stefs

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541.
by stefs 10y ago
after nearly burning out on the last ~42 hour job, at the current company i tried 30 hours and i love it. they do want to convince me to go full time, but for now i refused (stating that i don't think i'd be as productive and just
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by stefs 10y ago
calculate the path once and cache it. only recalculate it if the agent runs into an obstacle or maybe in a random time interval to make it cheaper.
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by stefs 10y ago
i just read the page again and realize this is for a single view and a maximum of 7 days for sex tapes recorded while both partners are present. in my opinion this is one way to do it but prevents me from having a kind of "library&quot
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by stefs 10y ago
in my opinion this is the main point people pointing out the "just videotape it" problem miss.
545.
by stefs 10y ago
then you'd lose the fully quality. more importantly: they can't do that after the consent ended. so if the malicious partner starts to do this while the relationship is still intact, you're partially fucked. if you decide to
546.
by stefs 10y ago
hopefully the other person is cut off, otherwise the system would be practically useless.
547.
by stefs 10y ago
if you're in a relationship at some point you should be able to trust the other to some degree or you won't be able to relax and enjoy it. there's no watertight way to completely assess the others reliability though, so you&#
548.
by stefs 10y ago
so, you say you need a person operating a vehicle. you get a lorry driver and put them into a f1 car and expect them to get good lap rounds. or you hire a rally driver and put them into a taxi. it might even work - at least for a short time
549.
by stefs 10y ago
personal anecdote. * i'm a software developer in central europe. * i suffer from delayed sleep cycle (i.e. i'm a night owl). * i picked up weightlifting (as the main hobby) to compensate for all the sitting and the club has fixed
550.
by stefs 10y ago
for visualizing regular expressions i recommend https://regexper.com/#foo%20%5Ba-z%5D%2B%20bar
551.
by stefs 10y ago
i had actual client software in mind. i.e. mobile or desktop apps (as in the good old days of shrinkwrap).
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by stefs 10y ago
security isn't the only problem. banks do not want the users to be fully informed. if you overdraw your account, they make more money. personally, i'd love to write my own open source clients you can verify and compile yourself th
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by stefs 10y ago
> It is sad though, that no start-up would consider building a self-hosted version that'd keep all data local, instead wanting to offer it in SaaS form. i don't think that'd be automatically true. if there were enough secu
554.
by stefs 10y ago
i always just use nginx and don't see any downsides.
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by stefs 10y ago
a) if it was really running on the old hardware; in that case ruby on a modern machine would have been several magnitudes faster than the original code - at least because of the faster IO b) if the whole thing was indeed running in an emula
556.
by stefs 10y ago
i'm sure using a fully featured regular expression engine would be several magnitudes slower than a handcrafted 128bit routine. those engines too trade power for speed.
557.
by stefs 10y ago
observations from austria (remember we have the steering wheel on the right side ... so, the left). the law on the autobahn/multi-lane streets is: change to a lane on the left (a faster lane) only to overtake (except for special condit
558.
by stefs 10y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13304280
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by stefs 10y ago
to non-answer my own question: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_engineering#United_Sta... not sure now. maybe, maybe not.
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by stefs 10y ago
> I had to reverse engineer APIs for some of these (...) technically ... is that still legal?
561.
by stefs 10y ago
"... slow, it’s the GUI interface to the computer ..." he ... he wrote GUI interface. heh.
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by stefs 10y ago
i remember reading immigrants (in austria) on average pay more into the system than they get out, because most of them are relatively young and thus still healthy. https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&amp
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by stefs 10y ago
> How do you determine when "just in case" costs too much? the physicians usually try to take the safe route just in case - if they deem it worth it. i'm still in the low risk category (~~young~~ not old, passably athletic
564.
by stefs 10y ago
this is an offtopic question: does anyone know, why online magazines like nautil.us, vox.com and many others still don't use https? certificates are free and the additional server cost is minimal nowadays, so why don't they encryp
565.
by stefs 10y ago
ignoring environmental protection costs for monetary success is mostly short-term planning and will - i'm a software developer, so i'll take this as a comparison - have the same consequences as short term planning and accumulating
566.
by stefs 10y ago
but in this case audio decoding by cpu emulation was the intent of the developer. i'm sure she knew what she did.
567.
by stefs 10y ago
i write an app like this about once a year (usually a java cmdline implementation). to my embarrassment, i never got it completely right. the last instalment even provided statistics that could be used to compare the effectiveness of diff
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by stefs 10y ago
if i understood this right: code execution - yes, but no privilege escalation?
569.
by stefs 10y ago
doesn't look like this is accidental TC . > NSF music files, on the other hands, are played by actually emulating the NES CPU and sound hardware in real time. Is that cool or what? The gstreamer plug-in creates a virtual 6502 CPU
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by stefs 10y ago
my system (linux mint, based on ubuntu 14.04.1) might be affected. the versions match, the files are there. i'm loath to download and execute the test file though. while i'm almost completely sure this post is legit, i also don&#x

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