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by tonysdg 8y ago
Could you link if you have it? I'm genuinely curious. I'm also suspicious -- what stops the aforementioned individuals from finding another website/forum? I seem to remember hearing that after Reddit closed down several of th
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Yeah, this strikes me as a bit of FUD. And also fairly low on the totem pole of "things the DNC should be warning candidates about". I'd rank any or all of these higher: - Don't open email attachments - Use a strong pass
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> Spaces: The animation tells the user what is going on! Having the entire screen change instantly would be confusing for the vast majority of users. That's an interesting point, and it makes me wonder if there's a level of nua
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This goes to the article's point about caching; a chat app -- of all programs -- should cache conversations for a fast boot up. Sure, _updating_ the conversations -- the "cloning" stage -- may take some time, but why should y
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If there's a particular paper you're interested in, you can usually email the lead author(s) and just ask for a copy. I've never heard of someone saying no, especially since it's as easy as emailing a PDF. As for the why
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Reminds me of an Iranian friend I had. We were talking once about weddings in different cultures, and I asked her about Iranian weddings. She laughed and told me that despite the ban on alcohol, every man at an Iranian wedding ended up drun
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Firmware. From Resolution section: > HP has provided firmware updates for impacted printers as set forth in the table below.
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On the flip side, that means there's nothing to stop the pole owner from delaying, as (if I understand correctly) Google argued was happening here. Sure, you could try to fine uncooperative owners, but the delay will kill small ISPs wh
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The problem as I understand it is that deregulation helps a lot in situations where a compelling business case exists for companies to expand/compete, and it hurts a lot where said business case does not exist. As it so happens, crow
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Out of curiosity, how would you say you "learned how to learn", so to speak? Did it just come naturally to you? Was it a parent who taught you?
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Ask HN: Are there any good Android/iOS games that don't collect personal data?
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Andrew Carnegie, the 20th century industrialist, is perhaps the poster child for wealth accumulation and subsequent philanthropy. I remember reading somewhere that he once said something to the effect of, "A man should spend the first
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Perhaps I misunderstand what you mean, but isn't this the exact opposite of an appeal to authority? The claim is that she's not qualified because she's not a credentialed economist. (I'm not familiar enough with Ms. Wa
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Growing up in Upstate NY, I always assumed part of it was also due to the fact that breaks during the winter basically translate to hours spent cooped-up inside, watching TV or playing on the computer. I know that the 3-month summer break s
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The ramifications of this trend -- and the likely political responses, considering the current responses -- will be interesting (to say the least). My rough prognostication (tuned for the U.S.): * Western leaders (the U.S. in particular) wi
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by tonysdg 8y ago
Good luck -- straight from their Terms of Service: > You are expected to read these Terms of Use because your use of our Site and Service constitutes your agreement to the Arbitration Agreement and Class Action waiver described in Sectio
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Couldn't you at least port your COBOL to C? It's also statically typed, compiled, there are high-performance libraries that support arbitrary levels of numeric precision (GNU GMP), and every engineer trained in the last 20 years a
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by tonysdg 8y ago
Out of curiosity, what prevents you from using Firefox? It allows you to specify a default search engine -- which you can set directly to DDG.
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Or -- perhaps more intriguingly -- given that the date in question will never occur, is it valid until the end of time? Philosophically it's a rather fun question, but practically they'll probably just honor it until the correspon
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*not a scammer's
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by tonysdg 8y ago
I don't mean to be rude, but is there any way to verify that this is actually his and a scammer's?
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I'm pretty sure this is a well-known problem in general on Linux -- file locking is almost never a good solution. It sucks, since there are definitely times where it would be useful. In any event, this is probably a low priority for gl
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by tonysdg 8y ago
Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Google
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All I can think of is this fun story from a few years back: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/01/16/developer_oursource...
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Isn't Andrea (Remzi's wife) a co-author of OSTEP?
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Made me laugh (thanks for that!), but in fairness, MINIX 3 was designed for actual usage and not just education. From Wikipedia [1]: > Although it still serves as an example for the new edition of Tanenbaum and Woodhull's textbook,
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I'd like to see any comparison extended to include Pintos as well: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pintos
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That's true -- I guess I hadn't been thinking of it from that perspective. There'd still be the problem of asking consumers to "opt out/in" of these features, of course. It's hard enough asking consumers t
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Unless I'm mistaken, the low-level acess to memory is one of the defining features of C. It's basically designed to be human-readable assembly (which is just human-readable machine code). If anything, I'd blame compilers he
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It'd be damn tricky to implement, probably impossibly so. I can think of a few reasons: - Modern lithography just isn't that precise to my understanding. The whole point of binning chips is that you aim for an entire wafer of Core

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