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by robryk 10y ago
A possible goal is to have the serving stack be as simple as possible. After all, you can argue that the publishing-side stack is anyway very complex: it includes e.g. the Github UI, if one makes edits using the Github UI.
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by robryk 10y ago
How does this jive with the right to avoid self-incrimination?
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IANAL It might be relevant if the person allegedly committing a crime and the person making the supposed crime harder to discover are the same person. In your case they are, in Uber's case they aren't (AFAIK).
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by robryk 10y ago
I think you are underestimating expansion ratios (ratio of volume of liquid and gas at reasonable pressure). The ratio for water vapour at sea level is ~1000x. The "large bag" might end up being so large that it's weight is a
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by robryk 10y ago
Which way of passing the password to the browser is better? If I use the clipboard, many apps can read it (there's no foreground-only clipboard permission on Android). If I let the password manager be my accessiblity service, I've
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by robryk 10y ago
If they used asan/msan and its support for manually marking regions of memory as invalid/uninitialized, that could have caught such cases too.
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by robryk 10y ago
I'd imagine that mail services of other countries would refuse to accept mail from a country where it's legal to send mailbombs. If they didn't, I'd expect them to be at least somewhat liable for the ensuing explosions.
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by robryk 10y ago
I can't quite imagine what failure modes were they thinking about. Those failure modes must have had a nonnegligible chance of lighting off _both_ SRBs, but a very small one of lighting off a single SRB.
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by robryk 10y ago
This is a system which is guaranteed to be consistent and available as long as there are no partitions. If there are partitions, the system isn't guaranteed to be either. Yes, it's a pretty much useless system.
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A CA system is not a system that doesn't have partitions, it's a system that works under the condition that there are no partitions (ie. it is a non-partition-resistant system).
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by robryk 10y ago
I'm not sure about US, but in many places a part of copyright that cannot be given away is the right to be publicly named as an author of the work (in particular, the right to prevent other people being falsely named as authors of the
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by robryk 10y ago
Another interesting point is that ease of opening the hatch was a tradeoff that was pushed back and forth by (near) accidents. Mercury had a pyrotechnic hatch release mechanism. That triggered accidentally on Mercury-Redstone 4, which cause
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by robryk 10y ago
Because oxygen is much more common than fuel on Earth's surface.
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The same systemic problems caused the loss of Challenger: the reason why SRBs were segmented was that they had to be transported over rail from another state, instead of over barge from a nearby factory. Arguably the loss of Columbia was al
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by robryk 10y ago
Also, on the way down during landing, the capsule let in external air once external air pressure was larger than internal. This way they avoided having oxygen at atmospheric pressure inside at that time.
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by robryk 10y ago
HTTP is standardized, but lots of stuff doesn't follow the standard in the areas that didn't use to matter. Then we get problems like this: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=61621
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by robryk 10y ago
The application can try to recognize these fake datasets and likewise refuse to operate if provided such fake data.
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by robryk 10y ago
Wouldn't this cripple the system over a much wider area than intended? The are from which a satellite in LEO is visible is ~5000km in diameter.
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by robryk 10y ago
I doubt uncorrelatedness. If the frequencies are very close then the systems share to some degree one source of error: ionospheric lightspeed variations.
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by robryk 10y ago
Are there no exceptions for driving directly to a closest inspection place? In canton of Zurich, this is the AFAIK only case when you can drive without license plates (if you want to register your car and the DMV wants to inspect it, you ca
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by robryk 10y ago
> When you get a ticket, you either name the driver, or you pay it yourself. But I haven't heard of anyone getting a ticket for someone else's car. Or you pay a fine for not naming the driver. Which makes sense, because if you&
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by robryk 10y ago
In a case of mistaken car identity (as opposed to correct car, but incorrect driver), there are even better sources of evidence: hitting someone usually leaves traces on the car (bent buffer or hood).
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by robryk 10y ago
> Being liable for a traffic ticket is one thing, but imagine being thought liable for a hit and run collision. Why would car ownership be anything but a very weak piece of evidence in such a case?
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by robryk 10y ago
> Humanity holds the record for the fastest awe to yawn delta. Among what species?
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by robryk 10y ago
Once you look at the JPEG format it's kinda obvious that this should be possible: JPEG essentially compresses blocks independently, so intuitively each block boundary is stored twice.
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The problem is not only not recording audio, but also not accidentally recording enough data to reconstruct words spoken. Silence detection on a sufficiently short timescale might allow you to guess sentences.
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by robryk 10y ago
Depending on how wide is the peak detection window, they might send enough data to detect how long consecutive words are. I have a vague impression that I've read once that this, together with a language model, can be used to guess wha
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by robryk 10y ago
Given that variable bit-rate VoIP can reveal words spoken from bitrate alone[1], I would be very cautious about their claims. [1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/06/eavesdropping...
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by robryk 10y ago
> And given that the nearest natural source of helium is Jupiter, that is a little concerning. Sun is closer and produces helium all the time, but less practical to harvest it from.
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You can make this harder by providing multiple small holes all over the bottom of the cup.

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