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by pcl 10y ago
"Overall quality of life" can mean a lot of different things, depending on how you measure. Do you mean the arithmetic mean, the median, the quality of life of all members of the population, or something else? And while we'
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by pcl 10y ago
Vouching to shed light on what seems to be the cause of a lot of dead comments. (SM4's comment was marked as dead when I viewed it.)
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by pcl 10y ago
That's what e-mail marketing companies do. ... and that, in turn, is why so many IPs have poor reputations.
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Christa Quarles of OpenTable: The Advantage of ‘Early, Often, Ugly’(nytimes.com)
1 points by pcl 10y ago|0 comments
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by pcl 10y ago
From reading the article, it sounds like the human did detect the vehicle, and that's what prevented a collision.
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by pcl 10y ago
Cache link: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:bBMzhiV...
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by pcl 10y ago
Agreed that unencrypted signed static assets provide a vehicle for activity monitoring. Your statement can be misinterpreted to imply that merely by encrypting all traffic, such analysis can be prevented. There's plenty of metadata in
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by pcl 10y ago
One way would be to re-direct cacheable assets to HTTPS, thus foiling edge caching and increasing load on the origin server. In general, caching is a big problem with the naive approach to "HTTPS everywhere." A mechanism to delive
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by pcl 10y ago
There's a pretty big difference between a military banning active-duty soldiers from using it and a country banning its use across the board.
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by pcl 10y ago
I moved that image around to sort by mortality in both columns. Somehow it makes more sense to me this way. https://www.dropbox.com/s/rya23mkfihb4ma3/hyU8ohq-reordered....
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by pcl 10y ago
Toughness is a new term for me. From [1]: Hardness is a characteristic of a solid material expressing its resistance to permanent deformation. The Rockwell or Vickers hardness scales are most commonly used in the industrial blade industry.
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Evolution Is Happening Faster Than We Thought(nytimes.com)
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by pcl 10y ago
The latest iOS 9 and 10 builds appear to be patched.
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by pcl 10y ago
I hadn't heard about pebble jams as a problem in pebble-bed reactors. Here's a link to (scant) details about that German event: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble-bed_reactor#1986_accide...
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by pcl 10y ago
As it turns out, helium (and hydrogen) will escape Earth's atmosphere, so there's not a whole lot up there either. Here's a great Quora post on the escape process: https://www.quora.com/What-makes-hydrogen-and
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by pcl 10y ago
We maintain and check SHAs of the dependencies for that reason.
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by pcl 10y ago
Going from memory, we do something like this: For WARs: In a mvn build step: - identify candidate dependencies to exclude from the WAR. This includes a filter step to keep internal dependencies in the WEB-INF dir. - generate a JSON manifest
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by pcl 10y ago
Getting it open-sourced has been a bit of a back-burner thing; I'll see if I can stoke the fires a bit.
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by pcl 10y ago
Cool! We've been doing something similar with public Maven repositories as the backing store. Jonathan: if you're listening, have you guys looked at Maven as a source instead of an S3 upload? What percentage of your dependencies a
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by pcl 10y ago
The article has a link to another article that's more focused on the notion of a "drug court" [1] itself. I hadn't heard of the term either, but from the sound of it, the drug court runs / oversees a highly-structur
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by pcl 10y ago
OT, but I greatly appreciate that you put your post summary at the top instead of at the bottom. I don't need a tldr summary at the end... Was that a result of learning about executive summaries in your MBA program, or just something y
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by pcl 10y ago
In fact, reducing jams results in faster typing when using a device susceptible to jamming. Now that our keyboards don't jam, we can move on from that local maximum.
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by pcl 10y ago
I only ever worked down in the basement, and visited via the corporate sponsorship avenues, so I'm just repeating what I've heard. Have never worked with him directly.
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by pcl 10y ago
When I was at the Media Lab <mumble> years ago, his group was perceived internally as one of the top groups, and everyone I knew who worked in his group had great things to say about him.
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by pcl 10y ago
That's one of the goals of HSTS itself, but preloading designed to allow secure-only communications when establishing a connection to a hitherto-unused site, so that MITM attacks can't simply provide their own certs on first conne
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by pcl 10y ago
Do those bypasses apply for HSTS-preloaded certs as well? My understanding is that the intention of HSTS preloading is to address this sort of attack, but haven't dug through the browser code to see what's happening in standard di
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by pcl 10y ago
This is why HSTS pre-loading is so important: https://hstspreload.appspot.com
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by pcl 10y ago
When Harvard Professor of Energy Daniel G. Nocera announced he was working with bacteria last year, other scientists cautioned it would be difficult to achieve a productive level of efficiency. At the time, Nocera was aiming for 5 percent
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by pcl 10y ago
Yes, but the language chosen implied to me that it's using a stop-the-world approach. I've confirmed this by looking at the (surprisingly readable and small) code: http://www.ulisp.com/list?1BWZ Also, it looks lik
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by pcl 10y ago
uLisp includes a mark and sweep garbage collector. Garbage collection takes under 1 msec on an Arduino Uno or under 3 msec on an Arduino Mega 2560. I wonder how predictable and controllable that is. Adding GC to what is likely to be a rea

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