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by rixed 2y ago
> our civilization There is no such thing as "our" or "their" civilization. We have only one. Maybe such concept had some ground a few centuries ago still, but by now this idea that "we" are significantly di
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by rixed 2y ago
> There are plenty of jobs that you can't pay people enough money to want to do. Would you mind listing 2 or 3 examples? All the jobs that I do not want to do that I can think of, are actually poorly compensated.
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by rixed 2y ago
Can't find it on youtube, link?
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by rixed 2y ago
Yes, but where do you stop? In make shell one would routinely call rm, sed, find... should they be included too? So instead of make including a shell, it would be simpler if busybox included a make.
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by rixed 2y ago
> Is it indicating that the router is faster at forwarding packets than responding to ping requests? I believe most of the time this is the reason indeed. Answering an ICMP error to a TTL expiration or to an echo request is very low prio
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by rixed 2y ago
Stupidity is when one fails to genuinely see things from some other perspective than their own. It is not that hard to do, and does not prevent from taking a side eventually, but it helps one to realize that the distance to someone else tak
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by rixed 2y ago
"None" to represent any type of failure sounds similarly fundamentally flawed too.
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by rixed 2y ago
My understanding is that its main merit was to remove the need to have the non-free Sun then Oracle Jdk installed. Aparently its technical merits were not sufficient to maintaint it in a post OpenJdk world.
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by rixed 2y ago
Maybe HN could do something to incentivize giving feedback? Something like more karma for participation in "Show HN" thread (and a karma cost for contributing to political posts)? Because it is true that right now it is easy to f
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by rixed 2y ago
GCJ could do that, as well as JET I believe, but both are long dead. The history of native compilation for java I find fascinating: Nothing looks like a normal, boring programming language as much as java, yet somehow it resists being treat
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by rixed 2y ago
This article stayed on the front page of HN for a couple of days: https://timsh.org/tracking-myself-down-through-in-app-ads/ The author was in Europe. Aparently, all the rules protecting the privacy of european citizen
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by rixed 2y ago
I understand why it's amusing, but there is really nothing to see here. It could be rephrased as: « The process we use to asses candidates relies on measuring the candidate's ability to solve trivia problems that can easily be sol
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by rixed 2y ago
Regarding the evolution of the law: Long ago when Google tried to launch its very first phone somewhere in Europe I can distinctly remember that it was initially not allowed to because of some regulation that mandated a company selling tele
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by rixed 2y ago
And one still in the Bourget museum?
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by rixed 2y ago
Seriously, wouldn't have it been appropriate to do just the minimalistic wikipedia search before contributing to this thread? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuhan_Institute_of_Virology This lab was an international
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by rixed 2y ago
Sorry, I have to confess that I have just browsed through your text. I'm sure you mean well but I believe you are litteraly paranoid when you try to explain human modern history by the evil ideas of a handfull of people. Can't you
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by rixed 2y ago
Or importing a new library that's not been audited. Or compile it with a compiler that's not been audited? Or run it on silicon that's not been audited? We can draw the line in many places. I would take generated code that a
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by rixed 2y ago
What you say about the reality and mechanisms of torture may be true. But your insistence on assigning this behavior to some political side is, frankly, frightening. It won't change the amount of political violence that's ahead of
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by rixed 2y ago
Come especially handy to work around the increasingly user hostile captchas, ironically. I expect this arm race to spiral down quickly into some form of mandatory biometric check, the dream come true of our security obsessed insecure rulers
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by rixed 2y ago
When you feel the need for a hash in shell, or even an array, is also probably when you should rewrite your shell in python. (I feel obliged to add that when you feel the need to add type annotations a bit later is when to abandon python)
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by rixed 2y ago
make clean is supposed to clean the intermediary files only but keep the actual build targets (typically what you want to install)
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by rixed 2y ago
The batteries do not have to be located close to the recorded data
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by rixed 2y ago
Try to make this MITM caching work consistently for all the computers (phones iot etc) of your home. Then think about doing the same for a school.
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by rixed 2y ago
Aren't that the only forms of protest that are allowed? If I remember properly, offering the service for free (for instance in public transport) bear the risk of being held personally responsible of any damage or accident that would ha
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by rixed 2y ago
> the idea that google are particularly careful with users data is pretty laughable Either you don't know what you are talking about, or we attach very different meanings behind some of these words. Let me rephrase : of all companie
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by rixed 2y ago
Haha indeed. I also frequently stumble upon "connexion" and "trafic", in the same department.
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by rixed 2y ago
> Its like http and for the same reason: both were initialy designed to be simple...
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by rixed 2y ago
This is to go through NAT, which are devices designed to work around the rarefaction of IPv4 addresses. Firewalling is a different concept, but since you raise that issue of connectivity wrt. security, I have to say that what makes /me
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by rixed 2y ago
I have no opinion about this particular case at hand, but decades of observations of how governments, esp. in Europe, "regulate" IT by targetting a few big players, and Google always first in line despite that company has been _hi
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by rixed 2y ago
My caching proxy disagrees with that. My threat models are bad 4g connections and greedy telcos.

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