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by the_biot 5y ago
You can look at it as too much for anyone's needs, or you can see it as enabling tomorrow's applications. Looking back, or looking forward. Back in the dialup days, nobody in their right mind would run a torrent, or play online sh
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by the_biot 5y ago
The report repeats many previous allegations made by the commission, appointed by the government whose key figure is the main ruling Law and Justice party leader, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the twin of the late president. [...] Earlier, two s
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by the_biot 5y ago
Algorithms? Netflix hasn't done actual recommendation algorithms since the DVD days. These days it just relentlessly pushes its own third-rate content to viewers, presumably because it's cheaper than licensed content.
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by the_biot 5y ago
Not that it's not interesting, and perhaps there's even a kernel of truth to it -- who ever thought of psychology as an exact science? -- but note that this website, madinamerica.com, is dedicated to fighting psychiatry in all its
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by the_biot 5y ago
Because GrapheneOS supports a handful of devices ( https://grapheneos.org/faq#supported-devices ), where LineageOS supports hundreds of devices ( https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/ ).
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by the_biot 5y ago
It's a shame that there's barely even a conversation about fixing the problem of the ever growing pile of proprietary firmware blobs; more and more often people seem to just accept the situation. There isn't AFAIK an organisa
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by the_biot 5y ago
IMHO the solution to retaining control of an app that wants to sprawl out is to set up the dev and prod environment via ansible/puppet/similar, into an otherwise bare VM or container, with only a forward proxy to reach it. Doesn&#
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by the_biot 5y ago
> The impression I get from the companies I've worked at is to not trust packages that are mostly maintained by one person. That is hardly the point. Regardless of what you think of the solution presented, the author is utterly righ
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by the_biot 5y ago
BGP by itself is insecure, but an (RPKI) infrastructure has grown up around it so that it can, and should be by now, secure. Yet BGP injection attacks (ASN or prefix theft) happen regularly. The reason is that not everybody follows the best
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by the_biot 5y ago
> The average income here is several sigmas right of what most people make. That's exactly the kinds of elitist bullshit that stinks up the HN comments so often. You have no information at all on the average income here; nor any ide
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by the_biot 5y ago
It sounds like you already did that. So what is the signup rate?
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by the_biot 5y ago
Let me just point out the elephant in the room: Hacker News is exactly as bad as reddit. The crowd here thinks of itself as smarter, but that's just the shape of the echo chamber here. You think people commenting on reddit consider the
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by the_biot 5y ago
What's the point of anecdotes? By definition they're irrelevant to the big picture. Surely there have been studies on the effects of caffeine on the things you list?
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by the_biot 5y ago
Yup. I can scarcely believe this business model works on a campus. At that age, I don't think there's anything that would have stopped me from taking one of these, eating the food, then taking it apart to see how it works. Then mo
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by the_biot 5y ago
Even with the Cockney's constant stupid commentary, I can't believe how compelling this is to watch!
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by the_biot 5y ago
Indeed, that was plainly his intention. But what if it did sell for $69.3 million? Would he have taken the money? Um, did it sell?
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by the_biot 5y ago
aa-jv posts pro-Russian propaganda. Don't feed the trolls.
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by the_biot 5y ago
That implies running SSH on another, non-standard port makes it safer -- when a simple port scan would reveal it. It's a classic security through obscurity fallacy, IMHO,
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by the_biot 5y ago
> These fast delivery stores are not serving an actual need in these places. Who are you to tell anyone what they need? If there's a consumer demand for it, and companies willng and able to serve that market, you're free to use
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by the_biot 5y ago
I remember it as well -- found it astonishing that it took up half the CPU just idling . Star Office was just a truly awful product. Literally the only interesting thing about it was that it was free.
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by the_biot 5y ago
Nope. Still only working very sporadically for me.
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by the_biot 5y ago
Fly-Region: fra
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by the_biot 5y ago
debug times out as well. curl output: flake: curl -v https://fly.io/blog/ -sS -o /dev/null -D- * Trying 2a09:8280:1::a:791... * TCP_NODELAY set * Connected to fly.io (2a09:8280:1::a:791) port 44
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by the_biot 5y ago
Times out, rarely gets the page out.
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by the_biot 5y ago
It's a little surreal to see all this cheering and adoration of fly.io, but they can't even keep their blog webserver up. It's not a great look for a cloud-related company.
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by the_biot 5y ago
Similar experience here. I've worked for a British company, and I thought the amount of politics and backstabbing was insane.
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by the_biot 5y ago
Hear, hear! As much as I adore setting up and managing systems that scale well, not everything needs massive clusters of hardware run by software that's designed to scale to the millions. Skilled system administration goes a long way.
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by the_biot 5y ago
It uses massive amounts of CPU even when idle. I realize this is common in games, but don't let anyone tell you any different: this is shit code.
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by the_biot 5y ago
Is Tinder the right place for somebody in your frame of mind? It's plainly a meat market, not a great place for somebody who's looking for more than something really short and shallow. Not that I have an alternative, just... reall
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by the_biot 5y ago
Exactly, this is a pretty obvious publicity play. My guess, informed by nothing other than my own cynicism, is that the Rotterdam city council will use the manufactured outrage to extract more money from Bezos to dismantle that bridge.

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