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by peeters 8y ago
The main question I have is about financing. If Elon owns 20% of the company now, and he doesn't intend for that to change, and he is giving the option of public shareholders to sell at $420, then who is financing this? Usually a pri
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by peeters 8y ago
> there is a wider range of values to ascribe to changes in temperature from 60F-100F or approx 16-38C And why is that important? Are our bodies so finely tuned that it's important to know the difference between 104 and 105 F? Even
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by peeters 8y ago
Last decade or so? Chrome still supports Flash, you just need to enable it on a per-site basis. And it's been less than two years since they enabled it by default.
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by peeters 8y ago
I'm not sure it's an issue with them not understanding, but rather straight up physics. It's an engineering marvel to get the components into the 15" as they do. Now try cramming that same tech into 77% of the space.
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by peeters 8y ago
Then make it an option, or risk losing the segment. When my company gave me a 2015 MBP I was really impressed with it, it seemed like the perfect hardware. I knew when I upgraded my personal laptop it'd be a Macbook Pro. Then they sta
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by peeters 8y ago
Reasons my self-hosted servers have gone down in the past year: - Scheduled electrical maintenance that facilities manager failed to disclose (even though they knew about it for weeks). - Emergency power-down because two of the four air con
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by peeters 8y ago
Yeah sorry if I wasn't clear, in Gradle the build script is written in Groovy. It is used to build any number of project types.
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by peeters 8y ago
Do they hate the package management or the build tool? Maven introduced a new package format (the Project Object Model, pom.xml) at the same time as introducing a very declarative build tool. The really confusing part is that the two are c
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by peeters 8y ago
This isn't a native feature of Java serialization. Class implementations are not included in the serialized data. > How do closures get shipped around? > Every closure is an object of a particular class. When the closure is bein
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by peeters 8y ago
> bcrypt is constant-time, not because it truncates at 72 characters. It's constant-time, because it slurps the password and salt once into the state (initial setup) And why do you think that initial setup is constant-time? Because
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by peeters 8y ago
> Unless you bcrypt(base64(sha-256(password))), which is a common approach. If we acknowledge that pre-hashing is acceptable (and almost certainly more secure) for bcrypt, why can't we allow the same for shacrypt? If we do, all of
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by peeters 8y ago
Edit: I stand corrected, the summary in the link below didn't agree with the more detailed steps it went into below. While the hash is used as the input to the next round, it is (for reasons beyond my understanding) repeated if necess
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by peeters 8y ago
> What this clearly demonstrates, is that the only factor driving execution time, is the number of iterations you apply to the password, before delivering the final password hash. Isn't the reason this is true that bcrypt just trunc
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by peeters 8y ago
I feel like you're being purposefully reductive here. You know they're different right? The entire value proposition (and marketing strategy) of Alexa and related devices is that they are voice activated, so you don't have t
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by peeters 8y ago
Ah but now we're at the crux of the issue; in Javascript, hovercrafts grow in size to accommodate as many eels as you put in, but to a maximum of ~4 billion. So "full" is not a question you can ask of your hovercraft, though
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by peeters 8y ago
> The expected value of Nb would still be 50 if all the prisoners checked the same subset of boxes, but the chance of the prisoners surviving would clearly be 0. Yes I should have expanded. The probability of escape is ∏ (i = 1..N) Ni &
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by peeters 9y ago
> I suspect the chances are still negligible for 100 prisoners though. I think from a probabilistic standpoint, they're equivalent as n increases. Think of it as the inverse; what's the probability each box is checked by its o
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by peeters 9y ago
Also their cousin; those that allow programmatic entry/pasting, but then detect whether the user has provided a value based on keystroke listeners rather than current field value. So you still need to hit space+backspace in the field
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by peeters 9y ago
Common mistake, but lawn bowling is very different than bocce. Bocce balls are uniform spheres that you can either roll or lob. They travel in a straight line. Lawn bowling balls are oblate spheroids that are weighted on one side so that
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by peeters 9y ago
Canada has won medals in men's and women's curling every year since they reintroduced it in 1998. 2018 was actually the first year we didn't, winning only in the new mixed doubles event. The Swedish women have medalled in a
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by peeters 9y ago
This kind of makes me want to make a site that will show the current solar time of the ISS. i.e. when the ISS is between the Earth and Sun it's 12:00, on the opposite side it's midnight. And show what time sunrise and sunset are
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by peeters 9y ago
Assuming the feds don't change on their end, what's stopping Florida from joining Atlantic Time (and declining D.S.T.)? I looked at 15 USC 261-264 which defines the time zones, but except for some exceptions about Idaho and Texas
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by peeters 9y ago
Because daylight has positive effects on most people's wellbeing?
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by peeters 9y ago
I had a heck of a time at my previous workplace being comfortable; tried different sitting positions, standing part of the day, etc. Then I came to my current workplace which had Aeron chairs. I don't even think about how I'm sit
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by peeters 9y ago
This is exactly what has happened in Ontario. But a lot of that has come from boneheaded contracts that the government signed, which guaranteed payment for capacity, not usage. So the more demand falls, the more we pay per kWh, because th
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by peeters 9y ago
> practis[sic]ing magic. You don't need to add [sic] when it's correct (this is a British news site).
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by peeters 9y ago
Is it reductive for me to say that we're finally getting the GridBagLayout that I was using for Java Swing UIs 15 years ago?
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by peeters 9y ago
> Burger King restaurants are independent franchisees but the brand is owned by Restaurant Brands International, based in Ontario, Canada. While it's true that the headquarters is in Ontario, RBI is majority owned by 3G Capital out
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by peeters 9y ago
Administrative segregation is a legislated tool used for various problems within institutions, such as violence within the penitentiary. It's a flawed and now thankfully unconstitutional tool, but it is the established tool nonetheles
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by peeters 9y ago
> More people would vote if Election Day were a holiday. That's the premise. Do we know it's true? If people are going to work, they're at least mobile that day. Give people a free day off and some percentage won't

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