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by saxonww 7y ago
I can't think of a reason other than encouraging customers to continue to pay. In a 'fail closed' scenario like this one, customers not only lose the DRM protection, but SecuROM gets a customer's end users to harass the
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by saxonww 7y ago
Not totally irrelevant, they have been a leading advocate for DNSSEC. Perhaps infamous would be a better word.
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by saxonww 7y ago
I have two responses to this: 1. I used to administer a mediawiki instance for R&D at a mid-size enterprise software company. It was used by perhaps 300 people. Many, many developers disliked wikitext and wanted a visual editor and&#x2F
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by saxonww 7y ago
8 years ago? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Native_Client
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by saxonww 7y ago
It's pretty common to run into environments without bash, or without the bash your script needs. Three examples would be any Docker container based on Alpine (just ash), OpenBSD which ships with (I think) a Korn shell, and macOS which
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by saxonww 7y ago
My experience is the opposite. 100% of the Seagate drives I have purchased for personal use (total: 4) experienced failures within the warranty period, and of the drives I had a hand in purchasing professionally at least half needed replace
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by saxonww 7y ago
More specifically, adopt a 3-2-1 scheme for data you care about: store it in three places, two onsite but on different media, and 1 offsite. Backblaze is probably as good a choice as any for offsite storage, Tarsnap is also really popular h
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by saxonww 7y ago
First - this will apply to HN users with a Keybase account who have opted in to the airdrop, not all HN users. I am not a CPA, but I think there are two things involved here (for people in the US): 1. This is a gift, but the value of it (ab
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by saxonww 7y ago
It can, check the -n and -P arguments.
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by saxonww 7y ago
See the other comment with a link to lobste.rs, but I'm afraid this entire project exists to reimplement git as a BSD-licensed tool. My eyes were rolling pretty hard until I remembered that git was basically born out of a license disag
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by saxonww 7y ago
Check and make sure it's the same fingerprint across multiple runs. I installed CanvasBlocker, and one of the things it does is fake results for a handful of API calls. So while Panopticlick reports a unique fingerprint each time, it l
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by saxonww 7y ago
This is essentially what people asked Cable for all these years - a la carte service. They wouldn't or couldn't do it, so now we're getting this. There was no way content was going to let third parties basically take the plac
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by saxonww 7y ago
He was briefly involved, but the party nomination went to Pat Buchanan.
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by saxonww 7y ago
Familiarize with other distributions/operating systems: nixos, one of the bsds, etc.
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by saxonww 7y ago
It's not possible to actually become a licensed/professional software engineer as of April this year, at least in Florida. Florida requires that you pass the NCEES PE exam - not sure if there are other exam vendors used elsewhere
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by saxonww 7y ago
This is a pretty common occurrence for me on macOS with external monitors. I have thunderbolt going to a dock, then displayport from the dock to the monitors. Waking from sleep will periodically just not find a monitor at all, or they will
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by saxonww 7y ago
I read this as Allegheny's fault, actually. DQE published to Allegheny (DQE's customer), who in turn re-published to Verizon (Allegheny's other provider). While most of the 'prevention' section talks about what Veri
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by saxonww 7y ago
Maybe 'requires' is too strong a word. It's hardly mandatory, but I'd argue you should invalidate a lost or stolen seed for the same reason you should reset a lost or stolen password. Of course it is not possible to ac
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by saxonww 7y ago
I think the answer is that if you share seeds and lose a device, then you really need to invalidate and reprovision all of your remaining devices. If you use separate seeds and lose a device, you just invalidate the one device and move on.
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by saxonww 7y ago
I wonder if this can go that far. It's one thing to offer a Facebook-scale version of arcade tokens, where you buy some and then distribute them within the arcade to use your choice of the arcade-owned services on offer. It's anot
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by saxonww 7y ago
Some prior discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9924166 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9987816 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13303544 https://news.ycomb
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by saxonww 7y ago
This is and isn't an issue. By default, intranet authentication (spnego) is disabled in Firefox. There are numerous guides explaining how to turn it on, and it takes all of a couple of minutes to set up correctly after which point it j
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by saxonww 7y ago
Maybe the post has been edited, but just now it reads '"hello-world" website'. When I search for "create a website with node.js" the top results all talk about using Express.js. If I `npm init` and then `npm in
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by saxonww 7y ago
I think it's a fine idea, but qualifying for protection and the exclusivity terms are maybe out of touch with reality. Software patents in particular shouldn't get 20 years. That made sense in general in the 19th century; it'
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by saxonww 8y ago
It really doesn't. Microsoft employs a guy named Dave Cutler who is credited with leading the development of Windows NT in the late 80s/early 90s. They hired him from DEC, where he... is credited with co-leading a research project
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by saxonww 8y ago
I have an earlier iteration of this with a lower cashback rate and no annual fee. I have to spend over a certain threshold per year to unlock the marketed cashback - it's substantially less below that spend. One thing that should be ma
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by saxonww 8y ago
A former employer implemented this in the 2009/2010 time frame. We were at that point an old software company with mature products, lots of process, custom internal tools, and very separate product management, support, development, and
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by saxonww 8y ago
Just some perspective. I know this is not what you wrote, and probably not what you meant, but what I was thinking when reading your comment was "Car owners are extravagant. I spend a lot on my bike and still spend so much less money
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by saxonww 8y ago
I was wondering about how prevalent this is - I've never had a car emissions-tested - and it looks like 31 states + DC have emissions testing in at least some part of the state [0]. Just glancing over this list, it looks like several s
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by saxonww 8y ago
I agree, that should work. I haven't seen USB-optical devices that weren't straight media converters though. Everything that converts USB to spdif is advertised as a DAC, so I'd have two DACs. This isn't a huge issue for

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