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by nybble41 4y ago
> I've lived in a few states, in a few rural areas and sometimes storms would knock power lines down for a handful of days. I don't remember any 7 day stretches, but 2-4 days was not uncommon. A derecho[0] hit in my area (easte
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by nybble41 4y ago
A slightly more charitable interpretation would be that they are trying to use a standard contract with terms which are both reasonable and enforceable in most contexts, while allowing for the fact that the rules about precisely what is or
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by nybble41 4y ago
It's not either/or but rather both. Software (like all other math) shouldn't be patentable, and the "ordinary skill in the art" test is entirely broken / almost absent in that domain.
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by nybble41 4y ago
Applying the first solution consistently causes text strings to appear like "dlrow olleH", which IMHO is not very practical. In general we expect array elements, including byte and character arrays, to be listed in the locale&#x27
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by nybble41 4y ago
> Or could even just check if the account is "appreview@apple.com" and show different content, theres not a good way to prevent it. One would hope they'd do their app testing with regular user accounts designed to blend
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by nybble41 4y ago
> Firefox HTTPS only mode does not upgrade local IP addresses or reserved local "TLDs" like .local. If machines on your "local network" are squatting on a public IP… It could be one of your public IP addresses—more
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by nybble41 4y ago
The router is the least of your problems. Consider all the devices connected to those routers which don't recognize 127/8 addresses as anything but loopback—some of which may never receive updates at all, never mind actually get
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by nybble41 4y ago
> In BE, bit n has value 2^(k-n) … Bit numbering does not necessarily follow byte numbering. Personally I favor BE byte-order—if only because it means a standard hex dump shows the bytes in normal reading order regardless of grouping, wh
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by nybble41 4y ago
> If a site has prices stored on the frontend and a user edits the price to make it lower, do you think the user has a legal basis to receive the item at their new specified price? There was a case like that in the early days of online s
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by nybble41 4y ago
> With a UBI funded by an income tax you're never worse off earning more. Provided you can earn more without putting in any more effort; otherwise marginal effort eventually exceeds marginal net income, and the income tax shifts tha
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by nybble41 4y ago
As I said: > That doesn't mean we paralyze ourselves with inaction or always prioritize marginal improvements to safety (even others' safety) over all other concerns. Frankly I don't care if a (private) road owner wants to
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by nybble41 4y ago
Obviously I can't. The same goes for the case where my car with auto braking kills you—auto braking reduces the risk slightly but doesn't offer absolute protection. Either way the liability for your death is mine as the operat
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by nybble41 4y ago
> does UPnP cover IPv6 firewall like scenario? The miniupnpd UPnP daemon (used e.g. by OpenWRT) includes code[0] to handle IPv6 "pinhole" requests—not port forwarding, which isn't required for IPv6, but rather just opening
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by nybble41 4y ago
If you really want to block all incoming connections by default on your own network you can. Personally I think if a reasonably capable (i.e. non-IoT) host opens up a port to accept incoming connections, and there isn't a specific rule
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by nybble41 4y ago
There is no negative externality merely from not having a safety feature. There would only be a negative externality if there were actually a situation where someone was harmed due to the lack of a safety feature (or any other reason, reall
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by nybble41 4y ago
> If someone does something really strange, we have to interpret it as a rational action in a strange value system? Pretty much, yes. That's the only way you get any useful information. Look, everyone knows that people sometimes mak
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by nybble41 4y ago
I have a custom system in place for IPv4 to update AWS Route53 based on this script[0] which I could easily extend to update my AAAA records at the same time, but I prefer a stable IP address. Dynamic DNS (v4 or v6) has a tendency to break
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by nybble41 4y ago
> Not making them mandatory means they remain expensive extras, more expensive than if required on all cars. If they were rare they might be more expensive, but otherwise it's the same system and will cost about the same amount to
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by nybble41 4y ago
The article says each operation gets a unique note, but I wonder how the notes were selected? It would be interesting to apply some musical theory to the process so that, for example, operations which normally run together form pleasing cor
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by nybble41 4y ago
> Which is a good idea because if such a safety feature remains optional, many people won't opt for it. Making them mandatory saves lives. On the other hand, making them mandatory makes cars more expensive, which means (especially d
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by nybble41 4y ago
> NAT gets replaced with a stateful gateway still doing conntrack… Yeah, blocking incoming connections by default is a bad habit and needs to stop. It's fine for untrusted devices or private VLANs which shouldn't be accepting
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by nybble41 4y ago
The point of having a static IPv6 address would be that you can use regular DNS, not dynamic DNS. With dynamic DNS you have to use a short TTL, increasing the load on the DNS server, and even then it will break occasionally due to caching w
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by nybble41 4y ago
Hurricane Electric is great. These days my ISP offers IPv6 via 6rd, but since it's a dynamic prefix (tied to the dynamic IPv4 address) I still maintain the HE tunnel for a static IPv6 prefix while routing most traffic over 6rd. The rou
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by nybble41 4y ago
> I certainly don't want ingress from the public Internet to devices on my home network in the general case This is a job for a firewall. NAT is not a firewall. You can easily filter incoming connections to untrusted devices when us
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by nybble41 4y ago
Right, your legal peers are members of the same social class (commoner, aristocracy, royalty), not people who work in the same field. In the US there is only one official social class, so everyone is your peer. There does seem to be an issu
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by nybble41 4y ago
> … prosecutorial discretion is an important safety mechanism to prevent people in odd edge cases … from getting unjustly maimed by the legal apparatus. I agree, but there needs to be a mostly-automatic mechanism whereby repeated exercis
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by nybble41 4y ago
I'm fine with considering it a tautology, as that implies you're using the correct definition for "rational actor" and the correct perspective (i.e., theirs) for evaluating the expected effect on their well-being. The pr
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by nybble41 4y ago
The governments are the only ones to blame. They created copyright privileges, and they have the power to revoke them but thus far have failed to do so. Everything negatively impacted by copyright is their fault. Though in the case of the
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by nybble41 4y ago
People are rational actors at optimizing their own well-being, as they see it. That holds in all cases but it isn't very helpful to the politicians. What breaks is trying to get people to optimize for some other factor by manipulating
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by nybble41 4y ago
> In my own specialty (industrial organization) unsolved problems which would be of interest to readers here include optimal regulation of platforms and two-sided markets. Theory and empirics are difficult, so regulators are to some exte

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