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by tobiasu 14y ago
Computer use has shifted from calculating tables for ballistic missiles to manipulating gigantic amounts of state. And (pure) FP is the answer because it doesn't have the ability to manipulate state?
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by tobiasu 14y ago
Awesome, isn't it. It's transparent and works every time. Not something you can say about apt-get...
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by tobiasu 15y ago
These are really small quantities. The companies involved are way too large to bother with two boxes full of HP drives or a bunch of defect graphic card PCBs. Interested in writing a book, indeed...
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by tobiasu 15y ago
The IBM videos about this project are much more careful than the breathless article from extremetech.
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by tobiasu 15y ago
I supplied electricity, a computer, internet connection, and a virtual machine to run code in (that's a business model by itself). I may have profited from the content, but I surely have generated revenue for the site operator. And I want a
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by tobiasu 15y ago
There is no info what I'm missing. Anyway I tried to take a look at it: Enabled the site in NoScript and all I get is a very buggy menu. OK, lets give you cookies, real referrer, etc. Still not working?? Just for you, I've made a brand-new
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by tobiasu 15y ago
With one difference: You install traditional software by choice. On the web, you don't have a choice, everyone can just install and execute whatever they please.
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by tobiasu 15y ago
I have yet to see a share of your revenue for enabling Javascript. Oh, you want it all to yourself?
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by tobiasu 15y ago
It says 2,167,942 users here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/ Now obviously I don't know how they arrive at that metric, and what influence the direct download from noscript.net has. I wouldn't want to browse wi
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by tobiasu 15y ago
The actual quote reads: The maximum penalty to be imposed by Member States for these offences would be at least two years' imprisonment, ... Each EU member will have to make this local legislation, and two years are the minimum time for t
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by tobiasu 15y ago
Looks like the infamous German "Hackerparagraph" §202c StGB. A toothless piece of feel-good legislature since all the tools can also be used for "good" (pen-testing etc.). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strafgesetzbuch#.C2.A7_202c:_P... Li
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by tobiasu 15y ago
> ...are only possible because of recent advances in material science. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerocar
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by tobiasu 15y ago
This was discussed before... The person being discussed is on HN. Given his state of mind it's probably not a good idea to upvote this again.
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by tobiasu 15y ago
I remember looking at HavenCo's prices frequently, but couldn't afford to host there. For the price you had to make money and we were sailing on voluntary member payments. And what we were doing required serious bandwidth...
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by tobiasu 15y ago
I find the "saves money" routine a bit transparent. It deprives your boss of the satisfaction to have contributed something important. Let your boss save the money, get the tools you want or need. How? Simple, compare two solutions, write
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by tobiasu 15y ago
Search - I'm even going to pay for it. Search for the damn terms I enter into a search field. The "app" may at most have a CSS style sheet, 1993 look. No Javascript, no images. Give me options to limit my search to date ranges, domains, ur
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by tobiasu 15y ago
Sealand was a WW2 anti-aircraft platform. It's too close to shore for doing anything really criminal (like, copyright infringement - murder would probably be fine). The problem these days is that organisations who don't want to be under US
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by tobiasu 15y ago
" Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires. " -- John Steinbeck (disputed according to wikiquote)
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by tobiasu 15y ago
Downvoting someone who provides publicly available information, made public by the person in question himself. Downvoters, it doesn't get much lower than this. You should be ashamed of yourselves.
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by tobiasu 15y ago
I have a variety of ear buds and cans from AKG. However when I need real silence, it's not good enough. And simply turning up the volume can be damaging to your hearing. So get a set of proper ear muffs, they are not expensive. I use HL Lei
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by tobiasu 15y ago
Ridiculous.
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by tobiasu 15y ago
This is a pointless comment, but with all the whining here I feel like making a counterpoint. I run my own mail/irc/web/file/etc -server. Postfix on OpenBSD with maybe 10 config variable changes to add a DNS blacklist of my choice + seconda
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by tobiasu 15y ago
... And then there are the increasing numbers of barefoot runners. It could be argued that the greatest running shoe never sold is already in your possession.
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by tobiasu 15y ago
The Apache License 2.0 mixes copyright law with patent law. Its patent related claims are not acceptable to OpenBSD for example. This site gives a good overview: http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/resources/apache2.xml IMO, you may just as well u
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by tobiasu 15y ago
It's not sarcasm if you mark it as sarcasm. Unless it's not sarcasm, then it might be. Yawn.
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by tobiasu 15y ago
Why the downvotes? It's one of the more plausible ways that could end the global patent system, whether you like it or not.
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by tobiasu 15y ago
He's a patent lobbyist. Who exactly finances his operation is in part unclear (he seems to work for Microsoft on one project). He does not want to disclose his income sources. Some people feel that he's highly biased against Google etc. FM
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by tobiasu 15y ago
And I thought there are many forks of Quake for each of the platform? Is there are "one to rule them all" distro? Also it's not that hard to #ifdef 42 graphic backends to a dead code base. It obviously becomes a nightmare as soon as you wan
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by tobiasu 15y ago
This should be titled "How Integers Should Work (In CPU architectures)". Programming languages have little to work with currently, and it is very inconsistent across architectures. Having an IEEE standard for integer math like we have for F
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by tobiasu 15y ago
http://www.getinpulse.com/specs/

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