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by moreati 10y ago
Perhaps it was https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2016/07/pocket-watch/ ? > we use a variant on Reed-Solomon erasure coding that is similar to Local Reconstruction Codes > according to this m
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by moreati 11y ago
The video has a proto Ed-209 at 1m25s https://youtu.be/iyZE0psQsX0?t=1m25s
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by moreati 11y ago
I don't know. At a guess such optimization would be beyond the scope of the standard - hence up to each vendor/browser/user-agent.
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by moreati 11y ago
Subresource Integrity is the standard for that https://www.w3.org/TR/SRI/
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by moreati 11y ago
Yes please, I'd like to know more. If you don't have time for a full write up even a photo dump (e.g. to Imgur) would be interesting.
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by moreati 11y ago
Almost certainly they mean web scraping - making automated requests to websites and extracting/parsing data. It's used for e.g. getting prices/specifications of entire product catalog, or for duplicating a database that'
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by moreati 11y ago
Yes, every mobile phone operator in the UK charges for SMS and MMS if you're PAYG user. Users on contracts typically get 1000s of free SMS per month, but I'm not aware of any contracts that have inclusive MMS.
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by moreati 11y ago
My first thought is: through the micro USB port, exploiting the OTG feature. A few variations on googling 'android external microphone' lead to http://www.androidaudiorecording.com/record-from-a-usb-micro... . Sorr
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by moreati 11y ago
As a workaround I'm trying https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/shortkeys-custom-k... [ and ] set to pgup/pgdn. It mostly works, but I've found I still don't use it as often as would the r
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Is Keck’s Law Coming to an End?(spectrum.ieee.org)
4 points by moreati 11y ago|0 comments
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by moreati 11y ago
> I'm running USB 1.1 on the inner pairs and Ethernet on the USB 3 pairs for several projects That sounds like a nice trick. Could you elaborate, or is there any public information you could link to?
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Sandboxing with Firejail(lwn.net)
53 points by moreati 11y ago|14 comments
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by moreati 11y ago
No conclusions yet, the script (together with https://github.com/moreati/parsedover ) is mainly a dumping ground/personal notes while I try various parsing approaches. https://github.com/moreati&#x2
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by moreati 11y ago
It's rough, but I recently explored/compared various struct-like packages https://github.com/moreati/structlytyped
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by moreati 11y ago
I'm a fan of this dialogue style. Particularly for showing the history/motivations/context of a design or situation. Kerberos is what first introduced me to it http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/dialogue.html
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by moreati 11y ago
Thank you, I read that long ago then lost the link. Nice to track it down again
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by moreati 11y ago
Have you seen https://github.com/castle/ruby-u2f ? As linked from https://developers.yubico.com/U2F/Libraries/List_of_librarie...
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by moreati 11y ago
A few U2F details worth mentioning Browser support is currently limited to Chrome, and possible Windows Edge* For now it only works with USB. Bluetooth and NFC specs are out, browser support is the bottleneck The protocol is public/pri
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by moreati 11y ago
The Breakthrough: The Race for the Superconductor http://www.amazon.com/The-Breakthrough-Race-Superconductor/d... is a nice account of the initial discovery and characterisation of HTSs in the 1980.
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by moreati 11y ago
That should be possible soon. Chrome Canary has experimental support for the Web Bluetooth API. https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/07/interact-w... https://webbluetoothcg.github.io
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by moreati 11y ago
There are still RSS feeds of tweets? I thought Twitter turned those off years ago
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by moreati 11y ago
IANAP, but this sounds at least superficially similar to the reactor that Tokamak Energy are developing. Any nuclear physicists care to weigh in? """ Tokamak Energy is particularly focused on Spherical Tokamaks, pioneered at
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by moreati 11y ago
The recent spike you've seen might trace back to http://blog.getbatterybox.com/which-browser-is-the-most-ener... I make no claim about it's veracity, just saw the headline recently - probably on HN.
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by moreati 11y ago
Thank you for releasing this. I'll be trying it later today. The badges are very enticing :). This project is in a crowded space (Python frameworks), and your README isn't selling it well. It's too heavy on the tell, and too
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by moreati 11y ago
Also worth mentioning that Python 3 supports keyword only parameters, which enforce this calling styling http://blog.gahooa.com/2009/12/08/python-has-keyword-only-pa... e.g. def calc_formula(a, b, *, is
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by moreati 11y ago
See also SWAMP, or Standardised Web Account Management Protocol https://github.com/ashward/swamp Password-manager friendly (PMF): Semantic annotations to improve the effectiveness of password managers http:/&#x2F
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by moreati 11y ago
zlib latest takes 3 seconds, zlib-ng takes 13 seconds alex@martha:~/src/zlib$ du -sh $TESTFILE 197M /home/alex/src/enwiki-20141106-pages-articles-multistream-index.txt.gz alex@martha:~/src&#x
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by moreati 11y ago
A very rough and ready, impromptu benchmark. zlib latest took 26 seconds to compress 648 MB of text, zlib-ng latest took 16 seconds. alex@martha:~/src/zlib$ export TESTFILE=../enwiki-20141106-pages-articles-multistream-
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by moreati 11y ago
"zee lib en jee" was my first instinct
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Do You Really Need a Smart Watch? Or Just a Smart Watch Back?(spectrum.ieee.org)
2 points by moreati 11y ago|1 comments

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