saint_abroad

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by saint_abroad 7y ago
PTO invalidation happens every day but takes /years/ to process. Until then, frivolous patent holders have free rein to coerce contracts that licence claims they know won't stand re-examination. https://www.ipwatch
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by saint_abroad 7y ago
No, Amazon weren't the first to have one-button buy. Filed in 1994 (the year of the first WWW): > the client computer will know which item is currently being offered for sale. In such a case, the viewer will be able to order it by S
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by saint_abroad 7y ago
Intel and AMD CPUs have supported hardware-accelerated nested virtualisation for quite some time now. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/hyper-v-on-w... https://www.redhat.com/en/
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by saint_abroad 7y ago
Taskwarrior, where have you been all my life? https://blog.djy.io/taskwarrior-where-have-you-been-all-my-l... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17029560
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by saint_abroad 7y ago
> If we are still far from the limit to the human life-span, then the largest survival gains should be recorded among the oldest people. Trends in outliers cannot be used to extrapolate trends in mean, unless for very small populations
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by saint_abroad 7y ago
If I could teach my younger self: 1. Stop theorizing. 2. Write lots of software. 3. Learn from your mistakes. https://blog.codinghorror.com/quantity-always-trumps-quality... Success comes when there is nothing left to learn
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by saint_abroad 7y ago
Since recipes are not protected under copyright law [1] it's unlikely mathematical parameter lists have sufficient "literary expression" for protection. OTOH, a passphrase of substantial creativity [2] may be protected by cop
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by saint_abroad 8y ago
The point as applies to individuals extends to projects also: > Programming system builders have also been exposed to this lesson, but it seems to have not yet been learned. Project after project designs a set of algorithms and then plu
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by saint_abroad 8y ago
A 2U server chassis can fit perhaps 2x PCI cards (with riser), vs 20x 2.5" hot-swap nvme.
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by saint_abroad 8y ago
+1 > a more enterprise solution where I can store a recovery key centrally that a user can’t remove. The enterprise solution is to not give users administrative privs.
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by saint_abroad 8y ago
> In Windows, encryption is totally transparent to users (I need only to type the account password). With transparent encryption, Windows decrypts the disk at boot using the TPM. Prior to login the disk is already mounted (decrypted). It
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by saint_abroad 8y ago
> Reading some compare SQL to 70s style procedural code tells me they haven't moved on from expert beginner territory. SQL is a declarative set-oriented language. Read/writing SQL as a procedural language will cause a heap of t
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by saint_abroad 8y ago
> Most people are perfectly happy to let the orm do all the work, and never care to dig into the data directly. ORM all-too-often defines data structures from code. Linus Torvalds wrote, > I will, in fact, claim that the difference be
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by saint_abroad 8y ago
> (2) the term ‘deep fake’ means an audiovisual record created or altered in a manner that the record would falsely appear to a reasonable observer to be an authentic record of the actual speech or conduct of an individual; I see nothing
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by saint_abroad 8y ago
It's commendable that the OP was looking to backup but has the reliability of RAID against disk failure contributed to this being a "black swan" event? Do we reduce failure rates to "acceptable" at the expense of ne
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by saint_abroad 8y ago
Agile set about to deliver working software frequently. Devops set about to deliver working software frequently. Both optimise for frequent delivery. The theory and practice of how working is measured is where they differ.
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by saint_abroad 8y ago
> A developer who does not know/care about running things in production is not a developer. Behaviour depends on how incentives and constraints are structured. Traditionally, operations had to keep things running and cared little ab
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by saint_abroad 8y ago
> For me, debt is good. It allows me to consume less than I produce right now so years later I can consume more than I produce. Individuals produce less taxes than governments spend and consume more than a paycheck. This gap is what got
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by saint_abroad 8y ago
> But the Fed cannot just arbitrarily set rates, presumably? They absolutely can, by quantitative easing (aka large-scale asset purchases) buying $4 trillion of bonds priced to keep yields in range. This market can remain irrational long
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by saint_abroad 8y ago
> The crash of 2008 wasn't so much averted as postponed. This. The US housing market correction from 2006 was 30%. In this time, the US Fed funds rate went from 5.25% to 0.15% cutting banks' monthly cost for a $250k loan from &
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by saint_abroad 8y ago
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1495/ > "Why everything I have is broken"
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by saint_abroad 8y ago
(Signed version of) the 497 day bug [1] strikes yet again. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3231781
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by saint_abroad 8y ago
> It’s not illegal to disclose anything When it comes to the DCMA, that's debatable. In a court of law. Unless, of course, you don't have the money to match their lawyers. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/GeoHot&
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by saint_abroad 8y ago
Infinite scroll is like a Rolodex without an index. It's as if we've forgotten how to do href anchors.
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by saint_abroad 9y ago
It seems they don't allow warehouse workers "degraded mode" with "performance targets based on previous worker performance." If a storage array were rebuilding I think most engineers would cut it some slack. Not mea
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by saint_abroad 9y ago
> Talk is cheap. Show me the code. - https://lkml.org/lkml/2000/8/25/132 Insist on implementation to back theory.
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by saint_abroad 10y ago
I've learnt to deal with this by going along with it and getting up for a hot drink every time . If it's going to cost me time getting back into flow I might as well make it a visible 10m. Turns out I'm happier, they're
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by saint_abroad 10y ago
Whoops, thanks, edited. I guess they're like Nato but not yet awol. http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/51924/proper-capi...
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by saint_abroad 10y ago
I wish they'd go after the users of shell companies just as aggressively as Tor. But this 1% has super PACs.