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by pja 10y ago
That’s the bit that’s entirely unproven. Something might be happening around that concentration. Or maybe it’s just experimental error (again). But it is interesting that you can cram so much Hydrogen (or Deuterium) into close proximity b
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by pja 10y ago
That’s for compression only isn’t it? I think lzma decompression requires a max of ~64Mb. (Checks manpage) Yup: Preset DictSize CompCPU CompMem DecMem -0 256 KiB 0 3 MiB 1 MiB -1 1 MiB 1
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by pja 10y ago
Two signatures: one on the compressed APK which is used on the initial install & one for the concatenation of the uncompressed data which is used to check in-place upgrades. Obviously the diffs themselves also need to be signed in some
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by pja 10y ago
Instead of faffing about re-compressing all the App data in order to compare signatures, wouldn’t it would be simpler to store two signatures alongside each App in the first place: one for the compressed version & one for the uncompress
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by pja 10y ago
Not that dangerous. I don’t think there’s been a bell-ringing death in my lifetime, although I have heard of the very occasional nasty accident. (My partner has rung church bells all her life & is very plugged in to this world. I’ll h
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by pja 10y ago
Plus there’s at least one bell foundry in France. (In Villedieu-les-Pouelles in Brittany: http://www.cornille-havard.com/ )
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by pja 10y ago
Yeah, but if you’re programming in Python then speed isn’t exactly high on your language feature priority list is it?
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by pja 10y ago
It’s completely normal in my experience for programs developed on windows to have to install the appropriate Microsoft C++ or C runtime that the binary was linked against. Ever installed a game from Steam? Half of them will insist on downlo
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by pja 10y ago
OK, so why is the most common document something to do with the Turkish 2012 elections? (If the rough Google Translate is to be believed...) Weird...
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by pja 10y ago
We're bigger now, but our market has changed dramatically and we'll need to pivot/diversify successfully in order to avoid fading away in 2-3 years. So effectively you’re asking whether you would invest a big share of your
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by pja 10y ago
Well, you’re in a negotiation. Either you buy your wife out of her share of the business based on current valuations or you can transfer half of your share holding in the business to her, if the latter is even possible. Or something in betw
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by pja 10y ago
That’s a rucksack cover, not a rucksack.
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by pja 10y ago
Even the fact that this is a serious possibility is an indictment of the machinery of US elections it seems to me. A free and fair democracy pretty much depends on the trustworthiness of it’s electoral process.
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A Truly Fancy Bear: Did Trump Win Because Russia Hacked the Election?(medium.com)
3 points by pja 10y ago|2 comments
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by pja 10y ago
Off-topic, but I opened this page without any tracking or ad-blocking & after about 30 seconds of reading, was treated to two video adverts which were off-screen but playing audio at the same time. One would have been obnoxious enough
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by pja 10y ago
Banks have legal constraints on doing that (the need to record all employee communications) which might have made life difficult in this particular case. I agree in general that the mail sysadmins ideally ought to be able to nip this kind o
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by pja 10y ago
How much does calculating the approx time of posting for every comment add to the total load? If it’s significant then you could ship the UTC posting time to the client & calculate the displayed value in Javascript & eliminate that
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by pja 10y ago
Yup. I could also see an Elizabeth Warren / Joe Biden ticket doing well against Trump. This article in Current Affairs turns out to be prophetic: http://static.currentaffairs.org/2016/02/unless-the-democrat...
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by pja 10y ago
Yeah, they must have found a way to add payees to the online system without needing 2FA, or else they were able to spoof the 2FA in an automated fashion. If Tesco was using SMS as a 2FA (don’t do this! it isn’t secure) then perhaps they had
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by pja 10y ago
The data rate over USB2 after accounting for overheads is a lot faster than 100Mbit, so it’s not entirely pointless - you would be able to serve cache files faster for instance. But as soon as you have anything else hitting that bus, your r
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by pja 10y ago
Yeah, on the Pi the ethernet is still hanging off the USB2 bus. That wouldn’t be too bad if the various ports had their own buses, but unfortunately everything is hanging off a single usb interface coming out of the core cpu, so although th
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by pja 10y ago
Manual conversion to a loop also destroys the same information, so it’s a wash either way on that front.
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by pja 10y ago
Equally a strong resale market should encourage people to try them out because the risk factor is relatively low. Don’t get on with it / use it? Sell it on & only have to eat a relatively small proportion of the price you paid.
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by pja 10y ago
Tom Scott was very positive about the new GoPro Hero5 fwiw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTx9lYpfWSg
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by pja 10y ago
Unfortunately it was a clear result, but not a decent majority. Makes life difficult for everyone...
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by pja 10y ago
The following works in the UK, but weirdly only for some seraches: Search for "item of choice" in top search bar. When the results come up, scroll down until you can see the "Seller" section on the LHS. Tick the box at t
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by pja 10y ago
And why can't fulfilled by Amazon actually be on the product description ! That’s weird. In the UK it absolutely is: you can tell on the product page whether you’re buying something sold by Amazon themselves or "fulfilled by Ama
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by pja 10y ago
Square rig sails allow you to run with the wind more efficiently / quickly. Horses for courses...or in this case, sail rigs for the sailing you expect to be doing.
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by pja 10y ago
But the parts they do need are quite high up the tech stack: decent quality bearings being the most obvious.
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by pja 10y ago
No, the implication is that your abusive partner, or perhaps a stalker, might turn your IoT devices against you & use them to watch you in your own home. It’s easy for people to be completely oblivious to this reality if they have never

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