mortehu

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by mortehu 11y ago
> It is misleading to print more decimal digits out of a double than DBL_DIG If you want round-trip conversion for all `double` numbers, i.e. from `double` to text and back, you need 17 digits of precision (%.17g). Likewise, if you want
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by mortehu 11y ago
Would you recommend it to someone running Linux? As far as I can tell, you have to use their proprietary backup software, which only runs on Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X.
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by mortehu 11y ago
It's not about what the cable can handle. Some of these cables can be plugged into an old device on the end that delivers power, while the cable (which isn't just wires) advertises the power delivery capabilities of a newer devic
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by mortehu 11y ago
The stories on that site almost always use placeholders. For example, the most recent post features an email from wtfinc.com.
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by mortehu 11y ago
> [goto] is the primitive from which all higher level control flow is ultimately derived I'm pretty sure you cannot implement conditional branches using unconditional branches as a building block. Unless you count indirect branches
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by mortehu 11y ago
> Personal data is almost certainly in the top two Do you experience a drastic drop in result quality when you use a public computer?
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by mortehu 11y ago
> The radiation doses emitted by the scans are extremely small; the scans deliver an amount of radiation equivalent to 3 to 9 minutes of the radiation received through normal daily living. Furthermore, since flying itself increases expos
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by mortehu 11y ago
No, and if so, I would have received a much stronger warning. After some investigation, it turns out that my computer had an old Comodo certificate that lacked certificate transparency information.
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by mortehu 11y ago
> I can't say I've ever seen the red padlock I see one on news.ycombinator.com. Well, technically, a gray padlock with a red X on top of it.
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by mortehu 11y ago
> And with what provisos about selling through those apps Chromecast doesn't have any special connection to Google Play. Anyone can cast whatever they want. Amazon Prime Instant Video can already be cast, but the user experience i
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by mortehu 11y ago
> we’re going to instantly leap from that to fully autonomous driving If you had lived and owned a car in Mountain View, you would have been used to driving alongside fully autonomous cars for years now, and the move wouldn't seem n
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by mortehu 11y ago
This is one of the many uses of the static keyword in C99: void ten(char foo[static 10]) { } void generates_warning() { char foo[3]; ten(foo); } This causes clang to emit the following warning: > warning: array argume
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by mortehu 11y ago
> bloomfilters have a (very) small false positive-rate One of the neat things about Bloom filters is that you can choose your own false positive rate, by tuning the number of hashes and the storage size.
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by mortehu 11y ago
This looks to me like the bridge over the Caltrain track on San Antonio road: https://www.google.com/maps/@37.410117,-122.107073,3a,15y,20... The speed limit there is 35 mph.
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by mortehu 11y ago
Aha, I see it's a shared object. It's sandboxed, though, so quite similar to NaCl. Both NaCl and the plugins are running native code. NaCl is not PNaCl.
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by mortehu 11y ago
While there's "almost no third party adoption", there are two pretty significant uses: The Flash player and the PDF viewer. Browsers that rely on NPAPI for these get all of Adobe's security bugs on top of their own. Yo
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by mortehu 11y ago
> the PPAPI is very closely tied to chrome's inner workings and is extremely complicated to implement I've looked at the API, and can't agree with your statement. The API is similar to a typical game engine API. There ar
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by mortehu 11y ago
> Investors still got their ROI on the prop Was there no lock-up[1] period? 1. http://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/ipolockup.asp
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by mortehu 11y ago
> Do you really believe they're worth more than the entire Taxi industry? Uber is in 58 countries, and is expanding to more countries. Are you saying the combined value of the taxi industry in those countries is less than 50 billio
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by mortehu 11y ago
I program all my server programs to have a --listen-fd=N command line option. That way, the process that starts the server is responsible for creating the listening socket, and it can create multiple server instances using the same socket.
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by mortehu 11y ago
I think you are thinking of nonprofit organizations. Charities don't have to be nonprofit organizations[1], and nonprofit organizations are often not charities. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For-profit_charity
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by mortehu 11y ago
Isn't this what the Watergate scandal was about?
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by mortehu 11y ago
Are whistleblowers allowed to blow their whistle to anyone? US has several whistleblower protection laws[1], but it seems to me that if you want protection from the law, you should report to the correct instances first, and then escalate f
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by mortehu 11y ago
I think the being known to a majority of the US population is a way too high bar. In a 2010 poll[1], only 59% knew the name of the vice president, as mentioned in a Greenwald article[2] about this issue. 1. http://www.pewforum.o
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by mortehu 11y ago
It seems to be rendering at 60 fps without dropping frames on my old laptop, using Chrome. It's still not worth seeing, though, other than as a warning about what can happen if you think adding graphical features is more important than
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by mortehu 11y ago
3. Use the distro's default Apache connection limit of 20, despite the server being able to handle thousands of concurrent connections. The limited connections are then quickly used by users with slow connections.
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by mortehu 11y ago
There's an exchange called NASDAQ that have different sets of financial requirements you can satisfy to get listed. Some of them don't require any earnings at all, e.g. Nasdaq Global Select Market, Standard 4. https://
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by mortehu 11y ago
Direct link to image: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/46/Diffie-H...
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by mortehu 11y ago
Am I correct in assuming that if I have generated a 2048 bit dhparam.pem file which I pass to my web server, I am not using one of those "same few primes"?
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by mortehu 11y ago
I think defense in depth[1][2] might be the term you're looking for. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_in_depth_%28computing%... 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence_in_depth

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