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by mschwaig 10y ago
Is there a more detailed write-up about what exactly is causing the problem?
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by mschwaig 10y ago
Inventing details out of thin air to make a low resolution image look more detailed feels like cheating to me.
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by mschwaig 10y ago
That's true, with StarCraft you have to basically limit the actions per minute the AI can perform to human levels, otherwise it can effortlessly out-control a human player. The game was only balanced to be fair for players with human c
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by mschwaig 10y ago
I actually wasn't sure if i should even post the Google Drive part, because theoretically this might even be exploitable in some way. I also found other people with the same bug online, so it really was a thing.
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by mschwaig 10y ago
I had a Moto X Play where a bug ended up just totally disabeling the lock screen. You would turn on the device and land on the home screen even though you had set an unlock pattern. This bug was triggered by using Google Drive while the int
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by mschwaig 10y ago
Did you just answer a HN question on side projects with your side project which aims to answer questions about side projects for the HN audience?
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by mschwaig 10y ago
Apple also works on technology that is meant to help users give up less of their privacy. They talked about this at WWDC 2016 under the headline 'Differential Privacy'. They're trying to use statistics to make it harder to at
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by mschwaig 10y ago
I'm really starting to appreciate this kind of thing about Apple. They seem to be concerned about keeping data in the hands of their users as much as possible, when the rest of the industry defaults to a cloud-hosted solution that requ
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by mschwaig 10y ago
Writing to files in general is a fairly difficult thing if you care about not losing any data under any circumstances, because you have to use the right syscalls for the semantics of your filesystem, which may somtimes be why you're lo
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by mschwaig 10y ago
Did you try updating your graphics driver or disabling hardware acceleration (about:preferences#advanced)? I had an issue but on Windows 10 where sometimes on video playback FF would just lock up and windows would restart the graphics drive
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by mschwaig 10y ago
I don't understand the application of this to filesystems. To me it sounds like it the usual way to have file icons is a simple mapping from a file type to an icon file, and in this solution that icon gets put into the metadata of the
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by mschwaig 10y ago
So your parents payed more than they had to by not gaming the system as much as they could have, because they are good people, and maybe apple would also 'play nice' if the coroprate tax rate wasn't that high. I believe that
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by mschwaig 10y ago
Imagine you get to an emergency as a doctor and your patient has a blocked airway, so you perform an improvised tracheostomy, but because you're nervous you cut horizontally instead of vertically and kill the patient. I'm pretty s
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by mschwaig 10y ago
Being able to pay tax lawyers that are so great that you basically don't have to pay taxes kind of breaks the concept of taxation though.
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by mschwaig 10y ago
From what I've heard in Austria this protection from getting sued only applies if you're not a trained professional like a paramedic or doctor.
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by mschwaig 10y ago
One thing is paying for a source for specific information, the other one is accepting a dodgy source and getting paid for that. The flow of money is in the opposite direction.
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by mschwaig 10y ago
Do you have a problem with this authentication method in general or for this use case? Funnily enough a hard to guess URL can actually be perfectly secure. Google uses them quite a lot inside their services, facebook too I think. https:&#x
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by mschwaig 10y ago
See also previous discussions of this article from 2014 and 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6995568 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9069031
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by mschwaig 10y ago
There is also a Number Hub video where Hannah Fry talks about this exact phenomenon. This also gets into applications of this result to limiting the spread of diseases. https://youtu.be/Z_15zbgNpHk
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by mschwaig 10y ago
I would also be interested in that. What differnce would you expect from the catalog size? I would guess that aside from maybe the handshake, decoupling storage and encryption would not be worth it in all cases where the storage medium is
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by mschwaig 10y ago
It was the common sense thing from a consumers perspective to make DotA 2 into a product. It's just funny that Blizzard didn't manage to be the ones to do it. I remember that at the time when DotA was a popular Warcraft Mod me and
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by mschwaig 10y ago
The first part of the video[1] is also worth watching. It has the current owner explaining how he got it and some careful investigation of the device before the actual repair. Ben Heck has some impressive videos in general, watching him wor
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by mschwaig 10y ago
In my opinion there would be two benefits to widespread coding literacy. The first one is that a wider range of people get in touch with the concept of programming and can consider it as a career option. This would IMO also help diversity.
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by mschwaig 11y ago
I think the attribution to edison is tongue-in-cheek reference to the War of Currents. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Currents
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by mschwaig 11y ago
IANAL but as far as I can tell there is no legal precedent here and so the questions you raise can only be answered by a lawsuit. Sure there is 'technically' a difference between packaging the ZFS driver with Ubuntu and audodownlo
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by mschwaig 11y ago
The problem is not the use per se, the problem is delivering them to the user as one blob of software together. This is not a problem with proprietary graphics drivers, since you can just download them after setting up you system. However,
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by mschwaig 11y ago
I think that reasoning is less applicable to a species like ours, which has so much power to collectively and conciously take action. In my opinion "let nature take it's course" is just a fancy way of saying "give up&
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by mschwaig 11y ago
As a desktop user tasks like booting and copying small files make a hell of a difference for the perceived speed of a system, because they feel like they should be fast. This is where SSDs shine. On the other hand, most tasks that involve s
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by mschwaig 11y ago
Here you 'Go'. Hehe. https://youtu.be/Fx304EfqtMo?t=40m20s
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by mschwaig 11y ago
A similar thing happens at an ATM when you dispense money before you give the user their card back. They tend to forget the card more often. Apparently this happens because the users goal in that whole process is to get the money, not to ge

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