y ago
I didn't try to diagnose the problem. I just switched. I do not claim that OpenNTPD has a bug. Maybe it has requirements on the quality of the local clock that the virtual machine didn't meet. Maybe it has requirements on the remo
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by mjw1007 10y ago
I tried using OpenNTPd as the ntp client on a slow virtual server last year. It seemed like perfectly decent software except for the fact that it failed to keep the time in sync. I switched to the usual (ntp.org) ntpd, with the same pool se
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by mjw1007 10y ago
I get the impression that this has become a party-political issue, and the change of heart is because the other party is now in charge, rather than the original decision-makers finding that that the switch turned out worse than they expecte
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by mjw1007 10y ago
It would be more interesting if the article had reported the median analyst forecast. Given that it doesn't go as far as to say "most analysts had expected substantially more", it seems plausible that this the result is in fa
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by mjw1007 10y ago
Having a name for the concept seems helpful, but I don't find that diagram in any way enlightening.
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by mjw1007 10y ago
In that case I think I would try the argument. But if I were on the jury I wouldn't be thinking "there's no case here". If I understand how appealing jury decisions works, it isn't going to be anywhere near good eno
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by mjw1007 10y ago
That's true, but the availability of OpenJDK (which, after all, Google have now switched to) weakens Oracle's argument on the "Effect on the market" factor.
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by mjw1007 10y ago
The work Oracle copyrighted (and registered) was their implementation of Java SE as a whole, method bodies and all. Google copied only the interface. If someone copies a paragraph of my novel and claims fair use, I won't get very far o
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by mjw1007 10y ago
Even if fixes always applied cleanly to back branches, git doesn't provide a way to represent a 'backpatch'. That is, once you've committed a patch to the the current mainline, there's no official way to indicate th
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by mjw1007 10y ago
Do they give any reason to believe that what they're mentioning is true? I've looked informally for this phenomenon and I haven't been able to find it. The only concrete piece of research I know on a specific case came up neg
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by mjw1007 10y ago
It's disappointing that they don't allow a user to have two accounts. I don't want to take my personal github credentials to work, and my employer doesn't use paid github services. The effect is that if when I'm at
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by mjw1007 10y ago
At least Debian and Ubuntu have been paying attention to LSB headers for years. They may be comments to the shell, but they're input data to insserv.
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by mjw1007 10y ago
In this case it seems to have been fully-fledged lying, not just bullshit: Microsoft (told the researcher they) delayed releasing this patch so they could release a number of SMB-related fixes at once. They might have good reasons for doing
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by mjw1007 10y ago
It's slightly worse than that: the bug was reported in September; December appears to be when they had the patch ready. So there were two months of apparently unjustified delay.
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by mjw1007 10y ago
In discussions like this, I often hear people say companies choose Oracle because they'd have "someone to sue" if things go wrong. Did your employer attempt to recover the money from Oracle? If not, did they even consider doi