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by moonbug 11y ago
It's plainly not encryption. The Chinese maps use a different reference datum (ellipsoid surface representing the shape of the Earth), and translation between coordinates in the two reference schemes (GCJ-02 in China and WGS-84 for GPS
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by moonbug 11y ago
I think I'd rather have a machine that has a verified chain of trust from boot than one that will happily run anything.
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by moonbug 11y ago
Assuming those are all the parts one needs to construct a full phone, you save around 50% of the list of the assembled unit by building it yourself.
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by moonbug 11y ago
And I thought it couldn't be possible to make LO any more infuriating to use. Well done guys, trebles all round.
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by moonbug 11y ago
Odd how he missed off "twat"
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by moonbug 11y ago
Similarly, I've two decades of Perl under my belt and it remains my go-to to quick-and-dirties. But in my field, Python has the mind-share these days and ease of collaboration beats language puritanism, so Perl's on a one-way tri
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by moonbug 11y ago
Too late.
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by moonbug 11y ago
Watch or not, why is there a human in that loop at all?
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by moonbug 11y ago
The collected pet peeves of internet nerds. For best effect, reformat in green comic sans.
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by moonbug 11y ago
And he didn't even get to mention the x509 client ceritifcates and java craplets.
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by moonbug 11y ago
PGP's UX is so dismal I could almost believe the whole project operates under an NSA false flag.
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by moonbug 11y ago
For a rather more sober -- not to say sobering -- assessment of the state of the nuclear industry, I do recommend the annual World Nuclear Industry Status Reports http://www.worldnuclearreport.org/IMG/pdf/20151023M
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by moonbug 11y ago
aww, that's a nice blast from the past.
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by moonbug 11y ago
Python's reputation for being clean is largely an artifact of it being a contemporary of PHP:
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by moonbug 11y ago
I've used them all. Conda bears the least resemblance to a software clown car.
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by moonbug 11y ago
Use Anaconda and be done with it.
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by moonbug 11y ago
Yes. XFS just works.
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by moonbug 11y ago
https://www.nimblestorage.com make what's essentially a flash+disk hybrid HSM-in-a-box. They're very nice, from experience.
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by moonbug 11y ago
"When all you have is a hammer..."
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by moonbug 11y ago
For all their furious development, either of them still make me want to chew my face off when doing anything that requires the slightest interop with MS Office.
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by moonbug 11y ago
Cool story bro, but it give me hives just reading it. "We didn't know anything about physical order fulfilment so we hacked our way into a local optimum, rather than asking anyone who knew". Or, as we say hereabouts, a month
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by moonbug 11y ago
Aren't they cute when they're young?
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by moonbug 11y ago
Because whistle-blowing for cash is much more defensible than doing it for conscience.
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by moonbug 11y ago
"again"?
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by moonbug 11y ago
If you think that, I've a crate of ST-506s to sell you.
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by moonbug 11y ago
mjg, most well known as a kernel developer, has poked about in HN metrics, starting around about here: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/33551.html
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by moonbug 11y ago
Is co-operative multitasking really as far as it's got, after two decades of web progress? Sheesh.
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by moonbug 11y ago
Stick "127.0.1.1 slashdot.org" in your /etc/hosts. I promise you'll have forgotten about its very existence within a week.
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by moonbug 11y ago
Yes, but even back in '96 it was as dumb as a box of hammers.
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by moonbug 11y ago
Check out Matthew Garrett mjg59

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