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901.
by talideon 12y ago
If the protocol was properly designed, the proprietary nature of the server wouldn't be an issue as we could write a server implementing the protocol too. For instance, I don't have to worry about all of tarsnap being open source,
902.
by talideon 12y ago
Well, I guess all that talk on the BSD Now podcast a few weeks ago was nonsense then? I'll go back listen to them again and pick out the episode along with a timestamp, if you'd like. Anyhow, I'm not referring to the OpenBSD
903.
by talideon 12y ago
IIRC, there's work going on in FreeBSD port its multithreading patches up to the latest version of pf. Hopefully the extra resources brought by Solaris using pf will help make that a reality.
904.
by talideon 12y ago
The protocol is published, and the client is open source, but the protocol has a whole bunch of design issues, and that's the real problem with Telegram.
905.
by talideon 12y ago
WhatsApp's security improved an awful lot back in November when it got end-to-end encryption. MTProto has... issues. It uses IGE (infinite garble extension, a variation on the accumulated block chaining - ABC - mode of operation) as it
906.
by talideon 12y ago
That's a bit different though. It's typical in Ireland and the UK to refer to mainland Europe as 'the continent', whether they consider themselves European or not. The likes of the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Cyprus, Malta,
907.
by talideon 12y ago
DANE has its own issues though: by itself, even if you're using DNSSEC with it (as you ought to be), you're essentially shifting trust from CAs to registry operators, your DNS service provider, and whoever operates the root zone.
908.
by talideon 12y ago
Only as of Windows Vista, and how well supported are ICO-wrapped-PNGs in browsers?
909.
by talideon 12y ago
LZ77 is pretty trivial as compression algorithms go. Go take a look at this video for a explanation accessible to non-developers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goOa3DGezUA
910.
by talideon 12y ago
The downside of .ico files is that the format doesn't support compression, so those files can get quite big.
911.
by talideon 12y ago
I'm sick to my back teeth of 'platforms'.
912.
by talideon 12y ago
Yup, but you need to take into account semantic confusion by a native speaker of one language with words in another language. In this case, peterfirefly might have been thinking of 'se souvenir (de)' and mkesper might have been tr
913.
by talideon 12y ago
peterfirefly might be thinking of "se souvenir (de)".
914.
by talideon 12y ago
It, and a bunch of other Soviet movies are available on the Mosfilm channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/mosfilm Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I47CNxwlt9U Part 2: https://www.yout
915.
by talideon 12y ago
At best this could have only only been approximation. Even between identical twins, the realisation of a person's voice an vary quite a bit, independently of those features determined by genetics.
916.
by talideon 12y ago
It's a Unix GUI, not the Unix GUI.
917.
by talideon 12y ago
You might want to prefer population density over population as a metric: the population density of the UK is _much_ higher than that of the US. IIRC, this is true even east of the Mississippi. Pasture is probably higher quality in the UK th
918.
by talideon 12y ago
What's damaging about reallocarray?
919.
by talideon 12y ago
You are indeed correct.
920.
by talideon 12y ago
That's some panoply of configurations! It's a pity the most common configuration is the worst of them.
921.
by talideon 12y ago
Aussie plugs are more like NEMA 11 plugs: the prongs are angled to form two sides of a triangle.
922.
by talideon 12y ago
They needn't have been so bad: one small change--tilting the pins at an angle--and they could've been mechanically sound like Aussie ones.
923.
by talideon 12y ago
We used to use Schuko plugs here in Ireland, but switched to type G plugs for convenience and trade reasons back in the '60s. I think my grandparents' house still had some Schuko sockets about the place. Personally, I'm not t
924.
by talideon 12y ago
It might even end up fulfilling some of the goals from Tim Sweeney's "The Next Mainstream Programming Language" talk from way back.
925.
by talideon 12y ago
My only real issue with it is that I really with it had algebraic types. That would save me a tonne of faffing about and help make code safer to boot. Type switches are a clumsy alternative that only cover some of the cases.
926.
by talideon 12y ago
He seems to have forgotten that most DVCSs allow you to perform lightweight clones, so you don't need to pull down the whole repo.
927.
by talideon 12y ago
You clipped off the important bit: > Well, one of the big advantages of Ireland is that it's the coldest country in Europe with a decent amount of transatlantic fibre running by its coast It's the fibre that's the key bi
928.
by talideon 12y ago
It takes time for that to recover. Initial plantations are always obvious, but that'll change over time.
929.
by talideon 12y ago
What?! That's a good thing! Are you sure you read that right? Frankly, we need more native tree cover, and that's what they're planning on doing, and getting rid of those damned ugly conifers that are only good for wood harve
930.
by talideon 12y ago
Nah, Cork wouldn't be a good place for something like this, other than the fact that a good amount of submarine cable lands there. But then by that, Wexford would be even better. The big reason for putting stuff on the west coast is wi

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