thenickdude

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by thenickdude 7y ago
It seems that unticking this checkbox causes those updates to be disabled completely (and not just converted into visible updates in the Software Updater that you have the option of installing, like I thought it would). I had that option un
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by thenickdude 7y ago
You can push objects with light, check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_sail
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by thenickdude 7y ago
If it was true it would be trivial and painless for them to provide proof. They haven't, therefore it's misinformation.
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by thenickdude 8y ago
The idea of "serverless" is that you don't have to manually provision and manage servers yourself. You just provide the code you want to run and the service handles the rest for you. From the developer's point of view, t
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by thenickdude 8y ago
Exactly, it allows your function to cache state between executions if that state won't fit in RAM (up to 500MB). I use this to cache objects from S3 so I can avoid the latency of a round-trip for popular objects.
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by thenickdude 8y ago
The Spectre/Meltdown patches required a reboot.
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by thenickdude 9y ago
While trying this tone generator out, I thought I had a ridiculous notch in my hearing at 532Hz, because the perceived volume dropped to about 10-20% of the neighbouring frequencies. But then I moved my head slightly to the side, and the no
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by thenickdude 9y ago
I think it was just their paravirtual instances that have a scheduled reboot. I haven't heard that any of the newer HVM ones are affected.
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by thenickdude 9y ago
In Developer Options, set the animation duration to 0, which kills the animations. It's like having a brand new phone not having to wait for stupid animation fluff to complete. Take care though, because I've used an app in the pas
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by thenickdude 10y ago
Since certificate revocation is pretty much unworkable, reducing the maximum lifetime of certificates is probably a good thing for security in general.
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by thenickdude 10y ago
Since Google typically enacts the restricts through major Chrome updates, running the Beta version of Chrome can give you some early warning at least.
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by thenickdude 10y ago
It looks like the questions that Google/Mozilla asked Symantec and didn't like the answers to are posted here: https://knowledge.symantec.com/support/ssl-certificates-supp... (Archive link: http://
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by thenickdude 10y ago
I suspect that their phone recovery service's capacity is overloaded right now with everybody else trying the same thing.
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by thenickdude 10y ago
Halves the search space, so in other words it only reveals 1 bit of information about the password, a completely insignificant amount. For a 64-symbol alphabet, a 20 character password is 120 bits long, so you'll still have to brute fo
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by thenickdude 10y ago
Don't have password patterns, problem solved. Knowing that my password is 20 random characters of all possible symbols will not reduce your search space by any significant amount.
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by thenickdude 13y ago
Looks like that file was pulled. Here's a mirror on Pastebin: http://pastebin.com/YsdUXL1F