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by nfoz 9y ago
Heh. To be fair the conversation in question was a lot more personal than that -- matters of crime, addiction, forgiveness, and personal change. The "nothing to hide" arguments are irrelevant here -- people absolutely do have thi
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by nfoz 9y ago
I was in a small group of people having an intimate (private) conversation in a church. Out of nowhere we were interrupted by a Windows computer sitting in a cabinet, connected to the booming AV system: "I'm sorry, I didn't
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by nfoz 9y ago
Thanks, I found this: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RNHkx_VvKWyWg6Lr8SZ-saqs... "One of the major and believably achievable goals of QUIC, is to predominantly have zero RTT connection (re)establishment,
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by nfoz 9y ago
I wonder what is the real difference between QUIC vs SCTP-over-UDP?
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by nfoz 9y ago
Seems like this definition is tied to US-ASCII and that we'd need another spec (even if trivial) for any S-expressions that would intend to allow raw Unicode.
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by nfoz 9y ago
Oh that's a really interesting distinction.
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by nfoz 9y ago
> I think most should just pick the best tool for the job and stop rebuilding things that don't need to. I think you just contradicted yourself. Sometimes the best tool for the job is something new, something improved over what alr
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by nfoz 9y ago
The only ageist thing here is that you assumed the author's age, or that it had anything to do with the claim of modernity.
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by nfoz 9y ago
Is that really worse than the "hell" of angle-brackets in XML/HTML? Because those are pretty widely adopted.
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by nfoz 9y ago
Is there any trick to combining entropy sources? Do you just add the numbers together, or is it something more involved, to make sure that you -- I don't know -- collapse entropy away in the combination, or something.
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by nfoz 9y ago
Copyright is such a strong measure by which we let government limit individual freedoms for the sake of upholding a particular kind of business model. It's just so draconian and bizarre.
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by nfoz 9y ago
It's a weird thought experiment.... if we halted all new drug r&d and instead cheaply distributed all the medicines that we have already invented, how much more people would benefit, and at whose cost? And how long would that &quo
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by nfoz 9y ago
Curious, what are the reasons to prefer one-space-after-period over two? Regardless of old or new medium, proportional or monospaced font, I find it more legible when there's more space between sentences. Sometimes periods find thems
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by nfoz 9y ago
Why was that dumb of SCTP? What should it have done instead?
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by nfoz 9y ago
Why do the routers involve themselves at the transport layer? Can't they just route IP packets and leave the transport alone? Firewalls -- whose firewalls are we talking about here? If a client (say, home user) tries to initiate an S
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by nfoz 9y ago
Let's suppose that hardware is open-source. How do I know that my instance of the hardware is faithful to the spec? That my vendor didn't modify the hardware? Let's suppose that I have a 3D printer sophisticated enough to p
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by nfoz 9y ago
> these ads that the Dems have been hyping up The post under discussion is an article by Republican senator Lindsey Graham. Here's an interesting example I saw in [1], although I don't know if it was foreign-originating. It&#x
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by nfoz 9y ago
> While these applications are all potentially valid, it seems like each use case would be better served by a native app. That is the threat. They're pushing hard to keep the "open web" competitive with native apps, so th
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by nfoz 9y ago
Thanks. Updated, and probably this thread is off-topic enough that I should just delete it. In my head I had not distinguished between "shutdown" and "sleep", nor decide that the hardware was less to blame than the soft
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by nfoz 9y ago
Hmm, it might be because we run Windows on the macbooks, but you're right -- maybe it didn't fully shut down. Even sleep is pretty disruptive; it takes my machine ~30s of playing-dead before it pops back, and I'm booted from
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by nfoz 9y ago
We had a candidate come in for interviews, and one of them was a video-conference programming session with a remote interviewer. We set them up with a Macbook (running Windows/Bootcamp) for live-coding. The candidate hit the Power but
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by nfoz 9y ago
Yes, it would be very nice if operating systems had a sane (let alone user-friendly!) way to properly, thoroughly sandbox userland applications. It's a large reason why "web applications" became a thing -- it gives you sandbo
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by nfoz 9y ago
This is off-topic, but IMO the biggest failure of GNOME 3 is that it called itself GNOME 3. Sure it was mostly the same community working on a similar project. But they could have used a new name, and made it a separate offering! GNOME2
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by nfoz 9y ago
Are there good examples of non-crony capitalism, when we're discussing markets and populations at this scale? This sounds an awful lot like "authoritarian communism =/= communism".
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by nfoz 10y ago
Why prefer that to having a good set of regulations?
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by nfoz 10y ago
We have "only the word" of everyone with security clearance that they are not leaking secrets to foreign agents. You don't have to be physically present in Russia to provide the Russians with intelligence. I don't know w
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by nfoz 10y ago
Yet here we are, discussing the secret OS that runs on its own chip and can't be disabled by the end-user. The world is a pretty ridiculous place, even with the best efforts of those ridiculous FSF zealots. I don't always agree w
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by nfoz 10y ago
They were only cherry-picking specific innovations that influenced the design of the Switch.
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by nfoz 10y ago
Portable is huge. Those controllers are amazing. Portable motion-control party-games that don't need the screen? That sounds amazing for parties and icebreakers.
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by nfoz 10y ago
They didn't fully learn the lesson of the Superfish fiasco: "X1 Carbon is available with Microsoft Windows 10 Pro Signature Edition. No more trialware or unwanted apps. No more distractions—and easy provisioning for IT pros."

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