ploxiln

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1201.
by ploxiln 13y ago
That's true, if you plug in a usb flash storage device, windows has the standard class driver locally and installs it without any requirement on internet access. Same with standard keyboards and mice. But compare to linux. On windows,
1202.
by ploxiln 13y ago
The gay rights issue is much more complicated than "oppose gay mariage == EVIL". A huge number of people supported the proposition - a really huge number. Do you think they all were bad people? Do you think this particular, say, 3
1203.
by ploxiln 13y ago
And there's things you can't measure, like long-term reputation and habit forming. I think long-term reputation is how a lot of good startups become successful against big, organized, optimizing companies.
1204.
by ploxiln 13y ago
Thanks for writing this article, I really liked it. I've similarly had frustrations with /dev/random. I could probably live with /dev/random and /dev/urandom as they are, except that /dev/urandom
1205.
by ploxiln 13y ago
Yeah, funny world - once one decent internet provider pops up in an area (Grande, presumably, and now the thread of Google Fiber too), all the other classic providers seem to provide the best service they offer throughout the country. AT&am
1206.
by ploxiln 13y ago
Yeah - so your stripped and dynamically linked executable is just about as large as a statically built one... and yours still has to link glibc. I can build busybox (a multi-call all-in-one executable, use symlinks to refer to the binary wi
1207.
by ploxiln 13y ago
Libertarianism has a lot of morality, it's just a different morality. That morality is to maximize independence of each individual. Obviously that's not a promotion of murder, nor a neutrality against murder (as an example of one
1208.
by ploxiln 13y ago
Yes, but, trivial c programs statically linked with glibc can be in the ballpark of 500KiB, trivial c programs statically linked with uclibc or similar can be in the ballpark of 100KiB, and trivial go programs (always statically compiled) c
1209.
by ploxiln 13y ago
If scammers can get people to open the developer console and paste code, they can get them to install the "developer tools extension" and then open the console and paste code. Add all the warnings you want, the scammer will say &q
1210.
by ploxiln 13y ago
The article claims that when you look for specific loans, you're being fooled: the loans have already been made, and the interest rates listed are inaccurate. Quote: Kiva’s initial attraction was that it was a peer-to-peer lender, but
1211.
by ploxiln 13y ago
there are no unit files, but there are units: [plo@plo-air ~]$ systemctl --all | grep plym plymouth-quit-wait.service masked inactive dead plymouth-q
1212.
by ploxiln 13y ago
I've used systemd on Arch Linux for about a year now. It wasn't the end of the world, I can deal with it, but it's not fun. I'm bothered by seemingly built-in units that have no corresponding unit files, which all defaul
1213.
by ploxiln 13y ago
man pages start with the function prototypes, that's your "quick summary". Near the end there can be an examples section, and many man pages have one. If I run "man 3 open" I see a reasonable examples section. I lik
1214.
by ploxiln 13y ago
You'd be wrong. About 2 years ago, Netflix switched to using Level3 as their primary ISP. The peering between Comcast and Level3 became saturated, and Comcast declined to increase bandwidth at the peering point without being paid, and
1215.
by ploxiln 13y ago
your reasonable response reminds me that my tone is excessively harsh... sorry :)
1216.
by ploxiln 13y ago
You, sir, are quite wrong. Traffic shaping, counting packets per user in the bus, is not deep packet inpection. Intercepting port 53 and replying on behalf of the real owner of the destination ip is seep packet inspection. Also, blocking a
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by ploxiln 13y ago
In my opinion, anti-virus should be turned off and uninstalled. AV software kills performance, and has false positives and false negatives all the time, and just screws up systems all the time. It's really not worth it; you're goi
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by ploxiln 13y ago
Yes, unless you manage to do a form post in an iframe or something like that... which every web developer does to "make it work" in safari http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/02/16/google.al