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by pingyong 7y ago
That makes me wonder how we would get the energy from there back to earth. I mean we already have a for current purposes infinite energy source right at our doorsteps (the sun), we just need to harvest it.
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by pingyong 7y ago
>definitive sink to send all of our nuclear waste That seems like a lot of effort when you can just send it to nowhere and it will very, very, very likely never hit anything, ever.
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by pingyong 7y ago
Air is gonna do fine. The bottleneck in CPU cooling right now is pretty much always the transfer between the die, the heat spreader and the cooling plate, not the transfer from the fins to the air. Water cooling can do slightly better becau
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by pingyong 7y ago
The Cloudflare DNS servers you connect to are in the EU and are subject to EU regulation just like your ISP. You don't have 11 ms (or anything sub-~90 ms) latency to the US. One thing to consider also is that unencrypted DNS means that
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by pingyong 7y ago
Hmm, interesting. Unfortunately I wasn't planning on compiling VLC myself, but maybe I should.
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by pingyong 7y ago
Of course one device can be tracked. But not every CPU can be tracked, I consider that quite infeasible indeed. If you already know the target, and know that target is looking to buy a new PC/laptop, you can feed it a specific CPU, sur
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by pingyong 7y ago
>(inb4 mpv, mpc-hc, potplayer is better...) Well mpv can play full-range videos with correct colors... ;) But for everything that isn't a full-range video, I usually prefer VLC. So thanks!
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by pingyong 7y ago
The protocol they use is open and very reliable, and it can be verified relatively easily from the outside that this is the protocol they're using. If you enable backups in WhatsApp those backups aren't stored on Facebook's s
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by pingyong 7y ago
> https://blog.invisiblethings.org/papers/2015/x86_harmful.pdf The author dismisses CPU-level backdoors in favor of Intel ME backdoors mainly on the basis that, since CPUs can't save state, they can't
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by pingyong 7y ago
Why do I always get the impression that getting into an elite university is harder than getting a degree there once you're already in?
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by pingyong 7y ago
You can't be sure anyway though? The only thing that router controls are standard DNS queries, probably sent through a standard port. If they're using anything different at all, the router won't catch it, even if it's no
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by pingyong 7y ago
If the device is a black box, you don't even need key exchanges though? You can just send encrypted data with a pre-configured, unique, randomly generated (for the device) key to a hard-coded IP-address. And even if you don't want
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by pingyong 7y ago
But it doesn't list those projects? Or does nobody take a closer look at them before inviting them? I mean if they can't solve a problem like that, they couldn't have made anything remotely useful, right?
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by pingyong 7y ago
It's pretty stupid to compare a unique_ptr with a deleter that contains state to a pointer - obviously those two things are completely different and the unique_ptr contains way more information.
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by pingyong 7y ago
Pretty sure you can't make destructors with macros?
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by pingyong 7y ago
I honestly just wonder if this was ever discussed in any court, because I've never heard of it. Like how much data has to be sent before it's distribution of copyrighted material. You could really go either way with this. Either 0
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by pingyong 7y ago
How do they get that far, does their resume look good?
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by pingyong 7y ago
He means 2k per month, but with a 4-day work week, so probably 32 hours. Not sure if that is supposed to be before or after taxes tough, if it's before taxes, ouch.
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by pingyong 7y ago
Yeah that was exactly my point. Here in Germany tons of people pirate things that aren't available too. Like if something is on US Netflix but not available here, well people are gonna pirate it. If 10 seasons of a show are available o
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by pingyong 7y ago
Honestly the rules aren't that difficult (applying them might be). You just have to answer quickly (either with "sorry no" or even with "you're in consideration", really anything), not hearing from people for w
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by pingyong 7y ago
Is it really the first byte? I am from Germany so I've always wondered how this is actually handled. Like 1 byte isn't really unique or identifiable information, there are only 256 different bytes after all. People send this byte
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by pingyong 7y ago
Somehow I doubt countries are going to start sanctioning Switzerland because they don't play ball on copyright regulations.
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by pingyong 7y ago
People did actually have to pay those fines in Germany for a while. It was pretty insane. There were even house searches where the police confiscated everything electronic they could find, potentially for months. It's not as bad anymor
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by pingyong 7y ago
In this specific case though, what are they gonna do? Stop selling media in Switzerland?
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by pingyong 7y ago
You mention exercises first and problems second. I completely agree on exercises. It's not that you can't solve them, but obviously you're way faster when you've solved what is essentially the same exercise 50 times befo
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by pingyong 7y ago
Nobody even learns how to derive any formula in high school. The teacher might show it once (if even that), but then everyone just forgets it and applies the formula like a robot. Same with chain rule, integration by substitution, or anythi
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by pingyong 7y ago
Isn't 1TB / month fairly average for heavy users? AFAIK many US data caps are at 1 TB. At 30 TB I'd say it is "literally unlimited".
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by pingyong 7y ago
I'm guessing something the devs haven't thought of. As soon as you hit 10k+ users, chances are people are doing things you didn't expect.
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by pingyong 7y ago
The PayPal section doesn't mention that they have a 20 character limit too. I honestly wonder what kind of buffoons are in charge of making this shit up at multi-million dollar companies.
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by pingyong 7y ago
>Nobody wants to update their browser this frequently Uhh really? Pretty sure "most people" don't even notice when their browser updates.

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