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by theginger 2y ago
We were having a record breaking heat wave in the UK, we joked that see even Jenkins can't cope with the heat all builds are failing It was not uncommon to get transient failures so no one looked into it, it was too hot, in the UK we
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by theginger 2y ago
Could be used to win bets for free drinks in a bar, shame you'd probably get kicked out for wielding dangerously hot metal plates before you've had a chance to drink them.
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by theginger 2y ago
Break 6 impossible to fix things before breakfast. Then spend the rest of the day fixing them.
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Ask HN: What does experience of data structures and algorithms mean?
1 points by theginger 2y ago|2 comments
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by theginger 2y ago
Assume pi is 1
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by theginger 2y ago
Working for me now, so I guess they got it sorted out.
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by theginger 2y ago
> The only drawback to this is that the potential for customers to be ripped of by untrustworthy dealers selling overclocked CPUs to the public at the price of the actual CPU speed is increased by a large margin. Intel long ago locked th
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by theginger 2y ago
1 person's needlessly at risk is another persons essential work. UK members of Parliament are very active in their local community, their parliamentary email address is the normal one to be using for this type of work and may involve n
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by theginger 2y ago
I wish I could tell if this was a joke or a real thing that someone did.
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by theginger 2y ago
This is very glass is half empty. Why isn't this, 62% of websites from 2013 are still available 11 years later!
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by theginger 2y ago
That is fine when you have say 1 million values and only 1000 are unique. But when you have 1 million values and about 900 thousand are unique you are putting more or less the whole data set into memory.
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by theginger 2y ago
Awkward, I was expecting to be reading an article about Tesla moving into the medical industry. Who's idea was it to name the unit of magnetic flux density after a car company? This is worse than that time I ended up reading an article
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by theginger 2y ago
That's a valid privacy concern But is a VPN service a good solution? Certainly not if you are on a shared IP with the VPN. I know you can get some with a dedicated IP, but with most VPN providers it is still probably coming out of a c
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by theginger 3y ago
I believe this is relatively easy to test as I think you can gradually increase the size of the ICMP packet until it stops responding. I have done something along those lines in the past but it was a long time ago.
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by theginger 3y ago
This article misses a very big reason. It's a scheduling type problem. They rarely have good systems in place to deal with taking bad trollies out of service, so they stay in service and sit at the front of the stack, because some peop
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by theginger 3y ago
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/price-tracker-plugin This is the URL of the page they redirect you to if they detect the plugin.
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Auto trader price tracker plugin blocked and removed from Chrome store(at.liprock.com)
2 points by theginger 3y ago|2 comments
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by theginger 3y ago
Auto Trader has declared war against it's users by blocking all access to its website unless a certain browser plugin is removed. AT price tracker is a popular browser plugin which allowed users to keep track of price changes. Those wi
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by theginger 3y ago
It does have a definite whiff of a meme stock to it now. There were real things pushing it up, plus the sort of genuine hype you expect with big tech. But now everyone is talking about it it takes on a a life of its own, it's hype on t
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by theginger 3y ago
I don't really understand the point being made. It just seems to basically a story about a baseless rumor, the CIA could not confirm or deny, so it must be true, except an independent expert has suggested it's not even possible. H
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by theginger 3y ago
What? I just see stars
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by theginger 3y ago
Always use multiple layers of defence. A sturdy 6ft fence and a locked wooden front door can be more secure than a 50m impenetrable stone wall, if it turns out that there is no such thing as an impenetrable stone wall. Brute force protectio
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by theginger 3y ago
I guess they can't claim any copy write / drm violations if they also deny it was their code.
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by theginger 3y ago
https://www.google.com/appsstatus/dashboard/ Nothing showing on service status currently
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by theginger 3y ago
He doesn't know how to use the 3 sea shells hahahahahahaha. I can see how that could be confusing.
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by theginger 3y ago
There is one in Portsmouth called The Isambard Kingdom Brunel. It's quite a grand looking place, for a weatherspoons.
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by theginger 3y ago
Yes by they I meant the author, I would consider it information disclosure, this data is meant to be private and the designers have made an attempt to keep it that way.
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by theginger 3y ago
If I am understanding the article correctly, this is unpatched and apple haven't even had any warning as they've not disclosed any of this as they didn't consider it a vulnerability (I think I would disagree but haven't
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by theginger 3y ago
Letting an uncaught exception error reach the user is generally bad. It risks exposing secrets / confidential information to the user and any returned client side secrets risk getting into intermediary caches. The biggest risk is the u
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by theginger 3y ago
Just because they rendered the text doesn't mean they've ignored the status code. There can be a lot of other stuff going on behind the scenes that are happening differently due to this code. A 503 with a Retry-After header is a g

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