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by ploxiln 11y ago
That particular statistic is used for effect, and the article admits it's not the biggest problem: > While big paychecks for those in UC's senior management group — including the president, the chancellors and other top adminis
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by ploxiln 11y ago
alternatively: the whole US can now post and find local classified ads at 10% of the previous cost! That's huge!
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by ploxiln 11y ago
It's funny, but that's true of other categories of "products" as well. Sometimes, you can't really buy things that work well. You have to learn and build yourself, or do without. Another example: security of compute
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by ploxiln 11y ago
Obligatory "no we can't have nice things". Something like this was available to all Discover card users 5 years ago, but a bit hidden on their website, and was discontinued. I think most people prefer to do what's most c
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by ploxiln 11y ago
It's a new kind of incompetent-but-too-big company: "too big for google to not give you free expert security review". Well, it's just for companies that can make google's stuff look bad when they enable users to be
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by ploxiln 11y ago
Boeing's engines for passenger jets are not substantially different than they were 20 years ago, are they? coreutils also got some feature additions, fixes, and optimizations over the years. Aircraft technology may not have been the be
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by ploxiln 11y ago
The overhead is in your management of your dependencies. The size of the module isn't the problem, it's the fact that you end up using so many of them (especially recursively). Consider this specific case. This author moved all th
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by ploxiln 11y ago
So if I understand correctly * npm allows a module to be deleted so all fetches of published name-oldversion fail * npm allows you to take-over the name of a deleted module and publish name-newversion * npm does not allow yo
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by ploxiln 11y ago
"echo" is not versioned and delivered on its own. It's part of gnu coreutils (which contains ~ 100 utilities), or part of various BSD core distributions (more than 100 utilities, plus the kernel and libc), and also built-in t
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by ploxiln 11y ago
It also seems unfair when one's parents lived well within their means and prioritized saving and spending on education, so one's family has to pay all their life savings for university, while a friend's family with the same o
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by ploxiln 11y ago
Somebody just threw the design together with the bare minimum care and effort. Didn't work, tweaked it, seems to work. Ship it. 1 out of 100 short/fail? That means 99 worked fine. WORKED PERFECTLY FINE. If you read HN you probably
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by ploxiln 11y ago
And also, the fact that billions of people could theoretically do what this guy did, is why the cfaa etc. is stupid. If you need to keep billions from making naughty voltage patterns to their modem ... you're doomed. You're just g
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by ploxiln 11y ago
A small-time developer asking a big company to be reasonable practically never works . Likely first response is from a low-paid customer support person who has no idea what you're talking about, likely second response is from an aggre
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by ploxiln 11y ago
That's just for the (non-removable) button in the taskbar. There are in fact a number of different updates related to the upgrade from windows 7 to windows 10.
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by ploxiln 11y ago
On the other hand: this means that it is finally possible to get a laptop with an intel cpu and ECC DRAM! (And I'm guessing, really I hope, that I won't have to look up every xeon laptop part in intel ark to see if it supports vt-
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by ploxiln 11y ago
You can control when updates are installed and when you reboot. I may wait a day or two depending on what I'm in the middle of. Or you could wait a week. Or install the next stable (but not LTS) release in 6 months. Or wait for the nex
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by ploxiln 11y ago
He might mean "uncontrollable feature-change updates indefinitely". That includes nagging for reboots, and if you're not present at the computer I hope you didn't have any long-running jobs in progress. Windows 10 is alm
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by ploxiln 11y ago
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19250001 "Sham acupuncture may be as efficacious as true acupuncture: a systematic review of clinical trials"
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by ploxiln 11y ago
Acupuncture is a very effective placebo (because you can really feel it working). There's a whole complex theory about points all over the body which affect ailments in different parts of the body, also based on personality type, but (
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by ploxiln 11y ago
I thought this kimsufi thing sounded interesting so I looked it up, and ... wow the processors in the systems they offer are old. Where do they even get these things? Must be leftover from OVH? Xeon E5504 - 45nm process, launched 2009
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by ploxiln 11y ago
Theoretically, nvidia.ko never comes in the same dvd / usb-stick / download as the kernel, it's always a separate piece installed by the user later (even if with a helper program). "Super Easy" derivatives of mainst
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by ploxiln 11y ago
Or perhaps he made a more subtle point: you can't replace all C with Rust. Even if you rewrite the libc (you'll need some assembly), even if you rewrite the kernel (you'll need a lot of assembly and "unsafe"), there
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by ploxiln 11y ago
You already have the freedom to run your webservers as mirageos unikernels (with a networking stack written in ocaml). You already have the freedom to write and run everything you want in such an environment. But what you really want, is to
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by ploxiln 11y ago
I don't wear a seat belt on a bus - nobody does, they don't even have them except in elementary school buses.
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by ploxiln 11y ago
use the northern-hemisphere sundial stick, arrange it parallel to the ground and "top" pointed north (or use the southern hemisphere sundial stick and point it south. this just swaps what end the base is on.)
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by ploxiln 11y ago
Soon we'll all be running all our applications in facebook or googleplus or icloud, in a browser, in a virtual machine, on a proprietary-blob-driven all-in-one device. Apps will be announced with huge fanfare (the most innovative thing
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by ploxiln 11y ago
Closed-source and open-source software is different in many ways. One little example is that open source software doesn't need to constantly grow features, it can live on with a slow rate of change for decades and be useful. (examples:
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by ploxiln 11y ago
That makes it sound like the "bug" (lack of support for updating TLS session keys) was known for a long time, and the original "fix" was the client admitting it didn't really fully do TLS 1.2, which based on your ex
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by ploxiln 11y ago
GPS satellites use atomic clocks which don't drift aka don't become 0.1% slower or faster than they should be. OK, technically they drift, but not enough to be noticeable by anyone. They're the standard to which other clock
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by ploxiln 11y ago
GPS satellites themselves use atomic clocks (and to find your position you use their also-broadcast orbital positions and math for the effects of relativity etc)

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