remus

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by remus 7y ago
Potentially, but then the linker is just one use case for the GC and GCs are a game of trade offs so switching to a generational GC would impact other use cases.
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by remus 7y ago
The Collatz Conjecture is a very well known problem, partly because it is very easy to understand. It's also a very difficult problem. Terry Tao (the author) is one of the top mathematicians in the world and this appears to be a signif
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by remus 7y ago
Personally I think this is a pretty positive thing. If a language is at all popular then any breaking change is going to mean work for users, and having those users sitting next to you in the office keeps it fresh in your mind when you&#x27
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by remus 7y ago
Fun fact: you can actually set a good password when you create a virgin media account but then you won't actually be able to login as the password is rejected by their front-end for being too long. And just in case you thought you coul
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by remus 7y ago
I find it hard to get that worked up about this. The positions are accurate at least, and if you're really so hard up for space that saving a couple of digits is going to make all the difference then you can think about it for 5 mins a
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by remus 7y ago
To nit pick, it's not really a bet from the insurers point of view. The idea is that they operate on a scale where they know the total cost they will have to pay out in any given year is less than what they charge in premiums. The key
787.
by remus 7y ago
You might solve the incognito detection problem but you open up the opportunity for notification-fatigue if users end up getting lots of these permission requests.
788.
by remus 7y ago
According to the article it can actually cancel the service for you > If you want, the app will also send an actual legal notice of cancelation to the service.
789.
by remus 7y ago
An example from another comment: bots checking stolen cc numbers which then results in high numbers of charge backs and the potential for getting blocked by visa/mastercard.
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by remus 7y ago
It seems that your suggestion is that ISP is a good signal for detecting spam, but it's not obvious to me that this is true. For example a site targeted by a botnet could be hit with traffic from a wide range of otherwise legitimate lo
791.
by remus 7y ago
That'll be part of why they got the fine. One component of gdpr is taking reasonable steps to avoid leaking personal data, and as you pointed out relying on someone remembering to bcc rather than cc is asking for trouble.
792.
by remus 7y ago
I've had mine on a keyring for 6 months and it hasn't shown any signs of wear. I'd be surprised if it doesn't last at least another 18 months.
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by remus 7y ago
> the entire back end stack is still pretty much the same as 20-30 years ago (big expensive Oracle-ish databases). Other than the expensive part, is it really such a bad thing? I feel like relational databases are a pretty good fit for a
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by remus 7y ago
Presumably it's a trade off of complexity against redundancy, and at the scale that google's datacenters run the complexity is too high to make it worthwhile.
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by remus 7y ago
> Perhaps what is required is a completely different attitude to config changes, which treats them as testable, applies them incrementally and allows simple rollback. > Code is stored in version control and extensively tested before d
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by remus 7y ago
> On Tor big contributors are hash of webGL fingerprint, screen size. Doesn't tor randomise the window size on startup? Though I guess it chooses some sensible size for your screen which is then leaking info about your screen size (
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by remus 7y ago
> If it doesn't gain traction then the decisions made by Google are clearly considered the best approach I don't think this is necessarily true. There are a lot of fuzzy factors that go in to making a language successful and i
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by remus 7y ago
Given that the go core team has committed to adding generics I don't think it's fair to say they don't listen to critique from the community. Is there a more contentious issue in go?!
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by remus 7y ago
As someone currently running a bitnami wordpress site on aws it's pretty nice being able to SSH in and change whatever you want. Bitnami gives you a reasonable starting point but then you have a lot of flexibility over how you manage t
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by remus 7y ago
There's overselling and then there's assuming that the average user is only going to use 3% of their allowance! That seems pretty optimistic. Having said that presumably the wholesale rate varies quite a bit between countries, and
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by remus 7y ago
This is about to happen in the EU due to a regulation called PSD2. It's started to be phased in but will kick in properly in September.
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by remus 7y ago
If the generated SQL was compatible across a variety of databases and the performance of the SQL was also passable you'd be on to a good thing.
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by remus 7y ago
It's not a law, bryan is suggesting it.
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by remus 7y ago
> I think GitHub is okay with "creative" uses of their system, as long as one doesn't push the limits and doesn't make a business from it. Being on the front page of hacker news feels a lot like "pushing the limi
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by remus 7y ago
> Ops, security, and reliability don’t go away when using EC2 either, which is what led the massive cloud explosion. I'd argue that in many cases they do get significantly easier in a cloud environment especially for lightweight set
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by remus 7y ago
I can't imagine GitHub are going to be very thrilled with this. Maybe as a one off you'd fly under the radar but making it more widely available seems kinda silly. I like how it's marketed as 'no ads, always free'!
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by remus 8y ago
Thanks for the link! Interesting stuff.
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by remus 8y ago
Anyone care to speculate on the technology that allows them to offer the fast retrieval times and low cost per GB?
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by remus 8y ago
It's worth bearing in mind the difference between durability and availability. Durability is roughly the chance of losing your data over a given time span (in this case a year), whereas availability is about how reliably you can access
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by remus 8y ago
Presumably there's already a big safety margin built in when using 64 bits and some computational overhead involved with increasing that to 128 or 256 bits.

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