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by spatulon 9y ago
Tavis also got some blowback on Twitter simply for announcing that he'd found a vulnerability. It's baffling to me why people think it's a problem. If mere knowledge of the existence of a vulnerability in a particular product
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by spatulon 10y ago
This matches a common complaint about Twitter - that most of their senior executives don't use the service, and as a result couldn't possibly understand how to improve it.
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by spatulon 10y ago
If Earth and Pluto were planets, clearly Gustav Holst would have written movements for them as part of his Planets suite, but he did not. Ergo, they are not planets.
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by spatulon 10y ago
Out of interest, what torch did you end up buying?
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by spatulon 10y ago
H.264 is a subset of MPEG-4. It's another name for MPEG-4 Part 10 (Advanced Video Coding). MPEG-4 itself includes many other parts, including a container format, audio (AAC), and another video codec (Part 2, popularly known as DivX).
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by spatulon 10y ago
When they say the board in The Seventh Seal is "set up totally backwards", do they just mean that the board needs to be rotated 90°?
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by spatulon 10y ago
Consider asking your doctor for a coronary artery calcification (CAC) scan. It only takes a few minutes and in the US typically costs only $100. For some reason it doesn't seem to be very well known, but high scores seem to be a reliab
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'It's very scary in the forest': should Finland's wolves be culled?(theguardian.com)
2 points by spatulon 10y ago|0 comments
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by spatulon 10y ago
"Unprofessional" is an odd choice of word. I cannot see what you mean. He explains why he wrote the post: "since the SHA1 collision attack was so prominently in the news." I think a lot of people on Hacker News and elsew
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by spatulon 10y ago
OK, here's another sample. The eggs I bought yesterday (I'm in the UK) have a "best before" date printed on them of 4 March, i.e. 2 weeks.
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by spatulon 10y ago
The article doesn't mention it, but the majority of egg-laying hens in the UK are vaccinated against salmonella. It's mandatory for eggs sold with the 'Lion' quality mark, and these make up 85% of the market.
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by spatulon 10y ago
There have been 12 updates in the last 12 months - do you really consider that to be "so often"? Anyway, there's a detailed changelog[1] for all the updates, so you can have a look at the kinds of things they change. [1] htt
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by spatulon 10y ago
It's the Monty Python cheese shop sketch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWDdd5KKhts
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by spatulon 10y ago
Chrome and Firefox felt there were sufficient problems with OpenGL driver availabity that they implemented WebGL using DirectX (via the ANGLE project), despite the more obvious mapping to OpenGL. Is there any reason to believe that, unlike
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by spatulon 10y ago
He is personally out $150m, according to the article.
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by spatulon 10y ago
Is having a place to live in NZ part of some 'prepper' survival plan? From The New Yorker's profile of sama: “My problem is that when my friends get drunk they talk about the ways the world will end. After a Dutch l
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by spatulon 10y ago
I love that method, and have used it exclusively for years, but the best thing about Ian's site is the explanation of the Granny Knot: http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/grannyknot.htm So many people walk around assu
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by spatulon 10y ago
OK, I have friends of friends who say they take 'MDMA' on a Saturday night out. Is it really pure MDMA, or is it just what we would have called Ecstasy in the past?
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by spatulon 10y ago
Exactly. The company needed to save a ton of money in 2009, so, instead of laying anyone off, they gave everyone an extra 4 weeks of vacation and an equivalent cut in their salary for the year.
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by spatulon 10y ago
My experience working for a German company is that there's a strong cultural distaste for laying off employees. I've seen major projects get shut down, and I saw huge cost-saving measures after the 2008 downturn, but there was nev
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by spatulon 10y ago
Strange, because Siemens sold their automotive business (VDO) to Continental in 2007.
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by spatulon 10y ago
Can you rephrase your objection in a less patronising and more constructive way?
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by spatulon 10y ago
Yes, it can be easier if you're talking about contacting a specific person, but in general I've found my shyness/introversion even more cripping online than in real life. I've been lurking on various forums and social me
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by spatulon 10y ago
Polling stations in the UK always provide pencils, and this caused a panic during the EU referendum amongst some Leave supporters, who were worried about their votes being changed. Those people brought their own pens, but that kind of paran
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How 2K Killed Irrational Games(medium.com)
13 points by spatulon 10y ago|0 comments
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by spatulon 10y ago
This benefit of test-driven design is not obvious (at least it wasn't for me) until you really experience it. Several years back I wasn't aware of the concept of dependency injection, but independently discovered it while trying
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by spatulon 10y ago
As John Cleese pointed out (IIRC, as a followup to him making a brilliantly funny and loving eulogy to Graham Chapman - "Good riddance to him, the freeloading bastard, I hope he fries"), you can be serious without being solemn. Se
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The Definition of Genius(timedoctor.org)
1 points by spatulon 10y ago|0 comments
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by spatulon 10y ago
The game felt like a pretty thorough exploration of the time-rewind mechanic, and Blow was obviously careful that each puzzle served a unique purpose. I doubt he feels like he has anything interesting to put in a Braid II that wasn't a
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by spatulon 10y ago
That was a fun read. Do I detect a nod to tptacek's "If You’re Typing the Letters A-E-S Into Your Code You’re Doing It Wrong"? https://www.nccgroup.trust/us/about-us/newsroom-and-events/b...

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