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by rmk2 14y ago
Oh, I agree with you in terms of big conferences. I suppose I should have defined "conferences" more closely, which for me includes workshops, workgroups etc. Right now, my subject isn't the biggest, so people usually know each other, each
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by rmk2 14y ago
The point isn't that Microsoft also has its keys loaded. But right now, nobody can ensure that any other keys will be able to be added, mostly because it is up to the hardware vendors to implement that, and windows right now is the only
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by rmk2 14y ago
>> For the record, I have already graduated college (with a major in math and economics). Oh, the undergrad bit wasn't in any way meant as an ad hominem or the like. Apologies if it came across as such. >> I do think that be
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by rmk2 14y ago
There is a reason why conferences are so hugely important. Often, what will be published as an article is presented beforehand on conferences, among knowledgable and interested peers. And while some conferences are invite-only or have to
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by rmk2 14y ago
As has been discussed here before, the individual developers might not be bad people, this seems to be more of a management issue. You can see developers replying on the nvidia forums regarding bugs, asking for bug reports etc.[1]. So you w
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by rmk2 14y ago
I'd say it's already very impressive that they managed to reproduce how things looked. Now, I've never been to Warsaw, but judging from other cities I've seen that have been destroyed in a similar way, many cities -- and especially city cen
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by rmk2 14y ago
Ah, you are of course right, I apologise. The update just hadn't been pushed to the ftp yet. (As an aside, it still hardlocks my computer...but according to their forums, they "are working on a fix" for the soon-to-come 304.*)
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by rmk2 14y ago
Does your bittorrent client by any chance use uTP[1]? If so, not experiencing any problems has nothing to do with your router and all to do with your bittorrent client throtteling its own speed. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Tra
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by rmk2 14y ago
The newer ASUS (RT-N12/16+) use a 2.6.x kernel (and actually don't work with the old 2.4.x kernel) on tomato, and given now, I'd get the RT-N16 running tomato. My RT-N12 (I couldn't afford the more expensive RT-N16 at the time) is fine but
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by rmk2 14y ago
> It's worth noting that just last night they released a stable driver that (finally) supports RandR 1.2 The XRandR support in the driver is not yet stable [1]. The 302.xx line is currently in beta, but will support both XRandR 1.2 &#38
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by rmk2 14y ago
It's a pity the article only mentions client-side exploits, it would have been interesting to see what is paid for server-side zero-days, especially linux/LAMP related...
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by rmk2 14y ago
Flash has been X86_64 compatible for a while now... sh-4.2$ rpm -q flash-player flash-player-11.2.202.236-91.1.x86_64 (rpm query on openSUSE Tumbleweed) sh-4.2$ file /usr/lib64/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib64/bro
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by rmk2 14y ago
Lovely, I'll be looking forward to that! :) I really like how you divided it up so one actually gets an understanding of the magnitude and what "1 in x" can be likened to.
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by rmk2 14y ago
Am I the only one who was expecting an article about the likelihood of congenital disorders and/or genetics here? It's still a good article, mind you, I guess I was just hoping it wouldn't just be about "success" and "money", but rather abo
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by rmk2 14y ago
> Underscores require me to hit the Shift key. When writing prose, I only hit the shift once or twice per sentence. In Ruby, I have to hit the shift key every few letters. Awkward. Inefficient. Oh my, oh my, how do people ever cope wit
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by rmk2 14y ago
Apple also has a lot more...vocal (dare I say 'zealous'?) followers trying to quell criticism. Those very same people will however gladly take every stab they can at Microsoft. (I think both companies deserve every bit of criticism for tryi
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by rmk2 14y ago
I wholeheartedly agree. However, I think DDG is even better on the smartphone. I have it set there as my default search engine, and within the browser and without having to type too much (and frankly, the less I have to type on it the bet
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by rmk2 14y ago
I just seemed off to me considering how he (probably rightly so) preempts most critique throughout in a somewhat hyperbolic yet lacks the the same tone in his closing statements.
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by rmk2 14y ago
>> "I'm certainly willing to inconvenience myself for my political beliefs. I've done it before and I'll do it again. But in this case, the inconvenience is too great. Apple's approach is resulting in a product that is just so much
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by rmk2 15y ago
That is perfect timing, considering that this document[1] by the IETF (RFC6540) basically defines IPv6 as a requirement in hardware and software alike and that is classified as "Best Current Practice" while also being published this month
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by rmk2 15y ago
I wrote something very similar today in a response to another comment on another article..., also about the british/american divide (and it might also be about Oxbridge) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3802440 The quoted parts are
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by rmk2 15y ago
The cultural difference lies in that US academics are more used to selling (or if you'd like it a little less harsh: advertising) themselves. Let me illustrate: A big British university that offers a variety of funding, two of the funding
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by rmk2 15y ago
There is a general dislike for monolithic theories in the social sciences and humanities for a reason: they tend to be reductionist, and this theory seems to be no exception. And in regards to parameters (a "cluster" of factors) that can
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by rmk2 15y ago
This would be a lot nicer if the dm-crypt tutorial for GNU/Linux wasn't directly copied from the ArchLinux Wiki, but without actually fixing links and explanations... It's not bad to collect these things, but it's not really well done, and
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by rmk2 15y ago
One of the most impressive things about the package really is that it "just works". And especially protrusion is wonderful in my opinion, since it really makes nicer margins. Glad you like it!
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by rmk2 15y ago
Yes, seriously. Those damn socialists with their securities and trying to not let companies roam completely freely, disregarding laws at will. They should know better than to weaken our glorious leader capitalism and deserve to pay dearly
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by rmk2 15y ago
What about the use of microtypography? I think that you'd get optically cleaner margins (on the right) by using the microtype package. \usepackage{microtype} just works , though you could feed it \usepackage[expansion,protrusion]{microtype
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by rmk2 15y ago
Microtype is partially supported (read: half of what it mainly does), i.e. protrusion sort of works, but expansion does not. Protrusion is already something , though I agree that this is one of the biggest things holding me back from switc
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by rmk2 15y ago
>> Undoubtably a change this severe will be painful for some, but it will be less less painful than heading out to the computer shop in 3 years time to purchase the 2TB harddrive that will be required for the exponentially expanding
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by rmk2 15y ago
>> Conjuring complex mathematical equations may make you look smart but to become truly creative you need to be able to liberate your mind from the the shell of knowledge, education and adultification you have accu

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