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by rchowe 10y ago
The reasoning behind this made a lot more sense to me once I started to do a back-of-the-envelope calculation. There can't have been that many end users who had Windows 10 Pro and went into group policy to turn off the store. So you&#x
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by rchowe 10y ago
It probably just means more i3/i5-based tablets, which will probably end up being a good thing anyway, since the push to optimize for weak processors that there was on the iOS/Android side wasn't really there on the Windows s
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by rchowe 11y ago
For most of the (new) equipment procurement the MBTA does now, they actually own the specifications for the equipment, which means that if they want to make more, they put out an RFP for companies to manufacture new equipment based on their
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by rchowe 11y ago
There's actually a very good reason. Windows XP has been officially unsupported by Microsoft for about two years now unless you are willing to pay them a quarter million dollars a year. Often the computers spec'd for those systems
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by rchowe 11y ago
I wonder if ReactOS could target the same APIs as the upcoming Nano Server [1] in Windows Server 2016. They'd have to make it entirely 64-bit and implement some closed Microsoft protocols like WMI and DISM, but it could be a pretty coo
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by rchowe 11y ago
I agree that it is way too difficult to manage a bunch of monthly subscriptions, and also that having to put my credit card information into a website (and have it bill me every month) is basically as bad if not worse as putting up with the
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by rchowe 11y ago
The latter seems more accurate. Although 23andme can't provide you with a health analysis, they still provide you with their entire panel in raw data, which you can upload to other services such as Enlis and get effectively the same he
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by rchowe 11y ago
I think that the most important part of the article is the following quote in the introduction: > probabilities may not be well defined if the mechanism or method that produces the random variable is not clearly defined. So comparing the
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by rchowe 11y ago
I would be suspicious of this too, since I believe a lot of New England gets its power from Hydro-Québec (from their HVDC lines) and nuclear sources. Even normalized per capita, Vermont should have one of the lowest carbon footprints, which
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by rchowe 12y ago
It would be really cool if you could add SSL encryption by default once some service like Lets Encrypt [1] which issues SSL certificates if you can prove your domain name launches. Not sure how this jives with their terms of use though. [1]
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by rchowe 12y ago
I would also assume that mail fraud is easier to investigate than telephone fraud.
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by rchowe 12y ago
This was exactly what Microsoft tried to do with the Surface Pro and Surface RT. The Surface RT hardware was very well made, however it only ran Metro-style Windows apps, so the only piece of big-name software for it ended up being Office.
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by rchowe 12y ago
I believe the intent of the parent poster was actually correct. SSL client certificates [1] are a way to securely authenticate (i.e. login) by using a certificate which you control the key to in addition to the normal SSL certificate for th
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by rchowe 12y ago
If you don't actually check the fingerprint of the key matches the fingerprint you were given (in some other secure way, such as walking over to the server), then yes, a first-visit MITM is possible.
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by rchowe 12y ago
It's probably still valuable for Microsoft to have an east coast presence, especially if it allows them to recruit from Boston-area tech schools, MIT especially.
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by rchowe 12y ago
Would it be possible to read a value from the array and do something with it (e.g. send it to /dev/null)? Even a JIT shouldn't be able to optimize the value out if you're actually using the value, and as long as you&#x27
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by rchowe 12y ago
If I recall correctly, most dealerships won't actually charge you that much more to custom-order a car, because the car won't be sitting on their lot for very long compared to the cars they have to keep in stock and hope they sell
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by rchowe 12y ago
I'm not too versed in this argument, so could someone please explain why Netflix's activities aren't covered by the normal peering agreements that make the "internet backbone" work? Doesn't Netflix pay it'
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by rchowe 13y ago
From just looking at their website, it seems that they're going to run afoul of banking/money services regulations in nearly every country, if it is not shut down by VISA first. 1. I don't know much about countries other than
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by rchowe 13y ago
To me, it seems useful in cases where the style is a part of the meaning of the symbol. This mostly comes up in mathematics, where a letter represented in fraktur or blackboard bold has some semantically different meaning, and this meaning
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by rchowe 13y ago
Honestly I think that, like version control, time estimation can be a very useful feature for people working on a project alone if they use something like Joel Spolsky's evidence-based scheduling[1]. It would be nice if GitHub provided
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by rchowe 15y ago
I am a self-proclaimed introvert. I tend to think about small "mistakes" I made socially and how I could have done better. However, I enjoy being around people, just a small group of people all of whom I know. I like to be engaged in a conv
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by rchowe 15y ago
AirDrop is great at college: most people have macs where I go to school and don't know what fileshares are. "go to this icon in your sidebar and press accept" is much easier than putting it on a fileshare.
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by rchowe 15y ago
Remember that as time goes on drive space prices fall as well. If you build backblaze storage pods[1] a petabyte over 3 years costs you a little under 100k. If we assume the average email user uses around half a gigabyte[2], we can accommod
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by rchowe 15y ago
And conveniently it means that mac app store apps can't be java apps, which leads to them being better integrated and (slightly) higher quality.
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by rchowe 15y ago
I find it interesting that this is a reversal from the days of the spatial finder[1] in OS 9: Apple is implementing the spatial metaphor and people don't want it compared to when they took the metaphor away and people complained. [1] I can'
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by rchowe 15y ago
> Source: Green Onion News Network Combined with the fact that no state was mentioned, i think this is a work of parody.
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by rchowe 15y ago
What I think part of the problem people have with it is that it doesn't necessarily do what a seasoned git user would expect when syncing remote repositories, such as the fact that it pushes and pulls at the same time, and the pulls aren't
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by rchowe 15y ago
But there are rainbow tables, or tables of all of the MD5s/SHA1s/<insert favorite hash algorithm> for arbitrary strings. So the time's already sunk in. 8 days for one password is a very short amount of time comparatively (tiny for a
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by rchowe 15y ago
Is twos compliment behavior guaranteed in C#?

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