semicolon_storm

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by semicolon_storm 5y ago
If it's just when the database is decentralized, why even call it web3? Why should web standards even care about implementation details of the database? We didn't move to "web3" when db sharding became a big thing, or wh
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by semicolon_storm 5y ago
Two of the Microsoft CVEs (CVE-2017-11882, CVE-2020-0787) on this list are listed as "Exploitation Less Likely" if you view Microsoft's own info for those CVEs. I guess you can't trust the vendor to determine how exploit
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by semicolon_storm 5y ago
A Diet Coke in a class is indistinguishable from a rum & coke.
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by semicolon_storm 6y ago
I thought one of the touted benefits of bitcoin (and other DeFi) is the resistance to regulations? Sort of seems counterproductive to say that regulation will fix the issues with the currency that's supposed to resist regulation.
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by semicolon_storm 6y ago
If you’re an adult in the US, they already have all that info about you. I’ve written some software that makes calls to various LexisNexis services and it’s insane how much data they have.
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by semicolon_storm 6y ago
Major worldwide outages for AAD, CosmosDB, and now DNS in just the past few months so it’s definitely not just you. Maybe Microsoft should invest less in their shiny new AI/ML platforms and more into stability of their core services.
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by semicolon_storm 6y ago
Azure is not having a good year. Two major Active Directory outages, a major CosmosDB outage, and now this.
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by semicolon_storm 6y ago
What evidence is there that this is actually the SolarWinds hackers and not someone who uploaded some random encrypted files and is hoping to trick people into sending them money? There’s a PGP signature, but as far as I’ve head the attacke
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by semicolon_storm 6y ago
If there's a drunk guy trying to start fights in your restaurant, you boot him out the door immediately for being a safety hazard and overall reflecting poorly on your business. I don't think any reasonable patrons will see that
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by semicolon_storm 6y ago
Company IT policies. Can't make *nix the main OS, can't easily dualboot, and running the dev workspace in a VM is slow. The answer, at least in my case, has been using Windows where I must and WSL for whatever I can.
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by semicolon_storm 6y ago
As someone who lives in the middle of the ocean with ~70ms to the nearest major data center, you get used to it. You’re at a disadvantage to people with low ping, but it’s certainly not unplayable.
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by semicolon_storm 6y ago
Sure the commute would be expensive, but if it lets you live in a lower cost area it may be more than worth it.
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by semicolon_storm 6y ago
Must be regional or some other factor involved. Various sites others are reporting as offline load for me as does 1.1.1.1.
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by semicolon_storm 6y ago
Removing yet another avenue for police accountability & transparency also puts innocent people at risk.
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by semicolon_storm 7y ago
That's not strictly true. Some of the work I do involves software to do premium calculations for insurance. While pennies do matter for intermediate values during calculation, virtually everyone rounds the final premium to a dollar amo
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by semicolon_storm 7y ago
Very surprised it took this long to implement. I’ve had a good experience with B2B + Duplicati, but the main reason I went with that over the simpler Backblaze Cloud was the retention policy. 30 days to recover files was just too short of a
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by semicolon_storm 7y ago
If Apple didn't want that information to be public, they probably shouldn't have downloaded 45TB of data a day from a service they have no paid agreement with.
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by semicolon_storm 7y ago
Is it an article that's relevant to technology or the general ethos of HN? My guess is no.
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by semicolon_storm 7y ago
The absolute dependence on China is something I'm surprised more companies haven't tried to combat. There's so many efforts to try and diversify to reduce risk, yet almost every hardware company remains at the whims of the Ch
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by semicolon_storm 7y ago
Speed can vary from interpreter to interpreter. I haven't seen any benchmarks of this interpreter, so we don't know how fast it may be. Maybe their JS interpreter applies some restrictions to the language that greatly speeds it up
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by semicolon_storm 8y ago
The article claims that the steel rusting is actually an integral part of the process. The iron in the steel reacts with CO2 to rust, which sets the material.
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by semicolon_storm 8y ago
It could also be that the flags are so tangled together that a change to one part of the system can break many other parts that are completely unrelated. Sure you can run a unit test for X, but what about Y? Retesting everything is all you
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by semicolon_storm 8y ago
> And they didn't mention in the Moscow State University test, AV1 was 300x to 1000x slower. Reference implementations of codecs are always slower. AV1 hasn't had the benefit of years of optimizations yet, so this slowness is t
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by semicolon_storm 9y ago
A couple things to keep in mind: 1. Your most logical thinking doesn't occur at 8am on a weekend when you just woke up. 2. Hawaii has a more ingrained trust of the EAS than most other states. We test our sirens and EAS monthly. Sirens
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by semicolon_storm 9y ago
Got a billion dollars? You can send a person to the moon, but don't even dream about getting into the music streaming industry!
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by semicolon_storm 9y ago
A lot of places have community clinics that offer income based prices for medical services. The three places I've lived (mind you, it's not a very geographically diverse three places) have had clinics of this sort, so there may b
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by semicolon_storm 10y ago
They might not be able to convict you, but that won't stop them from breaking down your door and bringing you to jail from terrorism/hacking/child pornography while you get your name associated with it in the local news.
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by semicolon_storm 10y ago
Disable WebRTC on corporate computers? I'm assuming Peer5's solution falls back to servers when the browser doesn't support WebRTC.
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by semicolon_storm 10y ago
Couldn't you potentially use something like WebRTC to get UDP functionality in the browser?
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by semicolon_storm 10y ago
Coursera might top them because it's a good indicator that they're actively trying to round out what they know, which means they likely studied up on algorithms right before the interview.

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