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by thwarted 11y ago
People do not make good contingency plans. Life events. Now data will go with people to their graves. No way to recover it. So this is no different than data that goes to people's graves that isn't encrypted. People never made g
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by thwarted 11y ago
I don't see irretrievable data as being significantly different than data that never existed to begin with, the only real difference is the belief that something valuable is hidden behind encryption. If and until the encrypted data
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by thwarted 11y ago
A "representative democracy" is one specifically where the average voter doesn't need to be informed enough to really understand all the issues, and that's supposed to be its advantage. In contrast, direct democracy is
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by thwarted 11y ago
I really don't see this issue as all that complex. It's always the issues that don't seem all that complex that end up coming back and biting us in the ass.
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by thwarted 11y ago
Unless you have a very willing hacker willing to build the integration from scratch, IRC is bad. There is a hurdle here, but it's not so bad if you're already willing to run your own IRC server. I wrote nodebot[0] to allow mach
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by thwarted 11y ago
Yes it does. He's claiming that systemd should manage the container processes as pid1, because systemd will then clean up the zombies. But anything that reaps zombies can be pid1 -- systemd isn't special in this regard. And eve
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by thwarted 11y ago
Poettering says that PID 1 has special requirements. One of these is killing "zombie" processes that have been abandoned by their calling session. This is a real problem for Docker since the application runs as PID 1 and does not
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by thwarted 11y ago
This is obviously a highly scientific experiment! I get the exact opposite results!
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by thwarted 11y ago
If you know how quicksort works, I think this is a great question because it tests your ability to explain technical material to another human. I think that is a vital skill in all programming jobs. While this is true, that was not the co
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by thwarted 11y ago
I was once asked, during a phone interview , to describe how to implement quicksort. I told the interviewer that I had not done that in years and I wouldn't implement a sorting routine from scratch these days because I'd use a s
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by thwarted 11y ago
I kind of thought that always meant to be used a flag for "this user loaded some random binary in the kernel and now complains there is bug ". So developers look at the debug output and see "oh, well, it is tained, so, we wo
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by thwarted 11y ago
These wikipedia topics have paragraphs that talk about the evolution of the sport and its relationship to rugby and other "football" games. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_football https://e
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by thwarted 11y ago
Semantic discussions are interesting among us mere mortals, but if you're proposing that the government start making judgements about who is "employed" in the abstract sense or merely "doing nothing with their life,&quo
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by thwarted 11y ago
1) prevent covert takeover from the original founders Wouldn't this be more reliable to do by keeping control via different classes of stock and or limiting the total size of the employee option pool to some significantly less percen
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by thwarted 11y ago
An awesome documentary[0] related to how people move and use public spaces. "The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces" William H Whyte. citylab actually linked this a while ago [1], but the version embedded in that page has since b
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by thwarted 11y ago
Well, that's partly my point. It's obvious to just about everyone else, including those who submitted the application, so no one else is actually going to patent this. Because no one is going to submit a patent application, espe
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by thwarted 11y ago
There are a few tasks/requirements at issue here, 1) the legal requirement that the individuals be sufficiently trained, which then requires 2) the legal requirement that training be provided. If the individual in (1) is "phoning
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by thwarted 11y ago
Bank of America has won the most patents among U.S. banks in recent years, with an active portfolio of more than 3,000. I really have a problem with the kind of terminology used around obtaining a patent. You'll often see things lik
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by thwarted 11y ago
Lucille Ball talking about picking up radio signals in her fillings. https://vimeo.com/72473069
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by thwarted 11y ago
Not directly applicable here, because you need to work with what you have, but this kinds of stuff always reminds me of https://www.jwz.org/doc/cddb.html
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by thwarted 11y ago
The more I read about different applications, the more I think you can't understand them unless you look at the underlying data format. "Show me your flowchart and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show
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by thwarted 11y ago
For the government debt it isn't a huge issue because the Government can essentially decide not to pay itself back. But for public debt it means that the economy is held back. "Public debt" is another name for "Governm
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by thwarted 11y ago
This used to be called Upcoming, but Yahoo shut that down.
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by thwarted 11y ago
There are a whole host of other things that are potential optimizations, like not being pushed around in the crowd.
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by thwarted 11y ago
And designers should take a more active role in being aware of the limitations of the systems they are designing for. I've worked on a number of projects where feedback from developers about things the designer is obviously not aware
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by thwarted 11y ago
If you're passing around the string representation, then endianness isn't an issue, sure. But you need to care about it if you store UUIDs efficiently as bytes Huh? Strings are stored and transmitted as bytes, there is no need t
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by thwarted 11y ago
The goal may not be to get to top faster, that is just one possible interpretation of efficiency. Dealing with the crowd and being bumped as people millaround vying for position isn't desirable either. Just like you may choose not to g
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by thwarted 11y ago
Considering that an escalator is one of the few real-life powerups available outside of a video game, not walking up it is tantamount to wasting it, both traveling up and down. Like getting Haste and then just standing there, or being able
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by thwarted 11y ago
This is a good point. I'd go so far to label it a "social program", because even "welfare program" is a loaded term.
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by thwarted 11y ago
Maybe the product designers and product providers should be more explicit about how their product should be used and who their target demographic is, if they want a successful product, rather than making everyone "figure out" what

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