smitherfield

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   by smitherfield 10y ago

   What I meant was: 1. Get Wikipedia to send lots of requests to Archive. 2. Archive blocks requests from Wikipedia. 3. Wikipedia citations are disabled. In other words getting Wikipedia to DDoS Archive, so that Archive's defense hurts
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   by smitherfield 10y ago

   You could have a "reverse DDoS" where archive.org blocks requests from Wikipedia, removing the ability to add Wikipedia citations.
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   by smitherfield 10y ago

   Entirely agreed.
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   by smitherfield 10y ago

   It comes from stoner culture, where it's a sign of high quality when the psychoactive plant matter is still damp and smelly.
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   by smitherfield 10y ago

   If this example is too "clever" for someone, even sight unseen, they aren't (yet?) cut out to be a kernel hacker. I don't disagree with your general principle, but the linked example is idiomatic and understandable C for
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   by smitherfield 10y ago

   It's quite clear to me[0]: The member access and subscript operators (. -> []) have the highest precedence, and the pointer dereference and address-of operators (* &) bind from right to left. And in any event if you left out the
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   by smitherfield 10y ago

   >If AT&T and Cable monopolize the internet (which they are close to doing) without strong net-neutrality laws, they can (and will) slowly migrate to the internet being limited to the top 100 sites (curated by them). >In such an
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   by smitherfield 10y ago

   The good ones generally map to (pardon the pun) equivalent functional concepts.
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   by smitherfield 10y ago

   This is false. In addition to Syria, Russia has troops stationed in Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Belarus, Moldova and Vietnam. They had bases in Ukraine, too, but those are now in Russia thanks to their
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    by smitherfield 10y ago

    s/smart dust/very small RFID chips/g
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    by smitherfield 10y ago

    Speaking cynically, the motivation of the essay (and in particular stuff like his thin-gruel attempt to wrap himself in the flag of social justice) seems to be recruiting an internet brigade to harass his colleagues into reversing their dec
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    by smitherfield 10y ago

    Well there's the rub. It's certainly technically possible if the device described in the article is. Tagging the cards with "smart dust"[0] might be easier, and harder for the casino to detect. [0] https://en.
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    by smitherfield 10y ago

    You could coat your fingers with infrared ink. Each card would naturally have a different pattern imprinted on the back depending on how you touched it.
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    by smitherfield 10y ago

    I'd say it's the primary cause of the Mexican drug war. Perhaps the exception that proves the rule on that page.
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    by smitherfield 10y ago

    Python has async/await now too (and it's considerably nicer than JS's version).
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    by smitherfield 10y ago

    A thought that occurred to me recently, is that the main purpose of China's "Great Firewall" isn't so much silencing dissent[0], as it is protectionism. By making it effectively impossible for foreign (i.e. American) int
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    by smitherfield 10y ago

    I think the convention is usually that the funds are used to pay developers to work on the project full-time.
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    by smitherfield 10y ago

    Yeah but then there's the issue of simple misspellings. Perhaps switching and creating should be separate commands.
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    by smitherfield 10y ago

    It's before my time, so YMMV, but it seems that the 90s-era "HN crowd" took something of a "shoot-the-messenger" approach to Ada, assuming it must be a terrible language because it was created by the Department of D
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    by smitherfield 10y ago

    I would assume if the method is rarely called, but very complex or time-consuming when it is called. Of course, I'm not an expert on JVMs, so I wouldn't know whether their analysis is synchronous or asynchronous or a mix of both.
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    by smitherfield 10y ago

    And the BSDs have implemented the Linux ABI for years.
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    by smitherfield 10y ago

    Inside a <canvas>/<object>/<embed> tag.
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    by smitherfield 10y ago

    Huh, so it's YOU who are the actual monsters behind "Canadian" bacon!
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    by smitherfield 10y ago

    That was one of the first lines: > We contacted the author of the piece, Hidde Boersma, who promised to resolve the situation.
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    by smitherfield 10y ago

    This sounds alarmingly like something written at Peak Bubble.
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    by smitherfield 10y ago

    It's quite a bit more psychologically difficult for a heroin addict to stop doing heroin, but we don't consider that a valid excuse to continue doing heroin.
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    by smitherfield 10y ago

    > Mastercard is alleged to have done this for 16 years between 1992 and 2008 ... Two years ago , the European Union capped the fees retailers pay at 0.2 percent for debit cards and 0.3 percent for credit cards. Seems the EU is getting
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    by smitherfield 10y ago

    C can be secure if you follow best practices (yes, big if). Are BSD, Linux and Postgres secure?
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    by smitherfield 10y ago

    In fairness, any bugs in a CSS framework are very unlikely to be especially significant from a business standpoint.
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    by smitherfield 10y ago

    What about Amazon? It seems like they're pursuing both the differentiation and cost leadership strategies. Of course, they're the world's largest retailer by market cap, so they can afford to do both. And usually I don't