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by ploxiln 10y ago
Embrace and Extend, anyone? (I don't expect anything nefarious, Microsoft doesn't have the power these days to make GVFS the default git client for 90% of developers, it's just amusingly MS style...)
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by ploxiln 10y ago
Adding children is pushing it - because the parent controls the child's money, so there is a conflict of interest.
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by ploxiln 10y ago
You can probably sideload FreeOTP (which is what I use, although I do install it from the play store). A reasonably trustworthy APK download can be found on f-droid: https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=
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by ploxiln 10y ago
I agree, but it's worse than that, with SMS widely used for account recovery. > But 2FA via SMS is ubiquitous because of its ease of use. “Not everyone is running around with a smartphone. Some people still have dumb phones,” says A
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by ploxiln 10y ago
> Chrome developers are crap developers and they hide behind processes because they don't have the chops to do threads. This might undermine the rest of your argument. Chrome developers are pretty damn sharp, and they use processes
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by ploxiln 10y ago
see https://johnlewis.ie/custom-chromebook-firmware/rom-download... for various coreboot for x86-chromebook builds
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by ploxiln 10y ago
I didn't know the Chromebook Pixels ran coreboot, that is indeed a very interesting option!
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by ploxiln 10y ago
PureOS is just a Debian derivative (which attempts to get FSF approval like some other distros). Purism has been talking up their work on a free firmware and disabled ME for two years now. They haven't gotten anything working until now
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by ploxiln 10y ago
Amazingly transparent and honest. Unfortunately, this kind of situation, "only the ideal case ever worked at all", is not uncommon. I've seen it before ... when doing things the right way, dotting 'I's and crossing
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by ploxiln 10y ago
I went to CMU for a BS in EE, I used a lot of verilog, and also a bit of Cadence for layout in one class. But I've worked as a software engineer since then. I totally agree that HDL tools are astonishingly crap. The market is just so m
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by ploxiln 10y ago
> Xcode 8.3 drops support for Swift 2.3. So, if you were holding back on your migration to Swift 3.x, now is the time to make the switch! Python 2.x keeps working pretty well for many large backend-service codebases that need a lot of st
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by ploxiln 10y ago
90s: We can inter network the world with IP! 00s: ISP's won't do SCTP, but TCP and UDP work fine 10s: eh gonna have to use https ...
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by ploxiln 10y ago
She doesn't do statistical studies, no. But I think she has good sense of the relative confidence she can have in "new discoveries" and older institutional knowledge (which also isn't 100%). And sometimes she puts in mor
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by ploxiln 10y ago
You're right, there are differences - medicine is more rigorous (in a sense), processes are more regulated, there's more "standard procedure" which is more specifically taught and widely followed. But doctors screw up al
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by ploxiln 10y ago
Come on now, there is a good amount of scientific evidence, doctors do know some things ... it's just that, if you're not a decent doctor, you can't tell the bullshit from the useful information. My mother is a GP, but I&#x27
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by ploxiln 10y ago
The "green padlock" was not considered enough because users would not be able to differentiate it from a big lock symbol within the page. Thus we got HSTS. (There was a time when browsers would color the entire URL bar yellow to i
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by ploxiln 10y ago
ACME does not include the expected response in the path or query. So it can't be accidentally included in the response. EDIT: quote by Nick Lamb in the discussion linked: > ACME http-01 won't get tripped here because the checke
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by ploxiln 10y ago
But on the plus side: * no MITM attack * no TLS cert errors * no "do I need to hard-refresh? what's the key for that?" * no question if network access is working or not * one reliable clear action to get access
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by ploxiln 10y ago
put the payment url on a sign, just enforce an ip whitelist until customer has paid. Or in extreme sign-less situations put it in the ssid e.g. "pay at portalpage.com"
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by ploxiln 10y ago
I fear this is largely due to modern websites. If you used old Opera on modern websites they would be broken (lack of new features) and still pretty slow. JS and image sizes have gone up exponentially. I remember discussion on Slashdot a de
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by ploxiln 10y ago
> This sounds like a case of the house builder being out of his depth Let's just read the first two sentences of the original story: > It was the fifth house that Craig Morrison built with his own hands, and the last. He had buil
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by ploxiln 10y ago
The compiled result of template-heavy C++ can be very efficient, but the compilation process is notoriously inefficient. Just to be clear :)
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by ploxiln 10y ago
In the open-source-everything world, it's a lot more common to push for and eventually make a fix where the bug is, and then tell people to update or patch. (Though it still doesn't always happen.) In the closed-source and hardwar
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by ploxiln 10y ago
PHK's post, which inspired this, assumes that the process is swapping. It describes writing an page to disk to free up that page, then reading in the anonymous page of data that needs to be used for the write() system call the process
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by ploxiln 10y ago
No coffee is drinkable for me when served, it's always at a temperature that will burn my tongue and gums. I always have to cool it down. A lot of people apparently like coffee hot, so they can take it to work or wherever and it's
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by ploxiln 10y ago
"please explain it to me" is almost rhetorical - what is there to explain? Was it molten salt, or some other substance besides water? Was it really plain honest H2O just below the natural boiling point at that altitude? How could
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by ploxiln 10y ago
Checksums of source tarballs is a feature in practically all distributions. I'm familiar specifically with Arch Linux (example PKGBUILD https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/P...
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by ploxiln 10y ago
It's probably not the same people making these comments, but it's funny to juxtapose "these web technologies are plenty fast, and size is no issue" and "I need 32GB ram + 4 real cores on my macbook for serious web d
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by ploxiln 10y ago
Those are summaries of summaries of branches of commits. Actual commit and merge messages all have good titles and descriptions. full list: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/l
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by ploxiln 10y ago
Not much, maybe once a month. One thing I vaguely recall is the sequence and error handling of some service caching, writing to a database, and putting a message on a queue. Obviously it wasn't about "curlies in the right place&qu

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